April 12, 2025

Auction 104

AFRICAN, ASIAN, OCEANIC AND PRE-COLUMBIAN ART
Pre-Columbian ceramics from the German private collections of Angela Henkel-Küsters and Klaus Kalz (part 3). Historically significant art works from Africa and the Pacific region in a Munich private collection closely connected with Ludwig Bretschneider (part 2). Exquisite South Sea clubs from the Alexander Kubetz collection plus African and Asian weapons from the Erwin Melchardt collection.

Auction: 12 April 2025 - 2 pm

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Highlights

1/5
Lot 13: Seated male figure, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BC to 250 AD
1/7
Lot 61: Small stirrup vessel with mythological creatures, Early Intermediate Period, ca. 200 BC to 400 AD
1/8
Lot 62: Stirrup vessel with killer whale and trophy heads painting, Early Intermediate Period, ca. 200 to 400 AD
Lot 63: Lentoid shaped stirrup vessel with warriors and trophy heads, Early Intermediate Period, ca. 200 to 400 AD
1/7
Lot 77: Narrow mouth vessel with mythological creatures, Early Intermediate Period, ca. 200 BC to 400 AD
1/7
Lot 84: Head vessel, Early Horizon, ca. 900 to 200 BC
1/6
Lot 85: Large anthropomorphic vessel, Early Intermediate Period / Middle Horizon, ca. 500 to 800 AD
1/6
Lot 89: Stirrup vessel with mythological mountain scene, Early Intermediate Period, ca. 400 to 600 AD
1/5
Lot 106: Osiris statuette, Ptolemaic, 3rd / 2nd century BC
1/2
Lot 115: Shield "kelebit bok" ("kliau")
1/3
Lot 121: Rare war shield "koraibi"
1/2
Lot 151: Rare painted war shield, 19th century
1/7
Lot 154: Rare "ges" mask for "malagan" ceremonies, 19th century
1/7
Lot 158: Artistic ceremonial adze
1/4
Lot 183: Rare dance shield
1/3
Lot 190: Burial mask
1/6
Lot 208: Magnificent male ancestor figure "siraha salawa"
1/7
Lot 231: Club
1/3
Lot 232: Shield
1/5
Lot 234: Male mask
1/6
Lot 241: Altar head "uhunmwun-elao" of a dignitary
1/5
Lot 245: Ancestor figure
1/5
Lot 247: Anthropomorphic figure "jagana"
1/6
Lot 252: Anthropomorphic mask "mfondo"
1/5
Lot 260: Male tomb figure
1/5
Lot 263: Standing female figure
1/6
Lot 270: Standing male figure "bateba yadawora"
1/4
Lot 273: Standing female figure
1/5
Lot 278: Zoomorphic mask of the "dye" mask ensemble
1/5
Lot 281: Unusual female figure "deble", "doogele" or "poro piibele"
1/5
Lot 285: Anthropomorphic face mask
1/4
Lot 287: Face-shaped pendant
1/3
Lot 291: Decorative disc with face
1/3
Lot 293: Pectoral disc "akrafokonmu" ("soul washers badge")
1/7
Lot 318: Figural superstructure of an "ikoro" drum
1/4
Lot 335: Power figure "njom"
1/6
Lot 339: Female face mask "okuyi" or "mukuyi"
1/6
Lot 342: Seated figure "yanda"
1/4
Lot 351: Mask "mwana pwo"
1/8
Lot 363: Caryatid stool "kipona" ("kihona") with mother figure
1/5
Lot 365: Helmet mask "chikwanga"
1/7
Lot 367: Standing male figure
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Lot 379: Mask "kidumu"

