The vases of baluster shape, handle sin the shape of animal heads, iron red glaze, height 9 cm.
The bowl with yellow glaze and an indistinct relief pattern, Qianlong mark in underglazed blue to base but later, height 6, diameter 12.5 cm.
Box with three sections, decorated with blue and white stylized flowers and foliage, height 11.5, diameter 10 cm.
The vases comes in a fitted wooden box.
A vase with crack to mouth. A section of the box with a small crack possibly from firing.
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.
The vases and bowl purchased at Bukowskis February 2009 auction S187 lot 481.