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A SET OF BRONZE GHANTA AND VAJRA, 19TH-20TH CENTURY
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03月07日 晚上6点 开拍
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A SET OF BRONZE GHANTA AND VAJRA, 19TH-20TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Tibet. The ghanta cast in two parts, the bell decorated with two rows of thirteen seated buddhas above a band of thirty-two smaller buddhas, separated by beaded rims, framed by Tibetan inscriptions to the top and bottom, the shoulders with the Eight Buddhist Emblems in lobed cartouches encircled by a band of petals from which the handle rises as a vajra with eight prongs issuing from makara heads over a band of lotus petals and beaded rim supported on the head of a wrathful deity atop a vase. The interior of the bell inscribed.

The accompanying vajra cast en suite, the bulbous mid-section with incised blossoms, flanked by four wrathful heads and lotus petals, and with eight makara-head forming the eight prongs on either side terminating in a lotus bud. The handle of the ghanta and vajra inlaid in precious stones of pink and green color, rock crystal, coral, and turquoise.

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 minor wear, some of the inlays lost and others possibly replaced. The stand with little surface wear and few natural age cracks.

Weight: 7.1 kg (the bell), 2.4 kg (the vajra), 7.2 kg (stand)
Dimensions: Length 47.6 cm (the bell), 30.5 cm (the vajra), 54.7 cm (the stand)

The stand finely carved with lotus petals around the sides and surrounding the platforms, painted in yellow, green, and blue, and with a scrolling tendril incised underneath. (3)

Representing the fundamental qualities Buddhism asks of its followers, wisdom and compassion, vajra and ghanta ritual implements are central to Tibetan Buddhist practice.

Literature comparison:
Compare a large dril-bu (bell) and dorje, Tibet, dated to the 19th century, 77.7 cm tall, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 89.4.1443a, b.

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