MATTA. Antik Ningxia Figural. 264,5 x 202,5 cm. Kina sen Qingdynasti.
Terrakottafärgad botten med nio polykroma femkloiga drakar jagande den brinnande pärlan bland moln. Bred bård av vågor och det heliga berget samt överst inskription: Zheng Guang Ge (Byggnaden/Salen av upplyftande ljuset), sannolikt namnet på en byggnad som mattan var beställd för.
Provenance: From the Collection of Nils Robert Bjuke (1889-1973). A Swedish engineer who lived and worked in Canton, China during the 1920’s and 1930’s. For more information, see below.
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Proveniens
Nils Robert Bjuke (1889-1973). A Swedish engineer who lived and worked in Canton, China during the 1920’s and 1930’s. He held the title Acting Engineer in Chief of the River Conservancy Commission and specialized in port prospection and built several ports for the Chinese Government. He was an active hobby film maker and his private records of street- and port life from this time is a real treasure trove and is now deposited at Kungliga Biblioteket in Stockholm, Sweden. He has written about his interesting meetings with people such as Tang Shao I and Nicolas Barclay de Tolly Weimarn in; Nya Äventyr Jorden Runt, Natur och Kultur, Stockholm.
He and his wife Margareta was passionate collectors of Chinese art, furniture and antiques. They donated pieces from their collection to the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm see for example lots no OM-1994-0007 and -0008.
