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
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Lot 45: Colima Dog, ca. 200 BC - 300 AD
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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
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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 252 : Pair of figures "bateba phuwe"
Burkina Faso, Lobi
Ilia Malichin, Baden-Baden, Germany · Lempertz, Brussels, Belgium, 11 June 2011, lot 13 · German Private Collection, Gaggenau
Sold EUR 800
Lot 253 : Standing female figure "bateba phuwe"
Burkina Faso, Lobi
Sotheby’s, Paris, France, 8 June 2007, lot 46
Price
EUR 3,000

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 254 : Standing female figure "bateba ti puo"
Burkina Faso, Lobi
Ilia Malichin, Baden-Baden, Germany · German Private Colelction, Gaggenau
Sold EUR 500
Lot 255 : Antelope dance crest "zazaigo"
Burkina Faso, Mossi
René David, Zurich, Switzerland · Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, Germany, 8 September 2012, lot 232 · Lore Huber, Sinsheim, Germany
Sold EUR 500
Lot 256 : Female face mask "kplekple bla" of the "goli" group
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
American Museum Collection, Inventory no. “73.31.4” (decassionated)
Sold EUR 1,000
Lot 257 : Standing female figure "blolo bla"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Charles Wentinck, Saumane, France · Franz Armin Morat, Freiburg, Germany · Morat-Institut für Kunst-und Kunstwissenschaft, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany · Adrian Schlag, Brussels, Belgium
Price
EUR 5,000

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 258 : Standing female figure "blolo bla"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
German Private Collection
Price
EUR 3,000

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 259 : Standing male figure "blolo bian"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Pace Gallery, New York, USA
Price
EUR 5,000

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 260 : Standing male figure "blolo bian"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, Germany, 21 May 1980, lot 106 · Frank Lankoff, Achern, Germany · Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, Germany, 25 February 2006, lot 99 · Werner Zintl, Worms, Germany
Price
EUR 800

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 261 : Pendant in the shape of a miniature mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Akan, Baule
Price
EUR 500

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 262 : Pendant in the shape of a miniature mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Akan, Baule
Roger Budin, Geneva, Switzerland · Jean-Louis Picard, Paris, France, 8 October 1991, lot 134
Sold EUR 800
Lot 263 : Head pendant "ngblo" or "sran tre"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
German Private Collection
Sold EUR 6,100
Lot 264 : Anthropomorphic face mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Bété
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland
Price
EUR 3,000

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 265 : Miniature mask "ma go"
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan / Mano
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland · Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, Germany, 5 November 2016, lot 198
Sold EUR 750
Lot 266 : Big ceremonial spoon "wunkirmian" or "wakemia"
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland
Price
EUR 800

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 267 : Anthropomorphic face mask with horns
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
American Private Collection · Constance McCormick Fearing (1926-2022), Montecito/Santa Barbara, USA
Sold EUR 1,400
Lot 268 : Horn mask of the "dye" mask ensemble
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
American Private Collection
Price
EUR 2,000

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 269 : Mask "gu"
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
Ute & Ottfried Schröder, Hamburg / Karlsruhe, Germany
Price
EUR 3,500

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 270 : Anthropozoomorphic mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Ngere
Ed Smit, The Hague, The Netherlands · Srdjan Sremac, The Hague, The Netherlands · Jack Nelis, The Hague, The Netherlands
Price
EUR 1,000

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 271 : Staff "tefalipitya"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
German Private Collection · Adrian Schlag, Brussels, Belgium
Sold EUR 1,000
Lot 272 : Pair of figures "tugubele"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Samir Borro, Brussels, Belgium · French Private Collection, Paris
Sold EUR 3,500
Lot 273 : Standing male figure "doogélé"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland · Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, Germany, 30 November 2013, lot 293
Sold EUR 5,000
Lot 274 : Anthropomorphic face mask "kpelié" ("kpeli yehe")
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland (1970s) · Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 22 March 2014, lot 211
Price
EUR 3,500

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 275 : Rare board-shaped headdress "kworo" or "kwonro"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, Germany (1964)
Sold EUR 1,600
Lot 276 : Zoomorphic helmet mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, Germany, 26 June 1999, lot 265 · Werner Zintl, Worms, Germany
Sold EUR 950
Lot 277 : Anthropozoomorphic face mask, ca. 1890–1920
Côte d'Ivoire, Wé-Guéré (Ngere) / Wobé
Gaston de Havenon (1904-1993), New York, USA · Victor J. Schenk, Baltimore, USA · Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, Germany, 2 June 2012, lot 312 · Fernandez Leventhal Gallery, New York, USA · North German Private Collection (2013)
Price
EUR 2,500

