A massive blue and white 'riverscape' deep fishbowl


18th centuryRobustly potted with steep rounded sides, painted around the exterior in vibrant hues of cobalt-blue with a continuous landscape of mountains and riverscapes dotted with small dwellings and pavilions, all beneath a band of concentric circles below the lipped rim, wood stand. 61cm (24in) diam. (2).
|十八世紀 青花江河山水圖大缸Compare with a similar blue and white fishbowl, 18th century, in the British Royal Collection, illustrated by J.Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London, 2016, pp.198-199, no.405.