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A COPPER ALLOY ‘DEEPALAKSHMI’ VOTIVE LAMP, SOUTH INDIA, 17TH-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 COPPER ALLOY ‘DEEPALAKSHMI’ VOTIVE LAMP, SOUTH INDIA, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Finely cast, standing atop a double-lotus base raised on a tiered plinth, holding a large diya (oil lamp) in her hands. The deity is dressed in diaphanous dhoti, her bare torso adorned with jewelry, the face with a serene expression, wide eyes, and a broad smile, and the parted hair finely braided in a long plait to the back.

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 old wear, traces of use, and casting irregularities. Minute nicks, small surface scratches, light rubbing, encrustations, minor warping, the base with small fatigue cracks and minuscule losses. The bronze with a fine, naturally grown patina with small areas of verdigris.

Weight: 1,534.1 g
Dimensions: Height 27.5 cm

This puja or prayer lamp has been cast in the form of a celestial female attendant, identifiable with Lakshmi, the goddess of light and wealth. She holds a leaf-shaped oil well or wick pan which is deep enough to hold a significant quantity of oil so it will burn for quite some time. This is an important feature consistent with the Hindu precept of akhanda jyot – that a lamp offered to a deity should burn without interruption, the offering of lit lamps to deities being one of the nine essential Brahmanic forms of worship. Donating lamps to a temple is also considered a sacred act which confers merit on the owner. Usually such a gift will be accompanied by a stipend for the ongoing purchase of ghee or oil to be used to fuel the lamps.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related earlier Deepalakshmi bronze, dated to the Vijayanagara period, 15th century, 34 cm high, in the Asian Civilisations Museum, accession number 1994-05384. Compare a related later brass Deepalakshmi, dated to the 19th century, 44.5 cm high, in the Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, object number 1987.2.7.

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