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A SILVER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF NANDI, HIMACHAL PRADESH, 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 SILVER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF NANDI, HIMACHAL PRADESH, 10TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

North India. Heavily cast, the holy white bull standing foursquare atop a rectangular pedestal, the neck adorned with neatly incised and beaded collars suspending a central bell, the animal well detailed with short horns, large silver-inlaid eyes, and characteristic hump.

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 wear and casting irregularities, light nicks, small surface scratches, expected rubbing, minuscule losses to inlays, encrustations. The base with minor warping and a crack to one corner. The bronze with a smooth, naturally grown patina with areas of malachite encrustation.

Weight: 776.5 g
Dimensions: Height 10.2 cm, Length 9.5 cm

Nandi is Shiva's mount and the gatekeeper of Shiva in Hindu mythology. He is seen as full of joy (nandi) in the presence of his master. An image of controlled virility and devotion, he would typically be placed in front of a Shiva temple facing a shrine.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Christie’s New York, 24 September 2020, lot 958
Price: USD 5,000 or approx. EUR 5,400 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A bronze figure of Uma Maheshvara, North India, Himachal Pradesh, probably Chamba, 10th century
Expert remark: Compare the related manner of casting, decoration, and subject, with similar coppery bronze, silver inlays, and depiction of Nandi. Note the size (13.9 cm).

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