Lot 956 Two blanc de chine rhinoceros libation cups,

Two blanc de chine rhinoceros libation cups,

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8000 - 10000 SEK

Height c. 6 cm. Length 10 cm. Height with wooden stand 9-10 cm.

Chips, crack to rim.

Estimate
8 000 - 10 000 SEK
After a model made from rhinoceros horn, decorated in relief with a dragon, a buddhist lion, a crane and a deer. Height c. 6 cm. Length 10 cm. Height with wooden stand 9-10 cm.
Chips, crack to rim.
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.
To see other lots sold from this collection, se Bukowskis Sale 641, lot no 779-785.