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Lot Essay
Kee Il Choi has written of the relationship between Chinese scroll painting and the continuous depiction of landscape we find in these hong bowls, so emblematic of the China trade. As Choi points out, the Chinese artist took several approaches to the conundrum of transferring a long, horizontal image to the 3D format: some inserted Whampoa anchorage where the buildings start and finish; and others found a central point, here above the Swedish factory, from which to center the perspective. See A Tale of Three Cities, pp. 38-68, and the magazine Antiques, October 1999, pp. 501-9, where the author illustrates a grisaille bowl very similar to the present lot.