Lot 658Y 十九世紀 漆金龍前立 | A GOLD-LACQUERED WOOD 'DRAGON' MAEDATE

十九世紀 漆金龍前立 | A GOLD-LACQUERED WOOD 'DRAGON' MAEDATE

19th century

GBP 800

GBP 800 - 1200

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19th century
Carved in the form of a dragon spreading its wings and tail looking upward with raised metal whiskers, its eyes open and mouth exposing sharp fangs in ivory, painted overall in gilt with areas lacquered red.
15cm (5 7/8in) long.
Footnotes
The item within this lot containing ivory has been registered in accordance with the Ivory Act (section 10). Ref.BDDZGEVZ
十九世紀 漆金龍前立
Provenance: Lt. Col. Henry Courtney Brocklehurst (1888-1942)
His brother Lt. Col. Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst Bt, (1887-1975), Swythamley Park, near Macclesfield until 1975
Thence by descent
Exhibited: On long-term loan to West Park Museum, Macclesfield, circa 1939-1976
Both brothers were extensive travellers and explorers, Sir Philip having been on Shackleton's 1907-1909 Nimrod expedition to the Antarctic and who later travelled through both the Middle and Far East. His brother Courtney, who went with him to the Arctic in 1912 and later became game warden of the Sudan in the 1920s, then went on to travel extensively in China, Japan and Tibet in the 1930s, bringing back the first giant panda from Tibet to the UK.
Many of the artefacts collected on these travels were put on loan at the West Park Museum, which had been built by the Brocklehurst family for safe keeping during the war, and when he was killed in 1942 fighting with the Chindits in Burma, his brother Philip inherited the contents of the museum where they remained until after his death in 1975.