Gurunsi Peoples, rare medicine vessel and lid

A fine and rare carved wooden Kwele Medicine Mortar with stylized form and incised motifs. Kwele peoples, Gabon. This vessel was field collected in the Congo/Brazzaville by Walter Enberger, Mining Eng

This is a very rare and uncommon work of art from the Baule peoples, Ivory Coast, West Africa. The vessel, decorated with incised linear designs and fitted lid, and embellished with the image of a sea

This is a very rare old and fascinating bronze vessel from the Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. Cast bronze with a highly stylized face and some hanging accouterments, the vessel has a well worn and w

Property of Lynn University to benefit the Library Renovation Fund To be sold subject to no reserve STYLE OF MAMBILA PEOPLE REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON Herbal Medicine Vessel Terra cotta vessel with blackish

**Originally Listed At $2500** East Asia, China, Han Dynasty, 206 BCE to 220 CE. An elegant, pear shaped hu vessel, the iconographic program of this piece comes to life with two taotie masks that are

This is a very detailed and ornate carved wooden lidded vessel with a finely carved ancestor face atiop the lid of the ornate vessel. Baule peoples, Ivory Coast, West Africa. The vessel measures 34 in

A large African Mali Dogon multi-tier wood carved medicine container having three separate containers that stack atop one another. The top depicts a kneeling female figure as the lid to a basket style

Ibo Peoples, rare large bronze Ofo ritual object, Nigeria, bronze shrine vessel on four legs, cast with raised rope and spiral decoration, 10"l Provenance: Estate of Distinguished Professor Philip Gou

This is a very rare and unusual mask from the Bwa, Bobo or Gurunsi peoples of Burkina Faso, West Africa. Carved wooden male form with a long serpent decorating the top of the mask, with a classic Bwa

(3) Large African Tribal earthenware vessels, 20th c., incl. a Moroccan Berber terracotta jar, with red slip decoration, a Gurunsi People, Burkina Faso, single handle terracotta jar, with incised liza

A carved wooden stylized container with ancestor faces on the lid and sides of the vessel. Kuba peoples, DRC/ Congo, Africa. The vessel measures 13 x 5.5 x 3 inches. Provenance: Ex Dr Peter Rosen Coll

A Fine old Lobi clay vessel with raised designs and small fitted cone like lid on a globular like formed vessel. Lobi peoples, Burkina faso, West Africa. The Vessel measures 6.5 x 6 inches. Provenance

Ibo Peoples, (5) rare bronze Ofo ritual objects, Nigeria, bronze shrine vessels on three legs, cast with raised rope and spiral decoration, 7"l (largest) Provenance: Estate of Distinguished Professor

Rare ash urn lid for a cremated person who died in 1940 and was cremated in some civil cemetery crematory.On the lid it's stamped the following text: Nr. 8620 Emilie Beyer Witwe Geb. 6.3.1863 Denkwitz

Etruscan Impastoware Lidded Stamnos c.6th century BC. Size 9 1/4 inches high, 7 inches wide. A pottery footed vessel with lid, the handle with 5 rams. Rare and unique item. Provenance: Private NJ coll

A very rare old Shaman's medicine horn with a carved wooden stopper featuring a shaman riding a Singha Lion like effigy. The vessel is made from an animal horn with an ancestral face carved at the tip

Hand made terracotta clay vessel with incised designs and a wonderful fitted lif with flared handle. Lobi peoples, Burkina faso, Africa. The vessel measures 12.5 inches tall x 13 inches wide.

Decorated, bulbous-shaped gourd storage vessel, Tutsi People, Rwanda. The wide, well-balanced form tapers to a thin, curved neck then flares back out to form the vessel's mouth. A finely woven conical

A classic Hima or Bahima peoples carved wooden vessel with several native repairs and decorations in hammered metal and with original woven fiber lid. Such containers were used for carrying and the st

West African, Senufo people of the Ivory Coast, Mali, and Burkina Faso, wood covered medicine container, the lid hand-carved with a many-toothed creature, a band of animal figures encircles the vessel

Asante or Ashanti people, African (Ghana), 20th century. Two cast gilt copper alloy metal Kuduo figural vessels each with flat lid topped with figures, one with seated figure under domed and tasseled

19th C RARE Chinese Yellow jade expertly carved unto a Quadra-lobed flori form globular deep vessel, hollowed vessel, and comforting domed lid, crowned with simply bud finial. Raised on splayed foot b

A carved wooden lid to a vessel featuring a female and attendants in classic Yoruba style, painted and well worn, showing age and field use. Note the enlarged feet! Yoruba peoples, Nigeria. The lid me

This is a very rare and unusual magic fetish from the Kissi peoples of Sierra leone, West Africa. A heavily encrusted vessel with a carved stone topper in the form of an ancestor head. The vessel has