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A RARE COPPER REPOUSSÉ CHATURMUKHA-LINGA COVER, NEPAL, 16TH - 17TH CENTURY
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A RARE COPPER REPOUSSé CHATURMUKHA-LINGA COVER, NEPAL, 16TH - 17TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Of columnar form, fitted as a sheath for a stone linga, applied to the body with four heads of Shiva, all above a tightly coiled cobra to the base and a lotus band to the edge. Each face is worked with a grim expression, wide eyes under thick brows, centered by a tilak, and the hair fashioned in a tall jatamukuta, flanked by large foliate earrings.

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, typed ‘Chaturmukha-Lingam, Nepal, 17 Jh, Kupfer getrieben', the verso, ‘Reg #2323’, and priced at EUR 7,250.
Condition: Good condition with wear, traces of use, and manufacturing irregularities. Some warping and dents. Fine fissures with associated small losses and old brass fills, possibly inherent to the manufacture. Remnants of gilt and pigment. Good, naturally grown patina overall.

Weight: 2,622 g
Dimensions: Height 33.5 cm

In Shaiva mythology, Shiva’s multiple forms are represented as four or five heads on a linga, an iconography known as chaturmukha or panchamukha linga. To indicate the power of the god, a protective cobra may extend over Shiva’s head in some sculptures. These anthropomorphic forms allow devotees to see and be seen by Shiva.

In the present cover, the central face represents Sadyojata as Mahadeva (benign); the right face, Aghora as Bhairava, the left, Vamadeva as Uma, Shiva’s consort, and to the back, Tatpurusha (Cosmic Being). The fifth aspect is the center, the shaft itself or what is assumed to be emerging from the top of the shaft, Ishana, is understood as transcending form and direction, symbolizing the formless Absolute.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related copper alloy linga cover, 13.7 cm high, dated to the 15th century, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 1986.509.2. Compare a related larger gilt-copper linga cover dated to the 17th century in the Asian Civilisations Museum. Compare a closely related copper linga cover dated by inscription to 1831, 35.5 cm high, in the Museum Dahlem, Berlin.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Bonhams New York, 14 September 2015, lot 67
Price: USD 12,500 or approx. EUR 15,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A copper repoussé lingam cover, Nepal, 16th century
Expert remark: Compare the related modeling of the face with a similar expression. Note the near-identical size (32.4 cm).

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