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A GILT-LACQUERED WOOD FAMILY SHRINE, KAN, 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 WOOD FAMILY SHRINE, KAN, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

China, Qing dynasty. The intricately constructed model of a traditional Daoist temple with a three-bay main hall, surmounted by a downswept ridged roof with projecting overhang embellished on top with a ridge carved with blossoms and flanked by dragon heads, all supported on four columns, the front with three doors pierced with wan symbols, framed above with intricately carved panels depicting qilin and two horses, all above a balustrade framing the front and sides.

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, losses, natural age cracks, few small splits, old repairs, touchups to lacquer, rubbing to gilt, small nicks, few tiny chips.

Weight: 57 kg
Dimensions: Size 130 x 108.7 x 65.7 cm

The family shrine (kan) was an important piece of furniture in a traditional Chinese household. Usually displayed on an altar table against the rear wall of the main reception hall, the shrine itself was often made in the form of a traditional three bay hall complete with hinged doors, tile roof, and decorative brackets. Placed inside the shrine were the spirit tablets of the ancestors. It was believed that the souls of the ancestors resided in the tablets bearing their name and that they had the power to influence the fortune of their living descendants. Ancestral spirits were appraised of all important family events like betrothals, marriages, and the births of sons.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related house shrine, dated to the 18th-19th century, size 97.8 x 95.1 x 52.4 cm, in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, accession number 99.130a-h.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Sotheby’s New York, 17 September 2016, lot 1006
Price: USD 18,750 or approx. EUR 21,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A large cedar wood ancestral shrine, Qing dynasty, 19th century
Expert remark: Compare the related form and manner of carving with similar structure and openwork.

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