November 15, 2025

Auction 105

AFRICA, ASIA, OCEANIA
PRE-COLUMBIA AND ANTIQUITIES
The African Collection of Werner and Lotte Krause, Hamburg. Ancient American ceramics from German private collections, including the collection of A. and B. Schirmer. Works from the historic Pacific collections of Henry Erfeling and Hubert Geisler. The prehistoric stone collection of John and Marcia Friede (Part 1).

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Highlights

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Lot 8: Stone mask, Early to Middle Formative period, roughly between 1200 BC and 400 BC
1/5
Lot 45: Colima Dog, ca. 200 BC - 300 AD
1/5
Lot 57: Standing male figure, ca. 200 BC – 300 AD
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Lot 58: Seated Male and Female, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BC - 250 AD
1/5
Lot 59: Figurative Urn, ca. 300 - 800 AD
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Lot 77: Rare "Amlash" Idol, ca. 1000 BC
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Lot 78: Idol of the “Kusura–Beycesultan” type, Bronze Age, ca. 2700 – 2100 BC
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Lot 81: Ritual vessel "situla", Bronze Age, 5th - 1st century BC
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Lot 85: Large Ceremonial Halberd "candrasa", late 1st millennium BC to early 1st millennium AD
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Lot 86: Warrior figure with sword, Bronzeage, ca. 300 BC - 200 AD
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Lot 103: "Amida Buddha", Edo period (1603-1868)
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Lot 117: Unusual gold leaf mask
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Lot 119: Ancestor figure "siraha salawa"
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Lot 135: Prehistoric zoomorphic stone object, possibly a pestle
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Lot 139: Anthropomorphic stone pestle
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Lot 142: Mask "brag"
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Lot 143: Shield
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Lot 144: Male figure
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Lot 151: Helmet mask "tatanua"
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Lot 157: Head / neckrest "korwar" ("korvar")
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Lot 163: Excellent "malagan" figure, before 1899
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Lot 164: Ritual object for fertility "balum kemepe"
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Lot 181: Neck rest, 19th century
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Lot 217: Female power figure "nkisi"/ "nkishi" (pl. "mankisi" / "'mankishi")
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Lot 224: Baga snake "bansonyi" or "a-Mantsho-na-Tshol"
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Lot 269: Mask "gu"
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Lot 272: Pair of figures "tugubele"
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Lot 274: Anthropomorphic face mask "kpelié" ("kpeli yehe")
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Lot 279: Beautiful face mask "tu bodu" (buffalo)
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Lot 289: Spoon
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Lot 313: Two "opo ile" veranda posts, each shaped as a Maternité
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Lot 330: Royal mask, pre 1918
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Lot 336: Female ancestor figure
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Lot 343: Anthropomorphic face mask "pongdudu" or "kpongadomba"
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Lot 345: Seated female ancestor figure "singiti
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Lot 363: Anthropomorphic mask
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Lot 374: Power figure "nkishi" against small pox
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Lot 384: Chief figure "mwanangana"

Auction 105

Lot 151 : Helmet mask "tatanua"
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Ireland
Hubert Geisler (1863-1936), Würzburg, Germany
Sold EUR 4,500
Lot 152 : Neck and war ornament
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Southern New Britain
Hubert Geisler (1864-1936), Würzburg, Germany
Sold EUR 300
Lot 153 : Group of hair ornaments
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Ireland
Hubert Geisler (1864-1936), Würzburg, Germany
Sold EUR 250
Lot 154 : Two stone mace heads "palau" / "palao"
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Britain
Hubert Geisler (1864-1936), Würzburg, Germany
Sold EUR 600
Lot 155 : Set: bow and spears
Papu New Guinea
Hubert Geisler (1864-1936), Würzburg, Germany
Price
EUR 500

