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A LARGE PRAYER WHEEL IN A PAINTED WOOD CABINET, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
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03月07日 晚上6点 开拍
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A LARGE PRAYER WHEEL IN A PAINTED WOOD CABINET, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Tibet. The rectangular cabinet with three windows revealing the prayer wheel inside, each surrounded by finely painted deities above dense scrolling vines and lotus blossoms. The front depicts Padmasambhava flanked by two bodhisattvas, one side with Tsongkhapa and two lamas, the other with Manjushri, Avalokiteshvara, and a wrathful deity. The wheel inside is covered in cloth, painted with raised outlines with a mantra in Lantsa script above the Eight Buddhist Emblems below ornate sashes suspending bells. The top of the cabinet fitted with a wooden dowel and gilt painted tiered disk.

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.
Labels: Galerie Hardt, inscribed ‘Gebetsmühle mit original Bemalung 16/17 Jh‘, and priced at EUR 24,000. An old export seal to the upper corner of one side.
Condition: Good condition with wear, traces of use, natural age cracks and splits, minor nicks, light scratches, old chips, flaking and soiling to pigments, minor old fills, the wooden dowel with a loss.

Weight: ca. 28 kg
Dimensions: Size 120 x 57.5 x 54.5 cm

The wheels inside are spun clockwise so the mantras can be read correctly, from left to right. This stationery prayer wheel would have been placed outside of a temple or shrine so visitors could turn the wheel on their way in and out of the temple and while circumambulating it.

Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related prayer wheel, Tibet, dated 19th-20th century, in the Rubin Museum of Art, object number SC2010.32a-h.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Bonhams Paris, 15 December 2022, lot 157
Price: EUR 6,120 or approx. EUR 6,600 adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A painted wood enclosed prayer wheel, Tibet, 19th century
Expert remark: Compare the related form and polychrome decorations. Note the size (147.5 cm).

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