拍品 315
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A BLUE AND WHITE AND ENAMELLED 'JIUJIANG WATERFRONT' PLATE

GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

细节
A BLUE AND WHITE AND ENAMELLED 'JIUJIANG WATERFRONT' PLATE
guangxu six-character mark and of the period
Painted with Western-style buildings above a walled embankment with moored fishing boats, the characters 'Jiujiang Fu' above, all within a 'cracked-ice'-pattern band with flower heads at the rim
10¼in. (26cm.) diam.

拍品专文

'The prefecture of Jiujiang' (literally 'nine rivers') is a town on the Yangtze river a day's journey upstream from Nanjing. It is the port for travellers up to the famous mountain resort of Lushan, a favourite among the Western residents of Shanghai in the nineteenth century, which explains the unusual buildings depicted on this plate. European holiday-makers in Jiujiang and Lushan were supplanted by the wealthy and powerful of Republican China, and later on by the rulers of the Communist Party.