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A GILT-LACQUERED AND GLASS INLAID WHITE ALABASTER HEAD OF BUDDHA, MANDALAY, 18TH-19TH 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 GILT-LACQUERED AND GLASS INLAID WHITE ALABASTER HEAD OF BUDDHA, MANDALAY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Burma. Finely carved, the serene face finely painted and sensitively modeled with a meditative expression marked by downcast eyes with neatly incised heavy lids and elegantly arched brows, his slender lips forming a calm smile, flanked by elongated earlobes, the gilt-lacquered hair worked in tight curls over the high domed ushnisha and secured by a broad headband richly inlaid with floral designs in pink and green glass framed by line bands in mirror glass and centered by a central gemstone cabochon.

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: Overall good condition with wear, obvious losses, few nicks, light surface scratches, expected minor losses to inlays, flaking and minor losses to gilt, remnants of pigment. Repairs to one ear.

Weight: 20 kg (incl. stand)
Dimensions: Height 33 cm (excl. stand), 53 cm (incl. stand)

With an associated metal stand. (2)

Expert’s note: The headband is decorated in the thayo technique, a process whereby thin rolled strands of lacquer and ash putty are applied in patterns. This work has then been gilded along with the rest of the hair. It was then inlaid with small roundels of glass backed with red and green foil in flower motifs. The dry lacquer was procured from China while the glass inlay was sourced from Thailand. The style and technique are typical of the art of the Mandalay period in Myanmar.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related gilt lacquered and glass inlaid marble figure of Buddha, Burma, 18th century, 48 cm high, in the British Museum, registration number 1872,0701.9.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Christie’s Amsterdam, 21 November 2001, lot 145
Price: EUR 4,112 or approx. EUR 7,100 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A Burmese, Mandalay, Alabaster Head of Buddha Shakyamuni, 18th-19th century
Expert remark: Compare the closely related modeling, manner of carving, and gilding, with similar facial features and expression. Note the similar size (37 cm).

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