painted to the top with a river landscape and inscribed with an eight line calligraphic poem 'Peach Blossom and Spring', three sides painted with figures in a landscape, the fourth with a four-character mark of Jiaqing in underglaze blue, the unglazed base with an oval glazed recess inscribed with a Jiaqing four-character reign mark in underglaze blue. 

Exhibited: Nineteenth Century Mark and Period Porcelain, S. Marchant and Son, London, 1991, cat. no. 5.

Note: For an identical plaque in the collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig, in China und die Hoffning auf Glück, see one illustrated Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Koln, 2000, cat no. 47, col.pl. 123.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, London, 07 november 2018, 10.30 AM