Oval dish decorated with polychrome dragons chasing flaming pearls, turquoise glaze to the interior, Xianfeng mark to base, height 5.7 cm, height including wooden stand 9.5, 18 x 14 cm.
Leaf-shaped dish on foot with famille rose decoration to celadon ground, featuring insects and flowers, the foot with waves red seal to the base. Height 5 cm, height including wooden stand 7, diameter 18 cm.
Wear. The leaf shaped dish with chips.
From the private collection of Eskil Artberg (1886-1974), thence by descent within the family.
Owner and cofounder of Japanska Magasinet, an antique shop in Stockholm founded 1909 by Eskil and his brother John Artberg (1878–1933). The brothers were active in trading Japanese and Chinese works of Art and also contributing by lending objects to the early exhibitions of both Japanese and Chinese Works of Art, such as for example the one in 1911 at Konstakademin, Stockholm. The shop first focused on Japanese Works of Art and Japanese papers that they sold to the Swedish Artists of the early 20th century, then after the war when the interest of Japanese Art cooled of, Eskil came to focus more on Chinese Works of Art. Both the Etnographic Museum in Stockholm and Östasiatiska Museet in Stockholm hold items in their collections that has been purchased from Japanska Magasinet.