Lot 690 , Two Chinese scroll paintings on paper of deities, early 20th century, image 148 x 75cm and two late Qing ancestor scroll paintings, ima
Two Chinese scroll paintings on paper of deities, early 20th century, image 148 x 75cm and two late Qing ancestor scroll paintings, image 123 x 72cm, poor condition.
Estimate £40-60
Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1905-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke was an antiquarian and avid collector of Asian works of art, coins and antiquities principally collecting from the 1930s to the 1970s. He amassed a good reference library on Chinese & Asian coins and wrote on several occasions (1969-70) to to the academic F.A. Turk regarding the study of coin amulets and other non-currency coinages of China.
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Sold for £150