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A GILT, BRONZE AND COPPER INLAID IRON SET OF RITUAL IMPLEMENTS, 16TH-18TH CENTURY – EXCEEDINGLY RARE!
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A GILT, BRONZE AND COPPER INLAID IRON SET OF RITUAL IMPLEMENTS, 16TH-18TH CENTURY – EXCEEDINGLY RARE!
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Tibet. Comprising a ritual ladle for the Homa ceremony with a long handle terminating in a vajra, with a square pouring implement, finely decorated with makara heads, and with a vajra at the center of the well; and a Bardo ritual set of nine miniature tools including pliers, a bow, a spear, an ax, a pick, a hook, a chopper, an arrow, and a phurbu, with a triangular box and cover surmounted by a vajra finial. Seven of the implements are neatly inlaid with copper wire forming a spiral around the handle. (11)

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.
Condition: Overall good condition with wear, traces of use, manufacturing irregularities, rubbing, minor corrosion, small dents, minuscule nicks, light scratches. The ladle with minor losses and a small breakage to one bronze fitting.

Weight: 1.6 kg (total)
Dimensions: Length 14.5 cm- 22.4 cm (the small implements), 83 cm (the ladle), the box 22.8 cm

The ladle would have been used together with another round ladle to make offerings during a Homa ceremony to the fire god, Agni. Melted butter would have then been poured into the square ladle and offered through the spout onto the flames.

Bardo refers to the mind in the intermediate state after death or when the consciousness is separated from the previous body. It is the state between the past life and the next coming life. In a discussion of a similar container in the Essen Collection, a dough effigy representing the ego of the practitioner is placed within the 'dungeon triangle' case during the ritual and is destroyed by the various accompanying implements. See Essen & Thingo, Die G?tter des Himalaya, Munich, 1989, no. 536.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related fire-offering ladle, Eastern Tibet, dated to the Ming dynasty, in the Metropolitan Museum, accession number 1993.477.1.1a, b.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Christie’s New York, 18 September 2013, lot 350
Price: USD 22,500 or approx. EUR 30,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A pair of gold and silver damascened iron ritual implements, Tibet, circa 18th century
Expert remark: Compare the related form of the square ladle. Note the size (71.8 cm) and that the lot comprises only two ladles.

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