Collecting takes time. It's not just a pleasure; it's an art. It requires a keen eye and a healthy dose of patience to bring together items from different cultures, time periods, and materials and place them in what seems like a unified context. Such a context, a room filled with treasures from all corners of the world, can be called a "cabinet of curiosities."
It was during the Baroque period that the first cabinets of curiosities came to light. These collections included natural history, ethnographic, and geological objects, combined with Roman oil lamps, bronzes, and marble sculptures. Among these, delicate East Asian porcelain and virtuoso silverwork from cities like Nuremberg and Florence could also be found.
When Crafoord Auctions Stockholm presents the Cabinet of Curiosities theme auction for the third time, it is with art and antiques from near and far. Chinese blue and white porcelain and Grand Tour souvenirs are interspersed with English silver and Venetian art glass. Among the highlights, we find a high-quality miniature portrait of Peter the Great of Russia. The auction also includes Peruvian artifacts from antique dealer Björn Wirén's private collection. A brandy bottle engraved by Anders Fredrik Levin for Eda glassworks or an Indian betel nut cutter from the 19th century are among the auction's rarer items.
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