清嘉慶 豆青地粉彩山水圖雙耳壺 六字篆書款18 ? in. (47 cm.) high
The bold painterly style of the present lot can be compared to the 'landscape' bowls commissioned in sets of ten that were produced from the Jiaqing period onwards; these are listed by Geng Baochang in Mingqing Ciqi Jianding, Ming and Qing Porcelains on Inspection, Forbidden City Publishing, 1993, p. 293, as depicting the West Lake in Hangzhou, the Yangzi River, Mount Lu and the Dongting Lake, Hunan province. A pair of two such bowls were sold in Christie's London, 15 May 2012, lot 322 and in Christie's Hong Kong, 29 April 2001, lot 517. Also see a pair of massive 'landscape' vases which were sold in Christie's London, 6 November 2012, lot 246.