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A part armorial dinner service, Qing dynasty, Qianlong (1736-95).

Estimate
75 000 - 100 000 SEK
7 120 - 9 500 EUR
7 490 - 9 980 USD
Hammer price
Unsold
Purchasing info
For condition report contact specialist
Cecilia Nordström
Stockholm
Cecilia Nordström
Senior specialist Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass
+46 (0)739 40 08 02
A part armorial dinner service, Qing dynasty, Qianlong (1736-95).

Comprising six soup dishes, four small dishes. Diameter 16,5-22 cm.

One restored, three with rimcracks, fritting.

Provenance

The service is most certainly made for Claes Grill (b19/4 1705 – 6/11 1767). He followed his father Abraham Grills footsteps and started at an early age to work for the in the family business. Claes father passed away in 1725, whereupon he and his uncle Carolos took over the firm. Carolos & Claes Grill soon became Sweden’s leading merchant house. Their trade involved, shipping, East-India trade, co-owner of sail and linen manufactory, glassworks, shipyards, a bank and they owned a line of mines and estates. The family was one of the first in investing in the new venture The Swedish East-India Company, and Claes became one of its directors in 1753. Claes married his cousin in 1737, Carolos daughter, the reputed beauty Anna Johanna.
Utställningar
221 pieces of this service is today in the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm. The service at NM was bought at Bukowski Auction house in 1963, from the estate of Count Sigge Cronstedt.