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CONDITION OF LOTS

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ILLUSTRATIONS

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ANTIQUITIES

1001

An Egyptian wood shabti New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, circa 1320 BC with a tripartite wig and crossed arms with a hoe in each hand, the body with six horizontal bands of hieroglyphs and a vertical band to the back, with remains of black and red pigment, 23cm high, on a base.

Provenance with Richard Gill, Eternal Egypt, London, 5th July 1993

£3,000­4,000

1002

An Egyptian wood boatman Middle Kingdom, circa 2030 ­ 1650 BC with painted decoration and articulated arms, 15.2cm high, on a base.

Provenance

with Richard Gill, Eternal Egypt, London, 11th February 1993.

£300­400

1002

1003

An Egyptian wood Horus falcon mount Late Period, circa 664 ­ 332 BC with remains of gesso and painted decoration, 9cm high, and an Egyptian wood Ibis head, Late Period, 8.1cm high. (2)

Provenance Falcon - Richard Gill, Eternal Egypt, 5 July 1993.

£400­600

1004

A pair of Egyptian wood uraei Ptolemaic Period, circa 334 ­ 30 BC with solar discs and polychrome decoration, pierced through the sides below the discs, 13cm high, on stands, and an Egyptian wood leaf shape mount, with chequer and dash red and black decoration, 9cm high, on a base. (3)

Provenance

Uraei - Richard Gill, Eternal Egypt, London, 22 June 1993.

£400­600

1005

An Egyptian wood head Late Period ­ Ptolemaic Period, circa 664 ­ 30 BC with the remains of the right ear and a carved right eye, the left ear with a cut­out recess, with remains of gesso and bitumen, 11cm high, on a stand.

Provenance

By repute - Richard Gill, Eternal Egypt, London.

£300­400

1005

1006

An Egyptian mummified cat

Late Period ­ Ptolemaic Period, circa 664 ­ 30 BC the body with tightly bound bandages in a herringbone design, the head with one ear and raised eyes, 31cm high.

Provenance

Inherited by the present vendor’s father (b.1928) who had inherited from his parents and grandparents.

£1,500­2,000

1007

An Egyptian sarcophagus mask

Late Period, circa 664 ­ 332 BC with painted eyes, brows and forehead arch and with four pegs, 33cm high.

Provenance London art market, early 1970s. Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 10th April 2019, lot 1988.

£200­300

1008

An Egyptian glazed composition mummy bead mask Late Period ­ Ptolemaic Period, circa 664 ­ 30 BC 16cm wide, 11.5cm, framed and glazed.

Provenance London Art Market. Gifted to the present owner in the 1980s.

£150­250

1009

1009

An Egyptian black topped pottery jar Predynastic Period, circa 4000 ­ 3200 BC of ovoid form with a flat base and rounded rim, 22cm high.

Provenance

The Old Drury, Fine Antiquities / Ethnographica, 187 Drury Lane, London, 19 Nov 1986.

£300­500

1010

An Egyptian bronze falcon­headed cista handle Late Period, circa 500 BC with detailing to the eyes and tripartite wig, 8.5cm high.

Provenance Bonhams, London, 9 December 1994, lot 242.

£500­800

1010

1011

An Egyptian faience uraeus

Ptolemaic Period, circa 332 ­ 30 BC with moulded decoration to one side, 12cm long.

Provenance

Richard Gill, Eternal Egypt, London.

£500­600

1012

Three Egyptian painted cartonnage fragments Ptolemaic Period, circa 332 ­ 30 BC one with hieroglyphs and the other two with stiff leaves or feathers, the largest 18cm x 14cm, an Egyptian alabaster cosmetic vessel, Old Kingdom, 8cm high, a smaller alabaster cosmetic vessel, 4.7cm high, a Hittite style bronze stag, 15cm high, on a marble base, a collection of Etruscan bronze fibulae, one complete, 4cm long, and the others fragmentary, with linear and dot decoration, a carved stone eagle head, with inlaid black stone and shell eyes, 16cm long, four stone circular beads, a string of cowrie shells and a pottery head fragment, probably Caribbean. (26)

Provenance

Private Collection, UK.

£200­300

1013

1014

1015

An Egyptian style pharaoh carved stone, three quarter length and wearing a tripartite wig with an uraeus ornament, the back pillar with pseudo hieroglyphs, 60cm high.

£300­400

1016

A Hellenistic terracotta Tangara figure circa 3rd century BC modelled as a woman wearing a pleated chiton and a himation, 26.5cm high.

Provenance

Private Collection, UK.

£200­300

1013

A pair of Egyptian style bronze eyes with white stone sclera and black composite irises, 7.1cm long, on a stand. (3)

£300­400

1014

Two Egyptian faience shabtis Ptolemaic Period, circa 330 ­ 30 BC the larger with a pillar back, 9.2cm and 7.6cm high, an Egyptian faience shabti torso fragment, 7cm high, and an Egyptian faience shabti, with hieroglyphs to the front, broken in four pieces, 10cm high. (7)

Provenance

Ex Frank Dalvin, London, acquired in the late 1950s / early 1960s.

£150­200

1019

A middle Eastern zebu bull pendant probably circa 1st century BC bronze, with an attachment loop behind the hump, 5.5cm long, on a perspex base, and a cast metal goat, 4.7cm long, on a stone base. (4)

Provenance Private Collection, UK.

£200­300

1017

A graduated set of Middle Eastern chalcedony beads two engraved seals, one depicting a Zebu with a crescent moon, 1.5cm wide, and the other depicting a winged sphinx, 1.7cm wide.

Provenance Private Collection, UK.

£200­300

1018

An Assyrian bronze kohl vessel circa 1st millenium BC as a standing robed woman with her left hand on her breast, 8.6cm high.

Provenance Bonhams, London, 6 December 1994, lot 169.

£200­300

1021

1018

1020

An Etruscan bronze figure circa 2nd century BC of a nude male dancer, with large ears and a conical headdress, 9cm high, on a base.

Provenance

M. Whiting Collection, Cheltenham, UK, acquired in the 1960s.

£300­400

1021

A Middle Eastern hardstone reclining animal possibly 1st / 2nd millenium BC in a green/black stone, the head with carved eyes and ears, 6cm long.

Provenance Private Collection, UK.

£150­250

1022

An Etruscan bronze hand mirror circa 3rd ­ 2nd century BC engraved the Dioskouroi, Castor and Pollux, wearing tunics, phrygain caps and laced sandals, and leaning on pillars whilst flanking two female figures, one wearing a long chiton and a peaked helmet, Minerva, and the other nude with drapery between her thighs and wearing laced sandals, with a pediment behind, framed within a guillouche border, the handle with two opposing bird heads and a deer head terminal, 28cm long.

Provenance

Private Collection, UK.

£1,500­2,500

1023

Twelve Coptic textile fragments circa 5th century AD depicting figures, animals and foliage, the largest 24cm x 13cm. (12)

£400­600

1024

Three Egyptian mosaic glass wing inlay fragments circa 1st century BC / AD with turquoise and blue feather details with red tips and yellow outlines, 15.5cm wide, mounted. (4)

Provenance

Traudi and Peter Plesch Collection (AGm 15); acquired from Christopher Sheppard, London, June 1987.

Christie’s, Antiquities, 28th April 2009, lot 84.

Christie’s, Antiquities, 2nd April 2014, lot 1.

£1,000­1,500

1025

A Roman pale green glass pine cone flask circa 2nd ­ 3rd century AD the body blown in a two part mould with rows of diamond shape scales, with a short neck and everted rim, 10cm high.

Provenance Traudi and Peter Plesch Collection (AGv 10F); acquired in Rome, August 1965.

£400­600

1026

A Roman amber glass date flask circa 1st ­ 2nd century AD mould blown with a cylindrical neck and a folded out and in rim, 7.8cm high.

Provenance Traudi and Peter Plesch Collection (AGv 7.8); Original index card mislaid. Christie’s, London, Antiquities, 2 April 2014, lot 15.

£400­600

1027

A Byzantine pale green glass hexagonal jug circa 6th ­ 7th century AD mould­blown with the panels decorated as pairs, with lattice, circle within lozenge and palm frond designs, with a tall neck having a flared and folded rim, the inverted J shape handle joined on the rounded shoulder and attached to the neck with a sinuous trail, the pushed up base with radial grooves and a pontil mark, 19.5cm high.

Provenance Traudi and Peter Plesch Collection (AGv 19Ah); acquired from Robin Symes, October 1991.

£600­800

1028

A Roman pale green glass sprinkler flask circa 2nd ­ 3rd century AD the pear shape body with fifteen ribbed fins in three sections including the feet, the cylindrical neck constricted at the base and a flared rim folded up and down, 11cm high.

Provenance

Traudi and Peter Plesch Collection (AGv 11A); acquired from Robert Symes, Oct. 1991

£400­600

1029

A Roman pale green glass double unguentarium circa 3rd ­ 4th century AD with two conjoined tubular phials with a spiral trail wound around both and with a pair of dolphin like applied handles, 14cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

The Dolf Schut Collection, Maastricht. Traudi and Peter Plesch Collection (AGv 14hD); acquired from Christopher Sheppard, September 1983.

Exhibited

Glass Collectors Circle Exhibition, 1987 - 88, No. 8.

£400­600

1030

A Phoenician glass head pendant Eastern Mediterranean, circa 600 ­ 200 BC the green face with inset pierced blue eyes, ringlets and a suspension loop, with a yellow head band, 2.4cm high, and a Phoenician blue glass bird head pendant, with applied eyes, a yellow spiral trail and a suspension loop, 2cm high. (2)

Provenance

Traudi and Peter Plesch Collection. head pendant (AGs 2); acquired from W Henrich, Frankfurt am Main, March 1971.

bird head pendant (AGs 2A); acquired from Dr Leo Mildenberg, Zurich, January 1973.

£600­800

1032

Three Roman glass pendants circa 4th ­ 5th century AD each stamped with a differing image and with a suspension loop above, including one pale green with Daniel and two lions, 2.6cm long, and two amber; with a walking lion having a crescent and star above, with remains of iridescence, 2.5cm long; with a lion, 2cm long, and a Roman core formed glass fragment, 4.5cm long. (4)

Provenance

Traudi and Peter Plesch Collection Daniel and two lions (AGm 2.7); acquired from Gawain McKinley, June 1974. Lion, crescent and star (AGm 2); acquired from Bernheimer, Cambridge, Mass., USA, August 1971.

Lion (AGm 2.1); acquired pre 1989. Fragment (AGm 4.8); acquired from Galerie Nefer, Zurich. cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, Ass. No. 74.51.4034 for a similar stamp of the lion, crescent and star.

£200­300

1034

A Roman marbled glass toilet bottle circa 1st century AD green with white striations and of pear shape with a cylindrical neck and a folded in rim, 12cm high.

Provenance

Private Collection, UK.

£150­250

1031

Four Egyptian udjat eye amulets Late Period, circa 664 ­ 332 BC including a two­tone openwork faience example with a turquoise glaze and black highlights to both sides, pierced, 3.1cm long; a deep cobalt faience example, pierced, 2.2cm long; a yellow glazed openwork composite example, 2cm long; a cream glazed example with a brown pupil and brow, 3.3cm long. (4)

Provenance

Traudi and Peter Plesch Collection. two-tone openwork (AGm 3.1); acquired from D T Bowring, November 1979. deep cobalt (AGm 2.3B); acquired from D T Bowring, June 1978. yellow (AGm 2C); acquired from D T Bowring, June 1978. cream (AGm 3.2A); acquired from D T Bowring, June 1978

£400­600

1033

A Roman green glass ring Mediterranean, circa 2nd ­ 3rd century AD with all­round impressed chevron decoration and the bezel applied with a white Medusa head, 2.4cm wide, size K.

Provenance

Traudi and Peter Plesch Collection (AGm 2A); acquired from Bernheimer, Cambridge, Mass., USA, August 1971

£250­350

1037

An Egyptian bronze dog with litter group Late Period / Ptolemaic Period, circa 500 ­ 30 BC reclining on her side suckling five puppies, 4.7cm wide.

Provenance

Bonhams, London, 7 December 1993, lot 392.

£800­1,200

1035

A Roman bone female doll circa 2nd ­ 3rd century AD with her centrally parted hair to a chignon at the back, pierced ears and a ringed neck with a necklace and wearing a tunic, with a red pigment and previously with arms, 16.9cm high, on a perspex base.

Provenance

London Art Market, early 1990s.

£300­500

1036

1038

16cm long.

£100­200

Provenance

Cheffins, Cambridge, June 2022.

£400­500

1036

A Roman bronze dolphin lamp circa 3rd century AD with a hinged cover and pierced for hanging, 16cm long.

A cast bronze snake possibly Roman

1035

THREE LOTS FROM THE ADOLPHE STOCLET COLLECTION

1039

A Greek Archaic style marble head of a kouros with large almond shape eyes, straight nose and pursed lips, the diced coiffure with forehead curls and bobbin side locks, with a strapped flat cap to the crown and behind each ear a bronze pin to previously take a metal band around the back of the hair in a cut­out recess, 26.5cm high, fixed in a stone block.

Provenance

Adolphe Stoclet Collection, Brussels, 1871-1949.

£800­1,200

1039

1040

Two Mexican spindle whorls circa 10th ­ 16th century AD pottery, the larger with carved decoration depicting a mythical beast, a feathered snake and a crouching figure with a long scroll end beak/tongue, the base with a hand written label Stoclet, 26.5cm diameter and the smaller divided with two interlaced wings, 3.5cm diameter. (2)

Provenance

Adolphe Stoclet Collection, Brussels, 1871-1949.

£300­500

1040

1041

A Mexican mask aventurine, in Olmec style with recessed eyes and an open mouth, the back with suspension holes, 15.5cm high.

Provenance

Adolphe Stoclet Collection, 1871 - 1949.

In Palais Stoclet, Brussels in 1913.

Published

Georges A Salles and Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Adolphe Stoclet Collection (part I), Brussels, 1956, pp.494 - 495.

£2,000­3,000

THE AMERICAS & INUIT

1042

An Inca Chucu stone tablet

Peru, circa 900 ­ 1400 AD decorated figures, animals and dots, divided by a vertical wavy line in red, yellow and white pigment, 69.5cm high, 66cm wide, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Robert Morris, Santa Fe, USA

£3,000­5,000

1043

A Taino duho

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­1500 AD lignum vitae, carved as a zemi with recessed eyes and bared teeth, above scroll designs and with the hands to the back edge of the seat, the front with genitals and on front legs and feet and with oblong block legs to the back, 50.5cm long, 14cm high.

£600­800

1044

A Taino pestle

Greater Antilles, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD stone, with a carved crouching zemi figure finial, 17cm high.

Provenance

Kingham & Orme, Worcestershire, 16 March 2018, lot 696.

£400­600

1045

A Taino axe

Greater Antilles, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD stone, carved a zoomorphic creature with large round eyes, wings and talons, 25cm high.

£300­400

1046

A Taino style hand axe stone, carved as a zemi half figure, 25cm high.

Provenance

Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 20th February 2019, lot 1027.

