May 27, 2017

86th Tribal Art Auction

Volume I: The collection Walter Schmidt – classic tribal art in post-war Germany (special catalogue). Volume II: Fine old tribal art from Africa, Asia, Oceania and North America. The Berlin collection from the architect and artist Ludwig Leicher (1895-1963). Objects from the Africa collection of the artist Bernhard Jäger.

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Highlights

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Lot 1: Standing female figure "kambei"
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Lot 3: Antelope dance crest "sogi-ni-kun"
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Lot 9: Kneeling figure with snake
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Lot 10: Head sculpture "baathil"
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Lot 16: Standing male figure "asie usu" or " blolo bian"
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Lot 23: Anthropomorphic face mask "gu"
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Lot 29: Top of a figural carved staff "tefalapica" or "tefalipitya"
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Lot 31: Mask "kpélié"
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Lot 32: Anthropomorphic "tu bodu" mask from the "lo" group
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Lot 38: Standing ancestor figure
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Lot 40: Janus-faced dance wand "oshe shango"
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Lot 41: Beautiful old dance wand "oshe shango"
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Lot 53: Standing male figure
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Lot 54: Reliquary figure "mbulu" or "mwete"
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Lot 65: Small power figure "nkisi"
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Lot 74: Aged and extremely fine work of a sitting "Avalokiteshvara"
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Lot 86: Standing male figure "moai tangata"
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Lot 131: Standing female figure "kambei" or "lomba"
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Lot 134: Dance crest
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Lot 148: Standing female figure
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Lot 153: Mask
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Lot 167: Dance crest
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Lot 168: Mask with horns
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Lot 175: Standing female figure "d'mba"
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Lot 181: Standing hermaphrodite
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Lot 190: Mask
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Lot 193: Kneeling figure with lip plug
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Lot 194: Kneeling female figure
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Lot 229: Monkey mask "gban"
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Lot 230: Anthropomorphic bowl-bearing monkey figure "amwin" or "amwin ba"
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Lot 233: Seated male figure with lance
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Lot 243: Receptacle with anthropomorphic lid "kwle"
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Lot 244: Anthropomorphic mask "zakpai"
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Lot 250: Mask "gu" with coiffure from amulet pouches, before 1920
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Lot 258: Mask
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Lot 259: Rare mask
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Lot 275: Beautiful face mask, around 1910/20
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Lot 300: Rare headcrest "ogbom"
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Lot 323: Anthropomorphic dance crest, before 1905
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Lot 328: Ancestor figure
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Lot 360: Mask "ngoin", before 1914
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Lot 367: Ancestor figure "éyéma-o-byéri", Ngoumba Style
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Lot 370: Standing male ancestor figure "tadep"
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Lot 414: Seated female figure "wayinda"
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Lot 427: Caryatid stool "kihona", before 1909
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Lot 444: Female commemorative figure "efomba"
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Lot 458: Mask
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Lot 459: Power figure "nkisi"
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Lot 460: Male power figure "nkisi"
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Lot 464: Rare shield, before 1900

