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A SANDSTONE CHATURMUKHA LINGAM, RAJASTHAN, 7TH-8TH 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 SANDSTONE CHATURMUKHA LINGAM, RAJASTHAN, 7TH-8TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Northwestern India. Of columnar form,carved in high relief with the four heads of Shiva. Each face is finely carved with varying expressions, wide eyes under thick brows, centered by a tilak, and the hair fashioned in a jatamukuta, falling along the shoulders.

The central face represents Sadyojata as Mahadeva (benign); the right face, Aghora as Bhairava (fearsome); the left, Vamadeva as Uma, Shiva’s consort; and to the back, Tatpurusha (Cosmic Being). The fifth aspect is the center, the shaft itself or what is assumed to be emerging from the top of the shaft, Ishana, understood as transcending form and direction, symbolizing the formless Absolute.

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, commensurate with age. Wear, obvious losses, signs of weathering and erosion, encrustations, scattered nicks and scratches, a small section of one face with repairs.

Weight: 56 kg (incl. stand)
Dimensions: Height 26.5 cm (excl. stand) and 55 cm (incl. stand)

With an associated stand. (2)

In Shaiva mythology,Shiva’s multiple forms are represented as four or five heads on a linga, an iconography known as chaturmukha or panchamukha linga. These anthropomorphic forms allow devotees to see and be seen by Shiva.

Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related chaturmukhalinga, attributed to Rajasthan and dated to the 7th-8th century, formerly in the James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection and now in the Art Institute of Chicago, reference number 2021.236.

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