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A wooden scultpure of Guanyin, Ming style but later.

Estimate
6 000 - 8 000 SEK
536 - 715 EUR
566 - 755 USD
Hammer price
Unsold
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Cecilia Nordström
Stockholm
Cecilia Nordström
Head Specialist Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass
+46 (0)739 40 08 02
A wooden scultpure of Guanyin, Ming style but later.

Sculptured with a high chingon, amitaba buddha in the diadem, depicted with a broad face, downcast eyes, elongated earlobes and a gentle smile. Traces of pigment. Height 29 cm.

Cracks.

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..