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A RARE TIBETAN CONCH-SHELL TRUMPET
19th century
Mounted with a white metal repoussé shaft and flower form
terminal, the adjoining metal scroll-form plate decorated to the
centre with Kirtimukha flanked by a pair of dragons, surrounded by
four bodhisattvas seated on lotus bases with flaming mandorlas,
interspersed with turquoise and imitation coral inlay and tear-drop-
shaped decoration, inscribed copper plate to the reverse.
44.5cm (17.1/2in) long.
£1,200 - 1,800
HK$12,000 - 18,000
CNY11,000 - 16,000
Property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections

Provenance
Henry Harrison Getty (1838-1919), by repute
Alice Getty (d.1946), by repute
Courtenay Morgan, Viscount Tredegar (1867-1934), by repute
Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (1893-1949), by repute
Professor and Mrs Bellerby, by repute
Mark Dineley (1901-1975)
Peter Dineley (1938-2018), and thence by descent

Noted in the handwritten family ‘A Catalogue of the Dineley Collection
of Tibetiana and Associated Buddhistic Objects’, early 1960s, p.38.

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