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African Art, Design, Murano Glass
3:00 AM PT - Sep 2nd, 2008

offered by
Quittenbaum Kunstauktionen GmbH

Theresienstrasse 60
Munich, D-80333
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682 Items

Lot Description Estimates
(EUR)
1 Lot 1

Mali, Bamana. This male 'tjiwara' antelope headdress has tall bend spirally carved horns with applied metal bands, th...

9,000
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11,000
7 Bids
2 Lot 2

Mali, Bamana. This female 'tjiwara' antelope headdress with child has tall spirally carved horns and an incised head ...

6,500
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7,800
3 Bids
3 Lot 3

Mali, Bamana. Female 'tjiwara' antelope headdress, with male and female child. All three antelopes have spirally carv...

9,000
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12,000
4 Lot 4

Mali, Bamana. Antelope headdress 'tjiwara'. Slightly bend spirally carved horns and incides head with two small horns...

1,200
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1,500
1 Bid
5 Lot 5

Mali, Bamana. Superb standing female figure with slender narrow incised body, arms carved free, the hands on the lowe...

5,500
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7,000
1 Bid
6 Lot 6

Mali, Bamana. Standing female figure showing the cubistic stilt-style. Small round two-dimensional head, the eyes mar...

2,500
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3,200
7 Lot 7

Mali, Malinke. Female figure with incised crests dominating the coiffure, small nose under dominating pierced nose, i...

3,000
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3,800
8 Lot 8

Mali, Dogon. A very slim and tall female figure with the arms carved in relief placed on the abdomen. Crested coiffur...

3,500
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4,200
1 Bid
9 Lot 9

Burkina Faso, Kurumba. A very old Kurumba dance headdress. In the form of an antelope-head, made of hard wood, the pa...

8,000
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10,000
10 Lot 10

Burkina Faso, Mossi. A very old and rare Mossi mask, with a carved bird f on the forehead. Old tiny cracks on right ...

3,700
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4,400
11 Lot 11

Burkina Faso, Lobi. A standing female figure with free arms, narrow media crest, eyes below arched brows, one simply...

2,600
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3,400
5 Bids
12 Lot 12

Burkina faso, Lobi. Stele 'bateba'. Oval head, protruding lozenge eyes, small mouth, the coiffure with median crest,...

2,000
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2,500
13 Lot 13

Guinea / Liberia, Toma. Mask decorated with high coiffure and two horns protruding from the forehead. Slit eyes, lon...

2,800
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3,500
14 Lot 14

Guinea / Liberia. Toma. Ancestral mask. Almost two-dimensional with three horns, constricted in the lower part of th...

1,500
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1,900
15 Lot 15

Sierra Leone, Kissi. Nomoli, kneeling female figure with hands holding the breasts, typical big head. Carved of dark...

600
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750
16 Lot 16

Liberia, Dan mask. A vertical ridge runs from the forehead to the nose, a whitened incised band goes over the slit e...

16,000
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20,000
17 Lot 17

Liberia, Dan. Mask with protruding pierced open mouth and carved teeth, circular eyes with sheet-metal borders, comp...

4,500
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5,800
18 Lot 18

Liberia, Dan. Fine, aged mask with slotted eyes, hook-nose and accentuated cheeks. Metal protrusion in the centre of...

4,000
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5,000
19 Lot 19

Liberia, Dan. A very fine, cubistic-like mask showing the typical simplification of form of the Kaogle mask typ, wit...

1,900
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2,300
3 Bids
20 Lot 20

Liberia, Dan. Mask, the protruding snout with carved teeth and pierced jaws, the beard with applied fringe of monkey...

2,400
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3,000
21 Lot 21

Liberia, Dan / We. Mask, with pierced protruding round eyes, pierced mouth with full lips. Remnants of red, white an...

1,600
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2,000
22 Lot 22

Liberia, Bassa. Very rare and fine fetish figure. The head with the face of abstractedly presence, with sacrificatio...

6,500
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8,000
23 Lot 23

Ivory coast, Senufo/Tusia. Very rare and fine bush-cow mask, wearing to the both sides bush-cow horns, fixed with na...

3,200
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4,000
1 Bid
24 Lot 24

Ivory coast, Senufo. A pair of figures, male and female, with different hairdresses. Tip of right female ear broken ...

