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A MONUMENTAL AND IMPRESSIVE POLYCHROME WOOD MASK OF MAHAKALA, TIBET, 19TH CENTURY
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03月07日 晚上6点 开拍
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A MONUMENTAL AND IMPRESSIVE POLYCHROME WOOD MASK OF MAHAKALA, TIBET, 19TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Well modeled with a wrathful expression marked by large bulging eyes below bushy brows, centered by a third eye, a wide nose above an open mouth revealing sharp teeth, a curling tongue, and fangs, flanked by large ears and crowned with a five-leaf crown decorated with foliate blossoms and citipati heads.

Inscriptions: To the crown, ‘Om ah hum tram hri’

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: Very good condition with wear and natural imperfections. Expected rubbing and flaking to pigment. The tip of one crown leaf lost. Small repairs and touchups to the crown.

Dimensions: Height 77 cm

The five petal-like segments of the crown are painted with flowers representing the Five Directional Buddhas: Amitabha, Vairocana, Akshobhya, Ratnasambhava, and Amoghasiddhi. The crown initiation symbolizes the transmutation of the initiate's five body-mind systems (mirroring, sensational, conceptual, emotional, and cognitive) and the five positions (delusion, pride, lust, envy, and hate) into the five transcendental buddhas. This crown is worn after blessing, visualizing, and lustrating, as a symbolic seal of the initiate's abandoning the notion of oneself as an ordinary, perfect being, and that adoption of the buddha-pride, the sense of oneself as a purified, enlightened Buddha, every atom itself becomes wisdom.

Each Buddha is identified by the Seed syllables
arranged in relation to their cardinal direction. The five Buddha’s represented on each leaf are (left-right): Vairocahana (Om), Amoghasiddhi (Ah), Akshobhya (Hum), Ratnasambhava (Tram), and Amitabha (Hri).

Mahakala's fearsome countenance is vividly expressed with his bared fangs, a snarling mouth, a menacing gaze, and flaming brows. He is adorned with a five-skull tiara, which is worn by all manifestations of Mahakala, symbolizing the transmutation of human nature's five negative afflictions into positive virtues.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Bonhams New York, 19 March 2018, lot 3060
Price: USD 5,250 or approx. EUR 6,300 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A polychromed wood mask of Mahakala, Tibet, 18th-19th century
Expert remark: Compare the closely related modeling, expression, and similar crown. Note the size (52.8 cm).

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