Lot Essay
The inscription reads Xunyang Jiupai, 'The Nine Tributaries of Xunyang (Jiujiang)'
A rare set of ten 'named landscape' bowls, including a similar bowl to the present lot, was sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 26-27 September 1989, lot 748. Other sets of these unusual bowls depicting famous landscapes and views, often around Jiangxi Province within range of Jingdezhen, are recorded by Geng Baochang in Ningqing Ciqi Jianding, Qinbai Bufen, p.137; and Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain, p.135, col.pl.190.
Cf. also the ogee foliate landscape bowl illustrated by Van Oort in Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, p.21, pls.8,9; and the square scrap bowl enamelled with lakeside landscapes and verse illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, Catalogue, vol.4, no.636
A rare set of ten 'named landscape' bowls, including a similar bowl to the present lot, was sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 26-27 September 1989, lot 748. Other sets of these unusual bowls depicting famous landscapes and views, often around Jiangxi Province within range of Jingdezhen, are recorded by Geng Baochang in Ningqing Ciqi Jianding, Qinbai Bufen, p.137; and Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain, p.135, col.pl.190.
Cf. also the ogee foliate landscape bowl illustrated by Van Oort in Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, p.21, pls.8,9; and the square scrap bowl enamelled with lakeside landscapes and verse illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, Catalogue, vol.4, no.636