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Modern Glass and African Art
5:00 AM PT - Feb 12th, 2008

offered by
Quittenbaum Kunstauktionen GmbH

Theresienstrasse 60
Munich, D-80333
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511 Items

Lot Description Estimates
(EUR)
1132 Lot 1132

Congo, Songye. Male figure with an antelope-horn on its head. Oversized hands and feet, standing on a conical ba...

3,000
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3,400
1133

Congo, Songye. Torso of a 'nkisi' fetish. Male figure with beard and prominent belly. At top of the skull hole f...

800
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1,500
1134 Lot 1134

Congo, Songye. Male figure with bended knees, bulged out body and oversized head. Hole on top of the head for a h...

1,000
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1,200
1135 Lot 1135

Congo, Songye. Reliquiar semi figure. Wood with pangolin skin. H. 21 cm. Abrasions and cracks in the lower part...

850
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1,000
1136 Lot 1136

Congo, Songye. Very fine magical female figure. Light wood, beads, feathers, teeth. Insect bites at the base and...

1,900
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2,400
1137 Lot 1137

Congo, Songye. Fetish figure 'nkisi' with short slightly bent legs standing on a flat round base. Wood, beads, hor...

1,500
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1,700
1138 Lot 1138

Congo, Hemba / Luba. Fine caryatid stool in classical Hemba style, a woman standing upright. Wood with brown, shi...

10,000
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13,000
1139 Lot 1139

Congo, Luba / Hemba. Small male figure standing on a round base. Wood, with medium brown to dark patina. H. 16 cm....

180
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240
1140 Lot 1140

Congo, Luba / Hemba. Standing male figure with bended knees. Light wood with dark patina and remnants of redwood ...

150
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200
1141 Lot 1141

Congo, Luba / Hemba. Kneeling female ancestor figure on a round base. Grasping the pendant breasts with both han...

1,000
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1,100
1142 Lot 1142

Congo, Luba. Very fine and rare female figur with cascade hair-do. Cylindrical torso with elongated arms, and...

8,000
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16,000
1143 Lot 1143

Congo, Luba. Miniature bodymask with prominent breasts and belly button, surrounded by a tattoo. Wood with remna...

800
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1,000
1144 Lot 1144

Congo, Luba. Ring shaped oracle figure. Head elongated at the back by cascade-like hair-do. Wood with remnants of ...

470
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600
1145 Lot 1145

Congo, Luba. Sanza (african piano), wood and iron, 26 x 12 cm. Patina.

200
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220
1146 Lot 1146

Congo, Luba. Scepter, four-fold staged with a male figure. Bent arms, hands on the belly and a long neck. Metal bo...

400
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650
1147 Lot 1147

Congo, Luba. Five-fold narrowed ceremonial staff with a male figure at the top, standing on a kettle shaped vess...

400
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650
1148 Lot 1148

Kongo, Kuba. Palm wine jug. Carved wood, old shimmering patina. H. 15 cm. Figure on the handle measures 10 cm. Pro...

1,000
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1,200
8 Bids
1149 Lot 1149

Congo, Kuba, small crouching, masculine figure from the Kuba, posed with elbows touching the knees. Wood, height...

600
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700
1150 Lot 1150

Congo, Kuba. Rectal syringe, wood, H. 23.8 cm. Tiny tension tear. Provenance: Coll. Kaddatz, Hamburg. Bought in 1...

300
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350
1151 Lot 1151

Congo, Kuba. Woven Raffia-work with geometric design, three parts sewen, all 190 x 56 cm.

250
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300
11 Bids
1152 Lot 1152

Congo, Kuba. Woven Raffia- work. 74 x 60 cm.

80
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90
9 Bids
1153 Lot 1153

Congo, Kuba. Raffia-tissue with geometrical embroidery. 65 x 59 cm.

80
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90
6 Bids
1154 Lot 1154

Congo, Kuba. Woven and embroidered Raffia-work with geometric design, 58 x 52,5 cm. Provenance: Coll. Georg Stein...

300
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350
3 Bids
1155 Lot 1155

Congo, Lulua. Upright standing maternitŽ, holding a child in front of her chest. Medium brown wood with a dark pat...

3,500
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4,000
1156 Lot 1156

Congo, Lulua. Two standing fetish figures with horns. Medium brown wood. H. 14.8 cm and 17.3 cm. Abrasions.

