A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'LANDSCAPE' BOWLS

JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN IRON-RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'LANDSCAPE' BOWLS
JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN IRON-RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
Each bowl is potted with rounded sides rising to a gently flaring mouth rim, and is delicately painted to the exterior with a continuous landscape scene depicting famous views of the Jiangnan region in China. The interior of each bowl is decorated in iron-red with a roundel enclosing pine, prunus and finger citron, encircled by a ruyi border at the mouth rim.
5¾ in. (14.7 cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

The collection of Sir David Miller Barbour, K.C.M.G., formed from the 1880s onwards.

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Lot Essay

As mentioned by Geng Baochang in Mingqing Ciqi Jianding, Ming and Qing Porcelains on Inspection, p. 293, sets of ten 'landscape' bowls were produced from the Jiaqing period onwards. The current bowls bear the inscriptions 'Xun yang jiu pai' and 'Nan pu fei yun', which may be translated as 'The Nine Sects of Xunyang' and 'The Cloudy Mists of Nanpu' respectively.
Compare the present lot to a set of ten 'landscape' bowls sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 29 April 2001, lot 517.

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