A SET OF SIX BLUE AND WHITE 'CHESS-PLAYERS' BOWLS AND MATCHING SAUCER-DISHES, each bowl with rounded sides, the exterior and saucer-dish painted with a lakescape depicting an elaborate pagoda within a lattice-fenced court with twinned pine and deciduous trees, a small bridge leading to an island with two scholars playing chess in the shade of similar trees below a pagoda on a small island in the distance, the interior rims with a three-band border below a gilt rim, circa 1816