Bowl with Light-sky-blue Glaze, Ru Ware

The Ru kilns are located in Qingliangsi, Baofeng county, Henan province

The delicate glaze color of the bowl resembles the sky reflected in water. Some seven hundred years later, the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1736-1795) of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) composed a poem out of admiration for this bowl. It is engraved at the exterior bottom.
Of the two surviving bowls made in the Ru kiln, one is in the collection of the Palace Museum, and the other is kept by Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art in Britain.