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A MANI STONE, TIBET, 19TH CENTURY OR EARLIER
奥地利
03月07日 晚上6点 开拍
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A MANI STONE, TIBET, 19TH CENTURY OR EARLIER
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Of irregular form, the flattened gray stone carved in sunken relief along its natural contours with three lines of inscription repeating the six-syllabled Sanskrit mantra associated with the four-armed Shadakshari Avalokiteshvara, as part of a traditional sadhana of piety to yidam.

Inscriptions: To the body, repeated three times, ‘Om mani padme hum’.

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, natural imperfections, and obvious losses, chips.

Weight: 14,185 g (incl. stand)
Dimensions: Height 46 cm (excl. stand)

Mounted to an associated metal stand. (2)

Mani stones broadly refer to carved stones of a spiritual nature. They may be inscribed with prayers, painted colorfully, or have simple indentations. The stones picked for mani carvings are usually ordinary rocks, pebbles, and small boulders. In some cases, prayers or religious images are also carved on huge, immovable boulders, on the sides of rocky mountains, and inside caves. In most cases, people use a hammer and chisel to carve. Although electric tools might be used occasionally, mani stone carving is primarily handcrafted due to the religious aspect of the practice.

Traditionally, prayer stone carvings are done as a form of religious practice to accumulate positive merit through spreading prayers. Practitioners vary from monks, nuns, nomads, and peasants alike. Village shamans and devout elders may take summer pilgrimages to every creek source in their community to offer prayers, make offerings to delight the spirits of the water, and leave prayer carvings on rocks by the water sources. Traveling monks might seek sacred mountain passes, stone in the temple walls, and religious stone mounds to build upon the existing piles.

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