Two metal scroll-cases and covers

Tibet, 19th century

Footnotes

十九世紀 藏傳銅製經卷筒一組兩件

Provenance: Henry Harrison Getty (1838-1919), by repute
Alice Getty (d.1946), by repute
Courtenay Morgan, Viscount Tredegar (1867-1934), by repute
Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (1893-1949), by repute
Professor and Mrs Bellerby, by repute
Mark Dineley (1901-1975)
Peter Dineley (1938-2018), and thence by descent

Featured in the Himalayan Art Resources, item no.16793.

來源：傳Henry Harrison Getty（1838-1919年）舊藏
傳Alice Getty（卒於1946年）舊藏
傳Tredegar子爵Courtenay Morgan（1867-1934年）舊藏
傳Tredegar子爵二世Evan Morgan（1893-1949年）舊藏
傳Bellerby教授及夫人舊藏
Mark Dineley（1901-1975年）舊藏
Peter Dineley（1938-2018年）舊藏，並由後人保存迄今

收錄於Himalayan Art Resources數據庫，編號16793

The smaller case is recorded in the handwritten family 'A Catalogue of the Dineley Collection of Tibetiana and Associated Buddhistic Objects', early 1960s, p.153; bearing a label stating it is the 'Ceremonial pen holder of the Grand Abbot of the Tashilhunpo [Monastery]'.

The Panchen Lamas became the abbots of Tashilhunpo monastery, near Shigatse, in the former Tsang Province of Central Tibet. Second only in authority to the Dalai Lama within the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, the Panchen Lama lineage was established during the 16th century by the Fifth Dalai Lama, when he first bestowed the title of Panchen, or 'great scholar', on his own teacher, Lobsang Choekyi Gyaltsen (1570-1662). Considered the incarnations of Amitabha Buddha, they were also scholars and statesmen.