Lot Essay
The subject matter covered in the poem includes a comparison of the color of plum blossom with finger citron, the art of tea preparation and Buddhist philosophy
Compare the very similar bowl dated to the same year in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by Garner, Chinese Lacquer, London, 1979, pl. 93. Another bowl bearing a similarly dated inscription, also with the same decoration, but of squatter shape and with a band of key- pattern scroll encircling the foot, is in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated in Hai-Wai Yi-Chen, (Chinese Art in Overseas Collections), 'Lacquerware', Taipei, 1987, no. 171
The same design was also reproduced in blue and white on porcelain bowls. See the bowl of similar shape with Qianlong mark, included in the exhibition, Qing Mark and Period Blue and White, S Marchant & Son, London, June 11-June 22, 1984, Catalogue, no. 26
Compare the very similar bowl dated to the same year in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by Garner, Chinese Lacquer, London, 1979, pl. 93. Another bowl bearing a similarly dated inscription, also with the same decoration, but of squatter shape and with a band of key- pattern scroll encircling the foot, is in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated in Hai-Wai Yi-Chen, (Chinese Art in Overseas Collections), 'Lacquerware', Taipei, 1987, no. 171
The same design was also reproduced in blue and white on porcelain bowls. See the bowl of similar shape with Qianlong mark, included in the exhibition, Qing Mark and Period Blue and White, S Marchant & Son, London, June 11-June 22, 1984, Catalogue, no. 26