Description
前哥伦布时期Pre Columbian Art玛雅风格 哥斯达黎加/巴拿马 貓臉神巫面金扣(2)
参考:苏富比
Indian and Himalayan Art, including Masterpieces from the Nyingjei Lam Collection
MASTERPIECES OF TIBETAN ART FROM THE NYINGJEI LAM COLLECTION
March 21, 09:25 AM PDT
Lot 114. A pair of large gold, silver and copper overlaid iron door bosses, Tibet, 16th / 17th century .
西藏 十六 / 十七世紀 鐵鑲金銀銅大鋪首一對 (2)
Estimate 60,000 – 80,000 USD
Lot Sold 76,200 USD
A pair of large gold, silver and copper overlaid iron door bosses
Tibet, 16th / 17th century
西藏 十六 / 十七世紀 鐵鑲金銀銅大鋪首一對 (2)
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 68465.
HAR編號68465
Diameter 11 in., 29 cm
Literature
David Weldon and Jane Casey Singer, The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet: Buddhist Art in the Nyingjei Lam Collection, London, 1999, pl. 30 and back cover.
Exhibited
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1996–2005 (on loan).
Rubin Museum of Art, New York, 2005–2018 (on loan).
The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet: Buddhist Art in the Nyingjei Lam Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1999.
Arte Buddhista Tibetana: Dei e Demoni dell’ Himalaya, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, 2004, cat. no. IV. 70.
Casting the Divine: Sculptures of the Nyingjei Lam Collection, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, 2012–13.
Catalogue Note
These two finely wrought door fittings represent the renowned Tibetan mastery of damascene ironwork, a skill traditionally associated with the specialist workshops at Derge in the Kham region of eastern Tibet. The projecting domed bosses depict the silvered faces of wrathful guardian deities, with bulging eyes outlined in gold, flared nostrils, wide open mouths showing silvered teeth and fangs, red copper lips, and with the menacing curled tips of the tongues, flaming eyebrows and mustache, and ears all overlaid in gold. The faces are framed by golden rings of fire emanating from the mouths of silver white skulls, with red copper severed heads at the cardinal points. Each boss would have been attached to adjacent temple doors by means of a sturdy iron pin through the hole below the lower lip, and another pin hinged to a ring pull and passing through the channel in the forehead.
參考:Bonhams
160
Nariño Gold Disk, ca. A.D. 800-1500
diameter 4in (10.2cm)
Depicting a feline head encircled by a row of
raised circular elements.
Provenance
Jay Spectre Collection
Private Collection, Florida, acquired from the
above in 1979
$3,000 – 5,000
164 貓臉金盤
Nariño Gold Disk, ca. A.D. 800-1500
diameter 2 7/8in (7cm)
Of high karat, probably 20k or higher,
embossed with a feline face in high relief
within a circle of punched beading; fine
original unpolished patina.
Provenance
Helen Eack Collection, Germany, acquired in
the 1960s
Thence by descent
$1,500 – 2,000
165 蜂鳥吸花金耳環
Pair of Nariño Gold Earrings, ca.
A.D. 800-1500
lengths 1 3/4in (4.2cm)
Each of high karat, probably 20k or higher,
with suspension hook leading to a disc above
a conical shape, inside of which is a bird in
flight; fine original unpolished patina.
Provenance
Helen Eack Collection, Germany, acquired in
the 1960s
Thence by descent
$1,800 – 2,200
参考:s’f’fAFRICAN, OCEANIC, AND PRE-COLUMBIAN ART
07 MAY 2016 | 5:00 PM EDT
NEW YORK
104 Moche Mask ca. A.D. 500-700
Estimate 20,000 — 25,000 USD
LOT SOLD. 22,500 USD
the round face marked by concentric furrows of wrinkles, with pierced eyes, nostrils and mouth, a sheath of headdress across the brow and encircling the rim, with remains of white pigment; pierced at each temple for attachment.
Height: 6 3/4 in (17.1 cm)
PROVENANCE
Fine Arts of Ancient Lands, 1970 or earlier
Peter G. Wray Collection, 1971-1983
Wally Zollman Collection, 1983-1998
Acquired by the present owner in 1998
EXHIBITED
Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Face of Ancient America, The Wally and Brenda Zollman Collection of Precolumbian Art, December 3, 1988-February 26, 1989, continuing to Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum, June 13-September 10, 1989
LITERATURE
Parsons, Carlson and Joralemon, The Face of Ancient America, The Wally and Brenda Zollman Collection of Precolumbian Art, 1988, inside front cover and no. 144
CATALOGUE NOTE
Masks made of painted textile and metal are known as part of effigy bundles, but examples in ceramic are rare. This Moche mask is distinctive for the perforated features, suggesting a ceremonial use. The aged, wrinkled figure may represent a specific deity within the narrative of Moche mythology; for a similar example, see Bird, Art and Life in Old Peru (1962:Fig. 55).
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