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漢 銅獸首三件 及一件銀嵌綠松石青金石鏡(一組四件)
Provenance: Dr Carl Kempe (1884-1967), Sweden (label no.79) (the mirror)
The Li Fan Thompson collection, London
來源:Carl Kempe博士 (1884-1967),瑞典(標籤編號79)(銀鏡)
範麗收藏,倫敦
Dr. Carl Kempe (1884-1967) was a prominent Swedish industrialist who served as the CEO of Mo och Domsjö AB, a leading company in the Swedish pulp and paper industry. He resided at Ekolsund, a historic former Swedish royal palace, where he also maintained his distinguished art collection. As an early and active member of the Oriental Ceramic Society, he amassed one of the finest European collections of Chinese art created in the mid-twentieth century.
See a related small bronze buffalo head-form fitting, Western Zhou dynasty, which was sold at Sotheby's New York, 22 March 2022, lot 42.