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A SILVER-MOUNTED ARMORIAL COFFEE POT AND COVER of whom died without issue) and one daughter. They divorced in
FOR THE SWEDISH FAMILY LOODH April 1768, and he married secondly Märta Christina Sparrsköld in
Qianlong period, the porcelain circa 1750, the silver mounts probably September 1768.
contemporaneous
The baluster body elaborately enameled opposite the handle with a His first journey to China was on the ship Enigheten under Captain
large coat of arms primarily in blue and gilt below Swedish flags as Johan Rundsten, a long trading voyage which finally lasted from
the crest, each side with a gilt flower spray, all below gilt floral bands September 1748 to June 1751, accompanied by Gabriel Beijer,
around the top rim and on the domed cover, the European silver Anders Gadd and Erik Thierstedt. He sailed again on the Götha Leijon,
mounts unmarked but probably Swedish. between 1752-54. His other voyages included a slightly earlier one,
10in (25.5cm) high also on the Enigheten between 1757-8, and on the Stockholms Slott
from 1762-63. He went to the Far East apparently on at least seven
$3,000 - 5,000 voyages. In Canton he is recorded in one surviving document as
receiving a loan from the Chinese agent Tjobqua; see van Dyke, 2018,
乾隆時期 約1750年 銀邊或爲 同期 裝銀青花描金瑞典Loodh家族盾徽帶 p. 32.
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The style of decoration on this pot suggests he probably ordered it on
Gustav Gabriel Loodh (1726-1779) was for much of his career a his first voyage, and he may have ordered further porcelains on a later
supercargo with the Swedish East India Company. He served as a voyage which are known with famille rose flowers.
midshipman cadet at Gothenburg between 1741 and 1745 and was
an assistant to Crown Princess Louisa Ulrica from 1746-7. References: Gyllensvärd, Bo, 1990, Porslinet Från Kina, p. 149 for a
lobed charger with these arms.
He was born in 1726 in Fästered, Finnekumla, Västergötland, son
of Gustaf Gabriel Loodh (senior) and Juliana Cecilia Christophers.
He married first Cecilia Beijer in 1751, having at least three sons (all

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