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A large lacquer box with cover, Qing dynasty, with Qianlong mark.

Estimate
60 000 - 80 000 SEK
5 370 - 7 160 EUR
5 390 - 7 180 USD
Hammer price
55 000 SEK
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 large lacquer box with cover, Qing dynasty, with Qianlong mark.

The top of the cover with a circular panel is deeply carved on wan-diaper ground enclosing some scholars with attendants. The rounded sides of the box and cover are carved with panels of flowers, divided by lotus scrolls. The base is lacquered black, incised to the centre with a Qianlong reign mark. Diameter 32 cm.

Cracks, chips.

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.

Purchased at Bukowskis 2017, 601 lot no 551. Then from the Collection of Folke Isacsson.

Folke Isacson (1898–1975), founder of a Gothenburg printing house, played a major role in the Gothenburg art scene in the 1930s and thereafter, partly as a patron and partly as chair of the Gothenburg Art Society, deputy chair of the Gothenburg Museum Board and a member of the board of the art school Valands Konstskola, the Museum of Art’s Purchasing Committee and Friends of the Museum of Art. Together with his wife Sigrid (1900–1987) he created a fantastic collection of important Swedish and international artists as well as Asian Art.