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A blue and white Transitional jar with cover, 17th Century.

Estimate
40 000 - 60 000 SEK
3 900 - 5 850 EUR
4 530 - 6 800 USD
Hammer price
120 000 SEK
Bidding requires special pre approval.
Purchasing info
For condition report contact specialist
Cecilia Nordström
Stockholm
Cecilia Nordström
Senior specialist Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass
+46 (0)739 40 08 02
A blue and white Transitional jar with cover, 17th Century.

Ovoid shape with a tall unglazed neck, decorated in underglaze blue with a phoenix bird and a qilin dragon in a garden setting. Height 29.5 cm.

Restored chip to rim.

Provenance

From the collection of Johan Adolf Drougge, 1867-1956). A Swedish M.D. at Karolinska Institutet, who served as a doctor at the Kronoberg regiment 1903-1910, and at the Göta lifeguards from 1910. He was also a portrait painter, and has been exhibited at Liljevalchs in Stockholm. He was a passionate art and antiques collector and started a fund for research called the Adolf Drougge stiftelse.

Exhibitions

For other lots from this collection, see Bukowskis sale 645, lot 247. A west Anatolian "Lotto" rug, 17th century,

Literature

Litterature; see his home depicted in Svenska Hem i ord och bild 1926, page 233-243.