Two brass alloy and white metal travelling-shrines, gauTibet, 19th century
The first of square form, with a decorative border in parcel gilt with central wheel inset with turquoise, all laid onto the white metal cover, the interior with clay votive plaques, tscha tscha, and some envelopes of powders; the other, of ogival form, with white metal cover decorated in Chinese taste with Buddhist Symbols above tumultuous waves, a central window revealing a painting of Bhairava and consort, the reverse of the box with incised lanca character. The largest: 17cm (6 3/4in) high (2).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

The two gau are noted in the handwritten family 'A Catalogue of the Dineley Collection of Tibetiana and Associated Buddhistic Objects', early 1960s, pp.84, 88.