A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'LANDSCAPE' BOWLS

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

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'LANDSCAPE' BOWLS
JIAQING IRON-RED SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
Each bowl has rounded sides that rise to a gently flared mouthrim. The bodies of the bowls are delicately painted around the exterior with different views of the Jiangnan Region. Each also contains a descriptive four-character inscription naming the scene. The scenes are detailed with boats and dwellings in river and mountain landscapes. The interior of the bowls are decorated in iron-red with a central roundel enclosing pine, prunus and finger citron, which are below a band of ruyi-heads at the rim.
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

One bowl is inscribed Xunyang Jiupai (The Nine Sects of Xunyang), and the other Xuting Yanliu (Misty Willow of the Xu Pavilion).

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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