£300­500

1047

A Nicoya mace head Guanacaste, Costa Rica, circa 100 ­ 500 AD stone, carved as a parrot, 4.5cm long, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Seward Kennedy, London. Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art & Antiquities, 1 March 2017, lot 96 part.

£300­500

1043

1044

1045

1046

1047

1048

A Xochipala manopla

Guerrero, Mexico, circa 900 ­ 600 BC

speckled green stone, of padlock shape with a large ring handle to a carved surface of rows of spherical bosses, 20cm high, 20cm wide and 16cm deep.

Provenance

Alberto Ulrich, Milan.

Fine Arts of Ancient Lands, New York, Miami. Felix and Heidi Stoll Collection, Basel.

Christie’s, Paris, Collection Felix and Heidi Stoll, 9 April 2019, lot 80.

Exhibited and Published

Mexique, Terre des Dieux: Tresors de l’art precolombien, 8 October 1998 - 24 January 1999, Musee Rath, Geneva, p.41, pl.29.

This heavy handstone (manopla) has been considered as part of the ballgame equipment. The Mesoamerican ballgame was played over a period of three thousand years from the southern United States all the way to Nicaragua. There were many regional variations of the game. These included the rubber ball being deflected off the hips with no use of the hands, and others used sticks, bats and handstones, such as this. The manopla would have been held by the ballplayer to hit the ball and keep it in motion. They have been found along with other ballgame paraphernalia: yokes, hachas and palmas.

£8,000­12,000

1049

1049

A Chancay figural vessel Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1400 AD pottery, modelled with a face to the neck and low relief limbs to the body, holding a stem cup and with slip decoration, 35cm high, with a stand. (2)

£150­250

1050

A Kuna standing figure San Blas Islands, Panama wearing a cap and a jacket with painted decoration, 25cm high, on a metal base.

£150­250

1050

1051

A Moche stirrup spout vessel Peru

pottery, painted two mythical creatures with long necks and tails, 28.5cm high,

a Moche pottery figural stirrup spout vessel, 19cm high, and two Chimu blackware vessels, 24cm and 15cm high. (4)

£300­400

1052

A Mesa Verde kiva jar

Southwest North America pottery, of compressed ovoid form having a lip inside the rim, with black on white geometric decoration, 20cm high, and a Mesa Verde pottery olla, with a pair of side handles and with black geometric decoration, 26.5cm high. (2)

£300­400

1053

Three greenstone beads the sides with a carved scroll terminal symbol, 2.1cm long. (3)

£200­300

1054

Emmanuel Maldonado

San Juan de Oriente, Nicaragua

pottery, an ovoid double spouted vessel, with a relief reptile either side, with a mottled and plain glaze, the underside signed San Juan de Oriente. Masaya. Nica. Emmanuel Maldonado., 39cm long.

£200­300

1055

An Inca Chucu stone tablet Peru, circa 900 ­ 1400 AD decorated concentric lines above vertical lines in yellow, white and red pigment, 79cm high, 49cm wide, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Robert Morris, Santa Fe, USA.

£3,000­5,000

1056

1056

A Taino figural amulet

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD stone, carved standing with hands on abdomen and the face with clenched teeth and lines running down from the eyes, the shoulders pierced for attachment, 5cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

David Bernstein, New York.

£300­500

1057

A Taino anthropomorphic amulet

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD stone, with a frog like body and a protruding head with a melancholic expression, the sides and back drilled for attachment, 3.5cm long, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

David Bernstein, New York.

£400­600

1058

A Taino figural amulet

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD stone, carved with rectangular ears and clenched teeth and with hands on the knees, pierced through the sides and back for attachment, 6cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

David Bernstein, New York.

£300­500

1059

A Taino figural amulet

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD red/white stone, carved kneeling with a wide mouth, recessed eye sockets and notched ears, the back of the neck pierced for attachment, 4cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

David Bernstein, New York.

£300­500

1057

1059

1060

Two Taino amulets

Dominican Republic, circa 1100 ­ 1500 AD shell, one carved as a skeletal head with deep eyes sockets, a ribbed neck and wide ears, drilled either side for attachment, 3.5cm high, and the other carved on both sides as a bird with bared teeth, 3cm high, mounted together. (3)

Provenance

David Bernstein, New York.

£300­500

1062

A Taino figural amulet

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1400 AD shell, carved as a head with clenched teeth, recessed eye sockets and headband, with a long body and feet, the side drilled for attachment, 2.1cm high.

Provenance

David Bernstein, New York.

£300­400

1061

Two Taino figural amulets

Caribbean, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD stone, one kneeling with clenched teeth and horizontal tear drop shape eyes, drilled through the neck for attachment, 4.3cm high and a crouching figure, drilled through the ears for attachment, 6cm high. (2)

£200­300

1063

A Taino leafnose bat amulet

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1300 AD

stone, carved with clenched teeth, an upturned nose, recessed eye sockets and conical ears, the top pierced for attachment, 3.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

David Bernstein, New York.

£400­600

1064

1064

A Taino pestle

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD stone, the handle carved a leaning zemi figure, 15.5cm high.

Provenance

David Bernstein, New York.

£1,500­2,000

1065

A Taino pestle

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD stone, with a carved bird head and a frog head, to an oval base, 18.4cm high.

£1,500­2,000

1065

1066

A Taino pestle

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD stone, carved a crouching zemi figure, tapering to an oval base, 17cm high.

Provenance

Loudmer, Paris, Art Precolombien, 18 Mar 1995, lot 189.

£1,500­2,000

1067

A Taino ritual vomit spatula

Great Antilles, circa 1000 ­ 1400 AD

curved and carved a skeletal tree frog with enlongated forelimbs and a carved panel infront and behind, 27cm long.

Provenance

Bonhams, London, Tribal & Pre-Columbian Art, 3 June 1998, lot 258.

£600­800

1068

1068

A Taino ritual vomit spatula

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1400 AD

bone, curved and carved a crouching Zemi figure, with skeletal features including deep recessed eyes, on a stylised zoomorphic head with bat­like ears and a geometric band, with four sets of suspension holes, 25.7cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

David Bernstein, New York.

£2,000­3,000

1069

A Taino ritual vomit stick

Greater Antilles, circa 1000 ­ 1400 AD

curved and carved a skeletal crouching lizard and a geometric panel, 30cm long.

Provenance

Bonhams, London, Tribal & Pre-Columbian Art, 9 December 1997, lot 317.

£600­800

1069

1070

A Taino trigonolith

Caribbean, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD

stone, with a carved zemi head to the front with deep recessed eyes and a wide open mouth with teeth, the centre point missing and with incised spiral decoration, the back with incised legs, with a concave underside, 24.2cm long.

Provenance

Robert Sharrer, New York.

£1,000­1,500

1071

A Taino trigonolith

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD red and white mottled stone, carved a crouching zemi figure with recessed eyes, wide open mouth, headband and bent legs, the swollen central point with a curved tip, the underside concave, 16.5cm high.

£4,000­6,000

1072

Four Taino amulets

Caribbean, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD stone, two as crouching figures, 3.9cm and 3.2cm high, a bust 3.4cm and a crouching animal, with collection number 605, 3.7cm high, all drilled for attachment. (4)

Provenance

Greg Manning Galleries, USA.

£250­350

1073

Two Taino mask amulets Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD shell, 3.3cm and 1.8cm high. (2)

Provenance

David Bernstein, New York.

£300­500

1074

A Taino amulet

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD clam, carved depicting a crouching deity wearing a headdress, pierced through the neck for attachment, 10.8cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

David Bernstein, New York.

£800­1,200

1075

A Taino figural amulet

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD black stone, carved as a standing figure with hands on abdomen and pierced through the neck for attachment, 7.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

£300­400

1076

A Taino figural amulet

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD bone, carved as a curved standing male, with a crested headdress and carved triangle decoration to the arms, 11.1cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

David Bernstein, New York.

£600­800

1077

A Taino shell pendant

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD carved a zemi head with large eyes, clenched teeth and protruding ears, the angled shaft with a drilled hole, with traces of cinnabar, 5cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

David Bernstein, New York.

£800­1,200

1077

1078

A Taino ceremonial stool duho

Santo Domingo, circa 1100 ­ 1400 AD

carved as a male zemi standing of four legs, the head with deep round eyes and wide open mouth with a headband, the front legs and back panel with stylised linear decoration, the underside with relief genitalia, 22cm high, 30cm deep.

Provenance

Bonhams, London, Tribal Art, 9 December 1992, lot 6.

A letter from Dr Frederick J. Dockstader, dated Sept. 8, 1992, accompanies this lot. Used by important figures of the Taino as portable thrones, many have been discovered in caves, ritually deposited there by the owners or their descendants.

£10,000­15,000

1079

A Taino pestle

Caribbean, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD stone, with a rounded oval base and curved tapering handle, 16.5cm high.

£400­600

1081

A Taino trigonolith

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1300 AD

stone, the central point with three drilled holes each side and with rounded end points and a concave underside, 8.8cm high.

Provenance

David Bernstein, New York.

£1,500­2,000

1080

A Taino trigonolite

Caribbean, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD stone, the central tapered column with a rounded end and with an oval depression to one side and with a concave underside, 32cm high.

Provenance

Robert Sharrer, New York.

£1,000­1,500

1082

A Taino trigonolith

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD stone, with a carved mask to the central point of recessed eyes and a wide mouth, with side motifs and a slight concave to the underside, 10.6cm high.

Provenance

David Bernstein, New York.

£800­1,200

1083

A Taino grating stone

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD of triangular form with serrated edges, 29cm x 26cm, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

David Bernstein, New York.

£500­600

1085

A Taino mortar

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD stone, carved as a stylised bird with a central recess, 22.5cm long.

Provenance

Loudmer, Paris, Art Precolombien, 18 Mar 1995, lot 188.

£1,200­1,500

1084

A Taino axe head Caribbean, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD stone, with a ridge around the base of the handle, 30cm long.

Provenance

David Bernstein, New York.

£400­600

1086

A Taino mask

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD stone, with a raised forehead ridge, sunken eyes and bared teeth, 10cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

David Bernstein, New York.

£2,000­3,000

1087

Two Taino axe blades

Caribbean stone, with collection numbers A743 and 2342, 24.5cm and 17cm long. (2)

Provenance

Lord McAlpine of West Green.

Sotheby’s, London, A Cabinet of Curiosities: the Property of The Lord McAlpine of West Green, 17 February 1994, lot 390.

£400­600

1089

An Aztec skull necklace

Mexico, circa 1200 ­ 1400 AD shell, the fourteen carved skull beads drilled through the sides and backs for attachment, with shell spacers, each skull approximately 3.4cm high.

Provenance

Arte Primitivo - Howard S. Rose Gallery, New York.

£1,500­2,000

1088

Three Taino axe blades

Caribbean stone, with collection numbers A745, A746, A747, 19cm, 21cm and 21.2cm long. (3)

Provenance

Lord McAlpine of West Green.

Sotheby’s, London, A Cabinet of Curiosities: the Property of The Lord McAlpine of West Green, 17 February 1994, lot 362.

£400­600

1090

Twenty one Taino axe blades

Caribbean, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD stone, 6.6cm ­ 17.7cm long. (21)

Provenance

Harmer Johnson Books, New York, 27 October 1995.

£400­600

1091

A Taino circular bowl

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1400 AD pottery, the rim with incised linear decoration and two applied zemi busts, 20.3cm across the busts.

Provenance

David Bernstein, New York.

£800­1,200

1092

A Taino globular bowl

Dominican Republic, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD pottery, with a relief head to one side and with incised linear decoration to the rim, 8.5cm high.

Provenance

Harmer Rooke Galleries, New York.

£300­400

1091 1093

1092

1093

A collection of Taino pottery heads

Dominican Republic fragments from vessels, some with pigment decoration.

£200­300

1094

A Taino mortar

Dominican Republic stone, on four feet with a relief zemi figure, a frog and a bar handle, 7cm high.

Provenance

Bonhams, London, Tribal Art, 9 December 1997, lot 318.

£1,500­2,000

1095

A Chinesco seated figure Mexico, circa 100 BC ­ 250 AD pottery with red and black glazed decoration, 16,5cm high, a Nayarit standing pottery figure, 17.5cm high, a Jama Coaque pottery male figure, 15cm high and a Jama Coaque pottery minature amulet figure, 7.5cm high. (4)

£200­300

1096

A Taino zemi head

Caribbean, circa 1200 ­ 1500 AD stone, with large sunken eyes and a wide open mouth, 18cm high, two Taino stone figures, Caribbean, circa 1200 ­ 1500 AD, 16.5cm and 18.5cm high, a Taino pottery manatee bowl, 16cm long, and a Taino fish bone necklace, circa 1100 AD. (5)

Provenance

Head, figures and bowl - Bonhams, London, PreColumbian & Tribal Art, 8 April 1997, lots 142, 143, 144, 145.

Necklace - Howard Nowes, New York.

£500­600

1097

A collection of Taino pottery heads Dominican Republic fragments from vessels, some with pigment decoration.

£200­300

1097

1098

An Ojibwa bandolier bag

Northeast North America

coloured glass beads, cotton, cloth and velveteen, with geometric and floral designs, with wool tassel tags, 98cm long, an Iroquois Glengarry hat, cloth and coloured glass beads, and a pair of Iroquois moccasins, hide, cloth and coloured glass beads, 26cm long. (4)

£300­400

1100

Five North American beadwork fragments coloured glass beads on buckskin and velvet, a horn scoop, three Sioux metal arrow heads, and a copper bowl with abstract relief designs to the interior, 11cm wide. (10)

£150­200

1102

A Strickland & Co canoe Lakefield, Ontario, Canada

cedar, with a brass makers plaque to one side, 488cm long, 84cm wide.

Provenance

By repute - The Hoare Family, Stourhead, Wiltshire.

£1,500­2,000

1099

Two Pima circular basket trays

South West North America

fibre, the smaller decorated with three birds, 24cm and 29cm diameter. (2)

£100­150

1102

1101

A North American leather and horsehair rattle 23cm long, two Iroquois spoons, the lighter with burnt decoration, a bent birchwood box and cover and a pair of cloth mounted horns, with circle and dot decoration, 22.5cm wide. (6)

£150­200

1103

Richard Sumner (1956 ­ 2003)

Kwakwaka’wakw, Victoria, Canada

Bear/Human/Eagle Transformation Box red cedar and opercula, signed with initials RJS to the underside, 38cm high, 41cm wide, 30.5cm deep.

Exhibited and published

Derek Simkins Gallery of Tribal Art, Vancouver. Transformation, A Unity of Spirits, An Exhibition of New Works by Fifteen First Nations Artists from the Pacific Northwest, November 10 - November 30, 1994.

£800­1,200

1103

1104

1104

A Northwest Coast chest Canada

cedar with a hinged cover carved totemic animals within a moulded frame, and to the sides below the sunken handles, with painted highlights, 39.5cm high, 70.5cm wide, 49.5cm deep.

