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 361 : Male/female pair of twin figures "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Illorin, Oyo
Old British Collection
Sold EUR 1,100
Lot 362 : Pair of twin figures "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Ede
Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 363 : Female twin figure "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Ila area
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland · Swiss Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 364 : Male pair of twin figures "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba
Sold EUR 820
Lot 365 : Female twin figure "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Oyo
Galerie Schwarz-Weiß, Essen, Germany · German Private Collection, Berlin (1962)
Sold EUR 500
Lot 366 : Male pair of twin figures "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Igbomina, Ajasse
Galerie Schwarz-Weiß, Essen, Germany · German Private Collection, Berlin (1962)
Sold EUR 1,400
Lot 367 : Female twin figure "ere ibeji" with beaded hat
Nigeria, Yoruba, Egbado, Ilogbo
German Private Collection, Berlin (1962)
Sold EUR 280
Lot 368 : Female twin figure "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba
Marceau Rivière, Paris, France
Not available anymore
Lot 369 : Small standing figure
Nigeria, Yoruba
Not available anymore
Lot 370 : Standing colon figure
Nigeria, Yoruba
Sold EUR 250
Lot 371 : Standing colon figure
Nigeria, Yoruba
Sold EUR 200
Lot 373 : Old helmet mask
Nigeria, Yoruba
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 2,200
Lot 374 : Buffalo helmet mask
Nigeria, Yoruba
British Collection
Sold EUR 350
Lot 375 : Zoomorphic mask "gelede"
Nigeria, Yoruba
Karl-Heinz Krieg, Neuenkirchen, Germany · German Private Collection, Berlin (1962)
Sold EUR 350
Lot 376 : Throne, around 1900
Cameroon Grassfields, Babanki
Anton Handl, Munich, Germany · A. Handl (1875-1954) began his military career in 1894. In 1903 he joined the Deutsche Schutztruppe for Cameroon, where he stayed until 1909. He was medical officer; in 1904 he took part in the war against the Anyang and accompanied various expeditions, among others in 1905, the Manenguba expedition, to the Grassfields of Western Cameroon; the same year he took part in an expedition to North Western Cameroon and to Bamenda led by Hans Glauning; finally in 1907 he joined an expedition against the Northern Jetsang-Bulu (Ebolowa). In 1911 he resigned and returned to Germany in 1914 where he reentered the active military service.
Sold EUR 2,000
Lot 377 : Stool
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
Anton Handl, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 600
Lot 378 : Footstool
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
Anton Handl, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 450
Lot 379 : Couple
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
Anton Handl, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 2,200
Lot 380 : Standing power figure
Cameroon Grassfields, Kundu
Anton Handl, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 1,500
Lot 381 : Standing male figure
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
Anton Handl, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 600
Lot 382 : Fragment of an anthropomorphic dance crest
Cameroon Grassfields, Anyang
Anton Handl, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 400
Lot 383 : Pipe head, receptacle and backback
Cameroon Grassfields
Anton Handl, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 240
Lot 384 : Staff
Cameroon Grassfields
Johann F. Gustav Umlauff, Hamburg, Germany · Lore Kegel, Hamburg, Germany · Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany
Sold EUR 800
Lot 385 : Two swords and a helmet
Cameroon Grassfields
Anton Handl, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 700
Lot 386 : Sword " ntsakh", around 1900
Cameroon Grassfields, Beti-Fang/Jetsang-Bulu
collected in situ (1907) · Anton Handl, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 2,400
Lot 387 : Buffalo mask
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
Anton Handl, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 1,800
Lot 388 : Buffalo mask
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
Anton Handl, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 650
Lot 389 : Helmet mask
Cameroon Grassfields, Kom
Anton Handl, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 2,000
Lot 390 : Helmet mask
Cameroon Grassfields, Kom
Anton Handl, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 3,200
Lot 391 : Mask of a dignitary
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
Anton Handl, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 3,000
Lot 392 : Rare, old Commemorative Figure of a King "fon", late 19th century
Cameroon Grassfields, Bangwa, Fontem Valley
German Colonial Collection, collected in situ before 1914. · Heinrich Vorwahl, Hamburg / Quakenbrück, Germany (born in 1898, year of death unknown, teacher and editor in religious studies, philosophy and philology as well as in history of medicine (focused on folk medicine) · Vorwahl Family Collection, Germany
Sold EUR 60,000
Lot 393 : Figurally carved tusk
Cameroon Grassfields, Babanki
Old British Collection
Sold EUR 800
Lot 394 : Big stool
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
Sold EUR 3,600
Lot 395 : Stool
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 396 : Tobacco pipe
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
Paul Gebauer, McMinneville, USA
Not available anymore
Lot 397 : Bird dance crest
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
Not available anymore
Lot 398 : Mask "agwe"
Cameroon Grassfields, Widekum
Not available anymore
Lot 399 : Trumpet
Cameroon
Manfred Zirngibl, Passau, Germany (1950s)
Not available anymore
Lot 400 : Royal beaded palm wine container
Cameroon, Bali
Lore Kegel, Hamburg, Germany (collected in the 1950s)
Sold EUR 2,500
Lot 401 : Figure "tadep"
Cameroon, Mambila
Not available anymore
Lot 402 : Standing figure "tadep"
Cameroon, Mambila
Joop & An Groen, Vlaardingen, The Netherlands · Dutch Private Collection, Rotterdam (1980s)
Sold EUR 2,000
Lot 403 : Standing figure
Cameroon, Mfumte/Kaka, Border Nigeria-Kamerun, Donga River
collected in situ (1972)
Sold EUR 1,800
Lot 404 : Fertility doll
Cameroon, Dowayo/Namchi
René David, Zurich, Switzerland
Sold EUR 1,200
Lot 405 : Fertility doll
Cameroon, Namchi
Belgian Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 406 : Female puppet
Gabon, Ndjabi
French Colonial Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 407 : Complete "bieri": Receptacle and guardian figure
Gabon, Fang
Künzi, Oensingen, Switzerland · Swiss Private Collection
Sold EUR 15,000
Lot 408 : Complete "bieri": Receptacle and guardian figure
Gabon, Fang
Collection Chabin, Clermont Ferrand, France · Künzi, Oensingen, Switzerland · Swiss Private Collection
Sold EUR 6,000
Lot 409 : Reliquary guardian figure "mbulu-ngulu" ("spirit of a deceased")
Gabon, Kota
La Reine Margot, Paris, France · Hermann auf der Heide (1934-2003), Germany
Sold EUR 3,500
Lot 410 : Reliquiary figure "mboy"
Gabon, Kota-Obamba
Jean-Claude Andrault, Seillans, France (collected in situ, 1959)
Sold EUR 5,000
Lot 411 : Two-faced helmet mask
Gabon, Tsogho/Fang
Not available anymore