A COLLECTION OF AMBER, JADEITE, GLASS AND ROCK CRYSTAL CARVINGS...
Property from the Brocklehurst Collection, Lots 373-379
A COLLECTION OF AMBER, JADEITE, GLASS AND ROCK CRYSTAL CARVINGS
Qing Dynasty
Comprising: a carved figure of Shoulao standing holding a staff beside a boy; a set of three graduated small jadeite 'elephant' carvings; a further jadeite 'elephant' carving; a green glass figure of an elephant; a jadeite 'bat and chime' carving and a rock crystal carving of three fruits on a branch.
The largest elephant 4cm (1 5/8in) long. (8).
Footnotes
清 琥珀、翡翠、玻璃及水晶雕一組
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
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.
Property from the Brocklehurst Collection, Lots 373-379
A COLLECTION OF AMBER, JADEITE, GLASS AND ROCK CRYSTAL CARVINGS
Qing Dynasty
Comprising: a carved figure of Shoulao standing holding a staff beside a boy; a set of three graduated small jadeite 'elephant' carvings; a further jadeite 'elephant' carving; a green glass figure of an elephant; a jadeite 'bat and chime' carving and a rock crystal carving of three fruits on a branch.
The largest elephant 4cm (1 5/8in) long. (8).
Footnotes
清 琥珀、翡翠、玻璃及水晶雕一組
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
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.
