Property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections, Lots 234-253
Two brass alloy and white metal travelling-shrines, gau
Tibet, 19th centuryThe first of square form, with a decorative border in parcel gilt with central wheel inset with turquoise, all laid onto the white metal cover, the interior with clay votive plaques, tscha tscha, and some envelopes of powders; the other, of ogival form, with white metal cover decorated in Chinese taste with Buddhist Symbols above tumultuous waves, a central window revealing a painting of Bhairava and consort, the reverse of the box with incised lanca character. The largest: 17cm (6 3/4in) high (2).
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Property from the Mark and Peter Dineley CollectionsProvenance:Henry Harrison Getty (1838-1919), by reputeAlice Getty (d.1946), by reputeCourtenay Morgan, Viscount Tredegar (1867-1934), by reputeEvan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (1893-1949), by reputeProfessor and Mrs Bellerby, by repute Mark Dineley (1901-1975)Peter Dineley (1938-2018), and thence by descentThe 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.