JIAQING FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

A related Jiaqing-period blue and white landscape tile, inscribed with a date corresponding to 1813, in the Shanghai Museum, is illustrated in Ming-Qing Export Porcelain From The Palace Museum And The Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, 2015, p. 370, no. 163. Another Jiaqing mark-and-period blue and white landscape tile was included in the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts exhibition, Shinchō kōgei no bi : shūrei na Shinchō tōji o chūshin ni (The Beauty of Qing Craft: Exquisite Qing Dynasty Porcelains), Osaka, 1992,
no. 174. A further Jiaqing mark-and-period example was sold at Sotheby’s London, 7 November 2018, lot 97.

Porcelain tiles of this type were used in Japan for the tea ceremony, as a surface on which to place the brazier.