Lot 957 A pair of blanc de chine rhinoceros libation cups,

A pair of blanc de chine rhinoceros libation cups,

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12000 - 15000 SEK

Height c. 8 cm, width 14.5 cm. Height with wooden stand 12-14 cm.

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Estimate
12 000 - 15 000 SEK
After a model made from rhinoceros horn, decorated in relief with dragons, a deer and a crane. Height c. 8 cm, width 14.5 cm. Height with wooden stand 12-14 cm.
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Provenance
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.