Bowl 琺瑯彩金魚戯草與山水紋碗

Ceramics
China

Subject/design:

Landscapes within cartouches

Materials:

Porcelain

Technique:

Polychrome painted enamels huafalang 畫琺琅

Date:

Qing dynasty (1644-1911), reign of Qianlong (1736-1795)

Size:

Diam. 16 cm

Place of origin:

China, Jiangxi, imperial kilns of Jingdezhen

Mark:

Mark of Qianlong (1736-1795) : Qianlong nian zhi 乾隆年製 written in overglaze blue within a double square

Description:

Bowl (of a pair) with rounded, spreading sides and gently everted lip; straight foot. Each bowl is painted with three landscapes in delicate natural colouring within cartouches framed with crimson scrollwork and set in a ground of peony scrolls in white enamel; and inside each bowl on the bottom are goldfish swimming among watergrass in green and red.

The subjects of the landscapes are as follows: on one bowl (n°603) three horsemen riding beside a lake and approaching a gateway; a boatman punting between rocky banks towards a bridge; and a cormorant fisherman on a river with willows. On the other bowl (n°604) a man on a donkey crossing a low bridge leading towards a pavilion; two figures in a boat watched by another standing in the bank under trees; and a traveller approaching a gate where a servant is seen wielding a broom.

Comments:

Painted in the imperial workshops in Peking.

Inventory number:

CB.CC.1932.604

Copyright:

Fondation Baur

Photographer:

Marian Gérard