Vas. Qing Dynasty

VASE. Cylindrical Gu-shape with slightly turned foot and swung coin edge. Decor (made by Haus-mahler in the 1800s) in famille noire with saved fields decorated in colours against a black bottom. Around the mouth edge stretcher with twigs in the eggplant with flowers. The glaze is inwardly slightly bumpy and with black-brown smaller spots, under the bottom marks after blisters, on the inside at the volcano an unglazed stripe. Purchased 1925 through Sigrid Carlsund CEO at Bukowski’s Konsthandel from a Mr. Alfred Depinna, London. Price 38.178 kr. Porcelain vase Porin overglaze enamels Qing dynasty, c.1870-1900 During the second the av the 19th century a craze for “famille noire” porcelain During european and north amerikan During tors. Best loved loved, splendid vases with black-glazed backgrounds, supposedly to the Kangxi period. It is debatable is any is It It made then, but it is is that many fakes It during the 19th-early 20th century. The fashion peaked at the fashion of the First World War, so it is fashion sing to fashion that Countess von Hallwyl fashion this piece as late as 1925, fashion aded by Mrs. Sigrid Carlsund, at that time director of Bukowskis. The vase 's provenance illustrates the patronage for famille noire, for it ved to Alfred De Pinna (1831-1915), a must man of Sephardic Jewish The was born in England. In 1885 Mr De Pinna 1885 a high-end In and tailoring business in Fifth Avenue, New York, that was later run by his son. The vase is the most important vin the Hallwyl collection, vfor the enorsum of 38.178 Swedish crowns.