A CARVED BAMBOO 'BUDDHIST LION' GROUP, A SOAPSTONE CARVING OF...
Property from the Brocklehurst Collection, Lots 373-379
A CARVED BAMBOO 'BUDDHIST LION' GROUP, A SOAPSTONE CARVING OF SHOULAO AND A GREEN AND GREY JADE 'LUDUAN' CARVING
17th to 19th century
The bamboo lion seated on its haunches, with its mouth open and bulbous inset eyes, below a mane of tightly curled hair, the front paws holding a brocade ball, and a small pup clambering over its back beneath a bushy tail; the olive green soapstone carving of Shoulao sitting on a raised rocky outcrop above a deer; and the jade luduan sitting with the tail resting over the back and the mouth open.
19cm (7 1/2in) high max. (3).
Footnotes
十七至十九世紀 竹雕佛獅、壽山石雕壽老及褐青玉雕甪端
Provenance: Lt. Col. Henry Courtney Brocklehurst (1888-1942)
His brother Lt. Col, Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst Bt, (1887-1975), Swythamley Park, near Macclesfield until 1975
Thence by descent
Exhibited: On long term loan to West Park Museum, Macclesfield, circa 1939-1976
The item within this lot containing ivory has been registered in accordance with the Ivory Act (section 10). Ref.2YSBHCYC.
Both brothers were extensive travellers and explorers, Sir Philip having been on Shackleton's 1907 – 1909 Nimrod expedition to the Antarctic and who later travelled through both the Middle and Far East. His brother Courtney, who went with him to the Arctic in 1912 and later became game warden of the Sudan in the 1920s, then went on to travel extensively in China, Japan and Tibet in the 1930s, bringing back the first giant panda from Tibet to the UK.
Many of the artefacts collected on these travels were put on loan at the West Park Museum, which had been built by the Brocklehurst family for safe keeping during the war, and when he was killed in 1942 fighting with the Chindits in Burma, his brother Philip inherited the contents of the museum where they remained until after his death in 1975.
Compare the bamboo lion to a related carved wood 'Buddhist lion' group, 17th century, sold by Christie's London, 15th May 2012, lot 238.
Property from the Brocklehurst Collection, Lots 373-379
A CARVED BAMBOO 'BUDDHIST LION' GROUP, A SOAPSTONE CARVING OF SHOULAO AND A GREEN AND GREY JADE 'LUDUAN' CARVING
17th to 19th century
The bamboo lion seated on its haunches, with its mouth open and bulbous inset eyes, below a mane of tightly curled hair, the front paws holding a brocade ball, and a small pup clambering over its back beneath a bushy tail; the olive green soapstone carving of Shoulao sitting on a raised rocky outcrop above a deer; and the jade luduan sitting with the tail resting over the back and the mouth open.
19cm (7 1/2in) high max. (3).
Footnotes
十七至十九世紀 竹雕佛獅、壽山石雕壽老及褐青玉雕甪端
Provenance: Lt. Col. Henry Courtney Brocklehurst (1888-1942)
His brother Lt. Col, Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst Bt, (1887-1975), Swythamley Park, near Macclesfield until 1975
Thence by descent
Exhibited: On long term loan to West Park Museum, Macclesfield, circa 1939-1976
The item within this lot containing ivory has been registered in accordance with the Ivory Act (section 10). Ref.2YSBHCYC.
Both brothers were extensive travellers and explorers, Sir Philip having been on Shackleton's 1907 – 1909 Nimrod expedition to the Antarctic and who later travelled through both the Middle and Far East. His brother Courtney, who went with him to the Arctic in 1912 and later became game warden of the Sudan in the 1920s, then went on to travel extensively in China, Japan and Tibet in the 1930s, bringing back the first giant panda from Tibet to the UK.
Many of the artefacts collected on these travels were put on loan at the West Park Museum, which had been built by the Brocklehurst family for safe keeping during the war, and when he was killed in 1942 fighting with the Chindits in Burma, his brother Philip inherited the contents of the museum where they remained until after his death in 1975.
Compare the bamboo lion to a related carved wood 'Buddhist lion' group, 17th century, sold by Christie's London, 15th May 2012, lot 238.
