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A LARGE TERRACOTTA ‘BHAIRAVA’ LIBATION VESSEL, KATHMANDU, 18TH CENTURY OR EARLIER
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A LARGE TERRACOTTA ‘BHAIRAVA’ LIBATION VESSEL, KATHMANDU, 18TH CENTURY OR EARLIER
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Nepal. The large vessel of ovoid form supported on a spreading foot and rising to a waisted neck with a flaring mouth, decorated to the side with the face of Aju Dya. The deity with a fierce expression, large bulging eyes beneath furrowed brows, the forehead centered by a third eye, his gently parted mouth revealing sharp fangs and a small aperture for libation, flanked by ears with snake-form earrings, and crowned with a skull diadem centered by a diminutive head of Shiva.

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 ‘Tongef?? Bhairava-Motiv bemalt, Nepal, 18. Jh', the back ‘Reg.: 8815’, and priced at EUR 4,250.
Condition: Minor losses and cracks with associated repairs, otherwise in good condition with wear, traces of use, and firing irregularities, encrustations, remnants of pigment.

Weight: 9,222 g
Dimensions: Height 44 cm

The Newars of the Kathmandu Valley worship Ajaju or Aju Dya (grandfather god), a mask-like face as the sky or the sky god, who is their divine ancestor. In local legends, the ancestor god is also identified with the mythical king Elam, Aylam, or Alam – variations of the ancient Newari word for ‘sky.’ In everyday language the god is more popularly known as Hatha Dya. In accordance with folk etymology his real name is Hathu Dya, ‘the god of liquor.’ During the medieval period, the sky god became identified as Akasa Bhairava (Sky Bhairava), because of which the original significance of Aju Dya was forgotten, and his image is usually decorated with Bhairava’s iconographic features, such as crawling serpents, a crescent moon, and skulls.

Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related terracotta head of Bhairava from a libation vessel, Nepal, late 15th century, 50.9 cm high, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, accession number M.88.224.1. Compare a closely related earthenware jar decorated with the face of the ancestor god Aju Dya, also known as Hatha Day, dated circa 18th century, in the National Museum, Kathmandu, illustrated by Gautama V. Vajracharya, Kirtimukha, the Serpentine Motif, and Garuda: The Story of a Lion That Turned into a Big Bird, Artibus Asiae 74, no. 2 (2014), p. 322, fig. 5.

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