£800­1,200

1105

A Haida panel British Columbia, Canada argillite, carved as a paddle steamer with four seated figures, cabins and a funnel, 19th century, 30.2cm long, 10.5cm high.

Provenance

From the family of Sir William Edward Parry, 1790 - 1855, Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer.

A Haida argillite pipe donated to the British Museum (Am1926,0313.13) in 1926 by F Sidney Parry states to have been field collected by Sir William Edward Parry. £2,000­3,000

λ 1106

An Inuit standing female figure probably Baffin Island area walrus ivory, with her hands place on her swollen abdomen, and incised with facial and body tattoos, 9.8cm high.

£2,000­3,000

1107

λ 1107

An Inuit female figure Arctic walrus ivory, modelled standing with labrets under the mouth and with bent arms with her hands on her chest, 7.7cm high, an Inuit fish hook, walrus ivory, baleen and a nail, 7.8cm long, an Inuit marine ivory wrist guard fragment, 9cm long and a Nootka small oval basket and cover, 9cm. (5)

£400­600

1108

An Inuit figure Arctic whalebone, carved standing and wearing a parka, 36.7cm high, on a base. (2)

£200­300

1109

An Inuit doll Arctic of a male figure with a painted resin head and wearing a seal fur parka and trousers and knee high leather boots, 52.5cm high.

£150­250

λ 1110

An Inuit model of a Polar Bear Arctic soapstone, 18.5cm long, an Inuit steatite model of a Walrus, with a bone tusk and a replaced wood tusk, 22.5cm long, and an Inuit stone figure of a hunter, with a walrus ivory inset carved face and wearing a parka, 11.5cm high. (3)

£300­400

1111

An Inuit standing model of a polar bear Arctic whalebone, 31.5cm long, 13.3cm high.

£500­800

1112

An Inuit fishing net Alaska fibre, wood and antler, 50cm x 18cm, an antler harness mount, 15.5cm long and four bone awls. (6)

£200­300

λ 1113

An Inuit toggle Arctic walrus ivory, with polar bear head terminals and with carved linear decoration to one side above the oval hole and on the top, 9.5cm long.

£200­300

1114

A Plains stone headed club North America of navette shape with hide mount and covered wood shaft, 80.5cm long.

£60­100

1108 1109

1115

A Yupik mask Alaska with a fibre bound bent cane and with pigment decoration, 42.5cm high.

£200­300

THE ROMY REY COLLECTION (PART III)

The artist and collector Romy Rey (1938 – 2020) grew up in Zurich in a Swiss family as the first child of a mechanical engineer turned patent attorney and a seamstress. Romy was fascinated with foreign cultures from an early age. Post­War austerity prevented her from learning archaeology, so she completed an apprenticeship and diploma in commerce instead. On her own initiative, Romy subsequently relocated to Geneva to study, excelling in Latin and contemporary languages. She discovered Vienna, Athens, and parts of the former Ottoman Empire during travels with her brothers. The cultural diversity of Paris attracted Romy, and it was there she fell in love with the English bookseller, John Prescott. In the mid­1960s she followed him to London, where together (as business partners) they managed two bookshops in Hampstead and Richmond for over 35 years.

In private conversations with Sir David Attenborough, Romy felt encouraged to follow her curiosity of exploring exotic cultures. She began collecting tribal art through friends and attended specialist fairs and auctions. By the 1990s, Romy had embarked on distant journeys to India, Morocco, Yemen, New Mexico and Guatemala, and had lived in Mexico trailing ancient footsteps. Her curated book collection grew to thousands of non­fiction books on all branches of anthropology and artisanry. Meanwhile, she learnt the craft of still life oil painting from her romantic partner and British artist, Brian Davies. Romy produced colourful artwork to synthesise her appreciation of the many individual artefacts she had acquired, with her travel impressions and fascination with motifs from present, and lost, civilisations. Romy treasured her vast artefact collection in her riverside townhouse residence in Richmond, where she lived for 45 years.

1116

A Diquis gold pendant

Costa Rica, probably circa 800 ­ 1500 AD modelled as an eagle, with a suspension loop to the back, 7.4cm high, 61.3 grams.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£1,500­2,500

1117

A Tairona tumbaga pendant Colombia, circa 900 ­ 1600 AD modelled as a standing figure with a headdress and a bird, the back with two suspension loops, 5.5cm high.

Provenance by repute Christie’s, London, 11th October 1988, lot 9. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£400­600

The Romy Rey Collection is a testimony to Romy's perseverance in her pursuit of experience, knowledge, respect and understanding of all cultures.

1118

A Diquis tumbaga pendant

Costa Rica, circa 800 ­ 1500 AD modelled as a standing male figure, wearing a headdress and holding a staff in each hand, the back with the remains of a suspension loop, 5.2cm high.

Provenance

Christie’s, London, Tribal Art, 28 June 1988, lot 17. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1120

Two Chimu gold figural pendants Peru, circa 900 ­ 1420 AD hollow, standing with their hands placed on their abdomens and pierced through the neck for attachment, the smaller with facial scarifications and a V shape back headdress, 6.2cm and 8cm high, 31.5grams, on stands. (4)

Provenance

Dr La Fond, France, collected whilst working in Peru in the 1950s. Kenneth Mackay, London, 14th May 2018.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£800­1,200

1119

A Panama tumbaga pendant Western Peninsula, circa 800 ­ 1500 AD modelled as a caiman with three bars to its back with gold discs, a stylised crustacean in its mouth and with a bifurcated tail, the back with a suspension loop, 9.5cm long.

Provenance

Bonhams, London, Tribal Art, 2 December 1991, lot 12. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£600­800

1121

A Chavin gold pendant Peru, circa 700 ­ 300 BC modelled as a feline paw with glyphs and a flowerhead, pierced for attachment, 5.6cm long, 26.5grams.

Provenance

Anne-Marie Reinhart, Zurich. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£500­700

1122

Five Diquis gold discs

Costa Rica, circa 700 ­ 1550 AD

embossed zoomorphic designs, including a frog, a bird, a feline and a butterfly, each with small attachment holes, 8.4cm, 8.9cm, 9cm, 9.6cm and 10cm diameter, 42.3grams. (5)

Provenance

Banks - Primitive, Inc, Maryland, USA, 30th September 1994.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£1,500­2,000

1123

Four Chancay gold appliques of birds

Peru, circa 800 ­ 1000 AD each with six attachment holes, approx. 5.5cm high, 6.9grams, and a Peru child’s gold arm band, circa 700 ­ 1550 AD, with embossed bead and chevron decoration, 7cm wide, 14cm long, 10grams. (5)

Provenance

Two birds - Annie Trotter, London, 13th September 1996. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1124

A Diquis tumbaga pendant

Costa Rica, circa 700 ­ 1500 AD modelled as twin double headed caimans, the back with six attachment loops, 9.5cm long.

Provenance

Banks - Primitive Inc, Maryland, USA, 30 September 1994. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­500

1126

A Vicus zoomorphic mask

Peru, circa 400 BC ­ 600 AD tumbaga with cut and embossed detailling, remounted on a tumbaga panel, 14.8cm high.

Provenance

Anne-Marie Reinhart, Zurich.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1125

A Cocle tumbaga pendant

Western Peninsula, Panama, circa 800 ­ 1500 AD of a standing male figure with two S shape head ornaments, the back with an attachment loop, 6.8cm high, and a South Western Peninsula, Panama tumbaga eagle pendant, circa 800 ­ 1500 AD, with an attachment loop to the back, 6.4cm high. (2)

Provenance

Bonhams, London, Tribal Art, 2 December 1991, lots 5 and 6. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£400­600

λ 1127

A Moche effigy head bead

Peru, circa 200 ­ 500 AD silver coloured metal, hollow, with inset coral eyes and teeth, with two attachment holes to the back, tests as 80.3% silver, 5.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£600­800

1128

1128

An Inca mask

Peru, circa 1400 ­ 1532 AD copper, of three panels with embossed detailing, 22cm high, on a stand, two Chimu emblems of rank, Peru, circa 9001470 AD, silver coloured metal, with embossed fish and masks, with collection numbers M1427 and M1428, 24.3cm and 26cm high, a Chimu pendant, circa 1100 ­ 1400 AD, silver coloured metal, with collection numbers M.311 and 78, 11cm wide. (5)

Provenance

Mask - Anne-Marie Reinhart, Zurich. Emblems and pendant - Sotheby’s, London, 17 February 1994, lot 339, part. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­500

1129

A Chimu ceremonial knife tumi Peru, circa 1200 ­ 1500 AD copper, 34.5cm long.

Provenance Sotheby’s, Country House Sales, 17 May 1990, lot 835 part. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1129

1130

An Inca knife tumi Peru, circa 1438 ­ 1532 cast bronze with a llama finial, 7.2cm high, an Inca cast brass tumi, depicting a figure with a jaguar head finial, 8.7cm high, an Inca cast bronze condor mount, 2.7cm high, a Moche cast bronze atlatl thumbpiece, with a jaguar head terminal, 3.2cm high, a Moche cast brass spatula, with a bird finial, 8.37cm long, a Moche cast copper tumi, with a figure finial wearing a headdress and holding a staff, 13cm high, and six metal ornaments, including a set of tweezers, a feline, a trumpet shape pendant, a disc bead, incised linear scrolls, a finial with a head and bells, and a sphere. (12)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­500

1131

A Moche necklace fragment Peru, circa 300 ­ 600 AD with two copper owl pendants and a condor pendant with jade and chrysocolla beads, 14.5cm wide, mounted, a Moche embossed copper mask, 6.7cm wide, a Moche copper owl mask bell pendant, 4cm high, a Zapotec copper knife, 11.5cm high and a Moche andesite disc embossed five monkeys, 6cm diameter. (5)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1132

1132

A Chancay figural vessel Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1400 AD ceramic with cream and purple/brown slip decoration, modelled with a headdress, spool earrings and holding a cup, 39cm high.

Provenance

Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 20th February 2019, lot 1035. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1133

A Chancay figural vessel Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1450 AD pottery, with a headdress, disc ear ornaments and holding a stem cup, with remains of slip decoration, 42.5cm high.

Provenance

Ian Auld, London, 13th January 1993. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1134

A Chancay figural vessel Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1450 AD pottery, with applied ear and forehead discs and a tethered dog on the shoulder, the back of the neck with a handle, with cream and brown slip decoration, 31.5cm high, with a stand. (2)

Provenance

Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 19th June 2014, lot 1024. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1135

A Chancay figural vessel Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1450 AD pottery, with the left hand raised and shadowing the left eye and the right hand raised to the cheek, with a handle to the back to the neck, with cream and black slip painted decoration, 31cm high, with a stand. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1133

1136

A Veracruz seated warrior Mexico, circa 600 ­ 900 AD pottery, wearing a mask headdress, disc ear ornaments, a necklace, chest armour, a belt and laces, with red paint and bitumen, 44.5cm high.

Provenance

Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 19 February 2020, lot 30.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­500

1137

A Zapotec figure urn Mexico, circa 500 ­ 800 AD pottery, depicting Cocijo, seated wearing an ornate headdress, ear ornaments and an apron with carved glyphs, with hands placed on his knees, with a cylindrical body, 41cm high.

Provenance

Private Collection, London, collected from the late 1950s through to the 1970s, from the London art market.

Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 3 April 2012, lot 779.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£600­800

1138

A Jama­Coaque seated Shaman figure Ecuador, circa 500 BC ­ 500 AD pottery, with an ornamented headdress, nose ornament and a mask pendant necklace, holding a lobed spherical object and a cylindical object, 36cm high.

Provenance

Galeria Cano, Quito, Ecuador, 11 June 1981.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1139

A Colima / Michoacan standing female figure

Mexico, circa 300 BC ­ 250 AD pottery, with pierced ears and recessed oblong eyes and mouth, with short arms and with incised linear decoration to the head and ears, and all­over body painted linear decoration, 44.5cm high.

Provenance

Anne-Marie Reinhart, Zurich. Romy Rey Collection, London. cf. Coleccion Rufino Tamayo. Arte Prehispanico de Mexico, no. 23.

£400­600

1137

1136 1138 1139

1140

1140

A Jalisco seated figure

Mexico, circa 100 BC ­ 300 AD pottery, with a headband and aperture to the top of the head, wearing ear and nose ornaments, bangles and with nodules to the shoulders, on two conical supports, 33.5cm high.

Provenance

with Aaron Gallery, London, since the 1960s.

Chiswick Auctions, London, 11 December 2018, Lot 174.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1141

A Jalisco standing pregnant female

figure

Mexico, circa 100 BC ­ 300 AD pottery, with a headdress, ear ornaments, a necklace and disc ornaments to the shoulders, and with armbands on the short arms, with red pigment and traces of black pigment to the breasts and the back, 33.5cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1142

A Colima seated figure West Mexico, circa 100 BC ­ 250 AD pottery, with his head twisted to the left, wearing a conical headdress and a nose ornament, the back of the head with a spout, with incised decoration, 36cm high.

Provenance

Bonhams, London, 24 May 2016, lot 21. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£400­600

1143

A Chinesco standing figure

Mexico, circa 100 BC ­ 250 AD pottery, with an incised linear coiffure and with the arms to the side, with black, red and fawn geometric decoration, 36cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 19 June 2014, lot 1035.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£600­800

1141

1143

1142

1144

A Nazca miniature seated figure

Peru, circa 300 ­ 600 AD

pottery, with painted details including abstract flying creatures around the lower half, with collection number W.29 inscribed to the left foot, 5.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1145

A Nazca vessel

Peru, circa 100 ­ 600 AD

pottery, with a spout linked to a woman’s head, with painted decoration including a pair of six fingered hands, two panels with a masked figure with multiple heads, the lower section with further heads and flying beasts, 11cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1146

A Nazca vessel

Peru, circa 100 ­ 500 AD

pottery, with a spout linked to a head, painted wearing a chequer headband and a poncho, 10.2cm high.

Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250 1144 1145 1146

1147

A Moche stirrup spout vessel

Peru, circa 200 ­ 900 AD pottery, modelled with two layers of six seed pods, with a buff ground and red linear decoration, 20.5cm high.

Provenance

Stothert and Trice, London, 26 May 2009. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1147

1148

A Vicus stirrup vessel

Peru, circa 100 ­ 500 AD pottery, with two bands around the spherical body with impressed cross decoration, and modelled a parrot opposite the spout, 18.4cm high, and a Peru pottery double vessel, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD, with a pierced bridge and painted decoration, 14cm high. (2)

Provenance

Vicus - Bonhams, London, Tribal Art, 17 June 1991, lot 1. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1149

A Paracas stirrup spout vessel

Peru, circa 500 ­ 100 BC pottery, relief moulded a fisherman swimming on his front, wearing a pointed front turban and with a net bag around his neck, with burnished glazed decoration, 13cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1150

A Moche dipper

Peru, circa 400 ­ 600 AD

pottery, with red and white painted panelled decoration, 28.5cm long.

Provenance

Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 10 February 2015, lot 34. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1151

A Lambayeque double spout stirrup vessel

Peru, circa 700 ­ 1200 AD

pottery, with a deity head flanked by two lying figures and zoomorhpic heads at the base of the spouts, painted circles, scrolls, birds and dots, the base with a white painted inventory number 931, 18.5cm high.

