Dimensions: Width: 18.5cm, Height: 3cm

Chinese Qing Dynasty Qianlong Famille Rose Landscape Porcelain Plate. The plates has a broad wide central interior, rounded mouth lip, thick and large, raised on correspondence footed ring base slight concave. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white base color which contrast against pink rose color, depicted of HuaSan mountain with dense tree, sampan boat in peace Lishui rivers , enclosed with Chinese calligraphy lettering inscriptions poems, followed with artist's signature and iron-red seals on the upper left side. Many mountains in China are sacred, some to Daoist, some to Buddhists and some to both. In folk religion each mountain has its own deity associated with it. The pictogram character for mountain sea represent an all encompassing phrase for the whole world shan hai. Mountains represent the yang element in the landscape and as such connect to the governing yang element in China the Emperor. Mountain is one of the eight trigrams in Feng Shui and Yi Jing. Of these Taishan is considered the most important and stones from the mountain were often placed in towns across China as a lucky charm.The Under-base bears a reign mark, a six under glazed blue script characters reign mark, enclosed within blue rectangle lines. Made in The Years Qianlong Reign Period of The Great Qing Dynasty.

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