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A LARGE BRONZE TEMPLE LAMP DEPICTING SURYA ATOP HIS CHARIOT, NEPAL, 18TH 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 BRONZE TEMPLE LAMP DEPICTING SURYA ATOP HIS CHARIOT, NEPAL, 18TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Finely cast in openwork, the columnar body rising from a globular element supported on a dome atop the tiered flaring base with beaded edge to a lotus-petaled canopy suspending sixteen bronze foliate tassels, all richly decorated with floral and foliate designs, below the oil tray surmounted by an image of Surya and two attendants atop his nine-horse chariot drawn by a smaller figure in front flanked by two archers.

The Sun God holding a lotus stem in each hand coming to full bloom at the shoulders, wearing a long flaring dhoti, richly adorned with fine jewelry and foliate tiara, and backed by an intricately cast floral mandorla inlaid with rock crystal.

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: Overall good condition with expected wear, traces of use, and manufacturing irregularities, minor warping, few small nicks and light surface scratches, minor losses to inlays and one tassel, one section of the column with losses and an old repair. The bronze with a fine, naturally grown, dark patina with areas of verdigris.

Weight: 14.9 kg (total)
Dimensions: Height 117.9 cm

The Hindu sun god Surya is often depicted as a resplendent deity holding lotus flowers in both hands, riding a chariot pulled by nine horses as seen in the present lot. The earliest representations of Surya riding a chariot occur in the Buddhist railings of the Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya during the 2nd century BC, but he only began to be worshiped within Hindu temples in the 8th century AD. In Nepal, many Surya temples and artworks trace to the medieval era, such as the 11th-century Thapahiti and Saugal-tol, and 12th century Naksal stone sculptures. One of the notable places where Surya is depicted is the Changu Narayan Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage site near Bhaktapur. This temple features numerous carvings and sculptures of Surya, reflecting his worship from the Licchavi and Malla periods, with the sun god often shown riding his chariot.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related Nepalese bronze temple lamp depicting Surya atop his chariot, 199 cm high, dated to the 18th century, in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, accession number 70.2/ 3752, illustrated on Himalayan Art Resources, item number 95142. Compare a related Nepalese bronze altar lamp depicting a different deity, 86.4 cm high, in the Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, object number 29-130-32. Compare a related, slightly earlier figure of Surya in his chariot, 15.5 cm high, 17th century, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, accession number EA1991.176.

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