A blue and white lotus jar, Qing dynasty, Kangxi (1662-1722).

From the collection of a Henry Breding (1929-1987). Breding first worked for Philipson with Mercedes then set up his own car company in Gothenburg. He had a great interest in his native town Gothenburg and it close link with the Swedish East India Company and early on started to collect Chinese ceramics. Thence by descent.