A rare famille verte scroll weight, Qing dynasty (1644-1912).
Lenght 29 cm, height 10,5 cm.
Chips.
Provenance
The Collection of Gustaf Wallenberg (1863-1939). The collection was acquired between 1906 and 1918 when Wallenberg was the Swedish Envoyé in Tokyo, from 1907 he was also accredited for Beijing.
Exhibitions
No 17 in the Raol Wallenberg deposition at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm.
Literature
Wirgin, Jan, "K'ang-Hsi porcelain. Selected objects from Swedish collections". The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Bulletin No 46, Stockholm 1974 (BMFEA no. 46), Depicted on p. 83, pl.41a. Dating is as being Kangxi.
Warren E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, New York, 1944, vol. II, p. 577. A similar piece, with a qilong handle on top, attributed to the mid-Kangxi period and referred to as a 'box for perfumed herbs'.
More information
Compare with Sotheby's sale N08565, New York, September 09, 16th lot no 276. Then cataloged as 'A rare presentation stand or pillow'.
Compare the Scroll weight at Bukowskis sale 0554 lot no 1334 from the same collection.