A famille verte 'landscape' bowl, Jiaqing seal mark and of the Period

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A famille verte 'landscape' bowl, Jiaqing seal mark and of the Period
Enamelled to the exterior with figures before pavilions and a shrine, set amongst pine and blossoming trees in a mountainous river landscape, four character black enamel inscription beneath the underglaze blue rim, the interior in iron red with a central roundel of pine, prunus blossom and finger citron, within a ruyi motif border -- 5 7/8in. (15cm) diam.

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Lot Essay

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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