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A LARGE COPPER RITUAL LAMP, SUKUNDA, NEWAR, 18TH CENTURY
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03月07日 晚上6点 开拍
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A LARGE COPPER RITUAL LAMP, SUKUNDA, NEWAR, 18TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Nepal. Heavily cast, the pear-form oil reservoir raised on a flaring foot and rising to a tall neck with a flat everted lip, ornately decorated to the foot and body with tasseled festoons, the rounded sides further interspersed with foliate lobes below a band of lotus petals and chitipati skulls. The S-form handle in the form of a sinuous snake terminating in a kirtimukha. The shoulder is embellished with petals and grooves and applied with a leaf-form lamp supported by a vine, its rim adorned with beasts, backed by an image of Buddha Shakyamuni seated in dhyanasana in front of a large flaming mandorla.

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: Excellent condition with minor wear and casting irregularities. The copper with a naturally grown, smooth, dark patina.

Weight: 4,400 g
Dimensions: Height 32.8 cm

Buddhist and Hindu Newars in the Kathmandu Valley inaugurate life events with the Sagan ritual, in which a household’s female elder lights the Sukunda lamp and makes food offerings. The lamps are used for storing the oil which is ladled out and poured on the shallow dish that projects in front of the vase where a wick is burned using oil as fuel.

Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related copper alloy sukunda ritual lamp, Newar, 18th century, 32.4 cm high, on loan from the Kronos Collections and exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ganesha: The Lord of New Beginnings, 19 November 2022-16 June 2024. Compare a closely related brass oil lamp (sukunda), Nepal, early 19th century, 41.9 cm, in the Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, object number 2021.8.23.

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