539 A TIBETAN CARVED WOOD MANUSCRIPT COVER 18TH CENTURY Decorated with the Astamangala (the Eight Auspicious Symbols), arranged in pairs within lotus scrolls which flank a large image of a bumpa (treasure vase). The Auspicious Symbols comprise: two golden fish, an eternal knot, a parasol, a conch shell, a lotus flower, a banner of victory, a chakra (wheel) and a bumpa, 23cm x 69cm.
£500-800 Provenance: a London collection acquired in 2001. The bumpa at the centre of the composition may suggest that this manuscript cover was made for a book connected with Amitayus, the Buddha of Longevity, as the bumpa symbolises an endless reign of long life, wealth and prosperity.
540 A TIBETAN BRASS AND COPPER DUOMU AND A MILK TEA TEAPOT 19TH CENTURY Each vessel decorated with Eight Buddhist Symbols, stylised foliage, animal masks and four pointed vajras, the ovoid ewer with a dragon-shaped handle and elephant-shaped spout, the cover surmounted by a lotus bud, 41cm. (2)
£200-300 Cf. C Ho and B Bronson, Splendors of China’s Forbidden City, The Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong, pp.195-196, no.238 for a silver milk tea teapot from the Qianlong period in the Palace Museum Collection.
541 THREE SMALL INDIAN BRONZE FIGURES 19TH CENTURY Comprising: a seated image of Ganesh, a standing bodhisattva and another multi-armed deity with an infant seated on her lap, 12cm, 319g, 327g and 460g. (3)
£100-200
542 A PAIR OF CHINESE BRONZE VASES 19TH CENTURY Each cast with dragons against a wave ground rising to a square-section neck with further dragons on a diaper ground, with two dragon head handles, six character Xuande marks to the bases, 33.2cm, 6.9kg. (2)
£200-300
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