THREE HARDSTONE CARVINGS OF BUDDHIST LIONS Qing Dynasty Comprising a rock crystal carving of a Buddhist lion and cub, wood stand, 10cm (4in) long; a large agate carving of a Buddhist lion, 17cm (6 3/4in) long; and a jasper carving of a lion, wood stand, 10.5cm (4 1/8in) long. (5). Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 清 水晶石、瑪瑙、及紅碧玉石雕瑞獅 一組三件 Provenance: Harry Geoffrey Beasley (1881-1939), acquired on 13 August 1920 (label; the jasper Buddhist lion) 來源：Harry Geoffrey Beasley（1881-1939）舊藏，購於1920年8月13日（標籤，紅碧玉石） Harry Geoffrey Beasley was a wealthy brewery owner whose private collecting passion began when, aged 13, he bought two Solomon Island clubs. In 1914 he was elected to the Royal Anthropological Institute with which he maintained an association until 1937. He and his wife, Irene, established the Cranmore Ethnographic Museum in Chislehurst, Kent where they had moved in 1928, compiling the Cranmore Index of Pacific Material Culture based on James Edge-Partington's Index for the British Museum and forming a considerable library. Although the Beasleys collected artefacts worldwide – including Africa (particularly Benin), North-west America and Asia - their main focus was the Pacific. Objects were acquired from dealers, missionaries and from, or in exchanges with, various museums. Beasley's comprehensive monograph on Oceanic fish-hooks was published in 1928. The Cranmore Museum was damaged by bombing in World War 2 and in accordance with Beasley's will his widow, Irene M Beasley (q.v), offered the first selection of the collection (apart from a limited reservation for herself) as a donation to the British Museum. The gift of several thousand items became fully effective in 1944. Other named beneficiaries include the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford; The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge; and National Museums, Scotland. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: Y Y Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com