A COLLECTION OF JADE RINGS AND BANGLES 18th/19th century (7)
Property from the Brocklehurst Collection, Lots 373-379
A COLLECTION OF JADE RINGS AND BANGLES
18th/19th century
Comprising: a pale green jade yaoweishi, carved with an open mouthed dragon biting its own tail; a wide grey jade bangle finely incised with taotie masks and bearing the inscriptions yannianyishou (may you live long and prosper) and dajidali (great luck and great prosperity); two russet and amber jade archer's rings; a spinach jade ring; and two jadeite rings.
The largest 8.5cm (3 3/8in) diam. (7).
Footnotes
十八/十九世紀 玉雕扳指及手鐲一組
「延年益壽」「大吉大利」款
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 JADE RINGS AND BANGLES
18th/19th century
Comprising: a pale green jade yaoweishi, carved with an open mouthed dragon biting its own tail; a wide grey jade bangle finely incised with taotie masks and bearing the inscriptions yannianyishou (may you live long and prosper) and dajidali (great luck and great prosperity); two russet and amber jade archer's rings; a spinach jade ring; and two jadeite rings.
The largest 8.5cm (3 3/8in) diam. (7).
Footnotes
十八/十九世紀 玉雕扳指及手鐲一組
「延年益壽」「大吉大利」款
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.
