Lot 720 , A group of Chinese white metal models of a sampan by Wang Hing, rickshaw and sedan chair etc.

A group of Chinese white metal models of a sampan by Wang Hing, rickshaw and sedan chair etc.
Estimate £50-70

Sampan missing a flag??
Largest rickshaw- Figure has become detaches(broken) and something missing from in front of the seat??
Smallest rickshaw- Passenger missing??
Filigree sedan chair incomplete also??
small rickshaw - length 10cm, width 4cm
large rickshaw - length 19.5cm width 7.5cm



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 £70