A Chinese 'hundred-fruit' yixing teapot, Qing dynasty (1644-1912).

The Carina and Lennart Bogg Collection. Carina and Lennart Bogg moved to China in 1983, where Lennart worked for UNICEF and Carina at the Norwegian Embassy’s preschool. Their time there coincided with China’s reopening after the Cultural Revolution – a period marked by strong artistic development and increased international exchange. Through close contact with artists and visits to exhibitions and galleries, the Swedish couple’s art collection gradually took shape. It was presented in Sweden at Liljevalchs konsthall in the exhibition “Masters from China” in the summer of 1989. Since then, the collection has continued to grow, reflecting the couple’s interest in China’s rich cultural life and diverse artistic expressions.
Purchased in Southern Sweden fifteen years ago, provenance: Ida Trotzig, born Magnét on 6 September 1864 in Kalmar, died 5 November 1943 in Stockholm. She was a Swedish photographer, ethnographer, Japanologist, writer and painter who spent over 30 years around the turn of the century in Japan. After returning to Sweden in 1921, after her husband's death in 1919 and over thirty years of residence in Japan, she continued to write and give lectures on Japanese cultural phenomena. Ida Trotzig had acquired great knowledge of Japanese tea ceremony and she was the first to introduce the tea ceremony in Sweden.