Lot 953 A carved nephrite cup with 'chilong' handles,

A carved nephrite cup with 'chilong' handles,

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12000 - 15000 SEK

Length 13 m. Height with wooden stand 10 cm. The placque with pierced decoration. Measure 6.5x4 cm. Height with wooden stand 9

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Estimate
12 000 - 15 000 SEK
Octagonal cup with chilong dragons holding on to the sides forming handles. Length 13 m. Height with wooden stand 10 cm. The placque with pierced decoration. Measure 6.5x4 cm. Height with wooden stand 9.5 cm.
Natural inclusions and feathering to the stone.
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.
Exhibitions
Compare with a cup of this type in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Object no 02.18.386. Gift of Herber R. Bishop, 1902.