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 155 : Snuff tray, ca. 1100 AD
Peru, Chancay
Marcia & Irwin Hersey, New York, USA Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 17 September 2011, lot 141 German Private Collection, Potsdam
not available anymore
Lot 156 : Double vessel, ca. 900 -1100 AD
Peru, Chimu
Jakob Deller, Munich, Germany (1971)
not available anymore
Lot 157 : Stirrup spout vessel, ca. 900 -1100 AD
Peru, Chimu
German Private Collection, Berlin (1962)
not available anymore
Lot 158 : Figural stirup spout vessel, ca. 900 - 1100 AD
Peru, Chimu
German Private Collection, Berlin (1962)
sold EUR 550
Lot 159 : Stirrup vessel in shape of a toad, ca. 400 - 700 AD
Peru, Moche
German Private Collection, Berlin (1962)
not available anymore
Lot 160 : Double spout vessel, ca. 400 AD
Peru, Nazca
German Private Collection, Berlin (1962)
not available anymore
Lot 161 : Double spout vessel, ca. 400 AD
Peru, Nazca
German Private Collection, Berlin (1962)
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 162 : Double spout vessel, ca. 400 AD
Peru, Nazca
German Private Collection, Berlin (1962)
not available anymore
Lot 163 : Cup, ca. 400 AD
Peru, Nazca
German Private Collection, Berlin (1962)
not available anymore
Lot 165 : Bracelet
West Africa
Pierre Loeb, Paris, France
sold EUR 600
Lot 166 : Standing female figure "za mä"
Liberia, Dan
Peter Pollack, New York and Florida, USA (since the 1960's)
sold EUR 1,400
Lot 167 : Mask
Liberia, Dan/Kran/Grebo
Ketterer, Munich, 18 November 1978, lot 64 Ketterer, Munich, 21 May 1980, lot 74
not available anymore
Lot 168 : Mask "zakpai"
Liberia, Dan
Ketterer, Munich, 4 May 1979, lot 49 Ketterer, Munich, 21 May 1980, lot 78
not available anymore
Lot 169 : Mask "anbai" or "nyangbai"
Liberia, Toma, Macenta area
Clayre & Jay Haft, New York, USA Christie's, New York, 18 May 1993, lot 106
sold EUR 7,000
Lot 170 : Sitting female figure "nomoli"
Sierra Leone/Guinea/Liberia, Sapi
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland Swiss Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 171 : Stone figure "nomoli"
Sierra Leone, Kissi
not available anymore
Lot 172 : "Sande" society helmet mask "ndoli jowel"
Sierra Leone, Mende
Mark Eglinton, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 173 : Helmet mask of the "sande" society "ndoli jowel"
Sierra Leone, Mende
Heinz Reschke, Frankfurt, Germany (Curator at the Museum of Ethnology Frankfurt am Main; he was a scholar and assistant of the famous ethnologist Leo Frobenius from 1934-1938)
sold EUR 1,600
Lot 174 : Standing female figure of the "njayei" society
Sierra Leone, Mende
Bertil Berg, Gothenburg, Sweden
not available anymore
Lot 175 : Kneeling female bowl bearer
Sierra Leone, Sherbro/Mende
sold EUR 5,000
Lot 176 : Standing male figure
Sierra Leone, Temne
Carl Otto Hultén, Malmö, Sweden (member of the Cobra-Group)
not available anymore
Lot 177 : Antelope dance crest "sogi ni kun" or "tijwara"
Mali, Bamana
sold EUR 600
Lot 178 : Antelope dance crest "tijwara"
Mali, Bamana
Lauritz Sunde, Copenhagen, Denmark (acquired between 1969 and 1976)
sold EUR 2,000
Lot 179 : Seated female figure "jo nyeleni"
Mali, Bamana
Emil Maetzel, Hamburg, Germany
Price EUR 2,000
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 180 : Standing female figure "jo nyeleni"
Mali, Bamana
Lore Kegel, Hamburg, Germany (before 1958)
sold EUR 3,800
Lot 181 : Standing female figure "jo nyeleni"
Mali, Bamana
Phillips, New York, 9 April 1987, lot 211
sold EUR 4,600
Lot 182 : Standing figure
Mali, Bamana
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 183 : Zoomorphic mask
Mali, Bamana
sold EUR 700
Lot 184 : Zoomorphic "komo" mask "warakun"
Mali, Bamana
Old Belgian Collection Alexandre Claes, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 185 : Mask "dyodyomini"
Mali, Dogon
Jean-Michel Huguenin, Paris, France (collected in situ in the 1950s) René Rasmussen, Paris, France Dave DeRoche, San Francisco, USA Lucien van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 186 : Vessel's lid with sitting male figure on top "ogo banya" or "ogo koro"
Mali, Dogon
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland Michael Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland Swiss Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 187 : Standing figure
Mali, Dogon
Charles Ratton, Paris, France Témoin, Geneva, Switzerland Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland Swiss Private Collection
sold EUR 20,000
Lot 188 : Standing female figure with child
Mali, Dogon
French Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 189 : Standing male figure with raised arms
Mali, Dogon
Marc Assayag, Montreal, Canada
not available anymore
Lot 190 : Sitting male figure
Mali, Dogon/Senufo
French Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 191 : Standing figure
Mali, Dogon
Maria Wyss, Basel, Switzerland Olivier Castellano, Paris, France (2009) Christophe Rolley, Paris, France
not available anymore
Lot 192 : Figure of a hermaphrodite
Mali, Dogon
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland Swiss Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 193 : Seated female figure "koro na"
Mali, Dogon, Village Kani Kambole
German Collection
sold EUR 800
Lot 195 : Miniature equestrian figure
Mali, Dogon
Josef Herman, Suffolk, Great Britain
sold EUR 2,000
Lot 196 : Equestrian figure
Mali, Dogon
not available anymore
Lot 197 : Two neckrests
Mali, Tellem
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 300
Lot 198 : Buffalo mask
Burkina Faso, Bwa
Klaus-Jochen Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
sold EUR 450
Lot 199 : Flute in anthropomorphic shape
Burkina Faso, Bwa/Nuna
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland Swiss Private Collection
sold EUR 2,600
Lot 200 : Pipe
Burkina Faso, Frafra
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 201 : Standing figure "bateba phuwe"
Burkina Faso, Lobi
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 202 : Figural charm "bateba duntundara"
Burkina Faso, Lobi
Josef Herman, Suffolk, Great Britain
sold EUR 500
Lot 203 : Roof support of a fetish hut
Burkina Faso, Mossi
sold EUR 750
Lot 204 : Kneeling female figure "niande"
Burkina Faso, Mossi
American Private Collection, New York
not available anymore
Lot 205 : Standing female figure
Burkina Faso, Mossi
Klaus-Jochen Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
sold EUR 400
Lot 206 : Standing female figure
Burkina Faso, Mossi
French Private Collection Uli Fischer, Berlin, Germany German Private Collection, Potsdam
not available anymore