Auction 104

Lot 152 : Set of five spears
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago
Manfred Zirngibl, Passau, Germany (a, b, e) · Kurt Rauner, Salzburg, Austria (a: 2003, b: 2001, c: 2019, d: 2018, e: 2001)
Sold EUR 500
Lot 153 : Dagger with obsidian blade
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands
Geert Hendrik van de Zee, The Netherlands · Berry de Bruijn, Breda, The Netherlands · German Collection, Berlin
Sold EUR 700
Lot 154 : Rare "ges" mask for "malagan" ceremonies, 19th century
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Ireland
Frigate Captain Rudolph Brosch, Austria (coll. in situ, 1894) · Thence by descent in the Brosch family · Dorotheum, Vienna, 15 December 2020, lot 52 · Galerie Flak, Paris, France (2021)
Sold EUR 9,000
Lot 155 : Male 'malagan' figure
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Ireland
Han Coray (1880-1974), Agnuzzo-Lugano, Switzerland · Sotheby’s Amsterdam, 30 September 1987, lot 6 · Italiaander Galleries, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sold EUR 4,500
Lot 156 : Beautiful old hand drum, before 1914
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Britain - Witu Island
Paul Barschdorff, Kleinmachnow, Germany (coll. in situ, 1907-1914) · Frank Reiter, Berlin, Germany (1968) · Barschdorf worked as a teacher at the state school in Namanula near Rabaul from 1907-1914.
Sold EUR 500
Lot 157 : Long fighting staff or stabbing club "taiaha"
New Zealand, Maori
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 3,600
Lot 158 : Artistic ceremonial adze
Cook Islands - Mangaia Island
James Thomas Hooper, Arundel, Great Britain (“H.566”) · Sotheby’s London, 17 June 1991, lot 83 · Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 3,500
Lot 159 : Large ceremonial adze
Cook Islands - Mangaia
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 160 : Ceremonial adze
Cook Islands - Mangaia Island
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 161 : Ceremonial adze
Cook Islands - Mangaia Island
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 162 : Club
Fidji Islands
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 1,000
Lot 163 : Massive "dromudromu" war club
Fidji Islands
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 164 : Rootstock club "vunikau"
Fidji Islands
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 2,100
Lot 165 : Pole club "bowai"
Fidji Islands
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 1,500
Lot 166 : Club "culacula"
Fidji Islands
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 167 : War club "akau tau"
Tonga
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 7,200
Lot 168 : War club "akau tau"
Tonga
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 2,500
Lot 169 : Club "kiakavo vividrasa"
Fidji Islands
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 170 : Massive club "sali" with knob-like design
Fidji Islands
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 171 : Club "cali" or "sali"
Fidji Islands
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 172 : Massive club "totokia" ("Battle-Hammer club")
Fidji Islands
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 1,200
Lot 173 : Club "totokia" ("Battle-Hammer club")
Fidji Islands
Drouot-Richelieu, Paris, 25 November 2001, lot 44 · Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 1,000
Lot 174 : Massive club "totokia" ("Battle-Hammer club")
Fidji Islands
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 900
Lot 175 : Stone axe / hatchet / adze
Papua-Neuguinea - Massim-Gebiet
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 176 : Bird head club "porowa ra maru"
New Caledonia, Kanak
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 177 : Club "afui" or "alafolo"
Solomon Islands - Malaita
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 178 : Club
Samoa
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 1,200
Lot 179 : Throwing club "ula kobo"
Fidji Islands
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 800
Lot 180 : War club "ne'i na-hit"
Vanuatu - Malakula Island
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 181 : Rare leaf-shaped club
Vanuatu - Pentecost Island
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 2,400
Lot 182 : Anthropomorphic stone sculpture
Solomon Islands
Jean Paul Deslypere, Belsele, Belgium
Sold EUR 3,000
Lot 183 : Rare dance shield
Solomon Islands - Bougainville, Buin District, Telei
Heinrich Ahlvers, Germany · Ahlvers worked from 1890-94 as a general purser for the shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd in German Guinea. Until his internment in Australia in 1914, he ran a hotel in the former Friedrich Wilhelm harbour, now Madang, on the northern tip of Papua New Guinea.
Sold EUR 22,000
Lot 184 : Scraper / grater / rasp
Solomon Islands - Santa Cruz Islands
Melanesian Mission Museum, Great Britain · Julian & Barbara Harding, Cambridge / London, Great Britain · Romy Rey, Richmond, Surrey, Great Britain · Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, 20 September 2023, lot 1301
Not available anymore
Lot 185 : Mysterious mask with spider web fabric hanging
Vanuatu - Malakula Island
Marc Lissauer, Australia · Chris Boylan, Sydney, Australia (2018) · Randy Kahn, Tarzana, USA
Sold EUR 3,500
Lot 186 : Pole club "bowai"
Fidji Islands
Klaus-Jochen Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 187 : Anthropomorphic pendant ‘hei-tiki’
New Zealand, Maori
Private UK Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 188 : Sacred board "tjuringa" ("churinga", "tjurunga")
Australia
Old UK Collection
Sold EUR 1,300
Lot 189 : Fire-stick
Australia
Ben Hunter, London, Great Britain
Not available anymore
Lot 190 : Burial mask
Cis-Ural, Perm, Kama River, Evenki
Michael Woerner, Würzburg, Germany / Bangkok, Thailand
Not available anymore
Lot 191 : Foot cup "choron"
Siberia, Russian Federation, Republic of Sakha, Yakuts
Siberian Private Collection, Jakutsk · Russian Private Collection, Moscow · Tischenko Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Price
EUR 800

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 192 : Anthropomorphic mask
Canada, Haida
Sold EUR 2,150
Lot 193 : Kneeling female figure with bowl, Protoclassic, ca. 100 BC to 250 AD
Mexico (Western), Jalisco
German Private Collection, Munich
Sold EUR 2,600
Lot 194 : Urn vessel, Capuli Culture, ca. 800 to 1500 AD
Colombia (South) / Ecuador (North), Nariño-Carchi
Carlos Baca-Flor (1860s -1941) · Ketterer, Munich, 22 June 1987, lot 51 · German Private Collection, Munich Carlos Baca-Flor was a Peruvian painter who spent most of his life in France and the USA, where he enjoyed a high reputation as a portraitist of important personalities.
Sold EUR 500
Lot 195 : Magnificent cylindrical crown, Early Horizon, 400 to 200 BC
Peru, Chavin
German Private Collection, Munich
Sold EUR 9,000
Lot 196 : Ritual mask with hairdo and beard
East Nepal
German Private Collection, Munich
Sold EUR 1,100
Lot 197 : Pair of ritual masks ("joker")
East Nepal, Limbu
German Private Collection, Munich
Sold EUR 800
Lot 198 : Rare large opium weight
Myanmar
German Private Collection, Munich
Sold EUR 3,200
Lot 199 : Sword "mandau" (or "parang ilang") with scabbard
Indonesia - Borneo, Kalimantan, Dayak
Christie’s South Kensington, 30 June 1987, lot 171 · German Private Collection, Munich
Price
EUR 450

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 200 : Two swords "mandau" (or "parang ilang") with scabbards
Indonesia - Borneo, Kalimantan, Dayak
Christie’s South Kensington, 30 June 1987, lot 172 · German Private Collection, Munich
Sold EUR 450
Lot 201 : "Talam" offering tray, East Javanese period, 13th/14th century
Indonesia - Java
Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, Germany · German Private Collection, Munich
Price
EUR 500

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance