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A GILT AND PAINTED LEATHER RITUAL CROWN WITH THE FIVE PRESIDING BUDDHAS, TIBET, CIRCA 15TH – 16TH CENTURY
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03月07日 晚上6点 开拍
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A GILT AND PAINTED LEATHER RITUAL CROWN WITH THE FIVE PRESIDING BUDDHAS, TIBET, CIRCA 15TH – 16TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Crown in the form of a five-leaved Tathagata crown, worn for ceremonial events. Each leaf painted in the form of a shrine, depicting one of the Five Tatagathas seated on a lotus base on an ornate gold throne, the base housing animals associated with the respective deity, and topped with a circular medallion enclosing a sacred emblem representing their specific family. Each leaf painted to the back in gilt with an empowering monogram of the corresponding Buddha.

The five Buddhas represented on each leaf, from left to right, are:

  1. Amitabha with hands lowered in dhyana mudra, the throne with peacocks.
  2. Vairocana with hands held in dharmachakra mudra atop a base supported by snow lions.
  3. Akshobhya touching the earth in bhumisparsha mudra above a pair of elephants.
  4. Ratnasambhava showing the varada mudra and seated on a base with horses.
  5. Amoghasiddhi with his right hand raised in abhaya mudra, the base with two Garuda.


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 ‘S948, H:24 B:53 T:1'.
Condition: Good condition with old wear, expected flaking and minimal fading to pigments, few loose threads.

Weight: 768.6 g (incl. stand)
Dimensions: Length 53 cm (total), Height 24 cm (each panel)

Mounted on a metal stand. (2)

The Five Buddha Crown is worn during initiation empowerments and rituals. The five petal-like segments represent the Five Buddhas of the five directions, also known as the Five Symbolic Buddhas. The crown initiation symbolizes the transmutation of the initiate's five body-mind systems (mirroring, sensational, conceptual, emotional and cognitive) and the five positions (delusion, pride, lust, envy, and hate) into the five transcendental buddhas (Amitabha, Vairocana, Akshobhya, Ratnasambhava and Amoghasiddhi). This crown is worn after blessing, visualizing, and lustrating, as a symbolic seal of the initiate's abandoning the notion of oneself as an ordinary, perfect being, and that adoption of the buddha-pride, the sense of oneself as a purified, enlightened Buddha, every atom itself becomes wisdom.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Bonhams New York, 19 March 2021, lot 356
Estimate: USD 10,000 or approx. EUR 11,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A painted leather ritual crown with the Five Presiding Buddhas, Tibet, circa 15th century
Expert remark: Compare the closely related form and decoration. Note the height of each panel (16.8 cm).

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