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with deep rounded sides rising from a slightly tapered foot to an everted rim, painted around the exterior with a continuous landscape depicting a large walled compound of storeyed pavilions built on a lake island surrounded by green and turquoise cliffs and arbored with lofty pines and wutong trees, with small figures standing on the grassy banks or crossing over an arched bridge, all below wispy clouds and misty mountains in the far-distance, the interior similarly painted in the centre with a house on a shore below willow trees among turquoise blue and green mountains, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark

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The rim has been slightly polished down, but the bowl is otherwise in overall good condition.
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Idealised landscapes encircling the exterior of a bowl, similar to a painting on an unrolled handscroll, are rarely found on Qianlong porcelain. Such continuous paintings commanded not only accomplished brushwork but also particular skill at composition. No other related bowl appears to have been published, although a set of ten nested bowls with straight sides and each bearing a Qianlong reign mark and of the period, was offered in these rooms, 27^th April 1993, lot 219. Compare Jiaqing mark and period bowls similarly depicting landscapes, the interior rim encircled with an iron red band of ruyi heads and roundel in the centre, such as one sold in these rooms, 22^nd May 1986, lot 353; and a pair sold in our London rooms, 18^thJune 1985, lot 198.

Imperial bowls decorated with scenes of landscapes are more commonly known depicted within medallions on a coloured ground; see a pair of blue-ground bowls, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, published in Stunning Decorative Porcelains from the Ch’ien-lung Reign, Taipei, 2008, pl. 13, together with a yellow version, pl. 14; and two examples, one with a yellow ground and the other on a ruby ground, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Porcelains with Cloisonné Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, Hong Kong, 1999, pls. 103 and 104 respectively.

For a vase painted with a continuous landscape scene around the body, see one from the J.T. Tai collection, sold in these rooms, 7^th October 2010, lot 2130.

Henrik Valdemar Jacobsen was the Director of the East Asiatic Company (EAC). The EAC, founded in 1897, established trade between Denmark and China. Many of Mr. Jacobsen's pieces were previously exhibited at Kunstindustrimuseet, now Designmuseum Danmark.