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

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a pair of famille verte 'landscape' bowls
Iron-red Jiaqing seal marks and of the period (1796-1820)
Each with rounded sides and slightly flaring rim, the exterior finely enamelled with pavilions and pagodas in a cloudy mountainous lakescape with sailing craft and sampans, each with a four-character black-enamelled inscription below the underglaze-blue rim, one reading Lushan Pubu (Waterfall of Lushan), the other Nanpu Feiyun (The Cloudy Mists of Nanpu), two rim glaze flakes
5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

A set of ten similar bowls from an old Chinese Collection assembled in China before 1936, were sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 26 September 1989, lot 748.

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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