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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘LANDSCAPE’ TILE
JIAQING FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF
THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
The top is decorated with a river landscape with fgures crossing a bridge and
two scholars playing qi on a terrace. Three sides are decorated with fgures
in various landscape scenes, and the fourth side is inscribed with the four-
character mark.
10º x 9Ω in. (26 x 24.1 cm.), Japanese wood box
$7,000-9,000

A related Jiaqing-period blue and white landscape tile, inscribed with a date
corresponding to 1813, in the Shanghai Museum, is illustrated in Ming-Qing
Export Porcelain From The Palace Museum And The Shanghai Museum,
Shanghai, 2015, p. 370, no. 163. Another Jiaqing mark-and-period blue and
white landscape tile was included in the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
exhibition, Shinchō kōgei no bi : shūrei na Shinchō tōji o chūshin ni (The
Beauty of Qing Craft: Exquisite Qing Dynasty Porcelains), Osaka, 1992,
no. 174. A further Jiaqing mark-and-period example was sold at Sotheby’s
London, 7 November 2018, lot 97.
Porcelain tiles of this type were used in Japan for the tea ceremony, as a
surface on which to place the brazier.
清嘉慶 青花山水人物圖風爐敷板 四字楷書橫款
(another view)

(mark)

(inscriptions on box)

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