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A LARGE PAINTED CLAY FIGURE OF NAIRATMYA, NEPAL, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
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03月07日 晚上6点 开拍
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A LARGE PAINTED CLAY FIGURE OF NAIRATMYA, NEPAL, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Finely modeled standing with hips elegantly swayed atop a rockwork base, raising a kapala in her left hand and holding the right in surya ravi mudra, wearing a voluminous flared dhoti fastened at the waist by a beaded girdle and billowing shawls draped over her shoulders. The goddess is richly adorned with a beaded necklace suspending a floral pendant and crowned with a foliate tiara framing her face, the hair piled in a chignon surmounted by a jewel.

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: Overall good condition with expected wear and manufacturing irregularities. Small chips and few losses to the extremities, some with minor old repairs. Several layers of ancient pigments with rubbing, flaking, and fading. Some areas covered with a dark varnish.

Weight: 6,754 g
Dimensions: Height 64.7 cm

Nairatmya is the consort of Hevajra and second in the lineage of the 'Path with the Result' (Lamdé), which she transmitted to Virupa, the first human master.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related terracotta figure of Garuda dated to the 16th century in the National Museum of Nepal. Compare a related painted clay figure of Vajravarahi, dated c. 1040-1310, in the Cleveland Museum of Art, accession number 1964.103.

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