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Lot Essay
It is rare to find vases of this size with this type of decoration. Each landscape is named with a delicately inscribed inscription, including: Lushan pu bu, The Lu mountain, in Jiangxi province, famous for its waterfall; Xi shan die sui, The West Mountains; bai liu gu dong, The Bai Lu area, famous for its ancient caves, amongst others.
A similar vase, painted with the imperial porcelain factory with similar mountains, handles and buildings, of a slightly later date, is illustrated in Porcelains with Cloisonne Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1999, vol. 39, p. 210, no. 186.
Compare these vases also to the series of 'Landscape' bowls commissioned in sets of ten that were produced from the Jiaqing period onwards; these are listed by Geng Baochang in Mingqing Ciqi Jianding, Ming and Qing Porcelains on Inspection, Forbidden City Publishing, 1993, p. 293, as the West Lake in Hangzhou, the Yangzi River, Mount Lu and the Dongting Lake, Hunan province. A pair of two such bowls sold in Christie's London, 15 May 2012, lot 322 and in Christie's Hong Kong, 29 April 2001, lot 517.
A similar vase, painted with the imperial porcelain factory with similar mountains, handles and buildings, of a slightly later date, is illustrated in Porcelains with Cloisonne Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1999, vol. 39, p. 210, no. 186.
Compare these vases also to the series of 'Landscape' bowls commissioned in sets of ten that were produced from the Jiaqing period onwards; these are listed by Geng Baochang in Mingqing Ciqi Jianding, Ming and Qing Porcelains on Inspection, Forbidden City Publishing, 1993, p. 293, as the West Lake in Hangzhou, the Yangzi River, Mount Lu and the Dongting Lake, Hunan province. A pair of two such bowls sold in Christie's London, 15 May 2012, lot 322 and in Christie's Hong Kong, 29 April 2001, lot 517.