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 252 : Three figural amulets
Côte d'Ivoire, Kulango
Klaus-Jochen Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
Sold EUR 1,100
Lot 253 : Three figural amulets
Côte d'Ivoire, Kulango
Klaus-Jochen Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 254 : Seated figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Kulango
Klaus-Jochen Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 255 : Standing figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Kulango
Klaus-Jochen Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
Sold EUR 800
Lot 256 : Mask "koma ba"
Côte d'Ivoire, Mau
Philippe Ratton, Paris, France · Catherine Sargos, Nancy, France
Not available anymore
Lot 257 : Mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Ngere
Not available anymore
Lot 258 : Mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Guéré
Hans Himmelheber, Heidelberg, Germany (1932) · Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 259 : Rare mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo/Diula
Karl-Heinz Krieg, Neuenkirchen, Germany (collected in situ 1964) · European Private Collection · Sotheby’s, New York, 7 May 2016, lot 61
Sold EUR 7,500
Lot 260 : Mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo/Bamana
Dirk Vonck, Brussels, Belgium (1994) · Hans Reinmöller, Ratingen, Germany
Sold EUR 450
Lot 261 : Mask "kpélié"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
French Collection (1950)
Sold EUR 800
Lot 262 : Standing female figure "tugubele"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Sold EUR 800
Lot 263 : Standing female figure "tugubele"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Michael Rhodes, New York, USA
Not available anymore
Lot 264 : Sitting female figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Pierre Vérité, Paris, France
Sold EUR 3,500
Lot 265 : Small couple "tugubele"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Gabriel Viaud-Bruant, Poitiers, France (1865-1948)
Sold EUR 1,800
Lot 266 : Magical object
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Stewart J. Warkow, USA
Not available anymore
Lot 267 : Helmet mask "korobla"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Catherine Sargos, Nancy, France
Not available anymore
Lot 268 : Ring with buffalo head "nyi-kar-yi"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Belgian Private Collection
Sold EUR 1,000
Lot 269 : Pendant
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Klaus-Jochen Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
Sold EUR 1,200
Lot 270 : Standing female figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Klaus-Jochen Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 271 : Heddle pulley
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Sold EUR 650
Lot 272 : Small anthropomorphic mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Wobé
American Private Collection
Sold EUR 1,200
Lot 273 : Miniature mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Wé
Sold EUR 700
Lot 274 : Horned mask "je"
Côte d'Ivoire, Yaure
Alfons Bermel, Berlin, Germany
Sold EUR 2,000
Lot 275 : Beautiful face mask, around 1910/20
Côte d'Ivoire, Yaure
Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, Germany · Josef Wiedemann, Munich, Germany (before 1945)
Sold EUR 8,000
Lot 276 : Sword ornament
Ghana, Akan
Not available anymore
Lot 277 : Beautiful old comb, before 1872
Ghana, Akan
Doctor Wright, Great Britain, collected in situ (1872)
Sold EUR 800
Lot 278 : Goldweight: baboon
Ghana, Ashanti
Private Collection, Paris, France
Sold EUR 500
Lot 279 : Comb
Ghana, Ashanti
Not available anymore
Lot 280 : Stool
Ghana, Ashanti
Old British Collection (1960’s) · German Private Collection
Sold EUR 200
Lot 281 : Hen
Ghana, Ashanti
Sold EUR 385
Lot 282 : Mother and child figure
Ghana, Fante
J. P. Hamburg, Germany
Sold EUR 1,400
Lot 283 : Fertility doll
Ghana, Fante
German Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 284 : Standing male figure
Togo, Tchamba
Michel Gaud, Saint Tropez, France · Catherine Sargos, Nancy, France
Sold EUR 2,000
Lot 285 : Pair of twin figures "hohovi"
Benin, Ewe
Henricus Simonis, Düsseldorf, Germany · Hans Reinmöller, Ratingen, Germany (1989)
Sold EUR 275
Lot 286 : Two figures
Benin, Fon
Not available anymore
Lot 287 : Skull fetish
Benin, Fon
Sold EUR 1,050
Lot 288 : Two bracelets
Nigeria
Sold EUR 600
Lot 289 : Standing female figure
Nigeria, Basa Nge/Afo
French Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 290 : Idiophon "bird of prophecy", before 1914
Nigeria, Benin
Maine Durieu, Paris, France
Sold EUR 1,400
Lot 291 : Dance crest in shape of a human head
Nigeria, Boki
Catherine Sargos, Nancy, France
Sold EUR 1,000
Lot 293 : Anthropomorphic dance crest
Nigeria, Boki
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1872-1979)
Sold EUR 500
Lot 294 : Standing female power figure
Nigeria, Boki/Mbembe
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1972-1979)
Not available anymore
Lot 295 : Standing figure
Nigeria, Chamba
Alain Berck-Vitz, Stockholm, Sweden
Sold EUR 1,700
Lot 296 : Standing male figure
Nigeria, Cham-Mwana
Catherine Sargos, Nancy, France
Sold EUR 400
Lot 297 : Prophesy pot "chandu"
Nigeria, Cham-Mwana
Catherine Sargos, Nancy, France
Sold EUR 300
Lot 298 : Mask
Nigeria, Eket
Lore Kegel, Hamburg, Germany (collected in situ, 1956) · Heinrich Niessen, Brüggen, Germany
Sold EUR 400
Lot 299 : Standing figure
Nigeria, Eket
German Private Collection (collected in 1960)
Not available anymore
Lot 300 : Rare headcrest "ogbom"
Nigeria, Eket
Roger F. Azar, Paris, France
Sold EUR 32,500
Lot 301 : Female figure
Nigeria, Goemai
Fily Keita, Los Angeles, USA
Not available anymore
Lot 302 : Hunter's decoy headdress "burtu"
Nigeria, Hausa
Catherine Sargos, Nancy, France
Sold EUR 450