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A BACTRIAN BRONZE COMPARTMENTED STAMP SEAL AND A COSMETIC CONTAINER, LATE 3RD-EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM BC
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09月10日 下午5点 开拍 / 09月08日 下午3点 截止委托
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A BACTRIAN BRONZE COMPARTMENTED STAMP SEAL AND A COSMETIC CONTAINER, LATE 3RD-EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM BC
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Oxus Civilization. The compartmented stamp seal of circular form with a central cross surrounded by an openworked design of radiating spokes. The pear-shaped cosmetic container is cast with a globular body surmounted by a cylindrical neck with a flared rim. (2)

Provenance: Galerie Hardt (established in 1976), Radevormwald, Germany, before 2020. Acquired by the gallery’s founder Peter Hardt (b. 1946) during his extensive travels in Asia, the first of which occurred during a formative world tour in 1973. Throughout his storied career, Peter Kienzle-Hardt organized countless exhibitions and participated in major international art fairs. He made many important contacts during this time and eventually met the Kienzle siblings, who shared his passion for Asian art and culture. A strong bond and deep friendship developed, ultimately leading to the creation of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst decades later in 2014. While the museum’s permanent exhibition predominantly comprised pieces from the Kienzle Family Collection, Peter Kienzle-Hardt supplemented it with objects from his own collection. Before his death in 2019, Horst Kienzle bequeathed his entire property to Peter and legally adopted him as his son, who has been using the name Peter Kienzle-Hardt ever since.
Condition: Overall good condition, commensurate with age. Extensive wear, signs of weathering and erosion, encrustations, losses, nicks. Each with a rich, naturally grown patina with thick, vibrant malachite encrustations.

Weight: 293 g (total)
Dimensions: Height 7 cm and 7.5 cm (excl. stand), 14.2 cm (the stand)

Mounted on an acrylic stand. (3)

The Oxus Civilization or Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC), recently dated to c. 2250-1700 BC, is the modern archaeological designation for a Bronze Age civilization of Central Asia, previously dated to c. 2400-1900 BC, by Sandro Salvatori, in its urban phase or integration era. Though it may be called the “Oxus civilization”, apparently centered on the upper Amu Darya (Oxus River) in Bactria, most of the BMAC’s urban sites are actually located in Margiana (modern Turkmenistan) on the Murghab river delta and the Kopet Dagh mountain range. There are a few later sites in northern Bactria (c. 1950–1450 BC), the territory of southern Uzbekistan, but they are mostly graveyards belonging to the BMAC-related Sapalli culture. A single BMAC site, known as Dashli, lies in southern Bactria, the territory of northern Afghanistan. Sites found further east, in southwestern Tajikistan, though contemporary with the main BMAC sites in Margiana, are only graveyards, with no urban developments associated with them. BMAC sites were discovered and named by the Soviet archaeologist Viktor Sarianidi when he was excavating in northern Afghanistan between 1969 and 1979. Sarianidi’s excavations revealed numerous monumental structures in many sites, fortified by impressive walls and gates. Reports on the BMAC were mostly confined to Soviet journals. A journalist from The New York Times wrote in 2001 that during the years of the Soviet Union, the findings were largely unknown to the West until Sarianidi’s work began to be translated in the 1990s.

Compartmented stamp seals emerge prominently in the period between 2400 and 1700BC. Typologically, they inhabit a rich geometric repertoire including lozenges, stars, cross motifs, often meticulously sectioned into discrete fields for repeated stamping across documents or clay surfaces. Their widespread distribution across southern Margiana and northern Bactria suggests they functioned within a macro?regional administrative or trade network, signaling a shared iconographic idiom despite distinct local styles.

Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related compartmented stamp seal, dated late 3rd-early 2nd millennium BC, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 1983.535.53. Compare a closely related compartmented stamp seal, dated 2200-1750 BC, in the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts, accession number MH 2021.5.9. Compare a closely related cosmetic container, dated late 3rd-early 2nd millennium BC, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 1982.445.9.

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