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A PAIR OF BACTRIAN STONE WEIGHTS, LATE 3RD TO 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 PAIR OF BACTRIAN STONE WEIGHTS, LATE 3RD TO EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM BC
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Oxus Civilization. Both stones of high domed form supported on a flattened base and perforated for suspension at the top, the holes converging in a V-shape. The fossiliferous stones of varying greyish tones, one presenting a polished surface with dark patches, white inclusions and some greenish mottling, the other exhibiting a rough texture with whitish veining.

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: Very good condition, commensurate with age, with expected old wear and signs of weathering and erosion, few obvious losses, nicks, chips, scratches, natural fissures.

Weight: 15.9 kg (total)
Dimensions: Height 22 cm and 24 cm

The Oxus Civilization or Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC), recently dated to ca. 2250-1700 BC, is the modern archaeological designation for a Bronze Age civilization of Central Asia, previously dated to ca. 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 (ca. 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.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Christie’s New York, 9 December 2015, lot 99
Price: USD 8,750 or approx. EUR 10,500 (for two) converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: Two Bactrian stone weights, ca. late 3rd to 2nd millennium BC
Expert remark: Compare the closely related form, material, and perforation style. Note the similar size (22.5 cm).

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