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This vase has a prestigious provenance,
having previously been owned by one of the
great collectors from the golden age of

Chinese art collection in Europe – the Swedish

collector Carl Kempe (1884-1967), whose
particular passion was for fine Tang and Song
dynasty monochrome wares.

Fig. 3 Carl Kempe, 1912.
History and Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo
卡ḓĤগ普， 年

which is one of a series, is entitled Guwan tu Pictures of Ancient in the early 1920s, and from the 1930s onwards he developed a
Playthings, and depicts a selection of antiques, crafted primarily in particular interest in Chinese white-glazed and celadon-glazed
ceramic, jade and bronze, from the imperial collection. At the end wares, especially those from the Tang-Song period, including
of the scroll an empty imperial throne is depicted, as if awaiting crackle-glazed vessels. It was probably HRH Crown Prince Gustaf
the emperor’s appearance to peruse his treasures. Adolf (1882-1973, from 1950 HM King Gustaf VI Adolf), who
was on the Committee of Honour for the International Exhibition of
This vase has a prestigious provenance, having previously been Chinese Art held at the Royal Academy in London in 1935-36, who
owned by one of the great collectors from the golden age of suggested that Carl Kempe loan twelve items (primarily ceramics)
Chinese art collection in Europe – the Swedish collector Carl to the International Exhibition of Chinese Art.
Kempe (1884-1967), whose particular passion was for fine Tang and
Song dynasty monochrome wares. Kempe was an industrialist and Made for the court of the Southern Song emperor, the current vase
an active philanthropist, who was also a keen sportsman - in 1912 reflects the refined aesthetic traditions of the Northern Song court,
winning an Olympic silver medal in the indoor tennis doubles while belonging to a group of wares so highly esteemed by successive
at the Stockholm Summer Olympics with his partner Gunnar generations of connoisseurs that it was to influence the ceramics
Setterwall. (Fig. 3) Carl Kempe’s interest in Chinese art began made for the Chinese imperial court well into the Qing dynasty.

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