Bowl and tea kettle

[Michelle B]

My daughter bought this set at a yard sale years ago. There are no markings except for the design which looks to be hand painted. Does this look familiar to anyone?

 

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[Red-Coat]

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Said to be from the 1960s. Note that the price ($59) includes two vases and a ginger jar in a matching pattern as well as the teapot. If our esteemed member @Yang Hao sees this post, he can probably tell you what the poem is.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1124258307/set-of-4-chinese-clay-poem-pottery/

There's not enough of your bowl showing to tell if it's the same pattern.

 

[Yang Hao]

It is a proverb. The characters are as follows:

黎明即起，灑掃庭除（lí míng jí qǐ，sǎ sǎo tíng chú）黎明即起，洒扫庭除.
It translates into: You get up at dawn and sweep the courtyard.

It implies that you are to be very diligent in managing your family.

It comes from 《朱子治家格言》"Master zhu's Maxims on Managing a Household." He is also known as 朱熹 zhuxi

Here it is in full length (in traditional Chinese)