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TWO LARGE GILT AND RED-LACQUERED PALM LEAF AND WOOD KAMMAVACA BOOKS, KONBAUNG DYNASTY
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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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TWO LARGE GILT AND RED-LACQUERED PALM LEAF AND WOOD KAMMAVACA BOOKS, KONBAUNG DYNASTY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Burma, 19th century. Each comprising seven double-sided palm-leaf folios with Burmese tamarind seed script (Square Burmese Script) in Pali, the text written using lacquer ink, and two wood covers finely decorated with Devas within shaped reserves surrounded by rich foliate designs.

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: Good condition with expected wear, traces of use, and manufacturing irregularities, one cover with a loss and another with a small chip to one corner, few minuscule nicks, little rubbing, minor flaking to lacquer, little soiling and natural craquelure to folios.

Weight: 4 kg (total)
Dimensions: Length 59 cm (each book cover)

Each mounted on black cloth as a hanging scroll with a wood handle. (20)

Kammavaca manuscripts,as the present one, are usually highly ornamental, with thickly applied lacquer and gilded decorations on both covers and leaves, and Pali text written in ornate Burmese characters, 'tamarind-seed' script. They are often commissioned by lay patrons as gifts to monasteries.

Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related Kammavaca manuscript dated to the 19th century, 58.4 cm long, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, accession number M.2017.121.1.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Christie’s London, 27 April 2012, lot 515
Price: GBP 2,500 or approx.EUR 5,000 (for one) converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A large Buddhist manuscript (Kammavaca), Konbaung dynasty, Burma, 19th century
Expert remark: Compare the closely related material, seed script and covers, and size (62 cm). Note the different mounting.

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