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AN INSCRIBED OFFICIAL STONE WEIGHT OF THE IMPERIAL SALT DEPARTMENT OF HUIZHOU, GUANFA, 201 JIN (128 KG), DATED 1273
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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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AN INSCRIBED OFFICIAL STONE WEIGHT OF THE IMPERIAL SALT DEPARTMENT OF HUIZHOU, GUANFA, 201 JIN (128 KG), DATED 1273
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

China, Huizhou. The weight of square cross-section, with an arched handle on top, finely carved to each side with a calligraphic inscription including the exact weight as well as a date and location.

Expert’s note: Stylistically, the calligraphy is fully consistent with a late Song date of 1273, especially for a functional government-issued salt trade weight. The legible, formal kaishu style is exactly what you’d expect for something like an Imperial Salt Department weight from Huizhou.

Inscriptions:

1. ‘9th year of the Xianchun era (corresponding to 1273)’
2. ‘201 jin [corresponding to approx. 128 kg in the Southern Song dynasty]’
3. ‘Salt import and salt export wharf’
4. ‘Imperial salt department of Huizhou’.


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, signs of weathering and erosion, encrustations, small losses, structural fissures, chips, nicks, and scratches.

Weight: approx. 150 kg
Dimensions: Height 61 cm

Under the Song dynasty, the salt monopoly became the state's second-largest revenue source after land tax, generating over 50% of total cash income. The state relied on tightly controlled salt production, merchant distribution networks, and official weights to enforce consistent taxation and curb fraud. However, the Mongol conquest in the late 13th century disrupted this system, damaging infrastructure and salt fields. Once the Yuan dynasty was established, the Mongols swiftly restored and centralized the salt system, reinstating official weights and expanding saltworks to sustain their vast empire.

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