October 31, 2015

81st Tribal Art Auction

A rich and diverse selection: Important and powerful sculptures and masks from Africa, Australia, Asia and Oceania. Sensitive and delicate barkpaintings from the western Arnhemland. Samurai armaments from the Edo Period. A fine old Netsuke collection. Ceramics from the Nazca culture as well as works from the Inuit and First Nations.

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Highlights

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Lot 14: Superb anthropomorphic (ancestor) mask, around 1800
Lot 42: Fine old netsuke: Flute playing boy riding on the back of a bull, 19th century
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Lot 44: Samurai armour, Edo period
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Lot 45: Samurai armour, Edo period
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Lot 76: Overmodelled ancestor skull, before 1920
Lot 90: Large standing figure
Lot 105: Large ceremonial food platter
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Lot 112: Figure of a deity
Lot 115: Barkpainting: "Barramundi"
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Lot 123: Parrying shield
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Lot 169: Mask "anbai" or "nyangbai"
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Lot 185: Mask "dyodyomini"
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Lot 186: Vessel's lid with sitting male figure on top "ogo banya" or "ogo koro"
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Lot 187: Standing figure
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Lot 188: Standing female figure with child
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Lot 189: Standing male figure with raised arms
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Lot 190: Sitting male figure
Lot 191: Standing figure
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Lot 211: Standing male figure "blolo bian"
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Lot 214: Horned mask "kpan"
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Lot 215: Portrait mask "ndoma" of the "mblo" group
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Lot 229: Mask
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Lot 241: Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head
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Lot 245: Mask "bugle"
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Lot 249: Standing male figure
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Lot 305: Standing female figure
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Lot 310: Rare ram heads "osamasinmi"
Lot 311: Court attendant with ceremonial sword "eben"
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Lot 335: Superb title stool
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Lot 376: Throne, around 1900
Lot 390: Helmet mask
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Lot 392: Rare, old Commemorative Figure of a King "fon", late 19th century
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Lot 406: Female puppet
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Lot 409: Reliquary guardian figure "mbulu-ngulu" ("spirit of a deceased")
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Lot 410: Reliquiary figure "mboy"
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Lot 424: Power figure "nkisi", before 1929
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Lot 426: Bell mask "alunga"
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Lot 436: Standing male ancestor figure "singiti"
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Lot 451: Mask "lukungu"
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Lot 452: Standing hermaphrodite "iginga" of "bwami" society
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Lot 495: Standing male power figure "nkisi"
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Lot 499: Old helmet mask "hemba", around 1900
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Lot 529: Mask "mwana pwo"

