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AN INSCRIBED PARCEL-GILT BRONZE RITUAL OFFERING BOWL, JAPAN, DATED 1886
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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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AN INSCRIBED PARCEL-GILT BRONZE RITUAL OFFERING BOWL, JAPAN, DATED 1886
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Finely cast with deep rounded sides supported on a gently flaring stem rising from a stepped circular foot, the interior richly gilded and the exterior patinated to a warm brown tone and delicately incised with abstract designs evocative of fallen leaves and wispy clouds, as well as a poetic inscription.

Inscriptions: Along the sides, ‘Fukufuku to, uo no naka yori, numamizu no tai’ [From the vast expanse, the sea-bream emerges from muddy water, amongst the other fishes].

Provenance: Collection of the Yasumoto Family. 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: Very good condition with minor wear, traces of use, and casting irregularities, few small surface scratches, minuscule nicks, remnants of pigment, and areas of verdigris.

Weight: 403 g
Dimensions: Height 13.3 cm

The wood tomobako (storage box) with hakogaki (inscription) reading ‘Meiji juku-nen, maru, Yasumoto shi’ [Meiji 19 (1886), Circle, Collection of Yasumoto]. (2)

This gilt bronze bowl carries forward the ritual spirit of Nara-period offering vessels, which served as intermediaries between the material and spiritual realms. Likely intended for use in a temple or domestic altar, the bowl transcends pure utility: its glowing gilt surface, delicate incised ornament, and elegant inscription elevate it into the realm of contemplative art. Like its Nara-period forebears—whose restrained forms held offerings to the Buddha—this piece reflects a continuity of sacred purpose, while also embracing the aesthetic sensibilities of a later age, in which devotion and decoration were no longer seen as opposites, but as complements.

The poetic inscription offers a layered reflection on fortune, emergence, and spiritual distinction. The sea-bream (tai), a traditional symbol of auspiciousness, rising from murky waters subtly evokes Buddhist metaphors of purity and enlightenment arising from the ordinary world, especially the lotus, which blooms unsullied from the mud, symbolizing the awakened mind emerging from samsara. At the same time, its resonance with celebratory Shinto imagery and literary language—such as the association of tai with medetai (auspicious), and its frequent appearance in seasonal poetry and ritual banquets (naorai)—suggests a syncretic worldview, in which good fortune and moral clarity are seen as emerging not apart from, but through, the complexities of everyday life.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related earlier gilt-bronze stem bowl dated to the Nara period, 8th century, exhibited by the Tokyo National Museum. Compare a related earlier gilt-bronze alms bowl dated to the Nara period, 12.7 cm high, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 1975.268.151.

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