Lot 181
GROUP OF EIGHT GLASS AND GILT BRONZE "OFFICIAL'S HAT" FINIALS
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 3 November 2023 from 09:00 GMT
Description
清 各式料器及金屬冠頂（共八件）
comprising: one pink glass, two transparent blue glass, three clear glass and two metal hat finials with various decorative metal mounts, three metal mounts bearing inscriptions on the base
Dimensions
the largest: 6.2cm high
Provenance
Provenance: Private English collection, London; acquired by current owner’s great-aunt Etta May Gubbins (1871-1955) during her honeymoon trip in Asia around 1910. Etta May Gubbins married in 1909 at Kilmallock, Ireland to Captain Burston Beresford Gubbins (1876-1929), The 13th Hussars.
May Gubbins, nee May Gibson, was the eldest of the three daughters of Edmund Gibson who was born at Quernmore Park, near Lancaster in 1824, went out to New Zealand with his brother Wilson and staked a claim to about 20,000 acres of land in South Island and died at Otago in 1886.