China, a rare set of 8 bronze charms or amulets, late Qing d...

Hammer

£8,000

China, a rare set of 8 bronze charms or amulets, late Qing dynasty, 34mm-36mm, 13.5g to 17.5g, ranging from good F to VF, each cast with four characters to obverse and two reverse, includes 'Yu Shu Zhi Lan' (a talented young man of noble character), Hartill, Cast Chinese Amulets, 4.1675, CCH-1123 vol.2, 17.5g, 'San Duo Jiu Ru', rev. Ji De, Hartill, Cast Chinese Amulets 4.203, CCH-1130, vol.2, 'Fu Rong Zi Gui', similar to Hartill, Cast Chinese Amulets, 4.1274, rev. different

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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.