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A celadon glazed cong vase with 'Eight Trigrams' decoration, Qing dynasty, Guangxu mark and period (1875-1908).

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80 000 - 100 000 SEK
7 190 - 8 990 EUR
7 510 - 9 390 USD
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Cecilia Nordström
Stockholm
Cecilia Nordström
Head Specialist Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass
+46 (0)739 40 08 02
A celadon glazed cong vase with 'Eight Trigrams' decoration, Qing dynasty, Guangxu mark and period (1875-1908).

The square section vase moulded with the ba gua to each facet, with a short neck with a rolled mouth rim, raised on a slightly flared foot, all covered with an even celadon green glaze. Height 27.5 cm.

Interior with firing flaws.

Provenance

Property of a private Finnish Collection.

The collection was formed between 1980-2020, the collector has had an interest in China and Chinese Works of Art since childhood, growing up in Beijing. He returned to China in grownup years for work, he came to live in China altogether more than 40 years. His love of China, and Chinese works of art is mirrored in the collection and being an academic collector, he never got tired of learning more about the subject by studying literature, attending lectures, visiting museums, auction houses and befriending curators from Peking, Hong Kong, London, Paris, and Stockholm. The collection consists of both Chinese ceramics and textiles, This being part 1.

Exhibitions

Compare with similar vase sold at Bonhams, Asian Art, May, 2017, Live Auction, London, Knightsbridge, lot 197.

Literature

A very similar vase but with a Xuantong mark in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in H.A. Van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th centuries, Lochem, 1977, pl.111.

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