A Chinese blue and white 'Yen-Yen' vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi (1662-1722).
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The body and trumpet shaped neck decorated in underglazed blue with a riverscape and pine branches. With Jiajings six character mark to base. Height c. 47.5 cm.
Repair to neck. Inscribed mark to base.
Provenance
The Collection of G. B. Sabelström (1888–1944). Sabelström worked for the Indian Brewery/United Breweries and lived in Shanghai from the 1920s up until his death in 1944. He was an important art collector and a member of The Royal Asiatic Society in Shanghai that was closely related to the Shanghai Art Museum. As he passed without heirs, he left his collection to Erik Dahl (1896-1979), a Swedish agent for the Swedish paperindustry stationed in Shanghai and Kobe during the 1920s. Erik Dahl returned to Sweden by the Trans-Siberian Railway and the collection was sent by sea to Sweden after World War II. Thence by descent.