A large Chinese famille verte goldfish bowl, late 19th centu...

Hammer

£8,000

A large Chinese famille verte goldfish bowl, late 19th century, the exterior well-painted with a battle scene in a continuous landscape, between ruyi-head and diaper borders, the interior with five goldfish amid pond weed, 53cm diameter, 46cm high, Provenance - A. T. Arber-Cooke

CONDITION: Occasional minor scuffing and scratching and wear to the gilding otherwise in good 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, 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.