A set of 10 Chinese blue and white dishes, Qing dynasty, 19th Century with hall mark to base.

From the Collection of a Swedish gentleman who was employed at the Gadelius Company and stationed in Japan in the 1950s and 1960s. The collection was built during these years, some items were purchased in Japan, but also on their business trips to Taiwan and Hong Kong.

The pieces are repaired in Japan in a technique called Kintsugi (translates to ‘golden joinery’), also known as kintsukuroi ‘golden repair’. It is a Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver or platinum, and it treats breakage and repair as a part of the history of an object rather than something to disguise.