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A RED SANDSTONE RELIEF OF DURGA MAHISHASURAMARDINI, CENTRAL INDIA, CIRCA 10TH 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 RED SANDSTONE RELIEF OF DURGA MAHISHASURAMARDINI, CENTRAL INDIA, CIRCA 10TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

The multi-armed goddess beautifully modeled with one foot atop the buffalo as her lion mount bites into his hindquarters, her face with a beatific smile as she pierces the demon with a trident just as he emerges from his animal form, the demon’s decapitated buffalo head to her foot. Her arms fanning out holding various attributes. The face dominated by wide eyes, the deity heavily adorned with jewelry, all raised on a tall base and flanked by adorant figures and deities.

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: Very good condition, commensurate with age. Extensive wear, obvious losses, structural fissures, signs of weathering and erosion, encrustations, scattered nicks and scratches, small chips.

Dimensions: Height 101.5 cm (excl. stand), 103 cm (incl. stand)

Mounted on an associated stand. (2)

Mahishasura was a pious devotee to Brahma and was rewarded with a boon that no man or god would be able to conquer him. Thus invincible, he battled the gods and took over the heavens. Helpless against Brahma's boon, the gods appealed to the goddess Parvati, who agreed to harness theshaktiof all female celestial beings to fight Mahishasura. She assumed the form of Durga and borrowed weapons from each god. After nine days of fighting, she vanquished Mahishasura and his army and restored the heavens to the gods.

This sculpture depicts the final moments of the duel between the goddess and the demon. Durga stands on the buffalo as she plunges her trident into the animal to pull the demon out from the neck and send him to the netherworlds. Her lion prepares to bite into the rump for good measure.

The worship of a mother goddess as the source of life and fertility has ancient roots, but the composition of the text Devi Mahatmya ("Glory of the Goddess") during the fifth to sixth century led to the dramatic transformation of the female principle into a Great goddess of cosmic powers. Durga is the cosmic Magna Mater, and this popular iconic type encapsulates the struggle between the goddess and the demon Mahishasura, who symbolizes ignorance, disorder, chaos, and evil. Later textual sources generally refer to the subject as Mahishasuramardini, or "killer of the buffalo demon." She remains the most important and popular form of the great goddess known generically as Devi or Shakti.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Sotheby’s New York, 1 April 2005, lot 32
Estimate: USD 20,000 or approx. EUR 28,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: Durga, sandstone, Central India
Expert remark: Compare the closely related modeling, manner of carving, and subject. Note the much smaller size (76.8 cm).

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