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A CARVED WOOD SHAMAN MASK, MIDDLE HILLS, NEPAL, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
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03月07日 晚上6点 开拍
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A CARVED WOOD SHAMAN MASK, MIDDLE HILLS, NEPAL, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

The broad face carved with wide, deep-set eyes, a slender nose, and open mouth baring a full set of teeth painted white within, covered overall in a deep black pigment.

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: Good condition with wear and natural imperfections including fissures. Small losses, chips, nicks, and remnants of ritual pigment.

Dimensions: Height 28.3 cm

This mask originates in the Middle Hills area of the Himalaya mountains, either from the Gurung or Magar people of Nepal. Such masks are among the most primitive in use in the world, and are made by carving wood, coating it with yak butter fat, and charring it over a smoky fire.

The shaman plays an important social role as the channeler of spirits for healing, purification, and protection of those under his supervision. Masks help the shaman embody one of the spirits that surround the living world and use it to heal the sick, drive away evil influences, and guide villagers through changes in their lives (birth, adulthood, changes in social status, death) that might be affected by the spirit world. When hung in a house, the mask serves a protective function.

Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related wood mask, Middle Hills, Nepal, 26 cm high, illustrated by Thomas Murray in Demons & Deities, Masks of the Himalayas, Asianart.com, 16 January 2001, fig. 18. Compare a closely related mask published by Fausto Doro, Il Primate a Stazione Eretta I, 1977, illustrated on the cover.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Sotheby’s Paris, 30 October 2018, lot 214
Price: EUR 8,125 or approx. EUR 9,500 adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: Mask, Nepal
Expert remark: Compare the related manner of carving and note the size (23 cm).

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