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 353 : Multipart bracelet
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
Catherine Sargos, Nancy, France
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 354 : Small figure "mu po"
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
Pierre Harter, Paris, France
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 355 : Small figure "mu po"
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
Jens Jahn, Munich, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 356 : Small figure "mu po"
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
Pierre Harter, Paris, France
not available anymore
Lot 357 : Small figure "mu po"
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1972-1979)
sold EUR 400
Lot 358 : Small figure "mu po"
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamum
Maria Wyss, Basel, Switzerland Tao Kerefoff, Paris, France German Collection
not available anymore
Lot 359 : Standing female figure
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamum
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1972-1979)
not available anymore
Lot 360 : Mask "ngoin", before 1914
Cameroon Grassfields, Kom/Bamum
Arno Leissring, Germany (1922)
not available anymore
Lot 361 : Two receptacles
Cameroon
Inge Arendts, Munich, Germany Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 22 March 2014, lot 529
sold EUR 200
Lot 362 : Bracelet
Cameroon
sold EUR 400
Lot 363 : Bracelet
Cameroon
Catherine Sargos, Nancy, France
not available anymore
Lot 364 : Neckring/Iron currrency
Cameroon, Kirdi/Fali
Norwood Fine Arts, Munich, Germany
sold EUR 450
Lot 365 : Iron currency
Cameroon
Norwood Fine Arts, Munich, Germany Jens Jahn, Munich, Germany
sold EUR 250
Lot 366 : Ceremonial axe
Cameroon, Kirdi
Martial Bronsin, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 367 : Ancestor figure "éyéma-o-byéri", Ngoumba Style
South Cameroon, Fang
Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg, Germany Sepp Arnemann, Hamburg, Germany (1963) Lempertz, Brussels, 31 March 2012, lot 76
sold EUR 13,000
Lot 368 : Standing male figure
Cameroon, Kaka
Arnold Bamert, Solothurn, Switzerland Christie's Paris, 7 December 2006, lot 143
sold EUR 9,000
Lot 369 : Anthropomorphic half figure
Cameroon, Kaka/Mambila/Mfumte
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1972-1979)
sold EUR 3,000
Lot 370 : Standing male ancestor figure "tadep"
Cameroon, Mambila
Philippe Ratton, Paris, France
not available anymore
Lot 371 : Standing female figure "tadep"
Cameroon, Mambila
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1972-1979)
not available anymore
Lot 372 : Standing male figure "tadep"
Cameroon, Mambila
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1972-1979)
sold EUR 400
Lot 373 : Zoomorphic mask "suaga"
Cameroon, Mambila
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1972-1979)
not available anymore
Lot 374 : Helmet mask "ngoin", 19th century
Cameroon, Tikar/Kom
German Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 375 : Dance crest
Cameroon, Wum
German Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 376 : Basket
Cameroon, Wum
collected in situ (1940) American Private Collection
Price EUR 800
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 377 : Knife
Cameroon, Wum
not available anymore
Lot 378 : Standing female power figure "nkoshi"
Gabon, Lumbo
not available anymore
Lot 379 : Maternité
Gabon, Punu
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1983-1985)
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 380 : Mourning face mask "okuyi"
Gabon, Punu
French Collection
not available anymore
Lot 381 : Ritual implement with anthropomorphic head
Gabon, Punu
Susan Lerer, Newport Beach, USA (1960's - 1970's)
not available anymore
Lot 382 : Big trumpet, before 1920
D. R. Congo, Azande
before World War I Gerard Sand, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 383 : Bracelet
D. R. Congo, Azande
sold EUR 500
Lot 384 : Bracelet
D. R. Congo, Azande
sold EUR 400
Lot 385 : Staff
D. R. Congo, Azande
not available anymore
Lot 386 : Charm figure
D. R. Congo, Bakongo
sold EUR 600
Lot 387 : Maske
D. R. Congo, Bakongo
Armand Marcel Fontaine (1895-1978) Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris, 9 November 2016, lot 151
not available anymore
Lot 388 : Rare face mask
D. R. Congo, Bangubangu
Belgian Collection (since the 1950's) Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium Fred & Jens Jahn, Munich, Germany Walter Bareiss, Salach, Germany Neumeister, Munich, 10 November 2005, lot 134
sold EUR 15,000
Lot 389 : Maske
D. R. Congo, Bembe
sold EUR 500
Lot 390 : Standing male figure
D. R. Congo, Bembe
French Collection
sold EUR 600
Lot 391 : Dance crest "echwaboka" of the "alunga" society
D. R. Congo, Bembe II - Eastern Bembe
Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium Catherine Sargos, Nancy, France
sold EUR 2,500
Lot 392 : Standing female figure
D. R. Congo, Bwaka
Frank van Craen, Brussels, Belgium Belgian Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 394 : Standing male figure
D. R. Congo, Bwende
not available anymore
Lot 396 : Two miniature mortars
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
not available anymore
Lot 397 : Three tobacco pipes and two snuff containers
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
not available anymore
Lot 398 : Scepter/staff with half figure
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
sold EUR 400
Lot 399 : Male ancestor figure "singiti"
D. R. Congo, Hemba
not available anymore
Lot 401 : Framed figure "nzambi"
D. R. Congo, Holo/Suku
not available anymore
Lot 402 : Standing male figure
D. R. Congo, Holo
Father Govaers, The White Fathers (collected ca. 1930) Lempertz, Brussels, 12 June 2015, lot 56
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 403 : Mask "matemu"
D. R. Congo, Holo
René David, Zurich, Switzerland Eduard Hess, Basel, Switzerland Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 3 March 2012, lot 214
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 404 : Miniature mask
D. R. Congo, Holo
Martial Bronsin, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 400
Lot 405 : Mask
D. R. Congo, Ituri
sold EUR 260