Lot 688 , A Chinese scroll painting on silk of Guanyin, early 20th century, image 37 x 24.5cm and a Japanese Meiji period scroll painting of Budd

A Chinese scroll painting on silk of Guanyin, early 20th century, image 37 x 24.5cm and a Japanese Meiji period scroll painting of Buddhist deities, image 110cm x 36.5cm, some damage
Estimate £50-100


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 £400