The inscription reads xi shan die cui, which can be translated as: The Western Mountains rise one after the other and become blue-green

A rare set of ten 'named landscape' bowls, in which a very similar bowl to this was included, were sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 26 and 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 Mingqing Ciqi Jianding, Qinbai Bufen, p.137