Provenance

Arthur M. Sackler Collection, 1913 - 1987.

Art Ancient, London, 1 February 2016. Romy Rey Collection, London.

Published

Art of the Andes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, 1983. p. 194, plate 70.

£300­500

1152

1152

A Jalisco kneeling female figure Mexico, circa 100 BC ­ 250 AD pottery, wearing ear and nose ornaments, a necklace and armbands, with her hands placed on her swollen stomach, with a red slip and black highlights, 38cm high.

Provenance Romy Romy Collection, London.

£200­300

1153

A Nayarit standing maternity figure Mexico, circa 100 BC ­ 250 AD pottery, with her right hand to her face and with a suckling child on her left hip, with pigment decoration, 37cm high.

Provenance

Bonhams, London, 20 January 1998, lot 235.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1153

1154

A large pottery jar possibly Tairona, Colombia of quatrelobed form with two pairs of relief eyes, brows and ear ornaments, with red pigment linear divisions and to the wide rim, 23.5cm high.

Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London.

£100­150

1155

A Greater Nicoya bowl Costa Rica/Nicaragua, circa 1350 ­ 1550 AD pottery, polychrome decorated and with nodules depicting two faces with head ornaments, 13cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1156

1156

A Chupicuaro standing female figure Mexico, circa 500 BC ­ 100 AD pottery, hollow with an incised banded headdress, pierced eyes and ears and with an open mouth with sharp teeth, with short arms and with a cream colour ground and red pigment decoration to the top of the head, face and body, 43cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Anne-Marie Reinhart, Zurich, with a thermoluminesence certificate from Ralf Kotalla, Haigerloch, Germany, dated 10th December 1986.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1157

A Jalisco standing figure of a warrior Mexico, circa 100 BC ­ 250 AD wearing a banded headdress and with disc adornments to the top of the arms, holding a shield in his left hand and a dagger in his right hand, with a clothing flap to the lower back, with remains of red pigment decoration, with a Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery sticker inscribed AC 87, and a tie on label inscribed Ex Mrs C Abrahams­Curiel., with white collection number ME 20, 44cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1157

1158

A Maya bowl

Honduras, circa 250 ­ 750 AD pottery, polychrome decorated with three toucans and three hand­like designs with a band of seven animals above, 19.5cm diameter, 11cm high.

Provenance

J. B. Weymes, Battle, East Sussex. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1159

A Maya vessel

Yucatan, Mexico, circa 500 ­ 950 AD blackware, of waisted cylinder form with two carved medallions, the larger depicting a head of a dignitary wearing an elaborate headdress, the other with scrolls and a fruit, 12cm high.

Provenance

Anne-Marie Reinhart, Zurich. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£500­600

1160

1160

A Marajoaro vessel

Marajo Island, Brazil, circa 800 ­ 1400 AD

pottery, having a quatralobed body with double headed spouts, one with a small aperture and the other with a rim, having a white slip with sgraffito linear decoration, 28cm high.

Provenance

Collected by a UK academic living in Brazil in the 1950s. Kenneth Mackay, London, 15 October 2019. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£600­800

1161

A Chancay vessel Peru, circa 1300 ­ 1500 AD the ovoid body with a flared rim and a pair of handles, with four applied bird heads and with painted decoration of panels of stylised birds, triangles and lines in a dark brown and the lower half in red, 39cm high, with a base. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1161

1162

A Chancay vessel Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1400 AD ceramic, with a lobed neck and ovoid body, with a pair of applied monkeys and a pair of loop handles, with geometric and block black slip decoration, the base with a painted white collection number N­539, 31.5cm high.

Provenance

Arthur M. Sackler Collection, 1913 - 1987. ArtAncient, London, 1 Feb 2016. Romy Rey Collection, London.

Exhibited

The City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, 15 August 1983 - 2 October 1983. Bayley Art Museum, University of Virginia, USA, 15 November 1983 - 15 January 1984.

Published

Art of The Andes, Pre-Columbian Sculpted and Painted Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection.

£300­500

1162

1163

A Tairona vessel

Colombia, circa 400 ­ 1600 AD pottery, with a globular body and a spreading base with incised dots and the neck modelled as a head, with a pierced nose, the base with collection number 1387, 25cm high, and a Colima pottery vessel, circa 200 ­ 600 AD, with a spreading base and painted linear decoration, the base with collection number 2954, 23cm high. (2)

Provenance

Tairona - Luz Miriam Coro Garrido, Colombia. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1165

A Mimbres bowl

New Mexico, circa 1150 ­ 1250 AD pottery, with a black painted radiating geometric design, 25.5cm diameter.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1167

1168

1164

A Maya vessel Mexico, circa 550 ­ 950 AD pottery, with a square base having a low relief panel on each face depicting a lord’s head wearing a headdress, to a cylindrical lobed neck with a flared rim and red paint, the base with a white painted collection number SA 33, 15.5cm high.

Provenance

Bonhams, Knightsbridge, London, 9 December 1997, lot 275. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1166

A Nicoya bowl

Costa Rica, circa 1000 ­ 1200 AD pottery, the interior with a polychrome decorated band depicting two figures wearing large headdresses, between two plumed and circle motifs, 25.7cm diameter.

Provenance

Bonhams, Knightsbridge, London, 3 June 1998, lot 283. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1167

A Colombian figural vessel probably Quimbaya or Tairona, circa 800 ­ 1600 AD pottery, modelled as a squatting female with a small mask to the front and with incised decoration to the arms and wide rim, 30cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1168

A Nicoya vessel

Costa Rica, circa 1100 ­ 1450 AD pottery, with a circular spreading foot and a girdled ovoid body, with an applied transformation head, with fangs and nodules, with remains of painted decoration including a long stylised animal, 37cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1169

1169

A Colima seated figure vessel Mexico, circa 100 BC ­ 250 AD pottery, with a side fin and horn coiffure, a spout to the back of the head and with his hands clenching his cheeks, the lower back with a protrusion, collection sticker 48 to the back, 30cm high.

Provenance

London collection of Pre-Columbian art, collected over 20-30 years, from the late 1950s to the 1970s, mostly from Sotheby’s, Christie’s and the London art market.

Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 3 April 2012, lot 777.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1170

A Jalisco seated male figure Mexico, circa 100 BC ­ 200 AD pottery, with a spout to the head and a wearing a rimmed headdress and a oval domed and incised chest ornament, 34cm high.

Provenance

Private Collection, London, collected from the late 1950s through to the 1970s, from the London art market.

Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 3 April 2012, lot 781.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1171

A Nayarit warrior

Mexico, circa 100 BC ­ 250 AD pottery, with a horned headdress, nose and ear ornaments and with a bird on each shoulder, holding a staff and with dark red, beige and black pigment decoration, 27cm high.

Provenance

Douglas Liddel, C.E.O. Spinks in the 1970s, joined in 1946. Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 2 September 2015, lot 50.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1172

Two Jama Coaque standing female figures

Ecuador, circa 500 BC ­ 500 AD pottery, the larger previously with a headdress surmount, with ear and nose ornaments, a necklace with a pendant, with remains of light blue and yellow pigment, 36cm and 22.5cm high. (2)

Provenance

smaller - Peter Sloane, London, 24th September 2017.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1170

1172

1171

1173

1173

Two Rio Magdalena Region urns Colombia, circa 1000 ­ 1400 AD pottery, one with two zoomorphic heads, talons and a tail in relief and with a double pierced lug, and a cover with a seated male figure, 79.5cm high, and the other with an incised geometric band around the neck, and a cover with a seated figure holding a cup and with a brass nose ring, 55cm high. (4)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£400­600

1174

A Colima seated dog vessel Mexico, circa 100 BC ­ 250 AD pottery, with a flared rim to its head and with a large belly and short tail, 26cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£250­350

1175

A Veracruz head Mexico, circa 200 ­ 600 AD pottery, with remains of a headddress and with a ring ear ornament, oval pupils and a row of top teeth to the open mouth, with bitumen highlights, 18cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1175 1174

1176

1176

A Chorrera standing female figure Ecuador, circa 1800 ­ 500 BC pottery, the hollow nude figure with a rounded headdress, coffee bean eyes and mouth, with earspools and black pigment decoration, the lower part of the body with a red glaze and incised linear decoration, 37.5cm high.

Provenance

Anne-Marie Reinhart, Zurich, with a thermoluminescence certificate from Ralf Kotalla, Haigerloch, Germany, dated 24th November 1987, No. 358711 (inscribed to the back of the right ear.)

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1177

A Chorrera standing figure Ecuador, circa 950 ­ 350 BC pottery, with ear ornaments, a bead necklace and a skirt with incised linear decoration, having two holes through the body at the top of the skirt, with traces of pigment, 30.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Ian Auld, London, 25 March 1992. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£100­200

1178

A Chorrera figural vessel Ecuador, circa 1000 ­ 500 BC pottery, modelled as figure lying on their front, with scroll and block pigment decoration, 12.5cm high, and a Jama Coaque / Chorrera pottery ocarina, circa 500 BC ­ 500 AD, modelled as a standing figure playing panpipes, pierced to the top of the head and to the back, with incised decoration, 18.5cm high, on a stand. (3)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1179

A Manteno standing male figure

Ecuador, circa 800 ­ 1500 AD

blackware, with a hollow head, pierced eyes, septum, corners of the mouth and with ear discs, with incised geometric decoration to the headdress and body, 23.5cm high.

Provenance

Robert Mucci, Hastings. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­200

1180

A Valdivia standing female figure

Ecuador, circa 3500 ­ 1500 BC pottery, with black and red pigment, 7.7cm high, on a stand, and a Valdivia pottery head fragment, circa 3500 ­ 1500 BC, 5.2cm high, fixed on a stand. (3)

Provenance

Bonhams, Oxford, 17th June 2009, lot 446 part. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1180

1181

Four Valdivia figures

Ecuador, circa 3500 ­ 1500 BC pottery, three female and one male, all missing the bases and the smallest pierced through the side, 5.5cm, 8.6cm, 9cm and 11cm high, on stands. (8)

Provenance

Banks - Primitive Inc., Maryland, USA, 30th September 1994.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£250­350

1182

A Jama Coaque seated figure Ecuador, circa 500 BC ­ 500 AD pottery, 16cm high, and four Ecuador pottery seated figures, the highest 16.5cm high. (5)

£100­200

1182

1179

1181

1184

1183

1183

A Chancay large cloth fragment Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1450 AD painted with repeating bands of a standing figure supporting a block with three objects and with a bird to the head, the other bands with notched discs, the end boder with a stepped wave design, 73cm x 205cm, framed.

Provenance

By repute - Phillips, New Bond Street, London, 6th July 1993, lot 172. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£400­600

1184

Two Chancay textiles fragments Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1450 AD both with a central band depicting either figures or birds, with a stepped shape top border and a tasselled base, 20cm x 60cm and 25cm x 62.5cm, both framed. (2)

Provenance

Ian Auld, London, 2nd March 1994. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1185

A Chimu textile fragment Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1450 AD painted, depicting a central standing figure flanked by stylised animals, 40cm x 123cm, framed.

Provenance

Susana Montiel, London, 27 November 2013.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1186

1186

A Chancay textile fragment Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1450 AD depicting a standing figure wearing a headdress and with a double headed creature below, 44cm x 24cm, framed.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£100­200

1187

A Nazca textile fragment Peru, circa 300 ­ 800 AD tie dyed decorated dots in lozenges, 55cm x 45cm, mounted behind glass.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1187

1188

A Chancay textile

Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1400 AD with five rows of birds between stepped and scroll borders, 62cm x 53cm, mounted and framed.

Provenance

Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 20 February 2019, lot 1032. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1189

A Chancay textile fragment Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1450 AD of three panels depicting a stylied animals, within chevron and chequer woven borders and the base with a band of birds and tassels, 69cm x 30cm, mounted and framed.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1190

A Mezcala figure

Mexico, circa 300 ­ 100 BC andestite, carved with the hands on the abdomen, 18cm high, and a Costa Rica basalt figure, carved with arms to the sides, 17.5cm high, mounted togther. (3)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1192

A San Agustin stone figure

Colombia, circa 300 ­ 600 AD stone, wearing a headdress, with a wide nose and fangs, each hand holding a cylindrical object, 25.3cm high.

Provenance

possibly Sotheby’s, London, 28 November 1983. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1191

Four Mezcala figures Mexico, circa 300 ­ 100 BC differing greenstones and of stylised form, 11.5cm, 8.5cm, 9.5cm and 8.7cm high, mounted. (5)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London. £500­800

1193

An Aztec relief panel Mexico stone, depicting a seated and standing figure wearing plumed headdresses, 26.5cm x 26.5cm.

Provenance

By repute - Phillips, London, 4 December 1986.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1194

Four Mezcala pendant masks

Mexico, circa 400 ­ 100 BC

hardstones, with a pierced hole to the centre top to three and one with a hole to each side of the top, 6.5cm, 7cm, 9.2cm and 10.5cm high, two on stands, and Mixtec serpentine mask pendant, pierced loop to the back, 4.7cm high. (7)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­500

1196

A Veracruz hacha

Gulf Coast, Mexico, circa 200 ­ 400 AD volcanic stone, carved as a monkey head with a central crest to the head, large round eyes and an open mouth with a wavy edge top lip and protruding grooved tongue, the back with a tenon, possibly to fit into a wooden yoke, 18.5cm high, with a stand. (2)

Provenance

Anne-Marie Reinhart, Zurich. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­500

1195

Three Mezcala figures

Mexico, circa 300 ­ 100 BC of differing greenstones, one pierced at the top of the head for suspension and with red pigment, 7cm, 7.5cm and 8cm high, and a Chontal stone figure, with red flecks, 7.5cm high, two on stands. (6)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1197

An Atlantic Watershed Region standing figure Costa Rica, circa 800 ­ 1500 AD basalt, with a fanged mouth and with raised arms having the hands at the top and back of the head, 21cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1198

An Atlantic Watershed Region zoomorphic metate Costa Rica, circa 100 ­ 500 AD basalt, carved with a jaguar head each end, linear carved border and four curved legs, 10.8cm high, 34cm long.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1199

An Aztec bust of Chalchiuhtlicue Mexico, circa 1345 ­ 1521 AD basalt, carved with a banded headdress tied at the back and with strands of plaited hair, with tassels to the side and with an open mouth, 24cm high, on a base. (2)

Provenance

Christie’s, London, Tribal Art, 25th March 1986, lot 131 part. Romy Rey Collection, London.

Chalchiuhtlicue was the Aztec deity of water, river, seas, streams, storms and baptism. Her name is translated as ‘she of the jade skirt,’ and was the wife of the raid god, Tlaloc.