81st Tribal Art Auction

Lot 465 : Mask "kifwebe"
D. R. Congo, Luba
sold EUR 700
Lot 466 : Axe
D. R. Congo, Luba/Shankadi
Manfred Zirngibl, Passau, Germany (1950's)
not available anymore
Lot 467 : Axe
D. R. Congo, Luba
Jan Lundberg, Malmö, Sweden
not available anymore
Lot 469 : Small standing protective figure
D. R. Congo, Lulua
sold EUR 480
Lot 470 : Small figure "mbulenga"
D. R. Congo, Lulua
not available anymore
Lot 471 : Standing female figure
D. R. Congo, Mangbetu
sold EUR 700
Lot 472 : Hair pin
D. R. Congo, Mangbetu
not available anymore
Lot 473 : Standing female figure
D. R. Congo, Mbala
Charles Wesley Hourdé, Paris, France (2005/06)
sold EUR 3,400
Lot 474 : Large mask
D. R. Congo, Nyanga
Jakob Deller, Munich, Germany
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 475 : Mask
D. R. Congo, Nyindu
not available anymore
Lot 476 : Superb amulet mask "ikoko"
D. R. Congo, Pende
not available anymore
Lot 477 : Rare two-headed amulet mask "ikoko"
D. R. Congo, Pende
not available anymore
Lot 478 : Anthropomorphic amulet mask "ikoko"
D. R. Congo, Pende
not available anymore
Lot 479 : Amulet mask "ikoko"
D. R. Congo, Pende
not available anymore
Lot 480 : Face mask "mbuya"
D. R. Congo, Pende
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 481 : Mask "mbuya"
D. R. Congo, Pende
Julius Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 482 : Mask "kindombolo"
D. R. Congo, Pende
Eduard Tschopp, Mutenz, Switzerland
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 483 : Ceremonial adze
D. R. Congo, Pende
not available anymore
Lot 484 : Figure of a mask dancer with "tundu" mask
D. R. Congo, Pende
Kevin Conru, London, Great Britain
not available anymore
Lot 485 : Mask "panya ngombe"
D. R. Congo, Pende, East
American Private Collection, New York
not available anymore
Lot 486 : Mask "panya ngombe"
D. R. Congo, Pende, East
Eduard Hess, Basel, Switzerland (1978)
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 487 : Mask "kasangu"
D. R. Congo, Salampasu
Boris Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany (collected in situ 1955, Southern Kasai Area, District Louise, Village Tulume)
sold EUR 1,400
Lot 488 : Dancer
D. R. Congo, Salampasu
Old British Collection (1930's)
sold EUR 2,600
Lot 489 : Mask "kifwebe", male type "kilume"
D. R. Congo, Songye
French Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 490 : Mask "kifwebe", male type "kilume"
D. R. Congo, Songye
John Butler, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 492 : Power half-figure "nkisi"
D. R. Congo, Songye
not available anymore
Lot 493 : Small half figure "nkisi"
D. R. Congo, Songye
not available anymore
Lot 494 : Standing male power figure "nkisi"
D. R. Congo, Songye
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 495 : Standing male power figure "nkisi"
D. R. Congo, Songe/Tetela
Seidou Sow, Bujunbura-Burundi, Africa (1980's)
sold EUR 15,000
Lot 496 : Ritual object
D. R. Congo, Songye
Paolo Morigi, Magliaso, Switzerland German Private Collection, Berlin (1962)
sold EUR 400
Lot 497 : Personal protective figure in form of an amulet
D. R. Congo, Songye
Dutch Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 499 : Old helmet mask "hemba", around 1900
D. R. Congo, Suku
collected in situ in 1902 by Révérent Père Picart, one of the missionaries of the Congrégation du Saint Esprit Musée de l' Abbaye Notre Dame de Langonnet (Morbihan), since 1920 Künzi, Oensingen, Switzerland Swiss Private Collection
sold EUR 10,000
Lot 500 : Figure of a drum player
D. R. Congo, Suku
not available anymore
Lot 501 : Standing female figure
D. R. Congo, Suku
Robert Duperrier, Paris, France
not available anymore
Lot 502 : Buffalo mask "kiyunde"
D. R. Congo, Tabwa
Seidou Sow, Bujunbura-Burundi, Africa (1980's)
sold EUR 2,500
Lot 503 : Ceremonial staff
D. R. Congo, Tabwa
sold EUR 500
Lot 504 : Story board
D. R. Congo, Teke
Boris Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 505 : Power figure
D. R. Congo, Teke
American Private Collection, New York
not available anymore
Lot 506 : Skull basket
D. R. Congo, Vili
not available anymore
Lot 507 : Two lids from food containers "mabaia mazungu" or "taampha", before 1930
D. R. Congo, Woyo
Colonial administrator (before 1930) Belgian Private Collection, Brussels Alain Guisson, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 3,000
Lot 508 : Standing figure "mbwoolu"
D. R. Congo, Yaka/Suku
Félix Pelt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
sold EUR 1,100
Lot 509 : Three figural objects
D. R. Congo, Yaka
Slit drum: Hans Petereit, Cologne, Germany
sold EUR 900
Lot 510 : Big seated figure
D. R. Congo, Yaka
sold EUR 3,500
Lot 511 : Double figure
D. R. Congo, Yaka
not available anymore
Lot 512 : Power figure "phuungu"
D. R. Congo, Yaka
sold EUR 550
Lot 513 : Mask "kholuka" of "nkhanda" society
D. R. Congo, Yaka
sold EUR 400
Lot 514 : Maternité
D. R. Congo, Zombo
Philippe Guimiot, Brussels, Belgium Fily Keita, Los Angeles, USA
not available anymore
Lot 515 : Standing female power figure
D. R. Congo, Zombo
Hendrik Elias, Wieze, Ghent, Belgium Joaquin Pecci, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 516 : Water pipe
Angola
Northern German Private Collection, collected in situ in the 1950's during employment of the collector with Woermann, Hamburg
sold EUR 2,400
Lot 517 : Seven pipes
Angola
Northern German Private Collection, collected in situ in the 1950's during employment of the collector with Woermann, Hamburg
sold EUR 500