The present bowl would probably have belonged to a set of ten such as the set of Jiaqing 'landscape' bowls of slightly different form sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 April 2001, lot 517 which included one depicting the same scene of the Lu Shan waterfall. A series of 'Landscape' bowls commissioned in sets of ten were produced from the Jiaqing period onwards; these are listed by Geng Baochang in Mingqing Ciqi Jianding, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 293, as the West Lake in Hangzhou, the Yangzi River, Mount Lu and the Dongting Lake, Hunan province.