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A GROUP OF FIFTEEN WOOD TORPAR, TIBET, 19TH CENTURY
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03月07日 晚上6点 开拍
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A GROUP OF FIFTEEN WOOD TORPAR, TIBET, 19TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Each wooden panel is carved with hollow molds of various ritual motifs, including people, deities, spirits, torma offerings, animals and symbols. Strung together by a leather cord. (15)

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 minor wear and natural imperfections. Nicks, scratches, and tiny old, smoothened chips. Remnants of pigment.

Weight: 1,032.8 g (together)
Dimensions: Length 36 cm (longest)

Torma Molds (torpar) are carved wooden lengths of wood with images of the different sets of offerings used to create 'tsampa' barley dough replicas, or substitutions, of real figures and objects, for use in Buddhist and Bon rituals in the Himalayan and Tibetan regions. Typically, the figures include a man and a woman, often with the hands placed at the waist in a passive gesture. Other groups of figures include the Nine Animals that Fly in the Sky, Nine Animals that Walk on Land, and the Nine Animals that Live in Water (see an example) along with many other objects including the Eight Auspicious Symbols (see an example). There are naga creatures and strange hybrid animals all of which appear to be unique to Tibetan culture and possibly a borrowing from the early Bon ritual practices.

The dough molds can be single lengths of wood with two or more sides, with the important figures carved in groups, or they can be sets of lengths, fastened together with string or leather cord. A single side or both sides can be carved with figures and symbols. Some examples are also stained with color as the dough can be pre-colored prior to pressing, or colored after pressed and readied for use.

Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related set of wood Torma molds, 19th century, exhibited at the Rubin Museum of Art, Bon: The Magic Word, 5 October 2007 – 14 April 2008, illustrated by Jeff Watt on Himalayan Art Resources, item number 68868.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Christie’s New York, 22 March 2011, lot 407
Price: USD 2,250 or approx. EUR 3,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A group of thirteen wooden torpar
Expert remark: Compare the closely related carving and note the smaller size (28.5 cm).

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