A rare Tibetan conch-shell trumpet19th century
Mounted with a white metal repoussé shaft and flower form terminal, the adjoining metal scroll-form plate decorated to the centre with Kirtimukha flanked by a pair of dragons, surrounded by four bodhisattvas seated on lotus bases with flaming mandorlas, interspersed with turquoise and imitation coral inlay and tear-drop-shaped decoration, inscribed copper plate to the reverse.
44.5cm (17.1/2in) long.注脚Property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections

Provenance:
Henry Harrison Getty (1838-1919), by repute
Alice Getty (d.1946), by repute
Courtenay Morgan, Viscount Tredegar (1867-1934), by repute
Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (1893-1949), by repute
Professor and Mrs Bellerby, by repute
Mark Dineley (1901-1975)
Peter Dineley (1938-2018), and thence by descent

Noted in the handwritten family 'A Catalogue of the Dineley Collection of Tibetiana and Associated Buddhistic Objects', early 1960s, p.38.