THE LARRY LUCAS COLLECTION OF ASIAN WORKS OF ARTLARRY LUCAS 亞洲藝術收藏Lots 20 to 76Mr Larry Lucas, a British-born businessman, started collecting Asian Art as a university student in the late 1960s in Cambridge. As the co-founder of the Asian Art Institute of Australia, Larry has organised various exhibitions and lectures since 2008, providing platforms for collectors, artists, researchers and scholars, and promoting knowledge and appreciation of Asian art.Larry Lucas 先生出生於英國，早於上世紀六十年代劍橋求學時，即熱衷收藏，至今近半世紀。2008年在悉尼於三五志趣相投的好友成立澳大利亞亞洲藝術協會，多年來舉辦講座、展覽，為當地乃至世界收藏同好、藝術家及學者提供交流平台。










































A Tibetan ritual silver and bronze water flask, Chab Bum, with a kesi 'dragon' cover


17th/18th centurythe bronze flask is mounted with a silver stopper, suspended from an amber bead with woven ribbons, with a kesi cover re-tailored from fragments of a Chinese imperial yardage, bronze flask 3.5cm long, kesi cover 26.0 x 27.0cm
|Provenance:R&V Tregaskis Oriental Art (label)Alex Biancardi Collection since November 2009Mossgreen, Sydney, 12 December 2016, lot 110Numerous documented examples attest to Chinese patronage of the lamas, who were enormously influential, both culturally and politically as early as the Tang dynasty. Emperors and other wealthy Chinese made gifts of luxurious textiles to Tibetan clergy and monasteries. It is estimated that the bulk of silk from Central Asia and China brought into Tibet from 10th to 20th century was all used in a religious context. This might explain the mystery behind the marriage of a Tibetan religious object and a fragment from Chinese imperial yardage in this lot. This history of religious life and textiles is documented in the exhibition catalogue Celestial Silks: Chinese Religious & Court Textiles, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004, p. 22.西藏 十七至十八世紀 銅胎銀盖水壶并緙絲龍紋袋傳承:悉尼 R&V 亞洲藝術 （標籤）Alex Biancardi 私藏，自2009年11月慕仕閣拍賣，悉尼，2016年12月12日，拍品110號