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A CARVED BONE MALA WITH SKULL BEADS, SIN-‘PHEN, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
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03月07日 晚上6点 开拍
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A CARVED BONE MALA WITH SKULL BEADS, SIN-‘PHEN, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Himalayan regions, Tibet or Nepal. Stringed with a total of 108 beads, all carved and pierced from bone in the form of grinning skulls, with both ends knotted together after passing through a single, larger skull bead. The beads with a fine, naturally grown, dark patina.

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 ‘Gebetskette aus Knochen in Form von Totenk?pfen‘, the back ‘Nepal 19. Jh’, and priced at EUR 625.
Condition: Very good condition with minor wear and natural imperfections including fine natural age cracks and expected deterioration, few old chips.

Weight: 533 g
Dimensions: Length 125 cm

Buddhist rosaries evolved from ancient Hindu-Indian mala prayer beads. In Tibet, they are known as sin-‘phen and used by both laymen and monks. Generally, they comprise 108 beads plus others as counters or markers. The main prayer beads were used to count repetitions of prayers.

Skulls and skeletons are commonly found in Tibetan Buddhist art, often as decorative elements on crowns, garlands, and rosaries as seen in the present lot. Skeletons also appear as a protector or dharmapala in Tibetan Buddhism and Vajrayana Buddhism of the Himalayas in the form of the Citipati, a pair of male and female dancing skeletal deities who represent both the eternal dance of death as well as perfect awareness.

Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related carved bone mala with skulls, Tibet, dated 18th-19th century, sold at Michael Backman, London, no. 7324. Compare a closely related example illustrated in Michael Henss, Buddhist Ritual Art of Tibet: A Handbook on Ceremonial Objects and Ritual Furnishings in the Tibetan Temple, 2020, p. 152.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Bonhams San Francisco, 20 December 2016, lot 9009
Price: USD 1,750 or approx. EUR 2,200 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A partial bone mala with skulls, Tibet
Expert remark: Note the size (87.5 cm).

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