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A RARE THREE-COLOUR BRASS ALLOY PADLOCK AND Provenance
KEY The Oliver Robert Coales Collection, acquired during Mr. Coales’
Wanli six-character mark and of the period career in the British Consular Service in China between 1901
The rectangular lock worked with pierced roundels and and 1926, and thence by descent.
ornamental motifs, with a long cylindrical barrel, the openwork
key fitting a shou character-form keyhole. 28cm (11in) wide See an almost identical padlock and key, Wanli six-character
mark and of the period, of slightly smaller size, sold in Woolley &
£3,000 - 5,000 Wallis, 20 May 2015, lot 24.

HK$31,000 - 51,000 See Chinese Furniture, Selected Articles from Orientations 1984-
CNY27,000 - 45,000 2003, ‘Proportion and Joinery in Four-Part Wardrobes’, p.38,
for a similar lock dated to the Wanli period. See also Selected
Treasures of the Shaanxi History Museum, Gold and Silver,
p.139, pl.155 for a Tang dynasty example.

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