China for Vietnam, 19th century, - Lot 10

China for Vietnam, 19th century, Five blue-white porcelain bowls, including a pair decorated with a pavilion in the mountains with inscription 盧山湶布, "Spring at Mount Lu", a high place of Buddhism and Confucianism, celebrated by the greatest Chinese poets, a blue-white porcelain bowl known as "bleu de Huế" decorated with a pavilion in the mountains with the inscription 徐亭烟柳(Từ đình yên liễu, Xu yan ting lia, "Xu Pavilion of the Smoky Weeping Willows"). Located on the shores of Poyang Lake in Nanchang (Yuzhang), the Xu Pavilion (or Xu ting lia) is dedicated to Xu Ruzi (97-168), a famous scholar under the Han and considered a model of remarkable men and magnificent landscapes, and a patterned pair of the ten remarkable sites of Yuzhang under Tang with their names inscribed as the Tangwang Pavilion (滕王阁, "Prince Tang Pavilion") Two-character mark 內府 (nội phủ, "Inner Palace") under the base Minor chips, cracks. Diam. 12 cm to 12.3 cm Provenance: - former Duong Minh Thoi collection, Saigon - former Truong Khac Huê collection, Paris - by descent Alain and Philippe Truong, Paris