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TWO TIBETAN METAL PRAYER WHEELS AND A TIBETAN TWO BRASS ALLOY AND WHITE METAL TRAVELLING-
SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CEREMONIAL RITUAL TRUMPET SHRINES, GAU
19th century Tibet, 19th century
One prayer wheel decorated with two rows of gilt lanca characters The first of square form, with a decorative border in parcel gilt with
flanking a band of turquoise inset roundels on a reticulated foliate central wheel inset with turquoise, all laid onto the white metal
scroll ground; the other copper alloy vessel with wide openwork cover, the interior with clay votive plaques, tscha tscha, and some
panels of entwined foliate scrolls; the ritual trumpet with mounted envelopes of powders; the other, of ogival form, with white metal
femur, with silver gilt makara terminal inset with glass cabochons. cover decorated in Chinese taste with Buddhist Symbols above
The trumpet 47.5cm (18.3/4in) long. (3). tumultuous waves, a central window revealing a painting of Bhairava
and consort, the reverse of the box with incised lanca character. The
£1,500 - 2,000 largest: 17cm (6 3/4in) high (2).
HK$15,000 - 20,000
CNY13,000 - 18,000 £1,000 - 1,500
HK$9,800 - 15,000
Property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections CNY8,900 - 13,000

Provenance Property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections
Henry Harrison Getty (1838-1919), by repute
Alice Getty (d.1946), by repute Provenance
Courtenay Morgan, Viscount Tredegar (1867-1934), by repute Henry Harrison Getty (1838-1919), by repute
Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (1893-1949), by repute Alice Getty (d.1946), by repute
Professor and Mrs Bellerby, by repute Courtenay Morgan, Viscount Tredegar (1867-1934), by repute
Mark Dineley (1901-1975) Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (1893-1949), by repute
Peter Dineley (1938-2018), and thence by descent Professor and Mrs Bellerby, by repute
Mark Dineley (1901-1975)
Noted in the handwritten family ‘A Catalogue of the Dineley Collection Peter Dineley (1938-2018), and thence by descent
of Tibetiana and Associated Buddhistic Objects’, early 1960s, pp.28,
30, 40. The two gau are noted in the handwritten family ‘A Catalogue of the
Dineley Collection of Tibetiana and Associated Buddhistic Objects’,
early 1960s, pp.84, 88.

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