Baluster shape, with a flared rim, splayed foot and elegant elephant shaped handles, both are decorated in underglaze blue with a floral scroll. The slightly recessed base with a Guangxu six character mark. Height 22.5 cm. Height including wooden stand 25 cm.
The Collection of G. B. Sabelström (1888–1944). Sabelström worked for the Indian Brewery/United Breweries and lived in Shanghai from the 1920s up until his death in 1944. He was an important art collector and a member of The Royal Asiatic Society in Shanghai that was closely related to the Shanghai Art Museum. As he passed without heirs, he left his collection to Erik Dahl (1896-1979), a Swedish agent for the Swedish paper industry that came to be stationed in Shanghai and Kobe from the 1920s and onwards. Erik Dahl returned to Sweden by the Trans-Siberian Railway and the collection was sent by sea to Sweden after World War II. Thence by descent.
To see other lots sold from this collection, se Bukowskis Sale 641, lot no 779-785.