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A THANGKA DEPICTING VAJRAYOGINI
奥地利
03月07日 晚上6点 开拍
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A THANGKA DEPICTING VAJRAYOGINI
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Tibet, late 19th – early 20th century. Gilt and distemper on canvas, within a silk brocade mounting. The goddess standing in in the alidha posture atop human figures. She is adorned with bone jewelry, hoop earrings, a crown of citipati skulls, and a large garland of severed heads. A khatvanga staff with severed heads rests on her left shoulder, she is surrounded by a flaming mandorla, holding a flaying knife (kartika) in her right hand and drinking from a blood-filled skullcap (kapala) in her left. The central image is framed by demonic figures, sacred lamas, animals, and offerings.

Inscriptions: To the reverse, ‘om ah 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 creases, folds, abrasions, pigment losses, tiny losses, and soiling. The mounting with traces of use and wear.

Dimensions: Image size 68 x 44 cm, size incl. mounting 105 x 73 cm

Vajrayogini,
the archetypal female Buddha deity and embodiment of Tibetan Buddhist wisdom, associated with the Chakrasamvara tantra cycle, appears here in a form known as Kechara or ‘Sky Wanderer’, passed down through the lineage of the mahasiddha Naropa.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related thangka of the same subject, dated to the 19th century, in the Rubin Museum, object number C2002.24.11.

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