£300­400

1200

A Costa Rican zoomorphic container and cover stone, carved as a tortoise, raised on four legs with a head and tail, the top with rice like protrusions, the sides pierced for fastening and with crenulated rims, 21cm long, 10.5cm high. (2)

Provenance

Bonhams, London, Tribal Art, 9 December 1996, lot 27. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1201

A Totonac bust

Veracruz, Mexico, circa 600 ­ 900 AD basalt, carved with a headdress and ear ornaments, with a red/brown pigment, 27cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Christie’s, London, Tribal Art, 25th March 1986, lot 131 part. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1202

A stone mortar possibly Peru with carved curvilinear decoration, 24cm long, and a stone pounder / pestle with a quatrefoil handle, 12.5cm high. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£100­200

1203

An Atlantic Watershed Region trophy head Costa Rica, circa 1000 ­ 1550 AD basalt, carved wearing a cap with circle, dot and linear decoration, 12cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Banks - Primitive, Inc., Maryland, USA, 30th September 1994. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1205

A Taino zemi head Caribbean, circa 1200 ­ 1500 AD stone, with a carved band to the back of the head, 12.2cm high, 14.2cm long.

Provenance

Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 19th June 2014, lot 1040. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1204

An Atlantic Watershed Region jaguar head fragment Costa Rica, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD carved basalt, 8.5cm long.

Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­200

1206

A Chavin mortar Peru, circa 500 ­ 200 BC stone, with a relief jaguar head and the sides with stylised zoomorphic designs, 8.5cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1207

A Mezcala stone pendant Mexico, circa 300 ­ 100 BC variegated serpentine, in the form of a miniature skin bag, with three pierced lugs for suspension, the flat top with a small recess, 7.5cm long.

Provenance

Sotheby’s, London, A Cabinet of Curiosities: The Property of the Lord McAlpine of West Green, 17 February 1994, lot 340 part. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1208

Five Guanacaste Nicoya mace heads Costa Rica, circa 100 ­ 500 AD stone and basalt, depicting a human skull, 8.5cm high, an owl head, 4.7cm high, a falcon head, 5.5cm high, a human head, 6cm high and a zoomorphic head, 3.5cm high. (5)

Provenance

human skull - Banks - Primitive, Inc., Maryland, USA, 30th September 1994. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£600­800

1209

A Mezcala mace head Mexico, circa 400 ­ 100 BC mottled greenstone, 5cm high, a Mezcala greenstone pendant, 7.3cm long, a Mezcala greenstone finial, with a recessed base, 8.4cm long, a Mezcala greenstone frog pendant, pierced to the front of the base, 8cm long, a carved stone fish pendant, 11.3cm long, on a stand, and a carved andesite model of a bird, possibly Santa Marta, Colombia, 8cm long. (7)

Provenance

All apart from the bird - Maurice Bonnefoy Collection, London. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­500

1210

Five Atlantic Watershed Region figures Costa Rica, circa 1000 ­ 1550 AD basalt, including two seated Sukia figures, smoking a roll of tobacco, 6.5cm and 12.5cm high, a seated Sukia figure, with crossed arms, 11.3cm high, a standing figure, with long hair and holding corn in each hand, 12.5cm and a standing figure with long hair and with his hands on his abdomen, 18cm high. (5)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­500

1211

Five Mezcala figures Mexico, circa 300 ­100 BC greenstone and andesite, 8cm, 10.5cm, 11cm, 12cm and 12.4cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£400­500

A Guanacaste figural axe pendant Costa Rica, circa 100 ­ 500 AD stone, pierced through the neck for attachment and with a vertical rib to the back, 12.7cm high.

Provenance

Arts des Ameriques, Paris. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1213

Two Colima pendant figures West Mexico, circa 1150 ­ 550 BC green/white stone, both with headdresses and disc ear ornaments, one with hands together and the other with arms across the torso, both with attachment holes on the sides and backs, 13cm and 11.2cm high, on stands. (4)

Provenance

Archeologie Arts Primitifs, B. R. Wagner, Geneva, 14th June 1989.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1214

A Mezcala standing figure Mexico, circa 300 ­ 100 BC mottled hardstone with remains of red pigment, 11cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­500

1215

A Taino zemi pendant Santo Domingo, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD stone, with skeletal features and pierced throught the neck for attachment, 3.2cm high.

Sold with a letter of authenticity from Dr Frederick J Dockstader, Jan. 22, 1992.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­500

1216

Four stone blades including; Taino, green/brown flecked, 13.5cm long, a grooved blade, 9cm long, a blue/grey blade, 10cm long, and a bottle shape blade, 17cm long. (4)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1217

A Valdivia Chorrera effigy mortar Ecuador, circa 1500 BC green / black stone, of feline form with incised teeth, eliptical eyes with round pupils, on four legs and with a scroll tip tail, 8cm high, 11.5cm long.

Provenance

French private collection. Chiswick Auctions, London, 27th June 2019, lot 176. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1212

1213

1214

1215

1216

1218

Five Michoacan standing figures

Mexico, circa 800 ­ 100 BC

pottery with pigments, including one with a slab base above detailled ornaments, 10.5cm high, one nude female with a ribbon like headdress, 12cm high, a female wearing a loin cloth, necklace and headdress, 11cm high, a double headed figure, 11.2cm high and a female wearing ear ornaments, a necklace and skirt with a light blue pigment, 11.5cm high, on stands. (10)

Provenance

Anne-Marie Reinhart, Zurich. Romey Rey Collection, London.

£400­600

1220

Four Chupicuaco standing figures

Mexico, circa 500 ­ 200 BC

pottery, with pigment highlights, 8.7cm, 9.8cm,10cm and 10.5cm high, on stands. (8)

Provenance

Sphere on headdress - Anne-Marie Reinhart, Zurich. The other three - Sir Peter Hope KCMG, 1912 - 1999. British Intelligence Officer and later Ambassador to Mexico, 1968 - 72. Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 1st March 2017, lot 37. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1219

Seven Chupicuaro figures

Mexico, circa 400 ­ 100 BC

pottery, all modelled standing and wearing a necklace, with traces of pigment, 6.3cm ­ 13cm high, on stands. (14)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1221

Five Nayarit figures Mexico, circa 100 BC ­ 1000 AD pottery, including a standing female wearing ornaments and a skirt, with polychrome decoration, 20cm high, a seated figure drinking from a spherical jar, with painted decoration, 15.5cm high, and three seated figures, 12.5cm, 13cm and 13.5cm high. (5)

Provenance

drinking figure and seated figure with poncho - Christie’s, London, 25 March 1986, lot 130 part.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1222

A Chancay standing male figure

Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1400 AD ceramic, with brown and cream slip decoration, 43cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Harmer Rooke, New York, USA, 15 August 1980. Desmond Morris Collection. Stothert and Trice, London, 1 October 2019. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­500

1223

Two Chancay figural vessels

Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1450 AD pottery, the larger holding a cup and with remains of slip decoration, and the other with an enlongated bodied animal around the shoulders and with a handle to the back, 33cm and 24cm high. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1224

Two Chancay figural vessels

Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1450 AD pottery, with finned headresses and spool ear ornaments, both with incised linear decoration to the shoulders and holding a cup, with cream and brown slip decoration, 39cm and 41.5cm high. (2)

Provenance

Robert Temple, Gent, Belgium, 12th November 2012. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1225

Three Chancay vessels

Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1450 AD pottery, one moon flask type with relief masks to the rim, a pair of handles and with diaper and sylised bird and mask decoration in a brown slip, 23cm high, another ovoid with a relief jaguar head, a single handle and raised rondels to the sides with stylised masks and stepped cross painted decoration, 24cm high, the third ovoid with a pair of handles, painted figures and stepped cross decoration, 22cm high. (3)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1226

A Shipibo jar

Peru

pottery of compressed circular form with a flared rim and painted a stepped design to the top half, 27.5cm high, 42cm diameter.

Provenance

Bonhams, London, 26 April 2007, lot 499. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£120­160

1228

A Maya anthropomorphic whistle

Jaina, Mexico, circa 250 ­ 750 AD pottery, modelled as a standing warrior figure with a transforming face, with a mouthpiece to the back, 28cm high.

Provenance

Leon Lippel, Montreal.

James Delmege, from the above in 1974. Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 2 July 2013, lot 1102. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1227

An Ica jar

Peru, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD pottery, with stepped shoulder and a cylindrical neck with red ground and white painted geometric linear decoration, 17.5cm high.

Provenance

Ian Auld, London, 21st February 1990. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£100­150

1229

A Jalisco kneeling female figure

Mexico, circa 100 BC ­ 200 AD pottery, with linear decoration to the face, wearing a cross­over strap headdress and disc ear ornaments, arm bands to the short arms and nodules to the shoulders, a knee length striped skirt, 42cm high, and a Colima pottery seated hunchback figure, circa 100 BC ­ 250 AD, with incised linear decoration to the face, with the remains of a handwritten label to the base, 29.5cm high. (2)

Provenance

Jalisco - Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 3 April 2012, lot 784. From a collection of pre-Columbian art, acquired from Sotheby’s, Christie’s and the London art market from the late 1950s through to the 1970s.

Colima - Phillips, London, 11 December 1995, lot 203. Robert Mucci, Hastings. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£250­350

1230

Three Chancay figures

Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1400 AD pottery, two standing with raised arms and pierced at the top of the heads, with painted decoration, 16cm and 21.5cm high, one seated female, with a brown glaze, 21.5cm high, and two Peru pottery figures, with painted decoration, 14cm and 20cm high. (5)

Provenance

Seated Chancay - Karel Lek Collection. Rob Temple, Ghent, Belgium, 3 September 2019.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1230

1231

Two Narino seated figures Colombia, circa 850 ­ 1500 AD pottery, of a coca chewing male, on a stool and a female wearing a skirt, with traces of red and black pigment, 19.5cm and 17cm high, a Jalisco pottery standing female figure, 23cm high and a Tlatilco pottery standing figure, probably circa 1500 ­ 600 BC, with polychrome decoration including a chequer design to the face, 30.5cm high. (4)

Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London.

£500­700

1231

1232

Four Pre­Colombian seated figures pottery, including a Guanacaste­Nicoya female, Costa Rica, circa 500800 AD, with polychrome decoration, 19.5cm high, a Veracruz female, circa 500 ­ 700 AD, with bitumen to the face and eyes, 22cm high, Colima, circa 100 BC ­ 250 AD, with arms across the abdomen, 17.8cm high, and a Nayarit male, circa 100 BC ­ 250 AD, with hands on knees and with polychrome decoration, 18.5cm high. (4)

Provenance

Guanacaste-Nicoya - Robert Mucci, Hastings. Veracruz - Annie Trotter, London, 19 September 1994. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1232

1233

Three Tlatilco figures Mexico, circa 1250 ­ 200 BC pottery, all with pierced navels, one standing with a bifurcated headdress and two sitting, the larger with a small crop of hair, the other with incised linear decoration to the head, 27cm, 30.5cm and 24cm high, two with stands. (5)

Provenance

Standing - Robert Mucci, Hastings, with a label stating from the D(iego) Riviera Collection. With sale lot label 9th December 1997, lot 260 part.

Small sitting - Robert Mucci, Hastings and Bonhams, London, 21st June 2000, lot 176 part.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1234

1235

1236

1234

A Narino bowl

Colombia, circa 750 ­ 1250 AD

pottery, polychrome decorated with two birds, circles and lines, with a replaced silver coloured metal foot stamped ARGENTA 925, 22cm diameter, and three Colombia pottery bowls, circa 10001400 AD, with polychrome decoration, including monkeys and symbols, 19.5cm, 20.5cm and 20.8cm diameter. (4)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1235

A Narino bowl

Colombia, circa 850 ­ 1500 AD

pottery, with deep red painted decoration including a pair of birds to the centre with linear and diaper borders, 18cm diameter, and three Colombia pottery bowls, circa 8501500 AD, with painted decoration, 16cm, 19cm and 19.5cm diameter. (4)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­200

1236

A Cocle pedestal plate

Panama, circa 800 ­ 1200 AD

pottery, the top painted a stylised caiman, 5.5cm diameter, 8cm high, a Cocle pottery jar with painted scroll decoration, 8cm high, and two South American pottery jars, 8.5cm and 8.7cm high. (4)

Provenance

Pedestal plate - Trotter and Parsons, London, 15 February 1993.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1237

A Cocle pedestal plate

Panama, circa 800 ­ 1000 AD pottery, the top with painted stylised decoration, 13.2cm diameter, and a Cocle pottery jar, circa 800 ­ 1000 AD, with painted geometric decoration, 15.5cm high. (2)

Provenance

Annie Trotter, London, 6 May 1993.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­200

1238

Six Pre­Columbian pottery bowls

circa 200 ­ 1000 AD

including Narino, Colombia, with an incised panel of lines to half of exterior border, 30.2cm diameter, another with a girdle and four painted panels of lines, 23cm diameter, two Nazca, Peru, with painted decoration to the interior, and one with lines to the exterior, 20cm and 20.2cm diameter, Peru with painted geometric linear decoration, 22.5cm diameter and Mexico with incised decoration to the exterior of stars/suns, curved lines and triangles, on three short feet, 20cm diameter. (6)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1238

1239

Four Maya vessels

Mexico and Guatemala, circa 250 ­ 900 AD

pottery, including a tripod bowl painted with three birds to the sides and a flame motifs to the base, 17cm diameter, a jar with a waisted neck, painted with six monkeys, 13cm high, a bowl with a faceted edge and painted with five seated figures to the exterior and glyphs to the interior, 15cm diameter and a cylindrical bowl, painted with a band of paneled motifs, 12cm high. (4)

Provenance

tripod bowl and jar - J. B. Weymes, Battle, East Sussex. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1239

1240

A Maya cylindrical vessel

Mexico, circa 250 ­ 950 AD pottery, with two painted stylised leaf designs, 13.5cm high, two Maya pottery bowls, Mexico, circa 250 ­ 950 AD, with painted scrolls and u shapes, 18.5cm and 16cm diameter, and two Maya pottery bowls, Guatemala, circa 250 ­ 950 AD, with incised linear decoration, 13cm and 13.2cm diameter. (5)

Provenance cylindrical vessel - Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 19 June 2014, lot 1021.

Guatemala bowls - J. B. Weymes, Battle, East Sussex. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1240

1241

Two Maya bowls

Guatemala, circa 250 ­ 750 AD

pottery, with polychrome decoration, including a band of stylised zoomorphic motifs above four sun motifs, 5.3cm diameter and the other with three stylised animals, 17.6cm diameter and a Maya pottery jar, with a pair of side handles and polychrome decorated with a jaguar head within a sun motif on both sides, 13cm high. (3)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1241

1242

Two Nazca bowls

Peru, circa 100 ­ 600 AD

pottery, the larger painted with seven panels of radiating squares, 6.4cm diameter and the other painted a band of fish, lines and maize, 4.5cm diameter. (2)

Provenance

the smaller bowl with a label inscribed Braunholtz collection.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­200

1244

A Casas Grandes jar

Chihuahua, Mexico, circa 1300 ­ 1450 AD

pottery, of ovoid form with a fawn ground and with black and red painted geometric decoration, riveted, 16cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£100­200

1246

A Hopi bowl

Arizona

pottery, painted a sylised deer and triangle motifs, 17.5cm diameter, and two Tewa pottery bowls, each with a painted geometric outer band, 29.5cm and 24cm diameter. (3)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­200

1243

A Diaguita bowl

Chile, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD

pottery, with painted stepped linear decoration in brown and red on a fawn ground, with a handwritten label Bowl, Chilean Diaguite PreConquest, before 1530, 1954, Digby B.M., 14cm diameter, and a Diaguita pottery jug, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD, with polychrome geometric decoration, with a similar handwritten label and 67 to the base, 12.5cm high. (2)

Provenance

Annie Trotter, London, 11 June 1997. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£100­200

1245

A Chiribaya jug

Chile / Peru, circa 900 ­ 1450 AD

pottery, with a strap handle and painted geometric and dotted designs in brown, black, red and cream, 23cm high.