200
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240
1 Bid
1157 Lot 1157

Congo, Pende. Palm wine jug on a round base. With a remarkable face with sacrification patterns. Brown wood with f...

1,700
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1,800
1158 Lot 1158

Congo, Pende. Oval formed mask with deformend facial plane. The nose curving to the right side, the mouth also han...

1,200
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1,800
1159 Lot 1159

Congo, Yombe. Female statue. Blond wood with remnants of light and dark pigmentation, glass beads. H. 30 cm. Tiny ...

5,000
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5,500
1160 Lot 1160

Congo, Yombe, maternity statue. Blond wood with remnants of light and dark pigmentation. H. 21.5 cm. Tiny tensio...

3,500
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4,000
1161 Lot 1161

Congo, Vili. Male magic nail fetish 'nkonde' with mirrors. Wood, iron nails, mirror, textiles. H. 38 cm. Tens...

12,000
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20,000
1 Bid
1162 Lot 1162

Congo, Suku. Chalice, used in highly ritualized ceremony, with a double-mouthed opening. It is decorated with tw...

400
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500
1163 Lot 1163

Congo, Suku, ancestor figure standing on bended legs, the arms bent at elbows with the small hands placed in front...

1,500
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1,700
1164 Lot 1164

Congo, Yaka magical figure wrapped with magical substances. Brown wood, tissue, raphia and feathers. H. 17 cm. H...

600
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650
1165 Lot 1165

Congo, Yaka. Fetish with cylindric body, arm stumps wrapped with cloth, decorated with feathers and a small antel...

200
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300
1 Bid
1166 Lot 1166

Congo, Lega, janus figurine, 'katanda'. Surrealistic conception, its body being riddled with holes. Wood with remn...

1,200
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1,800
4 Bids
1167 Lot 1167

Congo, Lega. Mask for circumcision of the 'bwami' society. Medium brown wood, remnants of kaolin-pigmentation. Tin...

200
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400
11 Bids
1168 Lot 1168

Congo, Lega. An oval mask with a domed forehead. The slightly concave face with a line of spectaculaire piercing...

1,600
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1,800
1169 Lot 1169

Congo, Lega. An egg-shaped mask with a high domed forehead. Wood, kaolin. H. 31 cm. Old repairs with raffia tissue...

1,450
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1,600
1170 Lot 1170

Congo, Lega. Egg-shaped mask with fibre beard. Light brown wood. Two pieces missing at upper and lower end. H. 21...

1,000
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1,100
1171 Lot 1171

Congo , Holo. Very rare figure of a Holo queen sitting on a stool. Wood, ironwire. H.18.5 cm. Slight abrasions....

1,400
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1,800
1172 Lot 1172

Congo, Tabwa. Male figure with bended arms and hands, hood-shaped hair-do and erected penis. Medium brown wood wit...

500
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600
1 Bid
1173 Lot 1173

Congo, Shona . Metal currency, spear-shaped elegant form, iron. H. 179 cm. Tiny chips; rather larger loss in the ...

600
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700
1174 Lot 1174

Congo. Drum, konus shaped, membran fixed with cord/skin covering, tied up closely. Goatskin, H. 30 cm, dia. 25,4 ...

150
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250
2 Bids
1175 Lot 1175

Angola, Lwalwa. Very fine Lwalwa masque, extremly abstract, with a high coiffure and a rhombic decoration. Light w...

600
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1,200
1 Bid
1176 Lot 1176

Angola, Tshokwe-Luena. Mask. Wood, meshwork, raphia. H. 24 cm. Some wooden teeth lost.

800
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900
1177 Lot 1177

Angola, Tshokwe. Reddish-brown mask with a perforated edge, holding a cap out of twines with knots and tie fasten...

900
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1,100
1178 Lot 1178

Angola, Tshokwe. A shallow mask with the traditional tattoos on the forehead. Clear wood, with remnants of white ...

300
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500
1179 Lot 1179

Angola, Tchokwe. Drum-shaped snuff box , supported by a kneeling caryatide. Wood, fine aged brown patina, beads. ...

1,700
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1,900
1180

Sambia, Rotse. Oval lidded bowl, with a bird on the cover. Wood. H. 3.5 cm, L. 23.5 cm. Abrasions, tiny tension ...

600
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700
1181 Lot 1181

Sambia ? Ceremonial stick.Human head on an abstract female body with breasts without arms. Deepened headdress run...

1,500
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1,800
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