Landscape Bowl with Lushan Waterfall, Jiaqing Mark and Period  (1796-1820). Starting price € 20,000.00. Photo Auctionata

Porcelain with polychrome painting. Elegant bowl on a narrow foot rim. The outer wall with a finely painted, revolving landscape scene. Evocative representation of an ideal-typical mountain landscape with pagodas and temples. Inscribed on the reverse ‘Lushan waterfall’ (廬山 瀑布). In the centre a circular reserve with iron red painting of prunus, pine tree and finger citron (Buddha's hand). The edge inside with an iron red border with Ruyi ornaments. On the base the iron red six-character Jiaqing mark.

The bowl is in very good condition with hardly any signs of age and wear. The height measures 5.5 cm and the diameter 14.5 cm.

This exquisitely enameled bowl shows a detailed landscape representation. Depicted are the impressive waterfalls of Lushan (Lushan pubu), which are located near the Poyang lake under high blue-green mountains. In front of a precise crafted thatched hut, a pagoda and a temple building on the one side are visible. Opposing additional temple halls among pine trees in blue-green mountains and hikers, who climb the stone steps, can be found. The valuable bowl shows on its wall a remarkable dramatic composition by use of harmonious, polychrome enamel colors of the Famille Rose.

A set, which includes ten bowls with the depiction of famous scenic spots of the region around Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province is illustreated in the cataloge Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo, 1988-90, vol. 2, no. 672 as well as in the Weishaupt collection, illustrated in Gunhild Avitabile: Vom Schatz der Drachen. Chinesisches Porzellan des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Weishaupt/From the dragon’s treasure. Chinese Porcelaine from the 19th and 20th centuries in the Weishaupt Collection, London 1987, no. 20.

Literatur: Cf. Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London 1994-2010, Vol. 4, pp. 296ff, Nr. 1762ff. See also: Geng Baochang, Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, Beijing 1993, p. 293.

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