Fat, porslin. Mingdynastin, Swatow, omkring 1600.
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Djupt med dekor i emaljfärgerna turkost, svart, järnrött och grönt. Målad ekor av en konstnär som vandrar hållandes en gren med en fågel, bärandes en korg/ryggsäck fylld med diverse föremål och målningar. Bredvid honom går en hjort. Runt brämet kinesiska tecken alternerande med växter. Diameter 38,5 cm.
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Proveniens
From the Collection of Heidi Boyce Broström (1943-2022) and Dan Axel Broström (1915-1976).
Dan Axel Broström was the third-generation ship-owner in the prestigious Broström Company group. When he took over the firm in 1949 they had 18 000 employees.
The Canadian model and geologist Heidi was Dan-Axel Broströms third wife, the couple lived at the fashionable Särö, a few miles south of Gothenburg.
Utställningar
Compare: Collection of Sakamoto Gorō (1926-2016). Sotheby's New York, 17th March 2015, lot 41.
Litteratur
A similar dish as the one with the figure and the deer, is included by Jorge Welsh in Zhangzhou Export Ceramics, The So-called Swatow Wares, 2006, no. 26, pp. 124-7, where he notes the figure depicted may represent the Daoist immortal Lan Cai-he or Han Xiang-zi.
Another dish of this design, the four roundels in the cavetto with the Chinese characters yu tang jia qi ‘the hall full of beautiful treasures’, is illustrated by Yoneyama Torataro in The Seikado Bunko Art Museum catalogue of Swatow Wares of the Seikado Collection, no. 34, p. 41.
