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An embroidered Chinese silk altar cover, Qing dynasty, 19th Century.

Estimate
5 000 - 7 000 SEK
450 - 629 EUR
474 - 664 USD
Hammer price
7 000 SEK
Purchasing info
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Linn Andersson Bennich
Stockholm
Linn Andersson Bennich
Assisting Specialist Works of Art
+46 (0)707 88 84 75
An embroidered Chinese silk altar cover, Qing dynasty, 19th Century.

Embroidered with antiques and flowers in blue shades on a black ground. Blue lining. Width 91 cm, height 90 cm.

Wear. Stains.

Provenance

From the Collection of Gustaf Wallenberg (1863-1939). Gustaf Wallenberg was Swedish business man, diplomat and active politician. He was the son of André Oscar Wallenberg, founder of Stockholm Enskilda Bank (today SEB, and grandfather of Raoul Wallenberg (1912-47?). After a career in the Swedish Navy he turned to the business world and was very active in striving to better the transoceanic shipping industry. Something that came in handy when he in 1908 successfully negotiated with the Qing court in Beijing about a friendship, trade and navigation treaty. The collection was acquired between 1906 and 1918 when Wallenberg was the Swedish Envoyé in Tokyo. From 1907 he was also accredited for Beijing and came to spend time in both countries as the Swedish Ambassador. Mr Wallenberg came to be in China in dramatic part of its history, when a lot of items came on the market and when the golden era of collecting Chinese works of art started in Europe. Thence by descent.

Literature

Bukowskis sold a part of this collection previously at Bukowskis Sale 554 in 2009 and Bukowskis Sale 556, 2010.

More information

The black and white images are from Temple Court, the Wallenberg residence in Japan