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A 01
BAULÉ
seated maternity figure
Cote d'Ivoire
Wood
Height: 59,5cm / 23.42inch
Provenance:
Private coll. Germany
by descent through the heirs
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DAN
KONO subgroup
face mask
Cote d'Ivoire
Wood, pigments
Height: 29cm / 11.4inch
Provenance:
Pivate Dutch collection
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BAMANA
Tjiwara
Mali
Wood
Height: 51cm / 20inch
Provenance:
Justin Bartels, Maastricht, NL
Louis Nierijnck, Maastricht, NL
Hermann Sommerhage (private collection)
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SOLD
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A 04
SENUFO
"KPELIÉ" face mask
Cote d'Ivoire
copper alloy, cloth
Height: 29cm / 11.4inch
Provenance:
made by Gninigouifoloman Koné from Landigiougou (died ~1950)
collected by Karl-Heinz Krieg in 1964 in the village Landigiougou
ex German private collection (until 2024)
by descent through the heirs
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KONGO
VILI subgroup
9 Figures belonging once to a royal drum
created in the 1880ies
to compare:
two images of royal drums are shown here
one is in the coll. of the Göteborg Museum,
the other one is ex coll. Pablo Picasso
(Images ex AHDRC)
Congo Brazzaville
Wood, pigments
Height: 17,5cm - 20cm / 6.9inch - 7.9inch
Provenance:
small auction in Belgium
Galerie Didier Claes, Brussels, Belgium
GvR family collection, Brussels, Belgium
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DJENNÉ
Pendant mask
Mali
Copper alloy
Height: 4,6cm / 1.8inch
Provenance:
German private collection
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DAN
Yacouba subgroup
face mask
Cote d'Ivoire
Wood, pigments, vegetable fibre
Height: 21,5cm / 8.5inch
Provenance:
German private collection
by descent through the heirs
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EWE
fetish with two figures
Togo
Wood, shells, pigments, a.o.
encrusted patina overall
Height: 25cm / 9.84inch
Provenance:
Pivate French collection
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A 09
Yaure
face mask
Cote d'Ivoire
Wood
Height: 29cm / 11.4inch
Provenance:
Pivate German collection
by descent through the heirs
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IBIBIO
Marionette
Wheneven this IBIBIO marionette was heavily maltreated by age, by use, by insects and and least also by a knife or machete it has not lost its great and wonderful beauty.
Cote d'Ivoire
wood, pigments,
estimated age: early 20th century
height: 38cm / 15.96inch
Provenance:
Pivate collection Portugal
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SOLD




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Ila-Tonga (Shukulumbwe)
a prestige pipe bowl
Pipe bowls like this are normally reprensenting a buffalo. Other animals are extremely rare
Zambia
Terracotta, Pigments
Height: 9,5cm / 3.75inch
Length: 14cm / 5.5inch
Provenance:
Guy van Rijn Family Collection
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SOLD
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YAKA
figure from a "kholuka" face mask
Dem.Rep. of Congo
Wood, cloth, pigments
Height: 36cm / 14.17inch
Provenance:
Pivate collection
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LOBI
female figure "Bateba ti puo"
Burkina Faso
Wood
Height: 39cm / 15.35inch
Provenance:
Pivate German collection
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SOLD
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PUNU
female figure
Gabon
Wood, pigments
Height: 24cm / 9.45inch
Provenance:
Pivate Dutch collection
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LAMELLOPHONE "ilimba"
Central Tanzania
Wood, metal. 31cm x 33cm / 12.2inch x 13inch
ex German private collection
A 15
LAMELLOPHONES with two manuals are extremely rare
I found only two others in western collections
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BAULÉ
male figure "asie usu"
Cote d'Ivoire
Wood, pigments
Height: 49cm / 19.3inch
Provenance:
German collection
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PARE or ZIGUA
"mummy" fetish figure
of unusual huge size
Tanzania
dense wood, cloth, offerings
Height: 51,5cm / 20.3inch
Provenance:
Art market, Great Britain
Pivate Dutch collection
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A 17
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KUSASE
female figure
Ghana
Wood
Height: 48,5cm / 19.1inch
Provenance:
German collection
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A 19
IJO or ISOKO
standing figure on small handle
Nigeria
Wood, encrusted greyish patina
Height: 56cm / 22inch
Provenance:
Lempertz, Brussels, 25 March 1992
Private coll. Germany
Published:
AHDRC 0096029:
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A 20
LOBI
"bateba" figure
Burkina Faso
Wood
Height: 62,5cm / 24.6inch
Provenance:
Coll. Hans Bittlingmaier, Germany
Private coll. Germany
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A 21
BAMANA
female figure (staff final)
Mali
Wood, sweating patina
Height: 23,5cm / 9.25inch
Provenance:
Private coll. Germany
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A 22
CHOKWE
standing female figure
Angola
Wood
Height: 26cm / 10.24inch
Provenance:
Peter Loebarth (1941 - 2015)
Private coll. Germany
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A 23
LUBA
female half figure "kakudji"
Dem.Rep. of Congo
Wood, metal
Height: 12,3cm / 4.84inch
Provenance:
Private coll. Germany
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A 24
KWÉRÉ or DOÉ
Medicine gourd with half figure
Tanzania
Wood, calabash, fiber, glass beads
Total height: 27,5cm / 10.8inch
stopper: 19,5cm / 7.68inch
Provenance:
Private coll. Germany
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A 25
BWA
masked dancer wearing a
"nwantantay" plank mask
Cote d'Ivoire
Wood, partly sweating patina
Height: 26cm / 10.24inch
Provenance:
Karl-Heinz Krieg, Germany (1934 - 2012)
By descent through the heirs
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A 26
IGBO
"Ikenga" seated figure
Nigeria
Wood
Height: 53cm / 20.86inch
Provenance:
Private coll. Germany
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BAULÉ
face mask
Ivory Coast
Height: 31cm / 11.81 inch
Provenance:
German collection
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SOLD
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FON
chameleon
Rep. of Benin
casted Aluminium
Height: 8cm / 3.15inch
Length: 15cm / 5.9inch
Provenance:
Private coll. Germany
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A 29
DOGON
couple
Mali
Height: 44cm/45cm
17.3inch/17.7inch
Provenance:
Private collection, Belgium
Private collection, The Netherlands
Published:
AHDRC ao-0210545
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A 30
SENUFO
standing male figure
Cote d'Ivoire
Wood, restoration
Height: 19,5cm / 7.68inch
Provenance:
Private coll. France
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A 31
LOBI
Burkina Faso
standing figure
Metal (iron), fiber
Height: 30cm / 11.8 inch
Provenance:
German collection
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A 32
FON
"Bochio" whith Janus head
Republic of Benin
wood with encrusted patina, metal
height: 38,5cm / 15.15inch
Provenance:
French private collection
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EASTERN BEMBE / BUYU
fetish figure
Dem.Rep. of Congo
wood, cloth
height: 20,5cm / 8,07inch
Provenance:
Private Dutch collection
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A 33
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IGBO
face mask "okoroshi ojo"
Nigeria
wood, pigments
height: 26cm / 10,23
Provenance:
British collection
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