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A LARGE SANDSTONE LINGAM AND YONI, ANGKOR PERIOD, 10TH-12TH 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 LARGE SANDSTONE LINGAM AND YONI, ANGKOR PERIOD, 10TH-12TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Skillfully carved in two sections, the smoothly polished lingam rising from a square base to a finely incised rounded top, fitted and supported on a tiered yoni terminating in a tapered spout at one end to allow unguents to run off.

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. Old wear, obvious losses, expected signs of weathering and erosion, encrustations, structural fissures, chips, nicks, scratches.

Dimensions: Length 57 cm, Height 53.5 cm

The lingam and yoniare aniconic representations of Shiva and Uma. They are symbolic of the female and male reproductive organs, which within Hinduism bring a balance to the cosmos when joined together. Within Hindu countries, adoration of the lingam was understood to be worship of the great generative principle of the universe, conceptualized as an aspect of Shiva. Some of the Khmer kings identified themselves with Shiva, placing a lingam at the summit of their most important temples as part of their royal paraphernalia.

The two parts of the sculpture, the square yoni and the round lingam, form an inseparable unit. A typical feature of a yoni is also clearly visible on the present lot: the Somasutra, or water outlet. The lingams were cleansed daily and doused with sacred liquids during rituals. The water (including milk or oils) flowed over the Somasutra into a drainage channel outside and seeped into the earth. To prevent uncontrolled overflow, all yoni plates are provided with a surrounding rim. The slightly raised rim and the outlet, along with the opening for the lingam, characterize the typical structure of a yoni.

Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related lingam and yoni dated to the Angkor period, circa 975, 37.5 cm high, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 1988.393. Compare also a closely related earlier yoni dated late 6th to 9th century with later lingam, preserved in the Sambor Prei Kuk.

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