Property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections, Lots 234-253
Three gilt copper alloy ritual daggers and a wood ritual dagger, phurba
19th centuryThe 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).
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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 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.