China, 11 bronze charms or amulets, Qing dynasty or earlier,...

Hammer

£1,300

China, 11 bronze charms or amulets, Qing dynasty or earlier, including an openwork pendant charm, boys riding a mythical beast, Mandel 8.8.3, 72mm, near VF, two with openwork lotus flowers, 29-33mm, VF, an openwork 'Good Luck' charm, well cast and finished, 41mm, good VF, five pendant charms, obv. four or five characters, rev. Eight Trigrams, 43-52mm high, F to VF and a pendant charm obv.. seated deity, rev. pictorial, 61mm high, flat to areas to figure otherwise good F

CONDITION:

Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1905-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke was an antiquarian and avid collector of Asian works of art, coins and antiquities principally collecting from the 1930s to the 1970s. He amassed a good reference library on Chinese & Asian coins and wrote on several occasions (1969-70) to to the academic F.A. Turk regarding the study of coin amulets and other non-currency coinages of China. A number of the Asian numismatic reference books will be offered in our 29th March sale.



Arber-Cooke initially lived in Wimbledon, Greater London and was involved with the Surrey Archaeological Society. He wrote the book 'Old Wimbledon', with a foreword the MP Sir Arthur Fell, published in 1927. He later moved to Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, Wales, again involved with local archaeology and wrote the History of Llandovery, published in 1975.