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Auction: CSS92C - THE PRESTIGIOUS ACADEMIC REFERENCE COLLECTION OF THE LATE DR. WERNER BURGER - Part 3: Chinese Charms
Lot: 2696

China: Qing Dynasty (1644-1911 CE), coin-shaped charm with round central hole, obverse inscribed 'Hai tong dai shen xiao zhai mian nan' in regular script, reverse inscribed 'Tian bao ding er chang ming fu gui', 49.5x2.3mm, 54.3g. Note: The obverse inscriptions indicate that if "a child wears [it] on the body", this charm serves to "protect [the child] against adverse situations and disasters". It is extremely rare to find usage specifications for charms such as this one on a charm, or from any other source of information. The only other known example carrying such instructions can be found in a charm inscribed with Taoist incantations dating to the Song Dynasty. It is inscribed on the reverse "to be kept either at home or worn about the body and cited seven times every day". See No 115, Chinese Charms: Art, Religion and Folk Belief by Alex C. Fang (Commercial Press 2008). Extremely rare.


孩童带身消灾免難圓穿花錢，背“天保定爾长命富貴”，清朝（公元1644–1911），徑49.5mm，厚2.3mm，重54.3g。品相極美，罕見。另：此錢明確“孩童带身”，為花錢用法的一個明證。帶有明確用法說明的花錢極罕。迄今所知，僅有另外一例，為宋代鑄製的玄武太上咒錢，背有“家藏佩戴日誦七遍”語，發表於方稱宇著《中國花錢與傳統文化》一書第115號（商務印書館2008年出版）。極罕。

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HK$3000