Provenance

Chris Gange, Marlborough, 10 September 2000. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1247

A Guanacaste jaguar bowl

Costa Rica, circa 1000 ­ 1500 AD

pottery, modelled with two pierced jaguar heads and four legs, with carved decoration and with red and black glazes, 14cm high.

Provenance

Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 3 June 1998, lot 284.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1248

An Atlantic Watershed Region tripod vessel Costa Rica, circa 100 BC ­ 500 AD pottery, the bowl with a wide rim on three standing male supports with a slit abdomen containing a sphere and with bird surmounts, 15.2cm high,

an Atlantic Watershed Region pottery tripod vessel, with long tailed monkey supports, 20cm high, and two Mexican pottery tripod vessels, 15cm and 10.5cm high. (4)

Provenance

figures and birds vessel - Banks - Primitive Inc., Maryland, USA, 30th September 1994. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1249

An Aztec goblet Mexico, circa 1300 ­ 1521 AD pottery, with an incised band of three repeating symbols, with red and black decoration, 15cm high.

Used for the drinking of pulque, an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of the maguey (agave) plant.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1250

An Olmec miniature vessel Las Bocas, Mexico, circa 1200 ­ 500 BC pottery, modeled as a duck with a black glaze and traces of red pigment, 7.5cm long, 5.4cm high.

Provenance

Annie Trotter, London, 7th November 1996. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1251

1251

A Huastec chest ornament Mexico, circa 900 ­ 1500 AD shell, carved as a mask with incised linear and dot decoration, 13cm high and wide, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£600­800

1252

A Mexican shell arm band possibly Haustec, circa 1200 ­1500 AD with pierced and carved decoration depicting a stylised animal, one of the pierced circles with an inset stone, 9cm high, with a persepx base. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­500

1253

1252

A Tairona zoomorphic ornament Columbia, circa 800 ­1500 AD shell, carved as a stylised crocodile head and two birds, with attachment holes to the end and sides, 8cm long.

Provenance Bonhams, London, 20th July 2005, lot 8, part. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1253

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1254

A Maya pendant Mexico, circa 250 ­ 900 AD shell, with a scalloped edge and pierced and incised a figure wearing a headdress and with open palms, with inset greenstone beads, 8cm wide, on a coral and shell bead necklace, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1254

1256

1255

Four Amazon necklaces Brazil including two with peccary teeth and fibre, the smaller with red cloth, 37cm and 54cm long, two with shell and fibre, ten necklaces with various animal teeth, another with glass beads and claws, and other necklaces and anklets of seeds and plant fibre, two armadillo tail bangles, an implement with a row of teeth, and a comb like implement. (qty)

Provenance

Red cloth necklace - by repute Christie’s, London, Tribal Art, 11 December 1988, lot 13. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200

1256

300

A Chavin bone implement Peru, circa 900 ­ 400 BC with carved decoration of a fanged head and a toothed snout with wave scrolls, the back with a mask and a scoop, with traces of red, green and black pigment, 10cm long, on a stand, a Maya engraved shell fragment, 12.5cm wide, with a stand, a shell pendant, carved and pierced animal decoration, 8.5cm long, a Taino shell figure pendant, with a horned mask and pierced through the neck, the back with the remians of a collection number D. 65.13., 6cm high, and a bone handle with incised diaper, zig­zag and triangle decoration, 13cm long. (8)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­500

1257

A Chimu implement / sceptre Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1400 AD the burnt blade to an open rattle handle, containing seeds, with a finial carved as a seated monkey holding an object to its mouth, 51cm long, on a stand, and a Chimu weaving shuttle, Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1400 AD, carved a figure wearing a headdress, with a pierced pointed base having a slot with two clay spheres, 37cm long. (3)

Provenance

shuttle - Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 18 September 2019, lot 1002. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1258

A Chancay janiform post Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1400 AD with a conical finial above the two human heads, with traces of pigment, to a reduced shaft, 41cm high, two Chimu standing figures, Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1400 AD, 16cm and 18cm high, on wood bases, a Chancay standing figure, Peru, circa 1100 ­ 1400 AD, with two metal bands to the brow and with traces of pigment, 13cm high with a perspex base and a Chancay miniature spoon, with a janiform head finial, 10.5cm long. (8)

Provenance

two smaller figures and spoon - Annie Trotter, London, 1994.

larger figure - Maurice Bonnefoy Collection. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£250­350

1257

1258

1255 part

1259

A Maya mask fragment

Mexico, circa 250 ­ 900 AD pottery, with pierced eyes, 15cm high, with a stand, two Bahia pottery masks, Ecuador, circa 500 BC ­ 500 AD, with traces of pigment, 8.5cm and 9.5cm high, both with stands, and a Mexican pottery mask, with attachment holes to the forehead, 9cm high, on a perspex stand. (7)

Provenance

smaller Bahia mask - Galeria Cano, Quito, Ecuador, 7 November 1980.

Romy Rey Collection, London

£200­300

1261

Two Narino figural vessels Colombia, circa 800 ­ 1500 AD pottery, modelled as a squatting pregnant female and a male with his hands to an open mouth, with negative resist decoration, 9.2cm and 7.8cm high, and two Mexican pottery figural ocarinas, with holes to the back and under the back base support, 14.4cm and 13.5cm high. (4)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1260

A Maya bust

Tiquisate, Guatemala, circa 250 ­ 750 AD pottery, hollow of bell form, moulded as a female wearing a headdress, ear ornaments and necklace with a mask and discs to the shoulders, 22cm high, and five Mexican pottery figures / bust, including one standing and pierced to the front and back and containing beads, 21.5cm, one cross legged and with an elaborate headdress, 24.8cm high, one seated and with earrings, 13cm high, one seated at the top of steps, 12cm high, and a female bust fragment, with an open headdress, 26cm high. (6)

Provenance

Tiquisate bust - J B Weymes, Battle, East Sussex. Standing - Peter Sloane, London, 25 March 1993. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£400­600

1262

Six Mexican figures pottery, including three Chinesco seated figures, circa 100 BC ­ 250 AD, with painted decoration, 8.5cm, 9.5cm and 10.4cm high, a Nayarit seated figure, circa 100 BC ­ 250 AD, with the right hand to the mouth, 9.5cm high and two Veracruz figures, circa 100 ­ 1000 AD, with bitumen decoration, 11.5cm and 13.5cm high. (6)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1263

A Michoacan standing figure probably Tiristaran, Mexico, circa 300 ­ 100 BC pottery, with a backwards slanting head, ear ornaments, a necklace and with hands on the abdomen, with traces of pigment, 15cm high, with a stand. (2)

Provenance

Anne-Marie Reinhart, Zurich. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1264

A Tlapacoya torso

Mexico, circa 1100 ­ 500 BC pottery, with one half of the headdress having incised linear decoration, recessed eyes with pinched pupils, pierced nostrils and an open mouth, with a pierced navel, 24cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Banks - Primitive, Inc., Maryland, USA, 30th September 1994. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1265

A Colima couple

Mexico

pottery, sitting on a bench wearing headdresses and ear ornaments, the male with a nose ornament, both holding a vessel and either side of a plate of spherical objects, with remains of pigment, 10.5cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£80­120

1266

A Chinesco seated figure Mexico, circa 100 BC ­ 250 AD with slit eyes, pierced septum and mouth, with a deep red slip with darker outline and yellow pigment detailling, 20.8cm high, and a Chinesco seated figure, with a supporting raised knee, 14.5cm high. (2)

Provenance Larger figure - Bonhams, Oxford, 5 September 2012, lot 259. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1267

1267

Three Mexican masks including one with a moustache and painted in black and red, the back carved 32, 17cm high, another with a long beard and moustache with naturalistic polychrome decoration, 36.5cm high, and the third painted pink and red with an applied hide moustache and beard, 22cm high. (3)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1268

A Veracruz zoomorphic mask

Mexico

modelled as a bull’s head, with a metal disc inset to the forehead, 26.7cm high, and a donkey head mask, 31.5cm high. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£100­200

1268

1269

Two Guerrero masks

Mexico

painted black on gesso, with long curved noses, one painted yellow, green and red, 26cm and 17cm high. (2)

Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1269

1270

Seven Mexican masks including one of leather with gesso and paint with a wooden nose and a snake on the left side of the face, 19cm high, one painted pink, red and black with glass eyes, 26cm high, one painted brown and red with applied hide, 20cm high, two with painted decoration, 17.5cm and 20.5cm high, and two plain, 22.5cm and 17cm high. (7)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­500

1270

1271

A Venezuela zoomorphic stool with a dished back, curved tail and inset bead eyes, with a dark stain, 32cm high, 108cm long.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1272

A Maroon circular tray

Suriname the dished top with low relief carving and applied brass studs, the base carved with a stylised leaf rondel and an S, 31cm diameter, and a Maroon cloth beater, relief carved a bird head and scrolls, with brass studs, 45.5cm long. (2)

Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1274

An Amazon model tapir Brazil

with black painted linear decoration, 18.5cm high, 45.5cm long.

Provenance

Susana Montiel, London, 27th November 2013. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1273

Five Karaja pottery female figures Brazil with painted decoration, three standing and two seated, four with fibre loin cloths, and a wooden Karaja female standing figure, with painted decoration and a fibre loin cloth, 12.8cm, 13.5cm, 16cm (2), 18.5cm, 30.5cm high, two with stands. (8)

Provenance the highest pottery figure - Adam Prout, Worcestershire. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­200

1274

1271

1275

1275

A Tikuna dance costume Amazon painted barkcloth and fibre, 137cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1276

1276

A Makuna spirit dancer headdress mask Colombia

bark cloth and fibre with an applied resin/gum mask with painted decoration, 65cm high.

Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1277

Two Shipibo baby carriers

Peru

cotton with bone pendants having linear incised decoration, one with a handwritten identification labelChanchamayo, 53cm and 58cm wide. (2)

Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­200

1278

Two Campa baby carriers Peru / Brazil

striped cotton with bone pendants having incised geometric decoration, 56cm and 57.5cm wide, and a poncho, with nut shells and bones to the shoulders, 91cm long. (3)

Provenance

Nelly Van den Abbeele Collection, Brussels / Amsterdam.

Christie’s, Amsterdam, The Mrs N. Van den Abbeele Collection, 29 May 2001, lot 349. Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 21 February 2018, lot 77. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£100­150

1279

A Paraguay ear ornament of disc form, with a hand written label Ear wood. Paraguay., 6.2cm diameter, 3.3cm deep.

Provenance

James T. Hooper, London / Arundel. Romy Rey Collection, London.

Published

Steven Phelps. Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, The James Hooper Collection, 1975. Plate 216, no 1718.

£40­60

1280

A collection of South American cloak pins

Bolivia and Mapuche silver coloured metal, including six with pierced disc ends, five with embossed discs decorated double headed eagles, a vase with flowers, a heart with peacock and foliage, three with spherical finials, three with peacocks and articulated fish, and eight other pins, including a horse and deer, a mouse, coins, a sun with figures, a dog and a fish, a bird on a flower, a disc and an oval, an articulated fish pendant, a coin brooch and a pin with ovoid screw off ends, the longest 43cm. (28)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1281

A Santa Clara blackware jar

New Mexico

of ovoid form with a relief carved encircling avanya with a matt painted mouth, the base signed L. Zafia, 16.5cm high,

a San Ildefonso blackware pot, painted in matt on a polished surface with an encircling avanya, the base signed Ursualita Naranjo, Santa Clara Pueblo, 11.5cm high, a Pueblo blackware jar, with stylised decoration in matt on a polished surface, the base signed Tomasa Mora, 17.5cm high, and a Laguna Peublo bowl, painted with geometric decoration in black and red, the base signed R. Reano, Laguna, N. M., 9.9cm high. (4)

Provenance

Ananya decorated pots - Bonhams, London, 20 July 2005, lots 35 and 36.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1279

1278

1280

1281

1282

1282

A Plains breastplate

North America

bone hair pipes, leather and brass beads, 50cm high, 28cm wide.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1283

1283

Two Plains necklaces

North America

dentalium shell, glass beads and haliotis shell pendants, the smaller with a handwritten label J.r / 75 Indian Wampan, 39.5cm and 35.5cm long, a Plains beaded ornament, 33cm long, five beaded necklaces and a headband, a bone and wood choker, a stone bead necklace with two sheet brass birds, a South West fetish necklace, with an eagle and animals, a bolo tie, two necklaces, two belt buckles with inset turquoise, a small belt loop with inset turquoise, a child’s silver coloured metal engraved bangle, a beaded brooch and a brass belt buckle. (19)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1284

A Plains scraper

North America

antler, with collection sticker for Fortess Collection numbered 1035, 31cm long.

Provenance

Leo and Lillian Fortess, Hawaii (no. 1035)

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­200

1285

Alan Lydiat Durst (1883 ­ 1970)

Northwest Coast style mask with polychrome decoration, signed ALAN DVRST 1929, 32cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£400­600

1285

1284

An Inuit standing figure Arctic walrus ivory, 7.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£500­800

1286

1287

1287

A Haida spoon British Columbia, Canada horn with abalone shell inlay, the handle carved with a human face and stylised animals, 22.5cm long.

Provenance Christie’s, London, Tribal Art, 18 June 1991, lot 272, part. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

λ 1288

A Santa Cruz ear ornament Solomon Islands turtleshell, with a carved bar representing fish and with nine attached rings, 19cm high, and three Solomon Islands turtleshell nose ornaments, 4.5cm, 4.2cm and 4cm high. (4)

Provenance: Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1290

Two Abelam charms karaut

Papua New Guinea boars’ tusks, woven fibre, shells and pigment, one with feathers, 35cm and 48cm long, and an Abelam armband, woven fibre, shells and pigment, 30cm long. (3)

Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

λ

1289

Five Papua New Guinea pectorals shell and fibre, three crescent shape kina, includling a Mendi kina with a fibre necklace and red pigment, 19cm wide, another with an incised kite shape symbol and with a fibre and shell necklace, 21cm wide, the third with one drilled hole, 19.5cm wide, a Boiken kap­kap with remains of carved turtleshell, 16.5cm wide and the fifth with a large shell flanked by smaller cut shells, with a fibre and shell decorated strap, 61cm long. (5)

Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1291

A Papua New Guinea chest ornament wawapu Aitape area boars’ tusk, woven leaf fibre, shells and resin, previously with seeds, 47cm long, 23cm wide.

Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1292

part

A collection of Melanesian artefacts

shell, boars’ tusks, fibre, nut cases and beads, including an Asmat nose ornament, 19cm wide, necklaces, bangles, chest ornaments, spoons, a wood tapa beater, 24cm long, an Abelam tusk, fibre and bamboo ornament, 21cm wide, a chest ornament with two shells bound with a yellow fibre, 18.5cm wide, a nut container with fibre and shell discs, 11cm long, a shell disc currency belt, 82cm long, a Fiji shell, drilled through the edge, 9.5cm long and two fibre bags. (qty)

Provenance

A selection from Charles W. Abel (1863 - 1930) set up a mission station at Kwato in the Massim district in 1891.

A selection from Julian and Barbara Harding, London. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­500

1294

Three Dayak dart quivers

Borneo, Indonesia

bamboo, with rattan bindings, two with incised decoration and rattan lids, two containing darts, 35cm, 36cm and 43.5cm high. (3)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£100­150

1293

A coco de mer (Lodoicea maldivica) Seychelles carved and polished, 29cm high, 31cm wide.

Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­500

1295

A Timor Islands spoon Indonesia

horn, the shaped handle with a beast finial and incised and pierced decoration, 20.2cm long, a Timor Island spoon, coconut with a carved bird finial, 13.5cm long, a Ifugao spoon, with a standing figural handle, 16.5cm long and an Indonesian rice spoon with a carved scroll handle, 8cm long. (4)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1296

1297

A collection of Oceanic adze blades stone, basalt and shell, including Cook Islands, 12.5cm long, two with later written labels ex The Melanesian Mission, the longest 19.5cm, and a conical tip with a recessed base, inscribed Barida, N. Guinea, 14cm long. (12)

Provenance

some with lot numbers dated 28 Feb 1994. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1298

1296

A Maori blade toki pounamu New Zealand nephrite, 16.5cm long.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­500

1297

1298

A Massim canoe splash board lagim Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea with a carved squatting figure and stylised bird scrolls, with remains of white and red paint, 65.5cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1299

A Tami Islands bowl

Huon Gulf, Papua New Guinea with relief carved fish and a semicircular lug to each side, the base with a carved eliptical and notched motif, 78cm long.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1300

1300

Three Boiken platters

Papua New Guinea one with a relief carved line around the edge, a fish tail and a lizard, pierced for attachment and painted with initials s.e.k., 42.5cm diameter, another with relief carved geometric designs and masks, pierced for attachment, 45cm diameter and the third with a central circle design and two triangles, pierced for attachment, 42.5cm diameter. (3)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£400­500

1301

A Santa Cruz Islands rasp Solomon Islands with sharkskin, 47cm long.

Provenance

Melanesian Mission, 33, Southampton Street, London, W.C.2.

Julian and Barbara Harding, London. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£600­800

λ 1302

A Naga boar tusks necklace

Nagaland

with black seeds, cowrie shells and glass beads, 24cm wide,

a Naga ceremonial hip basket, with dyed red hair, 32cm high, a Naga hip ornament, of a bust with black and red dyed hair, 27cm high, a Naga double fish tail brass pendant, 9.5cm high, a Naga scraper implement, 28cm long, a Naga box and cover, with two compartments and with exterior holes for string, 10.5cm high, two brass rings with bells, a brass tweezer pendant, five brass buffalo head pendants, a brass buffalo horn pendant, a brass buffalo finial, a necklace with a brass mask with engraved buffalo horns to the back and flanked by horn pendants, a bronze gorget shape bell pendant, a brass anklet with engraved floral decoration, a Tibet cast brass plaque decorated zodiac animals and auspicious emblems and two Tibet cases, one with coral and turquoise and the other with three bells. (23)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­500

λ 1304

Five Tibet fire striker pouches chakmak leather, brass, steel, silver coloured metal, coral, turquoise and glass beads, the widest 15cm, and a Tibet belt pouch, 11.5cm wide. (6)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£400­600

1303

A collection of Naga shell ornaments

Nagaland with linear, circle and dot decoration, and other shell ornaments, Oceanic and Africa. (qty)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£100­200

λ 1305

A Tibet woman’s knife and sheath iron, brass, silver coloured metal, bone, sharkskin, turquoise and glass beads, the knife 18cm long, together 19.5cm long, a plainer Tibet knife and sheath, 20cm long, two Tibet brass amulet boxes with fabric attachments and one with a folded Mandala, a Tibet belt strap, leather, brass and silver coloured metal with a coral bead, 25cm long and an oval brass cover decorated a hand with symbols, 14cm long.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1306

Three Naga body cloths Nagaland with squares of red dyed hair and cowrie shell circles, two with a figure, one within a V shape, 102cm x 153cm, 98cm x 156cm, 105cm x 146cm. (3)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£600­800

1306

1307

Two Indian embroidered skirts cotton, one decorated with peacocks and foliage with mirrors, the other with flowerheads, 82cm long, an Indian embroidered cloth, with peacocks, foliage and mirrors, 90cm x 312cm, an Indian cotton cloth, emboidered rows of flowerheads, with a stitched label inscribed 607 F.M.Office 22 Queen St. Edin., 277cm x 125cm, an Indian embroidered panel from the front of a wedding blouse, cotton, metal wire, mica and mirrors, 93cm long, an Indian printed cloth and a paisley jacket. (7)

Provenance Cloth with inscribed label - The Church of Scotland Foreign Mission. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1307

1308

A cotton tunic possibly Tunisia dyed with stripes in pink, purple, light green and fawn, with a printed lining, 120cm long, and a Tunisian cotton tunic, gold and blue stripes with metal wire embroidered decoration and buttons to the front and inside the sleeves, 112cm long. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£100­200

1308

1309

An Igbo dance costume Nigeria the body suit with applique geometric and lizard decoration, the slit open front with a wool fringe and an applied naval protrusion and hands, 119cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1311

A Wodaabe tunic Niger cotton with colourful embroidered designs and applique borders, 246cm x 40cm, and a Wodaabe wrapper / skirt, cotton with embroidered designs, 178cm x 102cm. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1310

A Cameroon men’s smock Grasslands dyed cotton with embroidered linear, geometric and animal designs, 120cm long.

Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London.

£100­200

1312

A Yoruba beaded panel Nigeria cloth with coloured glass beads, of geometric designs and faces, 39cm high, 43cm wide, a Yoruba cloth bag with a beaded panel, 20.5cm wide, a Yoruba shaped beaded panel, 36cm wide and an East African beaded cloth and leather bag, 18.5cm wide. (4)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1313

A Tonga woman’s beaded apron

Zimbabwe

cloth with red, white and blue glass beads sewn as rows of aprons, 43cm x 73cm,

a Ndebele beaded wedding train, 112cm long, a Ndebele beaded panel, 23cm wide, two Kirdi girls’ beaded aprons, with cowrie shells, one with geometric designs, 45cm wide and the other with animals and plants, 44cm wide, a Kirdi beaded purse, with cowrie shells, 21cm long and a South African glass bead and tube waist band, 79cm long. (7)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1314

A Bamileke cap Cameroon crocheted cotton, with open circles and burls to the sides, 13.5cm high.

Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London.

£100­150

1315

An East African beaded hide apron with rows of red, white and blue glass beads, 101cm x 50cm.

Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1314

1315

1316

A California basket coiled fibre with woven triangle and star designs in black and red, the base with a fifteen point star in black, 11.2cm high, 25cm diameter, a Lozi circular two handled basketry tray, 40.5cm diameter, a Lozi oblong basket and cover, with differing geometric designs, 12.5cm high, and an Aboriginal dilly bag, woven fibre with natural pigment linear decoration, 21cm long. (5)

Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­400

1317

An Ashanti zoomorphic stool

Ghana with a dished seat and support carved as an eagle on the back of a tortoise, to a rectangular base, painted white, 35cm high, 53cm long.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£400­600

1319

A Togo doll

bone, glass beads, cowrie shells and fibre, the bone 16cm long, on a stand, and a scoop form doll with strands of cowrie shells, 24cm long, on a stand. (4)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1318

A Nupe stool

Nigeria with a linear grooved geometric decorated top, 29cm high, and a Bozo stool, with a painted top, 27cm high. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1320

A collection of seven African spoons including three Somali, with bifurcated terminals, Lega, Nigeria, and two West African, and a Welsh ‘love’ spoon, 30cm long. (8)

Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1321

A Mama mask Nigeria with inserted metal nails, 51.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200­300

1322

A Baule helmet mask bo nun amuin Ivory Coast with carved and pigment decoration, with an applied mouth, 38cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance ex Antoine Ferrari de la Salle Collection. ex P. Herbert Collection. Romy Rey Collection, London.

£400­600

1323

Four Mursi lip plugs

Ethiopia clay, of disc form with incised arched and linear decoration, one of ring form, 7.7cm, 8.4cm 9.7cm and 10.4cm diameter. (4)

Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London.

£100­150

1324

Three Ashanti combs Ghana the largest carved a head and a pair of breasts, 22cm long, one with a flat head, 17cm long, and one with a disc terminal, 13.5cm long, a West African comb with a head terminal, 16.2cm long and a Senufo heddle pulley, 14.5cm long. (5)

Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1325

Four African stools

Ashanti, Senufo and Kamba, 31cm, 21cm, 25cm and 27cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­200

1326

A Baule stool Ivory Coast with blind fret and pierced decoration and with an end handle, 39cm long, a West African stool, with a horse support and with aluminium studs, 33.5cm high, a Lobo zoomorphic tripod stool, 46cm long and an African stool, with incised crescent moon and star motifs, 31cm long.

Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

1327

A Pende mask

Democratic Republic of the Congo with an applied fibre coiffure and pierced eyes and nostrils and with bared teeth, with remains of a yellow and white pigment and with burnished details, 29cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£100­200

1328

A Zulu headrest

South Africa

with three block supports having amasumpa carving, 10.5cm high, 42.5cm long, and a Zulu headrest, with a block support to one side and two supports to the other, all with carved decoration, 13.5cm high, 33cm long. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£100­200

1328

1329

Two Lozi stools

Zambia with open column supports and a handle, 24cm and 25.5cm high. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­200

1330

Three African stools

Dogon, Cameroon and Democratic Republic of the Congo, 21cm and 23cm high. (3)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London

£150­200

1331

A Senufo zoomorphic stool Ivory Coast the top with a scorched crocodile and diaper decoration, 16cm high, 54.5cm long, a Lobi zoomorphic stool, 54.5cm long and a Tellem style headrest, 27cm high. (3)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­200

1333

A Bambara headdress chiwara Mali with metal earrings, 65.5cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­200

1334

A Nigerian standing male figure possibly Chamba with a skull head and traces of white pigment dot decoration, 52cm high, on a base. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£300­500

1335

A Nupe jar Nigeria pottery, with incised linear decoration and an embossed sheet brass collar, 36.5cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­200

1336

A Sapi nomoli figure

Sierra Leone stone, with large hands, one holding a sphere, and with a recess to the top of the head, 12cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£200

300

1332

Three Lobi tripod stools Burkina Faso all pierced for attachment, 22cm, 22.5cm and 18cm high. (3)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

£150­250

DAY TWO

LOTS 1336-1759

AFRICA

1337

A Teke Tsaye mask Democratic Republic of the Congo with carved geometric decoration to the two plane face and eye slits either side of the nose, with remains of pigment, 39cm high. £400­600

1338

A Baule standing female figure Ivory Coast with raised scarifications to the forehead and back of the neck, with a brown / red patina and black highlights, 35.6cm high, on a base. (2)

£800­1,200

1339

An Akan standing female figure Ghana with a bifurcated coiffure and a ringed neck, wearing glass beads and a loin cloth, 36.5cm high, on a base.

Provenance Lyon and Turnbull, 31 March 2001.

£100­150

1340

A Mossi standing female figure Burkina Faso with a parted coiffure and scarifications to the face and body, with red, white and black pigment, and with a brass anklet, 43.5cm high, on a base. (2)

£150­250

1341

A Baule standing male figure Ivory Coast with aluminium teeth and stamped small squares to the temples, neck and back of the legs, with black and blue staining, 33cm high, on a base. (2)

Provenance

Peter Peretti, London. Acquired in Paris in the mid 1960s.

£150­250

THE FOLLOWING FIFTEEN LOTS ARE FROM THE TOMI VAN DUUREN COLLECTION

Having lived in Nairobi, Kenya from 1984 – 2000, Tomi immersed herself in the Arts of Africa, working as the design manager in the African Heritage Gallery, where she was able to handle rare tribal art as well as commissioned pieces. She set up her own gallery, Uchuraji wa Afrika Ltd, from which Tomi developed a wide network of dealers and collectors, sourcing rare and wonderful pieces from travelling across the continent of Africa.

1342

Three Lega masks

Democratic Republic of the Congo one with square eyes and the others elliptical, all with open mouths and remains of a white pigment, 20cm, 21cm and 23cm high. (3)

Provenance

Tomi Van Duuren Collection.

£150­200

1343

Four Kuba tukula blocks Democratic Republic of the Congo one circular with geometric decoration, 14.5cm diameter, another with linear and notched decoration, and the other two plain. (4)

Provenance

Tomi Van Duuren Collection.

£100­200

1344

A Lega ceremonial billhook

Democratic Republic of the Congo bone, one side with circle and dot decoration, 35.5cm long.

Provenance

Tomi Van Duuren Collection.

£200­300

1345

Two Lega masks

Democratic Republic of the Congo bone, both with pierced eyes and mouths, one curved with incisions around the eyes and mouth and with a linear and dot decorated headdress, the other flat and with circle and dot decoration, 18cm and 10cm high. (2)

Provenance

Tomi Van Duuren Collection.

£300­400

1346

A Makonde helmet mask

Mozambique

carved as a male head with the left eye closed and with remains of resin and hair, 21.5cm high.

Provenance

Tomi Van Duuren Collection.

£150­200

1347

Two Makonde masks

Mozambique

one with applied hide to the head, eyebrows and moustache, with pierced eyes, nostrils and carved teeth, with red and white pigment, with an applied cloth and rubber strap, 21.5cm high and the other with a wrinkled face and two integral lower teeth, 23cm high. (2)

Provenance

Tomi Van Duuren Collection.

£150­200

1348

Six Kenyan beaded ornaments including two Kamba necklaces, one with three brass pendants, two Kamba neckpieces with rows of aluminium ‘bells,’ a Maasai bracelet and a waistband. (6)

Provenance

Tomi Van Duuren Collection.

£150­200

1349

A Kuba cap

Democratic Republic of the Congo coloured glass beads, fur and cowrie shells, 28cm long, and two floral beaded circular caps, 18cm diameter. (3)

Provenance

Tomi Van Duuren Collection.

£150­200

1350

Five Maasai gourds

Kenya four with incised linear and scorched decoration, all with leather straps and covers and with coloured glass beads, two with cowrie shells, 19.5cm, 25cm, 30.5cm, 36cm and 41cm long. (5)

Provenance

Tomi Van Duuren Collection.

