A Chinese coral read ground butterfly vase, 20th century.
The globular body with slender flaring neck, decorated in enamels with flying butterflies on a iron red/orange ground, the ribbed shoulder with alternating Shou characters and scrolling lotus flowers, the rim with ruyi-head border, iron-red Guangxu six-character mark to the base. Height 36 cm.
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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 Christies 7 Nov 2008, sale 5336, lot no 208.
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