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A SILVER REPOUSSÉ BETEL-NUT BOX AND COVER, 19TH-EARLY 20TH 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 SILVER REPOUSSé BETEL-NUT BOX AND COVER, 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Southeast Asia, probably Thailand or Burma, Shan and northern Thai peoples. Finely chiseled, the body supported on a short foot and flaring towards a straight rim, fitted by a softly domed cover with a pointed finial. The exterior profusely embossed with encircling bands containing floral designs interspersed by scrolling tendrils on a stippled ground, framed by a variety of beaded and petaled borders. The base and rim of the vessel unadorned.

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: Good condition with expected wear, traces of use, and manufacturing irregularities, few minute nicks and small surface scratches, light warping and minuscule dents, little tarnish to silver.

Weight: 198.9 g
Dimensions: Diameter 13 cm

Painstakingly ornamented silver boxes for holding betel ingredients or tobacco would have been desirable luxury items among the Shan and northern Thai peoples. Chewing betel (a mixture of betel vine leaf, the nut of the areca or betel palm, quicklime, and sometimes spices or tobacco) was extremely popular.

Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related silver betel-nut box and lid dated to the 19th century, acquired in Lampang, Thailand by Carl Alfred Bock and now in the British Museum, registration number As,Bs.78.d. Compare a related silver betel box, dated approx. 1875-1925 and attributed to Shan State or northern Thailand, in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, object number B60M130. Compare a related Malay silver betel box (cembul) dated to the 19th century in the Victoria & Albert Museum, accession number IS.50-1958

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Bonhams New York, 22 March 2022, lot 335
Price: USD 22,812.50 or approx. EUR 22,500 (for two) converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A pair of silver bowls with prunus tree blossoms and birds, Burma (Myanmar), Shan State, ca. 1925
Expert remark: Compare the embossed decoration with floral motifs and similarly domed cover with pointed finial. Note the different size (26 cm).

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拍品估价:150 - 300 欧元 起拍价格:100 欧元  买家佣金: 35.00%

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