A Chinese blue and white 'Yen-Yen' Vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi (1662-1722).
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Yenyen shape. Decorated in underglazed blue with a pheasant, birds and butterflies in a blooming garden with magnolia, prunus and chrysantemum. Height 46 cm.
Firing flaws. Wear.
Provenance
The Collection of G. B. Sabelström (1888–1944). Sabelström worked for the Indian Brewery/United Breweries and lived in Shanghai from the 1920s up until his death in 1944. He was an important art collector and a member of The Royal Asiatic Society in Shanghai that was closely related to the Shanghai Art Museum. As he passed without heirs, he left his collection to Erik Dahl (1896-1979), a Swedish agent for the Swedish paperindustry stationed in Shanghai and Kobe during the 1920s. Erik Dahl returned to Sweden by the Trans-Siberian Railway and the collection was sent by sea to Sweden after World War II. Thence by descent.