Round silk panel with embroidered figure scenes against a blue background, the centre of the silk fabric with woven auspicious symbols, lined with yellow silk, diameter 44 cm.
Silk panel embroidered with metal thread, motifs of auspicious items, woven mounting with ruyi border, 29.5 x 57.5 cm.
Silk panel with embroidered blue flowers and auspicious objects among foaming waves against a coral red base, woven mounting, lined with blue silk fabric, 40 x 93 cm.
Silk panel embroidered with motifs of phoenix birds and peonies against an orange background, mounting with embroidered border, lined with cream-coloured silk fabric, 40 x 89 cm.
Beige silk textile in woven mounting with ruyi pattern, 103 x 37 cm.
Wear. Stains. Faded.
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.