JIAQING FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

Compare the similarly decorated rectangular tray of this type, with Jiaqing six-character mark, included in the S. Marchant and Son exhibition, Nineteenth Century Mark and Period Porcelain, London, June 1991, no. 3. Like the present tray, it has a poem in one corner of the scene. Another related rectangular tray, also with Jiaqing six-character mark, from the collectin of Richard De la Mare, Much Haddam Hall, was sold at Sotheby's London, 1 October 1980, lot 275.