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A PAIR OF COPPER REPOUSSÉ PRAYER WHEELS, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
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03月07日 晚上6点 开拍
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A PAIR OF COPPER REPOUSSé PRAYER WHEELS, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Nepal. The cylindrical bodies worked in repoussé with two lines of mantras in lantsa script, separated by three ribs around the center, lined at the bottom with a band of petals, and incised to the upper section with beaded garlands suspending bells. The top domed with lotus petals and the bottom with a double vajra. With remnants of yellow, black, green, and white pigments around the sides and pieces of bone suspended on the central peg.

Inscriptions: To each around the body in two lines, ‘Om Mani Padme Hum’.

Provenance: The Kienzle Family Collection, Stuttgart, Germany. Acquired between 1950 and 1985 by siblings Else (1912-2006), Reinhold (1917-2008), and Dr. Horst Kienzle (1924-2019), during their extensive travels in Asia. Subsequently inherited by Dr. Horst Kienzle and bequeathed to the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Radevormwald, Germany. Released through museum deaccession in 2024. The Kienzle siblings were avid travelers and passionate collectors of Asian and Islamic art. During their travels, the Kienzle’s sought out and explored temples, monasteries, and markets, always trying to find the best pieces wherever they went, investing large sums of money and forging lasting relationships to ensure they could acquire them. Their fervor and success in this pursuit is not only demonstrated by their collection but further recorded in correspondences between Horst Kienzle and several noted dignitaries, businesses and individuals in Nepal and Ladakh. Their collection had gained renown by the 1970s, but the Kienzle’s stopped acquiring new pieces around 1985. Almost thirty years later, the collection was moved to the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Radevormwald, opened by Peter Hardt in 2014. Before his death in 2019, Horst Kienzle bequeathed his entire property to Peter Hardt and legally adopted him as his son, who has been using the name Peter Kienzle-Hardt ever since.
Condition: Good condition with wear, traces of use, manufacturing irregularities, small dents, minor nicks, remnants of pigment, light warping.

Weight: 2.6 kg and 2.7 kg (including stands)
Dimensions: Height 30.5 cm (excl. stand), 38 cm (incl. stand)

Each mounted to a modern stand. (4)

Expert’s note:
Compare the Buddhist prayer wheels of similar form and decoration in the Golden Temple in Patan, Kathmandu, Nepal.

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. The hand held prayer wheel appears to be a late creation in Tibetan Buddhist culture. The most popular of the mantras contained is the Mani Mantra, the sound essence of the deity Avalokiteshvara.

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.

Prayer wheels are not only used by monks and nuns but are also especially popular with Buddhist lay practitioners. The spinning of such wheels have much meritorious rewards. The perimeters of large Stupa monuments are often lined with large prayer wheels made of copper kept in motion by countless worshipers reciting prayers. Many practitioners use also handheld prayer wheels like the present lot.

“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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