AF77
Of chamfered rectangular form painted on either side with a river scene with small rocky islands, pavilions, pagodas and trees, two figures conversing on a bridge and two before a pagoda, their boat moored at the shore, the cover and stand with a similar scene with mountains in the background, a double-series of formal foliage and flower-heads reserved on a diaper of triangle-work and fish-roe falling inwards from the rim, at the well of the stand triangular flower cartouches on a diaper of trellis-work, with animal-mask handles and a seated lion finial.
Literature
For a discussion on landscape decoration on Chinese blue and white Export porcelain see H.A. Crosby Forbes, Hills and Streams: Landscape Decoration on Chinese Export Blue and White Porcelain, A loan exhibition from the collection of the China Trade Museum, published by the International Exhibitions Foundation and the China Trade Museum, Milton, Massachusetts, 1982.
