Lot 783 , Eight assorted Chinese yellow metal amulets, four in the form of brooches, three pendants and a stick pin, 21.5 grams.

Eight assorted Chinese yellow metal amulets, four in the form of brooches, three pendants and a stick pin, 21.5 grams.
Estimate £300-500

Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1910-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke lived in Carmarthenshire, Wales and was an avid collector of Asian works of art and an author of the History of Llandovery. He was collecting from the 1940s to the 1980s.
None of the items have been tested for gold. The triple circle brooch and the two circle and green hardstone brooch are stamped 18, but again, have not been tested for gold.


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Sold for £440