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A FIVE-LEAF RITUAL CROWN WITH THE FIVE TRANSCENDENT BUDDHAS, TIBET, 17TH CENTURY
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03月07日 晚上6点 开拍
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A FIVE-LEAF RITUAL CROWN WITH THE FIVE TRANSCENDENT BUDDHAS, TIBET, 17TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Finely painted with polychrome pigments on board, each leaf in the form of a shrine, depicting an image of one of the cosmic Buddhas seated on a lotus throne, each pedestal decorated with an image of their respective sacred animals, all backed by an aureole and mandorla, below an empowering monogram of the corresponding Buddha.

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 ‘Schamanen-Krone, Tibet, 17. Jh', the back ‘S946, H:16 B:47 T:1’, and priced at EUR 6,250.
Condition: Good condition with old wear, flaking and rubbing to the colors, small losses, fraying to the bands, expected creasing, and surface scratches.

Dimensions: Length 47 cm

With an associated metal stand. (2)

The Five Wisdom Buddhas represented on each leaf are, from left to right:

  1. Red Amitabha with hands lowered in dhyana mudra atop a peacock throne.
  2. Blue Akshobhya touching the earth and seated on a base supported by elephants.
  3. White Vairocana holding his hands in dharmachakra mudra, above a pair of snow lions.
  4. Yellow Ratnasambhava showing the varada mudra, the throne with two horses.
  5. Amoghasiddhi raising his right hand in abhaya mudra, the base with Garudas.

The Five Buddha Crown is worn during initiation empowerments and rituals. The five petal-like segments represent the Five Buddhas of the five directions, also known as the Five Symbolic Buddhas. 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 (Amitabha, Vairocana, Akshobhya, Ratnasambhava and Amoghasiddhi). 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.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related earlier Tibetan ritual crown with the five Transcendent Buddhas, dated to the late 14th-early 15th century, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 1985.391. Compare a related ritual crown in the Museum of Cultures, Basel, illustrated on Himalayan Art Resources, item number 3314202.

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