Ovoid shape with a tall unglazed neck, decorated in underglaze blue with a phoenix bird and a qilin dragon in a garden setting. Height 29.5 cm.
Restored chip to rim.
From the collection of Johan Adolf Drougge, 1867-1956). A Swedish M.D. at Karolinska Institutet, who served as a doctor at the Kronoberg regiment 1903-1910, and at the Göta lifeguards from 1910. He was also a portrait painter, and has been exhibited at Liljevalchs in Stockholm. He was a passionate art and antiques collector and started a fund for research called the Adolf Drougge stiftelse.
For other lots from this collection, see Bukowskis sale 645, lot 247. A west Anatolian "Lotto" rug, 17th century,
Litterature; see his home depicted in Svenska Hem i ord och bild 1926, page 233-243.