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A COPPER-INLAID BRASS WATER CONTAINER, GANGA-JUMNA LOTA, 17TH-19TH CENTURY
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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 COPPER-INLAID BRASS WATER CONTAINER, GANGA-JUMNA LOTA, 17TH-19TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

South India, Thanjavur. Of compressed globular form, supported on a short foot and rising to a flaring neck with an everted mouth, the body worked in a checkered pattern with alternative inlays of copper, the shoulder and neck similarly decorated with lappets.

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.
Labels: Galerie Hardt, inscribed ‘Lotta Heiligenwassergef?ss, Messing, Kupfer, Indien, 18.-19. Jh’, the back, ‘1638-04’, and priced at EUR 220.
Condition: Good condition with wear and casting irregularities. Expected losses to inlays, tarnishing, minor warping, nicks, scratches. Small losses, some with associated soldering marks.

Weight: 450.2 g
Dimensions: Height 11.6 cm

This lota, or water container, is based on earlier models of seventeenth-century India that survived after the beginning of British rule in the region. Its checkerboard pattern, perhaps derived from early Hindu decoration, reflects Islamic influence as well—specifically, the prominence of geometric patterns in the Islamic world.

The technique of employing brass and copper together on the same object, unique to India, is called ganga-jumna, after the contrasting colors of the Ganga and Yamuna rivers.

Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related lota, dated circa 1800, 12.7 cm high, in the Syracuse University Art Museum, accession number 1966.1121.

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拍品估价:100 - 200 欧元 起拍价格:50 欧元  买家佣金: 35.00%

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