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 156 : Comb
Caroline Islands, Yap Islands
Hubert Geisler (1864-1936), Würzburg, Germany
Sold EUR 750
Lot 157 : Head / neckrest "korwar" ("korvar")
West New Guinea / West Papua (Irian Jaya) - Korvar Region
Aalderink, Amsterdam, The Netherlands · Martin Doustar, Brussels, Belgium · Lempertz, Brussels, Belgium, 31 January 2024, lot 171
Sold EUR 6,500
Lot 158 : Mixed lot bag and jewellery elements
Papua New Guinea
Heinrich Ahlvers, Germany
Sold EUR 300
Lot 159 : Helmet-shaped basketry mask "baba tagwa"
Papua New Guinea, Prince Alexander Mountains - Middle Sepik River, Abelam
Lorenz Eckert, Basel, Switzerland · Patrik Fröhlich, Zurich, Switzerland (2005)
Not available anymore
Lot 160 : War shield
Papua New Guinea - Madang Province - Simbai River, Kalam
collected by Jack Hibbert, a Missionary living and working in New Guinea in the 1960s · Belgian Private Collection
Price
EUR 1,200

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 161 : Shell apron and sash, three textile sashes
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands
Salinger, Hamburg, Germany (coll. around 1900) · German Private Collection (1970’s)
Price
EUR 800

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 162 : Comb
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands
Heinrich Ahlvers, Germany
Sold EUR 500
Lot 163 : Excellent "malagan" figure, before 1899
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Ireland
Albert Hahl (1868-1945), Bavaria, Germany · Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, Germany (1899) · Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, Germany (1959)
Sold EUR 38,000
Lot 164 : Ritual object for fertility "balum kemepe"
Western New Guinea - Central Highlands, village of Moknerkon
Thomas Michel, Stuttgart, Germany
Price
EUR 8,000

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 165 : Large food bowl
Papua New Guinea - Huon Gulf, Morobe Province, Tami Islands
Manfred Emil Georg Schwarz (1914-1980), Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 500
Lot 166 : Suspension hook "samban" or "tshambwan"
Papua New Guinea - East Sepik Province, Iatmul
Philip Goldman (1922-2012), Gallery 43, London, Great Britain · Loed van Bussel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands · Dorotheum, Vienna, Austria, 4 October 2021, lot 79
Price
EUR 4,000

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 167 : Suspension hook "samban" or "tshambwan"
Papua New Guinea - East Sepik Province - Angoram District, Iatmul
Philip Goldman (1922-2012), Gallery 43, London, Great Britain · Mia & Loed van Bussel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands · François Coppens, Brussels, Belgium · Lempertz, Brussels, Belgium, 29 January 2020, lot 260
Price
EUR 4,000

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 168 : Group of lime spatulas and bone daggers
Papua New Guinea - East Sepik Province, Iatmul
German Private Collection, Munich
Sold EUR 900
Lot 169 : Yam mask "silgu"
Papua New Guinea - Maprik
Michael Hamson, Palos Verdes, California, USA · Franco Rimoldi, Darmstadt, Germany
Price
EUR 800

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 170 : Crouching figure with disc-shaped headgear
Papua New Guinea - Massim area
UK Collection
Price
EUR 800

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 171 : Maskette
Papua New Guinea - Ramu River
French Collection
Price
EUR 2,000

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 172 : Small male figure "kandimbong"
Papua New Guinea - Ramu River
Heinrich Ahlvers, Germany
Price
EUR 600

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 174 : Figurally carved staff
Papua New Guinea - Lake Sentani
Old Colonial Collection · Srdjan Sremac, The Hague, The Netherlands
Price
EUR 500

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 175 : Spatula from a lime container
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Spanish Collection
Price
EUR 600

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 176 : Zoomorphic spoon (crocodile)
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Line & Hippoliet Verbeemen, Bonheiden, Belgium
Price
EUR 800

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 177 : Ritual object in the form of a stylized crocodile
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Heinrich Ahlvers, Germany
Price
EUR 400

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 178 : Bone dagger
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Heinrich Ahlvers, Germany
Price
EUR 450

