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A TIBETAN GILT METAL ‘THOUSAND-ARM’ WRATHFUL DEITY
VOTIVE PLAQUE
19th century
The skeleton form figure depicted crouching upon two recumbent
figures supported on a lotus petal base before a flaming mandorla.
9.7cm (3.7/8in) wide.
£800 - 1,200
HK$7,800 - 12,000
CNY7,100 - 11,000
Property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections

Provenance
Henry Harrison Getty (1838-1919)
Alice Getty (d.1946)
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)
237 Peter Dineley (1938-2018), and thence by descent

Published and Illustrated
A.Getty, The Gods of Northern Buddhism: Their History and
Iconography (Illustrations from the Collection of Henry H. Getty),
Oxford, 1914, pl.LXII (top left).
Noted in the handwritten family ‘A Catalogue of the Dineley Collection
of Tibetiana and Associated Buddhistic Objects’, early 1960s, p.106.

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THREE GILT COPPER ALLOY RITUAL DAGGERS AND A WOOD
RITUAL DAGGER, PHURBA
19th century
The metal daggers surmounted by multi heads of wrathful deities
with vajra shafts and tripartite blades, the larger possibly composite;
the wood dagger surmounted by three unusual mask forms, the
blade carved with stylised figural and linear designs. The largest
37cm (14.1/2in) long. (4).

£2,500 - 3,000
HK$24,000 - 29,000
CNY22,000 - 27,000
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

The three metal phurba are noted in the handwritten family ‘A
Catalogue of the Dineley Collection of Tibetiana and Associated
Buddhistic Objects’, early 1960s, pp.13, 15-16, 20.

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