86th Tribal Art Auction

Lot 457 : Mask "kasangu"
D. R. Congo, Salampasu
Sold EUR 400
Lot 458 : Mask
D. R. Congo, Shi
Sold EUR 3,500
Lot 459 : Power figure "nkisi"
D. R. Congo, Songye
Sold EUR 8,000
Lot 460 : Male power figure "nkisi"
D. R. Congo, Songye
Carlo Monzino, Castagnola, Italy · Adrian Schlag, Brussels, Belgium
Not available anymore
Lot 461 : Standing male ancestor figure "nkisi"
D. R. Congo, Songye
Lucas Ratton, Paris, France
Not available anymore
Lot 462 : Power half figure "nkisi"
D. R. Congo, Songye
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1983-1985)
Not available anymore
Lot 463 : Female bowl bearer
D. R. Congo, Songye
Dirk Vonck, Brussels, Belgium (ca. 1950/60) · Hans Reinmöller, Ratingen, Germany (1994)
Sold EUR 500
Lot 464 : Rare shield, before 1900
D. R. Congo, Songe/Luba, Kabalo area
Portuguese Collection (collected in situ, before 1900) · German Private Collection
Sold EUR 42,000
Lot 465 : Mask board of the "kifwebe" society
D. R. Congo, Songye
Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium · Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 18 October 2014, lot 492
Sold EUR 1,800
Lot 466 : Wall mask "kifwebe", around 1910/20
D. R. Congo, Songye
Dirk Vonck, Brussels, Belgium · Hans Reinmöller, Ratingen, Germany (1994)
Sold EUR 1,100
Lot 467 : Mask board "kifwebe"
D. R. Congo, Songye
Dirk Vonck, Brussels, Belgium · Hans Reinmöller, Ratingen, Germany (1994)
Sold EUR 700
Lot 468 : Mask board of the "kifwebe" society
D. R. Congo, Songye
Dirk Vonck, Brussels, Belgium · Hans Reinmöller, Ratingen, Germany (1994)
Sold EUR 100
Lot 469 : Panel
D. R. Congo, Songe/Luba
Rut van Caelenbergh, Brussels, Belgium
Not available anymore
Lot 471 : Passport mask "kifwebe"
D. R. Congo, Songye
Helga Redlich, Gelsenkirchen, Germany · Hans Reinmöller, Ratingen, Germany (1991)
Sold EUR 250
Lot 473 : Five dance panels/spears
D. R. Congo, Songye
Dirk Vonck, Brussels, Belgium (a, b, c), 1994 · Hans Reinmöller, Ratingen, Germany
Sold EUR 850
Lot 474 : Dance spear
D. R. Congo, Songye
Not available anymore
Lot 475 : Small power figure
D. R. Congo, Suku
Sold EUR 400
Lot 476 : Head
D. R. Congo, Suku
Not available anymore
Lot 477 : Lamellophone "sanza"
D. R. Congo, Tabwa
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1983-1985)
Sold EUR 500
Lot 478 : Staff, before 1905
D. R. Congo, Tabwa
Hauptman Heinrich Fonck, Carlshafen Germany (1869-1933) · Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany (Inv. No. 43508) · Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, Germany · Josef Wiedemann, Munich, Germany · Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 27 June 2015, lot 491
Sold EUR 900
Lot 479 : Standing female figure
D. R. Congo, Tabwa
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1983-1985)
Not available anymore
Lot 480 : Half figure
D. R. Congo, Tabwa
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1983-1985)
Not available anymore
Lot 481 : Crouching maternity
D. R. Congo, Tabwa
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1983-1985)
Sold EUR 850
Lot 482 : Standing male figure
D. R. Congo, Tabwa
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1983-1985)
Not available anymore
Lot 483 : Standing power figure "biteki"
D. R. Congo, Teke
Lemaire, Amsterdam, The Netherlands · German Private Collection, Berlin
Sold EUR 3,000
Lot 484 : Ritual board "n'kita"
D. R. Congo, Teke, Tsaye
French Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 485 : Male power figure "nkisi"
D. R. Congo, Tetela
David Henrion, Brussels, Belgium · Alfons Bermel, Berlin, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 486 : Figure on "stilts"
D. R. Congo, Northeastern Region
Not available anymore
Lot 487 : Quadruped
D. R. Congo, Yaka
Not available anymore
Lot 488 : Standing male figure
D. R. Congo, Yaka
Matthias L. J. Lemaire, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Not available anymore
Lot 489 : Standing power figure "phuungu"
D. R. Congo, Yaka
Not available anymore
Lot 490 : Small power figure "phuungu"
D. R. Congo, Yaka
Carl Otto Hultén, Malmö, Sweden (member of the Cobra-Group)
Sold EUR 1,500
Lot 491 : Standing figure
D. R. Congo, Yaka
Olaf Pfennig, Hannover, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 492 : Basket
D. R. Congo, Yaka
Not available anymore
Lot 493 : Female bowl bearer
D. R. Congo, Zela
Sold EUR 750
Lot 494 : Female caryatid stool
D. R. Congo, Zela
Michel Koenig, Brussels, Belgium
Sold EUR 1,500
Lot 495 : Ancestor figure with mask
Angola/Zambia, Chokwe
Halter Collection (~1960) · Serge Diakonoff, Geneva, Switzerland · Loiseau-Schmitz-Digard, St. Germain en Laye, 3 Juin 1997, lot 543 · Yves Créhalet, Paris, France
Sold EUR 2,000
Lot 496 : Doll
Angola, Mwila
Galerie Grusenmeyer, Ghent, Belgium
Sold EUR 600
Lot 497 : Two dignitary staffs with anthropomorphic head
Angola, Ovimbundu
Sold EUR 450
Lot 498 : Female half figure
Angola, Pinda
Not available anymore
Lot 499 : Standing female figure, 19th century
Madagascar, Sakalava
Manfred Sackmann, Berlin, Germany
Sold EUR 2,200
Lot 500 : Traditional wedding mat
Uganda, Ganda/Baganda
Not available anymore
Lot 501 : Shield
Kenya, Luo
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium (2011)
Sold EUR 2,500
Lot 503 : Basket with lid "agaseki"
Rwanda, Tutsi
Not available anymore
Lot 504 : Bottle
Rwanda, Tutsi
Sold EUR 1,000
Lot 505 : Two baskets with lids "agaseki"
Rwanda, Tutsi
Not available anymore
Lot 506 : Part of a fiddle, before 1920
Tanzania, Kwere
Jens Jahn, Munich, Germany · Dieter Scharf, Hamburg, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 508 : Comb
Tanzania, Nyamwesi
Alain Dufour, Saint Maur, France
Not available anymore
Lot 509 : Tobacco pipe
Tanzania, Sukuma
French Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 510 : Fertilty doll "mwana hiti"
Tanzania, Zaramo
Jens Jahn, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 400