Description A GILT METAL MINIATURE MODEL OF A FLOWER POT, MEIJIJapan, Meiji period (1868-1912)The miniature model in the shape of a flower pot, modeled in gilt wirework, planted in a gilt metal flowerpot finely incised with a variety of flowers. LENGHT 6 cmCondition: Good condition with minor wear, and verdigris.Provenance: From the Collection of Gustaf Wallenberg (1863-1939). Gustaf Wallenberg was a Swedish businessman, diplomat and active politician. He was the son of André Oscar Wallenberg, founder of Stockholm Enskilda Bank (today SEB, and grandfather of Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1947/1952). After a career in the Swedish Navy, he turned to the business world and was very active in striving to better the transoceanic shipping industry. Something that came in handy when he in 1908 successfully negotiated with the Qing court in Beijing about a friendship, trade, and navigation treaty. His Japanese art collection was acquired between 1906 and 1918 when Wallenberg was the Swedish Envoyé in Tokyo. Thence by descent.