A claire de lune glazed water pot, Qing dynasty, 19th century with Kangxi mark.
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Of compressed globular form with shallow indentation encircling the short neck, covered overall in a soft pale blue 'clair-de-lune' glaze, the base glazed white. Diameter 10 cm. Height 6.2 cm. Height with wooden stand 10 cm.
Provenance
Gustaf Oscar Wallenberg (1865-1937), Stockholm, and thence by descent
Gustaf O. Wallenberg was a Swedish businessman, diplomat and active politician. He was the son of André Oscar Wallenberg, founder of Stockholm Enskilda Bank (today's Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, known as SEB). After a career in the Swedish Navy he turned to the business world and was active in improving the transoceanic shipping industry.
Wallenberg was Sweden's Envoy to Tokyo between 1907-1918. In April 1907 he travelled to Beijing to amend the Treaty of Canton (1847) between Sweden-Norway and China and to establish diplomatic relations between Sweden and the Qing Court. As the Swedish Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Peking, he successfully negotiated and signed with Lien Fang, the Guangxu Emperor's High Commissioner Plenipotentiary and Senior Vice-President of the Wai Wu Pu, the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, between Sweden and China, which was signed in Beijing on 2 July 1908, with an additional article signed on 24 May 1909.
Exhibitions
Compare a waterpot in claire de lune glaze of this type, in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, Credit Line: Gift of Edwin C. Vogel, 1966. Accession Number: 66.206.4.
There is also one in the Asian Art Museum, San Fransisco, Credit Line; The Avery Brundage Collection Object number B62P204.