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 278 : Anthropomorphic head "gle"
Côte d'Ivoire, Wè-Guéré
Thomas L. McNemar, Lexington, Virginia, USA
Sold EUR 750
Lot 279 : Beautiful face mask "tu bodu" (buffalo)
Côte d'Ivoire, Yaure
Bohumil Théophile Holas (1909-1978), Abidjan, Ivory Coast · Emil Storrer (1917-1989), Zurich, Switzerland
Sold EUR 3,000
Lot 280 : Decorative disc with face
Ghana, Akan / Côte d'Ivoire, Baule / Lagoon people
German Private Collection
Sold EUR 1,800
Lot 281 : Crescent moon with face
Ghana, Akan
German Private Collection
Sold EUR 2,000
Lot 282 : Face-shaped pendant
Ghana, Akan
German Private Collection
Sold EUR 800
Lot 283 : Ornamental pendant with floral motif
Ghana, Akan
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, Germany, 16 November 2019, lot 157 · Lempertz, Brussels, Belgium, 10 May 2023, lot 76 (part of convolute) · German Private Collection
Sold EUR 1,500
Lot 284 : Crescent-shaped ornament
Ghana, Akan
German Private Collection
Sold EUR 650
Lot 285 : Beautiful old comb "duafe"
Ghana, Akan, Ashanti
Bernd Muhlack, Kiel, Germany · Johannes & Ursula Kaddatz, Hamburg, Germany
Sold EUR 400
Lot 286 : Goldweight: seated couple
Ghana, Ashanti
Belgian Private Collection
Sold EUR 800
Lot 287 : Goldweight: antelope with birds
Ghana, Ashanti
Belgian Private Collection
Sold EUR 600
Lot 288 : Fertility doll "akua ba"
Ghana, Ashanti
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland · Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, Germany, 28 May 2026, lot 221
Price
EUR 600

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 289 : Spoon
Ghana, Fante
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium
Sold EUR 5,700
Lot 290 : Colon figure of an Askari
Togo, Ewe
American Private Collection
Price
EUR 1,200

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 291 : Shrine figure "sakap tchitcherik" (pl. "tchitcheri")
Togo, Moba
Luc Huysveld & Ann de Pauw, Antwerp, Belgium
Sold EUR 1,900
Lot 292 : Shrine figure "sakap tchitcherik" (pl. "tchitcheri")
Togo, Moba
Luc Huysveld & Ann de Pauw, Antwerp, Belgium
Sold EUR 850
Lot 293 : Snake
Benin, Fon
Belgian Private Collection
Sold EUR 1,300
Lot 294 : Memorial head
Nigeria, Rio Galma
Franco Rimoldi, Darmstadt, Germany
Price
EUR 800

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 295 : Crest mask "ekpeshi"
Nigeria, Afo
Manfred Schäfer, Ulm, Germany
Price
EUR 600

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 296 : "Die Altertümer von Benin"
Felix von Luschan
Emil Preetorius (1883-1973), Munich, Germany (a) · Hans Heinrich Josef Meyer (1858-1929), Leipzig, Germany (a&b) · By descent through the family (a&b) Emil Preetorius was a German illustrator, graphic artist, book designer, and art collector. He is also regarded as one of the most important stage designers of the first half of the 20th century.
Sold EUR 6,500
Lot 298 : Memorial head
Nigeria, Benin
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland
Price
EUR 1,500

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 299 : Standing male figure
Nigeria, Benin
Belgian Private Collection
Sold EUR 2,000
Lot 300 : Rare anthropomorphic helmet mask "okpatonu"
Nigeria, Benue, Alago (Idoma Nokwu)
Rolf Kunitsch, Münster, Germany
Sold EUR 800
Lot 301 : Anthropozoomorphic face mask "idiok ekpo"
Nigeria, Ibibio
Richard Faletti, Chicago, USA (1997) - donation to The Art Institute of Chicago, USA, in 2006 (Inv.12006.112) · Christie’s, Paris, France, 19 June 2013, lot 65 · Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, Germany, 26 March 2022, lot 202
Price
EUR 3,000

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 302 : Anthropomorphic mask "idiok ekpo"
Nigeria, Ibibio
James Cox Gallery, Woodstock, USA
Price
EUR 1,000

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance