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 258 : Three amulets
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, Germany
sold EUR 400
Lot 259 : Three amulets
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, Germany
sold EUR 450
Lot 260 : Dance crest "dagu"
Côte d'Ivoire, Tusian
American Private Collection
sold EUR 2,500
Lot 261 : Ladle
Côte d'Ivoire, Wobé
Jan Lundberg, Malmö, Sweden
not available anymore
Lot 262 : Face mask with articulated jaw
Côte d'Ivoire, Wé/Ngere
Valluet-Ferrandin, Paris, France
sold EUR 4,000
Lot 263 : Old geometrical goldweight
Ghana, Akan
sold EUR 400
Lot 264 : Goldweights: Two shields
Ghana, Akan
Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, Germany
sold EUR 350
Lot 265 : Fourteen goldweights in shape of animals
Ghana, Akan
Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, Germany
sold EUR 500
Lot 266 : Fourteen goldweights: Birds
Ghana, Akan
Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, Germany
sold EUR 450
Lot 267 : Five goldweights: Birds
Ghana, Akan
Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, Germany
sold EUR 350
Lot 268 : Four goldweights: birds
Ghana, Akan
Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 269 : Three zoomorphic goldweights
Ghana, Akan
Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, Germany
sold EUR 260
Lot 270 : Figural goldweight: two greeting men
Ghana, Akan
Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, Germany
sold EUR 750
Lot 271 : Goldweights: Eight horns
Ghana, Akan
Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, Germany
sold EUR 200
Lot 272 : Thrirteen goldweights
Ghana, Akan
Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, Germany
sold EUR 350
Lot 273 : Twelve goldweights
Ghana, Akan
Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, Germany
sold EUR 300
Lot 274 : Seven goldweights
Ghana, Akan
Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, Germany
sold EUR 400
Lot 275 : Eight early geometrical goldweights
Ghana, Akan
Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 276 : Group of geometrical goldweights
Ghana, Akan
Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, Germany
sold EUR 450
Lot 277 : Group of geometrical goldweights
Ghana, Akan
Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, Germany
sold EUR 800
Lot 278 : Two gold dust boxes "abampruwa"
Ghana, Akan
Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, Germany
sold EUR 260
Lot 279 : Half figure
Ghana, Akan
Christie's, Amsterdam, 12 September 2002, lot 182
sold EUR 250
Lot 280 : Memorial head
Ghana, Akan, Kwahu district, near Mpraeso
Anton Stalder, Nennigkofen, Switzerland
sold EUR 600
Lot 281 : Goldweight: Trophy head
Ghana, Ashanti
Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, Germany
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 282 : Four figural goldweights
Ghana, Ashanti
Karlheinz Kreitz, Düsseldorf, Germany
sold EUR 650
Lot 283 : Seated female figure
Ghana, Ashanti
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 284 : Stool
Ghana, Ashanti
Pierre Loos, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 800
Lot 285 : Fertility doll "akua ba"
Ghana, Ashanti
German Collection, Munich
not available anymore
Lot 286 : Fertility doll "akua ba"
Ghana, Ashanti
Lucien van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
sold EUR 650
Lot 287 : Fertility doll "akua ba"
Ghana, Ashanti
Témoin, Geneva, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 288 : Female pair of twin figures "venavi"
Ghana, Ewe
Fily Keita, Los Angeles, USA
not available anymore
Lot 289 : Asafo flag
Ghana, Fante
Duncan Clarke, London, Great Britain
sold EUR 1,600
Lot 290 : Fertility doll "akua ba"
Ghana, Fante
Aalderink, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1960's)
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 291 : Two bird sculptures
Togo, Ada
sold EUR 200
Lot 292 : Seated colon figure
Togo, Ewe
not available anymore
Lot 293 : Magical object
Togo, Ewe
sold EUR 500
Lot 294 : Three figures
Togo, Konkomba
sold EUR 200
Lot 295 : Standing figure
Togo, Losso
not available anymore
Lot 296 : Ancestor figure "bavong tchitchiri"
Togo, Moba
Belgian Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 297 : Standing figure "bochio"
Benin, Fon
Hermann Sommerhage, Duisburg, Germany
sold EUR 2,800
Lot 298 : Power object
Benin, Fon
sold EUR 750
Lot 299 : Ritual object
Benin, Fon
sold EUR 500
Lot 300 : Skull power object
Benin, Fon
not available anymore
Lot 301 : Power object "tron"
Benin, Fon
sold EUR 850
Lot 302 : Fetish object "atingo"
Benin, Fon
sold EUR 600
Lot 303 : Two zoomorphic scultpures
Benin, Fon
German Private Collection, Berlin (1962)
sold EUR 260
Lot 304 : Rare fan
Benin, Fon, Dahomey
Philippe Ratton, Paris, France
not available anymore
Lot 305 : Standing female figure
Benin, Fon
Tajan, Paris, 8 November 1996, lot 53 Alain de Monbrison, Paris, France Hermann Sommerhage, Duisburg, Germany Kevin Conru, London, Great Britain
sold EUR 6,000
Lot 306 : Mask pendant
Nigeria, Edo, Court of Benin
sold EUR 2,600
Lot 307 : Figural fragment
Nigeria, Anago
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany
sold EUR 400