A FINE AND VERY RARE SET OF TEN ENAMELLED 'LANDSCAPE' BOWLS

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A FINE AND VERY RARE SET OF TEN ENAMELLED 'LANDSCAPE' BOWLS
IRON-RED JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

Each bowl with rounded sides rising to gently flared mouthrims, painted around the exterior in famille rose and verte palettes, the latter primarily in blue-green landscape style, each with a different scene, depicting famous views of the Jiangnan Region, the scenes detailed with figures, boats and dwellings in river and mountain landscapes, each with a descriptive four-character inscription naming the scene, above a narrow border of scrolling foliage, the interior painted in iron-red with a central roundel enclosing pine, prunus and finger citron below a band of ruyi-heads at the rim
5 7/8 in. (14.7 cm.) diam. (10)

Provenance

From a Chinese collection, bought in China before 1936.

Lot Essay

Previously sold in these Rooms, 26 September 1989, lot 748.

The ten bowls are inscribed as follows:
Lushan Pubu (Waterfall of Lushan)
Magu Xiantang (Paradise of Magu)
Baihua Chunxiao (Spring Dawn of a Hundred Flowers)
Xuting Yanliu (Misty Willow of the Xu Pavilion)
Shangqing Shengjing (Magnificent Landscape of Shangqing)
Xishan Diecui (The Deep Forest of the Spring Mountains)
Xunyang Jiupai (The Nine Sects of Xunyang)
Tengge Gaogfeng (Mountain Views of Tengge)
Yuling Jixue (The Snowbound Vistas of Yuling)
Nanpu Feiyun (The Cloudy Mists of Nanpu)

A series of 'Landscape' bowls commissioned in sets of ten were produced from the Jiaqing period onwards; these are listed by Geng Baochang in Mingqing Ciqi Jianding, Ming and Qing Porcelains on Inspection, p. 293, as the West Lake in Hangzhou, the Yangzi River, Mount Lu and the Dongting Lake, Hunan province.

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