Two gilt bronze vajra (sankosho)Japan, Edo Period, 18th/19th century
One 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).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.26.