A pair of Chinese blue and white vases, late Qing dynasty/Republic with Qianlong seal mark.
Tietoa ostamisesta
Lisätietoja ja kuntoraportit
With a pear-shaped body supported on a flared foot and tapering to a tall slender neck with a garlic-head mouth and thin-lipped rim, the body painted in underglaze blue, decorated with alternating flowering and fruiting branches of the sanduo arranged in two registers above borders of lappets and crested waves, the neck collared with a band of pendent lappets, each enclosing a double-trefoil motif above a gently recessed key-fret band and pendent ruyi heads, the bulbous mouth with a floral scroll below a further key-fret frieze at the rim, the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark. Height 30 cm.
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Alkuperä - Provenienssi
From the collection of a Henry Breding (1929-1987). Breding first worked for Philipson with Mercedes then set up his own car company in Gothenburg. He had a great interest in his native town Gothenburg and it close link with the Swedish East India Company and early on started to collect Chinese ceramics. Thence by descent.