Property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections, Lots 234-253
Two gilt bronze vajra (sankosho)
Japan, Edo Period, 18th/19th centuryOne of flattened form with three spear-formed prongs to each end, flanking two waisted double lotus petal bands to the shaft; the third of similar form but cast in the round. Both 15.2cm (6in) long. (2).
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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 descentNoted in the handwritten family 'A Catalogue of the Dineley Collection of Tibetiana and Associated Buddhistic Objects', early 1960s, p.26.