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A MASSIVE BRONZE ‘NYATAPOLA TEMPLE’ SHRINE, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
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03月07日 晚上6点 开拍
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A MASSIVE BRONZE ‘NYATAPOLA TEMPLE’ SHRINE, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Nepal. The three-tiered roof supported on four columns, the front pair decorated with two writhing dragons and terminating in bird and lion-form beast masks. The roof supported by corbels featuring Bodhisattva figures and mythical beasts, lined with a row of heads along the rims, and supported on rectangular sections detailed with brickwork. All surmounted by a bell-form stupa incised with lotus petals to the lower and mid-section.

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 minor wear and manufacturing irregularities, small fine structural fissures to base, small dents and minute nicks mostly to the base, soldering marks, remnants of pigment. The bronze with a fine, naturally grown patina.

Weight: 47.4 kg
Dimensions: Height 99 cm

The rectangular base detailed with two lions at the front framing a band of scrolling leafy tendrils with a vajra at the front center, surmounted by a second tier with a kirthimukha mask on a leafy apron. The bronze sheets joined by copper nails.

The treatment of the roof is closely related to the design of the Nyatapola temple in Bhaktapur, Kathmandu valley, Nepal. Note the slanting of the multi-tiered roofs set with similar shaped corbels, the design of the columns, and the closely related stupa-form finial.

Nyatapola is the tallest monument within the city of Bhaktapur and is also the tallest temple of Nepal. It was commissioned by King Bhupatindra Malla, the construction of which lasted for six months from December 1701 to July 1702, and is mainly made of bricks and wood, the main materials for Nepalese architecture.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related Nepalese bronze replica of a temple, gifted to Jawaharlal Nehru and now in the Teen Murti Bhawan, New Delhi.

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