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Chinese porcelain bowl for the Vietnamese market.

Stock Number: 5100

Rare Chinese export (for the Asian market) porcelain low bowl for the Vietnamese market decorated in underglaze cobalt blue (qinghua) with a classical landscape and an inscription reading pian zhou hu zai gui zhuang zhong, xi yu chun feng de yi gui (Proudly returning home with heavy luggage on a little boat in a river amongst misty rain in the Spring), base with the two-character mark nei fu(inner palace), c.1880, late Qing dynasty d.15 cm, 6 in. Original metal ring on the rim. 1-18348. Bespoke box. (149)

Literature: Qing Porcelain: Famille Verte, Famille Rose, by M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, London 1987, p. 233, cat. 319 for a plate of this group dated mid-19th century.

◆This type of pieces is considered to have been made for the Vietnamese market during the Nguyên dynasty (1802-1945). A covered bowl for the same market is illustrated in Qing Export Porcelain, by A. Varela Santos, 2015/2016, cat. 141.

罕見的中國外銷瓷青花山水圖淺盌(為亞洲市場燒造),圖中書有兩行文字“扁舟湖載歸裝重,細雨春風得意歸”,盌底書“內府”二字款,約1880年,晚清,口徑15釐米,6英吋,原裝金屬鑲邊。

參考文獻:《清代陶瓷:素三彩及粉彩》,作者M. Beurdeley及G. Raindre,1987年倫敦出版,見第233頁,編號319出自同組器物的瓷盤一件,年代為19世紀中期。

◆此類器物一般被認為是阮朝時期專為越南市場燒製。同為越南市場燒造的一件蓋碗,見《清代外銷瓷》,作者阿.瓦瑞拉.山度士,2015-2016圖錄編號141。