Lot 544 , A pair of Chinese gilt metal, kingfisher feather, coral and gem mounted nail guards, late Qing, fitted case

A pair of Chinese gilt metal, kingfisher feather, coral and gem mounted nail guards, late Qing, fitted case
Estimate £100-150

Both have occasional small dings and dents and some losses to feathers in petals.

Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1910-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke lived in Carmarthenshire, Wales and was an avid collector of European & Asian works of art and an author of the History of Llandovery. He was collecting from the 1940s to the 1980s.


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Sold for £800