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A PAINTED WOOD DOOR DEPICTING VAISHRAVANA, TIBET, 19TH CENTURY
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03月07日 晚上6点 开拍
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A PAINTED WOOD DOOR DEPICTING VAISHRAVANA, TIBET, 19TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Finely painted with color pigments on cloth over joined wood planks. Depicting the God of Wealth seated atop a snarling, recumbent Buddhist lion, one hand cradling the jewel-spewing mongoose, the other held in karana mudra, holding a parasol. Richly adorned with beaded jewelry, the deity wearing loose-fitting robes opening to reveal his rotund belly, all set within the compound of a walled multi-tiered pagoda constructed behind him.

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, signs of use, and natural imperfections including age cracks. Expected craquelure, soiling, minor creasing and small losses to edges, minuscule flaking and losses to pigment. A rectangular section with tears and associated touchups. Overall presenting exceptionally well.

Dimensions: Size 130.5 x 65.5 cm

Vaishravana (known in Tibetan as Namtse) is the leader of the Yaksha race and a worldly guardian worshiped as both a protector and benefactor. He and his wife, a naga princess, live on the north side of the lower slopes of mount Meru in the Heaven of the Four Great Kings in a sumptuous palace bathed in green emerald light. As the leader of the Four Direction Guardians, he at the head of the others, swore an oath of protection before the Buddha Shakyamuni. The stories and iconography of the Four Guardians arise primarily from the Mahayana sutras and are common to all schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Lord Atisha, amongst others, popularized the meditation practice of Vaishravana Riding a Lion in the 11th century.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related door of a protector deity's shrine (mgon khang), Tibet, c. 1800, exhibited in the Ethnological Museum, Berlin.

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