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Lot 94
A Chinese Gold 'Khakkhara' Hairpin, Zan, Ming Dynasty
明 金錫杖簪
明 金錫杖簪
Sale 2046 - Asian Works of Art
Mar 21, 2025
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$4,000 -
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$8,960
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Lot Description
A Chinese Gold 'Khakkhara' Hairpin, Zan, Ming Dynasty
明 金錫杖簪
明 金錫杖簪
Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
The hairpin is in the shape of a Buddhist priest staff, the top formed by six ruyi head-form loops suspending a total of 15 rings, flanked by a double lotus on each end, a round sectioned pin.
Note:
For a close example, see Xi'an Qujiang Art Museum. Collection Dong Bo Zhai, Beijing: Cultural Relics Press. 2014, p 110-111.
For a similar example, see Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection. The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn 1999, p 102, no. 64.
For three similar examples, see LIN, Yeqiang. Celestial Creations, Art of the Chinese Goldsmith, The Cheng Xun Tang Collection II, Art Museum, Institute of China Studies. Hongkong: The Chinese University of Hongkong, 2007, p 414-415.
錫杖是佛教禪密兩宗僧人使用的法器,係比丘作法時的四項重要元素之一,其餘三項為梵唄、散花和梵音。密宗將錫杖作為佛的標誌物。《錫杖經》云:”佛告諸比丘:‘持此杖,即持佛身,萬行盡在其中。’”
錫杖亦是比丘外出化緣時的十件道具之一。既是外出走路時的拐杖,又能振杖發聲,驅趕蟲物,必要時還可用作防身利器。通常,根據輪環的多少及杖的材質體現出持杖者的身份高低。錫杖有雙輪、三輪及四環六環、八環、十二環的區別。四環一般為寺廟主持僧人所持,六環為菩薩所持,八環為羅漢所持,十二環是最高權威象征,為佛祖釋迦牟尼所持。參見陝西省寶雞市扶風縣法門寺地宮出土唐代迎真身銀金花雙輪十二環錫杖。錫杖簪作爲首飾,就不拘泥於這些規定了,本品六輪十五環,上下飾以蓮座。此類細足小簪又名啄針。《金瓶梅》第十二回提到戴鬏髻的女子在頭箍“周圍插碎金草蟲啄針兒”,北京海淀八里莊明李偉墓中出土的金啄針,顶部艾葉中栖一蝎,説的就是這種。
類似金錫杖簪東波齋藏有一件,收錄于西安曲江藝術博物館編著《東波齋藏明萬曆皇家金器:以萬曆辛丑(1601)年為中心》,110-111頁;瑞典卡爾肯普藏一件,收錄于《卡爾肯普藏中國金銀器》1999年出版,第102頁,第64號;香港承訓堂藏三件,收錄于林業強主編《寶蘊迎祥:承訓堂藏金2》,2007年香港中文大學中國文化研究所文物館,414-415頁;香港沐文堂藏三件,收錄于孫機、關善明合著《中國古代金飾》,2003年香港沐文堂出版,第482-485。
Length 5 in., 12.7 cm.
Property from the RenLu Collection, Los Angeles, California.
This lot is located in New York.