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A pair of turquoise and purple glazed figures of guardsmen, Ming dynasty (1368-1644).
Estimate
10 000 - 15 000 SEK
922 - 1 380 EUR
1 050 - 1 580 USD
Hammer price
8 500 SEK
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A pair of turquoise and purple glazed figures of guardsmen, Ming dynasty (1368-1644).
Standing figure clad in armor glazed in turquoise, aubergine and yellow. Height 21 cm.
Provenance
Traugot collection no 865a and 865 b.
Label from a previous collection, 12247/48 and 12244/48.
From the Collection of Ivan Traugott. (1871-1952). Thence by descent within the family. Traugott was a Swedish businessman and important art collector. An early member of the China club, investor in the Karlbeck consortium and good friend and sponsor of Johan Gunnar Andersson in the early 20th century. A large part of his collections can be seen today at Nationalmuseum and East Asian Museum in Stockholm.
Literature
Depicted in Svenska Hem i Ord och bild, in 1920, in the home of Ivar Traugott, page 121.