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 179 : Hand drum "kundu"
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland
Sold EUR 1,300
Lot 180 : Unusual basketry mask
Papua New Guinea, Prince Alexander Mountains - Middle Sepik
James R. Lawson, Sydney, Australia · Guy Earl Smith, Sydney, Australia
Not available anymore
Lot 181 : Neck rest, 19th century
Papua New Guinea - Huon Gulf - Tami Islands
Rolf Kunitsch, Münster, Germany
Sold EUR 5,000
Lot 182 : Roof ridge finial of a chief’s house
New Caledonia, Kanak
Dutch Collection
Sold EUR 3,000
Lot 183 : Birdhead club "go porowa ra maru"
New Caledonia, Kanak
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland · Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, Germany, 27 Februarey 2016, lot 75
Price
EUR 1,500

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 184 : War club "afui" or "alafolo"
Solomon Islands - Malaita
German Collection, Berlin
Sold EUR 800
Lot 185 : Club "supe"
Solomon Islands - Malaita
Bonhams, Chelsea, England, 24 March 1993, lot 182 · Rolf Kunitsch, Münster, Germany · Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, Germany, 28 June 2014, lot 67
Sold EUR 800
Lot 186 : Paddle
Austral Islands
German Private Collection, Munich
Sold EUR 900
Lot 187 : Food pounder "penu" or "phou"
Caroline Islands - Truk Islands
Helmut Göring (1917-2013), Kaiserslautern, Germany
Sold EUR 2,800
Lot 188 : Shield "wunda", spear thrower "woomera" and boomerang
Australia
Albert Buderus von Carlshausen (1861-1942), Gelnhausen (Frankfurt), Germany · Bernhard Graf von Lippe, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
Sold EUR 1,700
Lot 189 : Sacred board "tjuringa" ("churinga", "tjurunga")
Australia
Michael Hamson, Palos Verdes, California, USA
Price
EUR 3,000

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 190 : Figure of a "healing" spirit
Russia - East Siberia - Lower Amur river, Nanai
Tischenko Gallery, Helsinki, Finland · Jacques Lebrat, Paris, France · Franco Rimoldi, Darmstadt, Germany
Sold EUR 1,000
Lot 191 : Doll "ittarma"
Russia - West Siberia, Khanty
Tischenko Gallery, Helsinki, Finland · Franco Rimoldi, Darmstadt, Germany
Sold EUR 520
Lot 192 : Protective spirit "kalgamu"
Russia - East Siberia - Lower Amur river, Ulchi
Tischenko Gallery, Helsinki, Finland · Franco Rimoldi, Darmstadt, Germany
Sold EUR 500
Lot 193 : Idol
Alaska, Thule Culture
Jeffrey Myers, New York, USA
Sold EUR 850
Lot 194 : Miniature figure
Canada - Alaska - Greenland, Inuit
Jeffrey Myers, New York, USA
Price
EUR 2,000

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 195 : Part of a towing handle, before 1910
Canada - Alaska - Greenland, Inuit
Paul and Mary Thiry, Seattle, USA
Price
EUR 1,500

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 196 : "Hututu" katsina doll, ca. 1940
North America, Hopi
Spanish Collection
Sold EUR 2,800
Lot 197 : Miniature "katsina" doll
North America, Hopi / Zuni
German Private Collection
Sold EUR 650
Lot 198 : Anthropomorphic trumpet
Sierra Leone, Limba
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany · Ingo Donath, Hamburg, Germany · Werner & Lotte Krause, Hamburg, Germany (1986)
Price
EUR 600

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 199 : Standing female figure
Sierra Leone, Mende
René (1920-1981) & Mercedes Lavigne, Geneva, Switzerland (1988) · Christie’s, South Kensington, England, 24 March 1988, lot 37 · Italiaander Galleries, Amsterdam, The Netherlands · Werner & Lotte Krause, Hamburg, Germany (1991)
Sold EUR 1,000
Lot 200 : Female ancestor figure "blolo bla"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Robert Jacobsen, Copenhagen, Denmark · Italiaander Galleries, Amsterdam, The Netherlands · Werner & Lotte Krause, Hamburg, Germany (1990)
Sold EUR 800
Lot 201 : Anthropozoomorphic headdress "banda" or "kumbaruba"
Guinea, Nalu (Baga)
Italiaander Galleries, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1987) · Lempertz, Brussels, Belgium, 28 April 2007, lot 25 · Werner & Lotte Krause, Hamburg, Germany
Sold EUR 3,000