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A SILVER MOUNTED COPPER PRAYER WHEEL, MANI KORLO, TIBET, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
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03月07日 晚上6点 开拍
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A SILVER MOUNTED COPPER PRAYER WHEEL, MANI KORLO, TIBET, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

The bamboo handle with copper mountings and a shell washer which has a string with an agate bead applied, supporting a large prayer wheel applied with brass straps to the sides and silver mountings in the form of a foliate medallion to the base and a dharma wheel to the top. The side with a lobed porcelain toggle painted white and decorated with green foliage, suspended to a leather cord.

Provenance: Galerie Hardt (established in 1976), Radevormwald, Germany, before 2020. Acquired by the gallery’s founder Peter Hardt (b. 1946) during his extensive travels in Asia, the first of which occurred during a formative world tour in 1973. Throughout his storied career, Peter Kienzle-Hardt organized countless exhibitions and participated in major international art fairs. He made many important contacts during this time and eventually met the Kienzle siblings, who shared his passion for Asian art and culture. A strong bond and deep friendship developed, ultimately leading to the creation of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst decades later in 2014. While the museum’s permanent exhibition predominantly comprised pieces from the Kienzle Family Collection, Peter Kienzle-Hardt supplemented it with objects from his own collection. Before his death in 2019, Horst Kienzle bequeathed his entire property to Peter and legally adopted him as his son, who has been using the name Peter Kienzle-Hardt ever since.
Labels: Galerie Hardt, inscribed ‘Gebetsmühle, Kupfer getrieben, Messing/Silber, Tibet 18/19 Jh', the back ‘S944, H60 B18 T18’, priced at EUR 4,750.
Condition: Good condition with wear, signs of use, and manufacturing irregularities. The copper barrel with tiny dings and few scattered scratches. The wooden handle with natural imperfections, small nicks, and old smoothened chips.

Weight: 1,194 g
Dimensions: Height 55.7 cm

With a recent metal stand. (2)

The prayer wheel, sometimes referred to as a mani korlo or mani wheel, is primarily a phenomenon of the Buddhist Himalayas, Nepal, Ladakh, and Tibet along with regions influenced by Tibetan Buddhism. Mention is made of the Prayer Wheel in the Mani Kabum, an apocryphal Tibetan text dated to the 11th to 13th century.

Traditionally, a mantra is written in Lantsa script on the outside of the wheel. The mantra ‘om mani padme hum’ is most common, but others can also be used. According to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, spinning such a wheel will have much the same meritorious effect as orally reciting the prayers.

A common narrative for the origins of the prayer wheel credit Shakyamuni Buddha for teaching a system of religious practice that would allow the very lazy and uneducated Naga Spirits to acquire some small amount of merit by turning in a clockwise direction a cylinder of mantras, dharanis and auspicious verses.

“The prayer wheel, a popular device in Tibet and across the Himalayas, was originally intended for the Naga world, where the serpent-like creatures were too lazy to engage in meritorious acts. A coil of mantras (mind-protecting spells associated with an enlightened deity), often hundreds of thousands, printed from woodblocks on long sheets of paper, are rolled and placed within the cylinder. An individual spins the wheel, using the lead weight on the end of the chain to accelerate and sustain the spinning. Prayer wheels come in all sizes, some hand-held; others designed for tabletop or other stationary use.” (Jeff Watt, 2005)

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