4,000
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4,800
12 Bids
25 Lot 25

Ivory coast, Senufo. Very fine standing female figure. Small heart-shaped face. Sacrification pattern at the cheeks....

3,000
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3,700
1 Bid
26 Lot 26

Ivory coast, Guro. Mask with long narrow face, pierced slit eyes under arched eyebrowes from the prominent forehead...

2,300
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2,900
27 Lot 27

Ivory coast, Guro. A female mask with fine incised coiffure. Sacrification pattern on the forehead, pearced slit ey...

2,400
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3,000
28 Lot 28

Ivory coast, Guro. Extremely rare and very old zoomorphic 'zamle' mask. Oval form of an elongated head, the long hor...

20,000
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24,000
29 Lot 29

Ivory Coast, Baule. A face mask, surmounted by a standing female figure with carved coiffure and extended arms holdi...

4,500
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5,500
30 Lot 30

Ivory coast, Baule. A female mask with numerous sacrification pattern in the face, very fine coiffure elaborating in...

3,500
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4,200
1 Bid
31 Lot 31

Ivory coast, Baule. Male figure, seated upon a round four leged stool on a base, the arms holding his long beard in ...

6,000
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7,200
32 Lot 32

Ivory coast, Baule. Standing female figure, with both hands covering the bosom, very fine elaborate hairdo, sacrific...

3,800
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4,400
33 Lot 33

Ivory coast, Baule. A female standing figure of dark brown wood, with numerous sacrification marks on face, neck and...

4,500
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5,500
34 Lot 34

Ivoy coast, Baule. Male sitting figure on ashanti-stool, of black dyed wood with numerous sacrification marks on fac...

6,000
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7,500
35 Lot 35

Ghana, Asante. Kente silk cloth 'adwinasa'. Very fine cloth woven in small stripes, each pattern-element has differe...

3,500
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4,500
36 Lot 36

Ghana, Abron. Extremely rare and very old zoomorphic mask. Pierced eyes under arched brows, sacrification marks betw...

3,000
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3,600
37 Lot 37

Ghana, Ashanti. This doll / fertility fetish is carved as female figure with long neck, a round flat head with high ...

1,000
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1,100
1 Bid
38 Lot 38

Ghana, Anyi. Terracotta head. Grey terra cotta with bulging slit eyes and slit mouth. The forehard has cicatrice mar...

5,000
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6,000
39 Lot 39

Nigeria, Ibo. A maji mask with three cylindrical protrusions and a blade thrusting out of the forehead. Pierced slit...

1,800
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2,200
8 Bids
40 Lot 40

Nigeria, Ibo. A fine Ibo wood belt-mask of oval form with pierced eyes an ears. Sacrification pattern on each cheek....

1,500
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1,800
41 Lot 41

Nigeria, Ibibio mask. Very fine and rare mask. The pierced open mouth with carved teeth and almond-shaped eyes. The...

8,000
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10,000
42 Lot 42

Nigeria, Ibibio. A wooden janiform head with one face dark brown, the opposite light brown coloured, each with sacri...

700
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900
43 Lot 43

Nigeria, Ibibio / Ogoni. A clapping jaw-mask. The coiffure with two carved plaits to each side, small pierced slit e...

1,800
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2,200
44 Lot 44

Nigeria, Yoruba. This bronze mask has a very hard and encrusted patina in the colours green, grey and white. The fin...

2,400
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3,000
45 Lot 45

Nigeria, Yoruba/Oyo. Male Ibedji on a base with two engraved rings, with sacrification pattern on the cheeks and for...

600
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800
46 Lot 46

Nigeria, Yoruba/Oyo. Female Ibedji, on a base with two engraved rings. Sacrification pattern on the cheeks, forehea...

600
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800
47 Lot 47

Nigeria, Yoruba. A pair of bronze figures. Two slender long figures, male and female, are mounted on a wooden base, ...

4,000
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5,000
1 Bid
48 Lot 48

Nigeria, Yoruba. Ceremonial staff, janiform. This top of a ceremonial staff has a kneeling female figure holding a b...

7,000
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9,500
49 Lot 49

Cameroon, Mambila. A trumpet in the form of a human figure with a long dress (resonance body). The eyes, typically w...

1,600
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1,900
11 Bids
50 Lot 50

Cameroon, Mambila. This standing ancestor figure has large white coloured round eyes with protruding black pupils. T...

800
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1,000
1 Bid
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