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A TIBETAN CEREMONIAL PARCEL-GILT BREAST PLATE
19th century
Decorated in repousse with scrolling foliage encircling a central
inscription, with turquoise and coral inset borders, attached
silk embroidered tapering panel, woven with dragons amongst
polychrome cloud scrolls, within decorative borders and with fringing
to the lower edge.
144.5cm (56.7/8in) long.
£1,000 - 1,500
HK$9,800 - 15,000
CNY8,900 - 13,000

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.145.

See a closely related example, 19th century, in the British Museum,
collection no.1893,0320.105.
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A PARCEL GILT COPPER AND BRASS ALLOY RITUAL BELL,
GHANTA
Tibet, 18th century and later 239
The handle cast with the head of Vairocana supporting a half vajra-
shaped terminal and applied with gilt, all above a copper section
with a dragon among clouds, the shoulder of the bell cast with lança
characters within lappets, the body with rows of visvajra among
pearls and flaming wheels. 29cm (11 1/2in) high
£800 - 1,000
HK$7,800 - 9,800
CNY7,100 - 8,900
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

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