May 28, 2016

83rd Tribal Art Auction

Fine old tribal art from Africa, Asia, Australia, Oceania and America. The Nias collection of Dr. Heinrich Sundermann (1849-1919). Anton Handl in Cameroon. Significant works of art from the Cameroon Grassfields.

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Highlights

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Lot 7: Male ancestor figure "siraha salawa", around 1900
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Lot 9: Female ancestor figure "adu zatua"
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Lot 38: Guardian statue "pagar"
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Lot 82: Figural suspension hook, before 1934
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Lot 99: Figure of a deity
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Lot 131: Female figure
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Lot 132: Standing female figure
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Lot 143: Zoomorphic helmet mask
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Lot 165: Portrait mask "ndoma" of the "mblo" group
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Lot 166: Portrait mask "ndoma" of the "mblo" group
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Lot 200: Standing male figure
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Lot 268: Maiden spirit face mask "agbogho mmwo"
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Lot 336: Beautiful old mask of leader "kam"
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Lot 344: Royal memorial figure "lefem"
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Lot 345: Royal memorial figure "lefem"
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Lot 348: Anthropomorphic face mask
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Lot 349: Rare figural object of highly abstract form
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Lot 354: Reliquary guardian figure "mbulu-ngulu" ("spirit of a deceased")
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Lot 392: Standing male ancestor figure "singiti"
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Lot 396: Small standing figure
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Lot 421: Large round mask "kifwebe"
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Lot 422: Anthropo/zoomorphic mask
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Lot 423: Caryatid stool "kihona"
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Lot 425: Neckrest "musamo"
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Lot 461: Power figure "nkisi" against small pox
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Lot 512: Pair of figures

83rd Tribal Art Auction

Lot 519 : Trumpet
Tanzania, Nyamwezi/Sangu
Manfred Zirngibl, Passau, Germany (1950's)
not available anymore
Lot 520 : Two lidded baskets
Tanzania, Nyamwezi, Haya
sold EUR 450
Lot 521 : Title staff
Tanzania, Sandawe
Michel van den Dries, Gavere, Belgium Oskar Schimmer, Erlangen, Germany (1994)
sold EUR 500
Lot 522 : Fertility doll "mwana hiti"
Tanzania, Zaramo
Karl-Ferdinand Schädler, Munich, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 523 : Fetility doll "mwana hiti"
Tanzania, Zaramo
sold EUR 180
Lot 524 : Top of a dignitary staff
Malawi/Mozamibque, possibly Yao
not available anymore
Lot 525 : Face mask "pwevo"
Sambia, Luvale
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany Bernd Schlimper, Düsseldorf, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 526 : Mask
Zambia, Luchazi
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 527 : Anthropomorphic mask
Malawi / Zambia / Mozambique, Maravi - Chewa
Yves Créhalet, Paris, France Rive Gauche, Paris, 18 November 2013, lot 125
not available anymore
Lot 528 : Beautiful small head sculpture
Mozambique/Tanzania, Mueada Plateau, Makonde
Frits van den Berghe, Ghent, Belgium (1883-1939) Gilbert Périer, Brussels, Belgium Pierre Langlois, Paris, France
sold EUR 6,500
Lot 529 : Monkey mask
Mozambique, Makua
sold EUR 2,600
Lot 530 : Two straw mats
Southeast Africa, Swahili Coast
not available anymore
Lot 531 : Large round lidded basket
Southeast Africa, Swahili Coast
not available anymore
Lot 532 : Exceptional double neck rest
South Africa, Tsonga
collected by an english servicemen in the time between the two World Wars (ca.1918-1939)
not available anymore
Lot 533 : Axe
South Africa, Zulu
André Schoeller, Paris, France
not available anymore