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 51 : Standing female figure
Cameroon Grassfields, Bangwa/Bamileke
Bernd Muhlack, Kiel, Germany Walter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria (ca. 1970)
sold EUR 7,500
Lot 52 : Mourning face mask "okuyi"
Gabon, Masango
Walter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria
sold EUR 4,000
Lot 53 : Standing male figure
Gabon, Tsogho
Peter Werner, Munich, Germany Walter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria
sold EUR 3,600
Lot 54 : Reliquary figure "mbulu" or "mwete"
Gabon, Kota
Samuel Dubiner, Tel Aviv, Israel Aaron Furman, New York, 1970s Christie's London, 18 March 1980, lot 315 Richard Rüegg, Zurich, Switzerland Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 2June 2012, lot 198 Walter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria
sold EUR 24,000
Lot 55 : Janiform figure "kabeja"
D. R. Congo, Hemba
Emile Deletaille, Brussels, Belgium (ca. 1972) Bernd Muhlack, Kiel, Germany Walter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria
sold EUR 6,000
Lot 56 : Standing male figure "mukuya"
D. R. Congo, Bembe
Sotheby's, London, 3 December 1984, lot 174 German Private Collection Walter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria
sold EUR 3,300
Lot 57 : Zoomorphic friction oracle "itombwa"
D. R. Congo, Kuba
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany Bernd Muhlack, Kiel, Germany Walter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 58 : Standing male figure
D. R. Congo, Lega
Peter Werner, Munich, Germany Walter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 59 : Mask "lukwakongo"
D. R. Congo, Lega
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany Bernd Muhlack, Kiel, Germany Walter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria
sold EUR 3,000
Lot 60 : Old mask "mfondo"
D. R. Congo, Lwalwa
Jo de Buck, Brussels, Belgium Alain Rime, Bouvignies, France Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 11. Juli 2009, lot 406 Walter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria
sold EUR 2,500
Lot 61 : Memory board "lukasa"
D. R. Congo, Luba
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 24 November 2012, lot 401 Walter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria
sold EUR 3,600
Lot 62 : Standing figure
D. R. Congo, Mbala
Wiesnet-Henning, Munich, Germany Walter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria (1964)
not available anymore
Lot 63 : Small standing protective figure
D. R. Congo, Lulua
Robert L. Stolper, Munich, Germany Walter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria (1963)
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 64 : Anthropomorphic amulet mask "ikoko"
D. R. Congo, Pende
Lempertz, Brussels, 26 April 2008, lot 208 Walter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 65 : Small power figure "nkisi"
D. R. Congo, Songye
Maria Wyss, Basel, Switzerland Walter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria (1966)
sold EUR 5,500
Lot 66 : Fertility doll "mwana hiti"
Tanzania, Zaramo
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany Bernd Muhlack, Kiel, Germany Walter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria
sold EUR 330
Lot 67 : Theatre mask
Indonesia - Bali/Lombok
Fritz Lang (1890-1976), Vienna/Beverly Hills, Austria/USA Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany (1932) F. Lang shaped film history, especially in the era of the last silent films and the early sound films, setting new aesthetic and technical standards. His silent films tell utopian and fantastic stories staged in an expressive gloomy atmosphere. The silent film “Metropolis” (1927) and the sound film "M" (1931) are among the milestones of German and international film history.
sold EUR 2,500
Lot 68 : Theatre mask "wayang topeng"
Indonesia - Java
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 200
Lot 69 : Theatre mask "wayang topeng"
Indonesia - Java
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 200
Lot 70 : Two knives "golok"
Indonesia - Java
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 350
Lot 71 : Shield "dhal" or "sipar"
India/ Persia
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 350
Lot 72 : Dagger "katar"
India
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 750
Lot 73 : Old mask of a snake demon
Sri Lanka
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 1,100
Lot 74 : Aged and extremely fine work of a sitting "Avalokiteshvara"
Sino-Tibetan or Nepal
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 75 : Bodhisattva "Avalokiteshvara"
Sino-Tibetan
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 13,000
Lot 76 : Crowned Buddha on lotos cup base
China
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 2,500
Lot 77 : Lucky Buddha "budai"
China
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 900
Lot 78 : Pair of figures
China
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 300
Lot 79 : Amulet necklace
Northern Japan, Ainu
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 250
Lot 80 : "Nô" theatre mask
Japan
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 800
Lot 81 : "Nô" theatre mask "tengu"
Japan
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 200
Lot 82 : "Nô" theatre mask "hannya"
Japan
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 83 : Mask of the "Kyôgen" theatre
Japan
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 900
Lot 84 : Sword "katana", Edo period
Japan and Southeast Indonesia
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 7,000
Lot 85 : Two sword guards "tsuba"
Japan
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 150
Lot 86 : Standing male figure "moai tangata"
Easter Islands
Museum Goddefroy, Hamburg, (existed from 1861 to 1885) Carl A. Pöhl, Hamburg, Germany (1883) presumably: Walter Bondy (1880-1940), Berlin, Germany Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 58,000
Lot 87 : Group of mask replicas
Africa, Japan, Papua New Guinea
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 200
Lot 88 : Two ceremonial axes
D. R. Congo, Songye
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 89 : Two knifes, 19th century
Gabon, Fang/D. R. Congo, Kusu/Songe
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 2,600
Lot 90 : Equestrian figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 2,800
Lot 91 : Standing female figure, before 1914
Philippines - Ifugao
German Private Collection
sold EUR 500
Lot 92 : Powerfigure
Indonesia - Borneo, Dayak
Fred ten Houten, Groningen, The Netherlands
not available anymore
Lot 93 : Seated figure "hampatong"
Indonesia - Borneo, Dayak
August Flick, Cologne, Germany
sold EUR 1,600
Lot 94 : Ceremonial dance mask "hudoq"
Indonesia - Borneo, Kayan or Kenyah
Thomas Schulze, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 95 : Buffalo head door
Indonesia - Sulawesi, Toraja
German Private Collection, Heidelberg
not available anymore
Lot 96 : Knife of a priest
Indonesia - Sumatra, Batak
Julius Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 97 : Amulet
Indonesia - Sumatra, Batak
Patrick Mestdagh, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 400
Lot 98 : Ceremonial lime squeezer
Indonesia - Sumatra, Batak
French Collection
not available anymore
Lot 99 : House carving: pair of "singa" heads
Indonesia - Sumatra, Toba - Batak
sold EUR 900
Lot 100 : Standing male figure
Indonesia - Sumba
French Private Collection
not available anymore