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A group of four famille rose 'bajixiang' covers, Qing dynasty, mark and period of Daoguang and Guangxu.

Estimate
4 000 - 6 000 SEK
356 - 533 EUR
367 - 550 USD
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Cecilia Nordström
Stockholm
Cecilia Nordström
Senior specialist Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass
+46 (0)739 40 08 02
A group of four famille rose 'bajixiang' covers, Qing dynasty, mark and period of Daoguang and Guangxu.

Finely painted around the domed sides with four ribboned pairs of the Eight Buddhist Emblems, bajixiang, between key-fret and ruyi-head borders. Diameter 9.8-9.9 cm.

One cover with crack.

Provenance

The Collection of Erik Nordström (1884-1971)
Erik Nordström was commissioned after a recommendation by Swedish minister Gustav Oscar Wallenberg, the Envoyé of Japan and China, as Post General in Shanghai at the Royal Chinese General Post Office in 1910. The aim was to help facilitate its work throughout China. He was positioned in several of the Chinese provinces (he often chose the northern provinces due to their resemblance to the northern Sweden where he stems from) over his 35 years in the postal service.
Gustav Oscar Wallenberg who became a close and dear friend of Erik Nordström, was a keen collector of Chinese ceramics and introduced him to the art of collecting by defining age, quality and heritage as they visited the antique shops of Beijing. The vast collection of Eric Nordström contains a variety of objects of which many were acquired for the purpose of everyday use, hence the wear to many of the objects.
During his time in China he encountered and befriended many of the Swedish society who both worked and lived as well as passed through China at the time, i.e. Johan Gunnar Andersson and wife, Sven Hedin, Carl Bonde, Sten Thiel in the company of Nils von Dardel and his then fiancé Nita Wallenberg, to name only a few.
Erik Nordström was a keen sportsman and always liked a challenge whether it be hunting, shooting or tennis. He retired in China in 1945 and spent his last years in Qingdao before his return to Sweden in 1948.
By the time he left China in 1948 he and his family had experienced the Chinese revolution, World War I and the Japanese invasion and World War II.

For other lots from this collection sold in these rooms with Bukowskis. See Sale 629 lot 641-643. And also the mayor part of the collection, sale 580, 160 lots.

Literature

Compare the present lot to another Daoguang bowl similarly decorated with bajixiang in the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum 39 Porcelains with Cloisonné Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 232, no. 207. Also see a later Tongzhi bowl with an almost identical form and decoration in the Simon Kwan collection, included in the exhibition Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing from the Kwan Collection, illustrated in the catalogue, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, p. 105, no. 97.