A large blue and white 'dragon' dish, Mark and period of Kangxi | 清康熙 青花雲龍紋盤 《大清康熙年製》款

Collection of Ivan Traugott (1871-1952), acquired in Stockholm, March 1921.

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Ivan Traugott（1871-1952）收藏，得自斯德哥爾摩，1921年3月

Surviving examples of this design and large size are rare. Compare a similar dish from the collection of Alfred E. Guntermann (1943-2013), sold at Christie’s New York, 18th and 19th September 2014, lot 854; and another sold at Christie’s London, 13th May 2014, lot 351. Also compare Kangxi dishes of this design with additional coloured enamels, including an example with added green enamel, preserved in the Hong Kong Museum of Art, included in The Wonders of the Potter’s Palette, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1984, cat. no. 25; and another, with yellow enamel on a green ground, in the Nanjing Museum, illustrated in Xu Huping, ed., The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 75.

Ivan Traugott (1871-1952) was a leading figure in the burgeoning Chinese Art circles of Stockholm in the early twentieth century. An early member of the famous Kinaklubben (‘China Club’) alongside the likes of the Crown Prince (later King Gustaf VI Adolf), Carl Kempe, Emil Hultmark and Gustaf Lindberg, Traugott played a key role in the history of Chinese Art collecting in the West. Traugott also invested in the famous Karlbeck Syndicate of the early 1930s, which forms the foundation of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, and countless others around the world.