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A Chinese blanc de chine figure of Guanyin, Qing dynasty, 19th Century.

Estimate
8 000 - 10 000 SEK
716 - 894 EUR
733 - 916 USD
Hammer price
Unsold
Purchasing info
For condition report contact specialist
Linn Andersson Bennich
Stockholm
Linn Andersson Bennich
Assisting Specialist Works of Art
+46 (0)707 88 84 75
A Chinese blanc de chine figure of Guanyin, Qing dynasty, 19th Century.

The Guanyin is standing on a cloud formation, dressed in a robe with rich drapings, bejewelled, tiara. Height 44 cm.

Repair to the lower part of the robe. One finger with damage.

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.