Auctions

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).

Opening hours during the preview
12 until 14 November 2025
from 10 am to 5 pm (CET)
and by appointment

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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
1/6
Lot 58: Seated Male and Female, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BC - 250 AD
1/5
Lot 59: Figurative Urn, ca. 300 - 800 AD
1/5
Lot 77: Rare "Amlash" Idol, ca. 1000 BC
1/3
Lot 78: Idol of the “Kusura–Beycesultan” type, Bronze Age, ca. 2700 – 2100 BC
1/8
Lot 81: Ritual vessel "situla", Bronze Age, 5th - 1st century BC
1/3
Lot 85: Large Ceremonial Halberd "candrasa", late 1st millennium BC to early 1st millennium AD
1/6
Lot 86: Warrior figure with sword, Bronzeage, ca. 300 BC - 200 AD
1/7
Lot 103: "Amida Buddha", Edo period (1603-1868)
1/4
Lot 117: Unusual gold leaf mask
1/6
Lot 119: Ancestor figure "siraha salawa"
1/5
Lot 135: Prehistoric zoomorphic stone object, possibly a pestle
1/7
Lot 139: Anthropomorphic stone pestle
1/5
Lot 142: Mask "brag"
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Lot 143: Shield
1/6
Lot 144: Male figure
1/7
Lot 151: Helmet mask "tatanua"
1/7
Lot 157: Head / neckrest "korwar" ("korvar")
1/6
Lot 163: Excellent "malagan" figure, before 1899
1/2
Lot 164: Ritual object for fertility "balum kemepe"
1/7
Lot 181: Neck rest, 19th century
1/7
Lot 217: Female power figure "nkisi"/ "nkishi" (pl. "mankisi" / "'mankishi")
1/7
Lot 224: Baga snake "bansonyi" or "a-Mantsho-na-Tshol"
1/6
Lot 269: Mask "gu"
1/5
Lot 272: Pair of figures "tugubele"
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Lot 274: Anthropomorphic face mask "kpelié" ("kpeli yehe")
1/5
Lot 279: Beautiful face mask "tu bodu" (buffalo)
1/5
Lot 289: Spoon
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Lot 313: Two "opo ile" veranda posts, each shaped as a Maternité
1/7
Lot 330: Royal mask, pre 1918
1/5
Lot 336: Female ancestor figure
1/5
Lot 343: Anthropomorphic face mask "pongdudu" or "kpongadomba"
1/5
Lot 345: Seated female ancestor figure "singiti
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Lot 363: Anthropomorphic mask
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Lot 373: Mask "kifwebe", female type "kikashi"
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Lot 374: Power figure "nkishi" against small pox
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Lot 384: Chief figure "mwanangana"

Auction 105

November 15, 2025 2:00 pm (CET)

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