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Lot Essay
The subject matter covered in the poem includes a comparison of the colour of plum blossom with finger citron, the art of tea preparation and Buddhist philosophy.
Compare the very similar bowl dated to the same year in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by Garner, Chinese Lacquer, London, 1979, pl. 93. Another bowl bearing a similarly dated inscription, also with the same decoration, but of more compressed shape and with a band of key-pattern scroll encircling the foot, is in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated in Hai-Wai Yi-Chen (Chinese Art in Overseas Collections), 'Lacquerware', Taipei, 1987, no. 171.
The same design was also reproduced in other media including in blue and white or iron-red on porcelain bowls. See the blue and white bowl of similar shape with Qianlong mark, included in the exhibition, Qing Mark and Period Blue and White, S. Marchant & Son, London, 1984, no. 26.
Compare the very similar bowl dated to the same year in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by Garner, Chinese Lacquer, London, 1979, pl. 93. Another bowl bearing a similarly dated inscription, also with the same decoration, but of more compressed shape and with a band of key-pattern scroll encircling the foot, is in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated in Hai-Wai Yi-Chen (Chinese Art in Overseas Collections), 'Lacquerware', Taipei, 1987, no. 171.
The same design was also reproduced in other media including in blue and white or iron-red on porcelain bowls. See the blue and white bowl of similar shape with Qianlong mark, included in the exhibition, Qing Mark and Period Blue and White, S. Marchant & Son, London, 1984, no. 26.