£150­250

1351

Two Turkana hide aprons Kenya with metal beads, 70cm and 82cm long, five wooden footed cups, the largest, 17cm high and inscribed Erik Larsen A2 Jan 1971, a wooden ladle, also inscribed, six other vessels, wood, pottery with hide, fibre and leather, a pair and a single sandal and two metal cow bells. (20)

Provenance

Tomi Van Duuren Collection.

£150­250

1346

1347

1352

1353

1352

Three East African leather and cowrie shell panels 100cm, 119cm and 145cm long. (3)

Provenance

Tomi Van Duuren Collection.

£150­200

1353

Two Pokot loin cloths

Kenya leather and ostrich shell discs, 28cm and 52cm long, a Turkana neck ornament, leather, glass beads and cowrie shells, 53cm long and a Maasai leather and beaded bag, 37cm high. (4)

Provenance

Tomi Van Duuren Collection.

£150­250

1354

A Tabwa figural axe handle Democratic Republic of the Congo with a long scale like coiffure and with facial and body scarifications, 31cm high,

an Ethiopian headrest, with an aluminium handle, 14cm high, a Kwere hair pin, 20.5cm long, a Maasai carved tooth pendant, 3.5cm long, on a plaited leather strap, and an East Africa small spoon with a horn inset, 13cm long. (5)

Provenance

Tomi Van Duuren Collection.

£150­200

1355

A Makonde Corpus Christi Mozambique arms missing, 39cm high.

Provenance

Tomi Van Duuren Collection.

£80­120

OTHERPROPERTIES

1356

A Kwere flywhisk

Tanzania with a carved female figure handle and an animal tail whisk, 72cm long, and a Makonde flywhisk, the carved handle of a pregnant female figure, 41cm long. (2)

Provenance

Tomi Van Duuren Collection.

£150­200

1357

A Swazi headrest Swaziland with a dipped top having a cylindrical protrusion to the underside and on flared ribbed end supports, with burnished highlights, one side of the top branded a J at either end, 39cm long, 15.5cm long.

£400­600

1358

A Dinka headrest South Sudan of zoomorphic tripod form, 23cm high, 54.7cm long.

£100­200

1359

1359

A Guro mask kyasa Ivory Coast with a cut mark to the left cheek, with black and red paint, with a surmount inset nails and remains of hide, the top drilled for feathers, 37.9cm high.

Provenance

Peter Peretti, London. Acquired in Paris in the mid 1960s

£200­300

1360

A Dan mask Ivory Coast with metal pins to the head and the remains of an aluminium disc around the left eye, 26cm high, on a stand. (2)

£400­600

1361

An Igbo Adamma mask Nigeria with painted decoration and the remains of nails, 26.5cm high.

Provenance

Collected in the 1950s.

£400­600

1362

A Mende helmet mask Sierra Leone wearing a crown, with two bands of wire along the hairline and more to the cheeks, 36cm high.

£150­250

1360

1363

A Yoruba Eshu shrine figure Nigeria

with a long angled coiffure and facial scarifications, wearing a tunic and holding a container and a fly whisk, with a cloth and leather necklace with leather amulets and strands of cowrie shells, with Reckitts Blue and white pigment, 53.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

£800­1,200

1364

1364

A Yoruba female shrine figure Nigeria for the Shango cult, with a thunder axe to the tall coiffure and remains of Reckitt’s Blue, wearing a tirah amulet, ring bracelets and a diaper waistband and platform sandals, with a bronze bangle, 45cm high, on a stand. (2)

£400­600

1365

A Yoruba divination bowl agere ifa Nigeria

carved as a kneeling female supporting an offering bowl on the ground, wearing bracelets and with a ribbed and side finned coiffure, supporting a bowl on her head, 26.8cm high.

£300­400

1365

1363

1366

A Yoruba divination bowl Igbomina, Nigeria

the previously circular base with a maternal group of a seated female supporting a child suckling from her left breast and with another child to her back, the mother with a bowl to her head with lifts to the sides, 26.5cm high.

Provenance

Private Collection, Germany. Koller, Zurich, Switzerland, Tribal Art, 23 June 2007, lot 316.

£1,500­2,500

1367

A Yoruba Shango staff / wand Nigeria

carved as a kneeling female holding a thunder axe and club, with facial scarifications and a tied back coiffure with a thunder axe crest, 38.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

£200­300

1368

A Yoruba Oshe Shango staff / wand Nigeria

the kneeling female figure holding a covered bowl, with facial scarifications and with a thunder axe to the high coiffure, wearing glass beads and with a ring banded reel type handle, 45cm high.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection. £300­400

1368

1367

1366

1369

A Yoruba shrine bowl arugba shango

Ila­Orangun, Nigeria with a kneeling maternity figure with a child strapped to her back, with raised arms and supporting a bowl on her head, with red, black, blue and white pigment, 86cm high.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

Christie’s, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 119.

£600­800

1370

A Senufo maternity figure Ivory Coast standing with a child strapped to her back and holding a younger child below her navel, with all­over white and orange pigment dot decoration, 117cm high, on a base.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

£200­300

1371

A Yoruba female shrine figure

Ila­Orangun, Nigeria kneeling with a high coiffure and a lip plug, holding a child before her and with a copulating couple to the front of the base, flanked by a male figure playing a pipe and a female figure holding a sash around her neck, with red, blue and white painted decoration, including linear designs to the back of the main figure, old repairs, 116cm high.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

Christie’s, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 118.

£600­800

1369

1370

1371

1372

A Hembe half figure Democratic Republic of the Congo with charge to the top of the head, the face with demi­lune eyes and a beard, with the hands placed on the abdomen, 18.4cm high, on a base. (2)

£400­600

1373

A Songye miniature power figure Democratic Republic of the Congo with a ‘horn’ charge to the top of the head and with string binding, 10.2cm high, on a stand. (2)

£400­600

1374

A Songye male power figure Democratic Republic of the Congo standing with his hands on his abdomen and with a small hole to the top of the head, 18cm high.

£300­500

1375

A Luba female half figure Democratic Republic of the Congo with a swollen belly and arms linked under, the flared base with a large recess to the back, 23cm high.

£300­400

1376

A Democratic Republic of the Congo figural pipe possibly Holo or Suku the crouching figure holding a gourd pipe to his mouth, with a cap like coiffure pierced through the top, with burnished highlights, 13.5cm high.

Provenance Old French Collection.

£800­1,200

1377

1377

A Punu figure Gabon with a crested coiffure and hands placed on the abdomen, with a twisted fibre around the neck, 16.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

The Joseph Herman Collection of African Art, Christie’s, Amsterdam, 12 December 2000, lot 274 part.

Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 20 February 2019, lot 1145.

£400­600

1378

A Senufo standing female figure Ivory Coast with a crested coiffure, probably a staff finial, 15.5cm high, on a base. (2)

Provenance Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 20 February 2019, lot 1220.

£200­300

1378

1379

Two Dogon standing figures Mali one with an encrusted patina, 29cm high, on a base, and the other with carved features and holding a staff, 32.5cm high, set into a base.

(4)

Provenance

Peter Peretti, London. Acquired in Paris in the mid 1960s.

£200­300

1380

A Dogon standing figure Mali with a crazed patina, 29cm high.

£300­400

1379

1380

1381

A Baule portrait mask Ivory Coast with a ribbed coiffure and painted eyes, the back with a mouth stick, 32.5cm high.

£400­600

1382

A Dan mask Ivory Coast with applied plaited hair and carved ridges above the eyes, aluminium earrings and with black and white pigment decoration, 23.6cm high.

£500­800

1383

A Guro mask Ivory Coast with a gathered up coiffure, three raised scarifications to the forehead, slit eyes and an open mouth with teeth, black and red paint, 40cm high, on a stand. (2)

£600­800

1384

A Punu Tsangui mask Gabon with a tripartite coiffure and a narrow face with crescent slit eyes and pursed lips, with pigment decoration and brass studs to the back frame, 40cm high.

£400­500

1382

1381 1384 1383

1385

A Songye kifwebe mask

Democratic Republic of the Congo carved with elongated features and ribbed decoration with alternating pigments, 52cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

New England Collection, USA, acquired circa 1970s. Artemis Gallery Auctioneers, USA.

Private Collection, London, UK.

£2,000­3,000

1386

A Gabon drummer figure standing with his right leg raised and with his foot on the heel rail of the drum, his hands placed on the hide skin of the solid drum, with inset carved bone teeth and eyes, with a nailed hide coiffure, 66cm high, on a base.

Provenance

A civil engineer attached to the Spanish Delegation to Rio Muni until 1933. Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection. Christie’s, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 129.

£200­300

1387

A Jimma chair

Ethiopia with a pierced panel back, dished seat and three C scroll legs, 97cm high.

£100­200

1388

Two Ethiopian low tripod chairs with panel backs, one leaf shaped and inscribed with six lines of Ethiopian script, 81.5cm and 69cm high. (2)

£150­200

1389

A Dogon door

Mali

of two panels with relief carved rows of figures, circular mounds and triangular peaks, a snake and a spear, with a lock with incised linear decoration and two standing figures, native sinew repair to top right corner, 151.5cm high, 72cm wide.

Provenance

Totem Meneghelli Gallery t/a Totem Rosebank, Johannesburg, South Africa.

£600­800

1389

1390

1390

A Jimma chair

Ethiopia with a winged panel back having a dipped top, a large circular dished seat on three curved legs, 109.5cm high, 68.5cm wide.

£300­400

1394

1392 1395

1391

A Mangbetu stool

1393

Democratic Republic of the Congo with a triangular handle to the top and on an open spherical support and channelled spreading foot, 23.5cm high.

Provenance

From the family of Sir William Edward Barry. Acquired from the above in 1983.

£150­200

1392

A Chokwe stool

Angola with carved and punched dot decoration, with a hide covered seat, 28cm high.

£100­150

1393

A Dogon stool

Mali

carved four pairs of figural supports and with zig­zag edged top and base, 33cm high.

£400­600

1394

An Ashanti stool

Ghana with a pierced curved top and central column with finned corner supports, 45cm high.

£200­300

1395

A Bamileke stool

Cameroon with a circular top and carved supports of a standing male and female, each holding a vessel and flanked by buffalo heads, with burnished highlights, 45cm high, 35cm diameter.

Provenance by repute - C. H. Croasdale.

£400­600

1396

A Kota Obamba reliquary figure

Gabon with embossed and incised sheet brass and copper, the back of the head with raised lozenges, mirroring the shape of the mouth, 60.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Private Collection, France.

Private Collection, London, UK.

£8,000­12,000

1397

Three Senufo standing female figures Ivory Coast

26.8cm high, on a base, 28.5cm and 30cm high. (3)

Provenance

Jacques Arland, 1929-2018.

£300­400

1398

A Luba­Hemba janus figure kabeja Democratic Republic of the Congo male and female with an aperture to the top of the ribbed conical coiffure, 24cm high, on a base, a Yoruba male Ibeji figure, 27cm high and a Mossi doll, 31.7cm high. (4)

£200­300

1399

Four Mossi dolls Burkina Faso the largest with carved facial features, 35.2cm and the others on stands. (4)

£300­500

1400

A Dogon miniature seated figure

Mali

10cm high, on a perspex base, two Lobi miniature standing figures, 9.6cm and 14cm high, on bases and a Kusu half figure, with metal rivets and charge to the top of the head, 14.2cm high. (7)

£150­250

1401

A pair of Tsonga standing figures South Africa

the male with a crested coiffure and beard and holding a knobkerrie and a shield, and the female with a vessel on her head and holding another, both with burnished highlights, 21.1cm high. (2)

£200­300

1401

1402

A Songye male power figure

Democratic Republic of the Congo with an aperture to the top of the head, a ringed neck and with his hands on his abdomen, with a small recess, 22.5cm high, on a base. (2)

Provenance

The Michel Gaud Collection.

Sotheby’s, Important African Art: The Michel Gaud Collection, London, 29 November 1993, lot 132.

£3,000­5,000

1403

1405

1403

A Yaka caryatid headrest Democratic Republic of the Congo the seated female figure on a circular base, with an incised line running across the torso and with inset white glass bead eyes, the raised arms supporting the curved platform, with scorched detailing and previously with studs, 18cm high.

£500­600

1404

1404

A Bena Lulua male figure Democratic Republic of the Congo crouching, with a cap like coiffure and vertical forehead ridge with exposed spine and ribs, 15.5cm high.

£400­600

1405

A Yoruba standing female figure Abeokuta, Nigeria with a tied coiffure and holding a staff with an arrow head termimal in each hand, with remains of cam powder, the base with a handwritten label An African Idol given to a Missionary at Abeokuta by a Native Convert, 25.5cm high.

Provenance

Kenneth Athol Webster, London / Wellington. Joseph Herman, London / Suffolk.

Christie’s, Amsterdam, The Joseph Herman Collection of African Art, 12 December 2000, lot 146.

£400­600

1406

A Guro zamble mask

Ivory Coast

with a pair of ribbed horns and raised scarifications, oval eyes with horizontal slits, geometric shapes and an open mouth, with pigment, 38cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Jean and Claudine Thouvenin, Nancy.

Origine Auction, Paris, 27 March 2016, lot 96. Millon et Associes, Paris, 19 June 2017, lot 272. Andrew J Berz, Sausalito, California / Mexico City.

£600­800

1407

A Pende mask mabombolo

Democratic Republic of the Congo representing a hare with orange/red and white pigment, with inscribed collection number 76667 in white, 47.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance Swedish Collection.

Exhibited

TAL 2019.

£500­800

1408

A Suku helmet mask hemba

Democratic Republic of the Congo with a carved antelope crest, above linear carved bands, pierced crescent eyes and rectangular mouth, with pigment and a fibre collar, 43.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance ex Old Belgian Collection.

£500­800

1406

1408

1407

1410

A Bura funerary head

Niger, probably 14th / 15th century terracotta, with an all­over textured surface and a disc and cross coiffure, with applied facial features including a beard, with a hole to the right side of the head, 26.5cm high.

Provenance

Afonso Henrique Camino de Burnay. £1,000­1,500

1409

A Bura funerary head

Niger, circa 14th / 15th century terracotta, with applied eyes, nose and mouth, and with two notched horizontal girdles, with a hole to the top, 16cm high.

Provenance

Afonso Henrique Camino de Burnay. Sold with a copy of of a thermoluminescence certificate from ASA Laboratory, Francine Maurer. £1,000­1,500

1411

A large Nigerian vessel pottery, spherical with five pairs of mounds to the shoulders and with impressed and incised decoration and with white and red paint, cracks, 54cm high.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection. Christie’s, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 130.

£100­200

1412

A Mambila anthropomorphic vessel Nigeria / Cameroon pottery, with a janus head finial and a spiked cylindrical body with a circular aperture, with red and white pigment, 24.5cm high.

Provenance

Collected whilst working in Nigeria in the 1940s.

£100­200

1413

An Akan / Agni head Ghana

pottery, with a noduled coiffure and raised scarification to the face, having an encrusted black patina and with white pigment to the eyes, 31.5cm high.

£50­100

1414

A Berber two handled pot Kabyle, Algeria pottery, with painted geometric decoration, 14.5cm high, and two blackware pots, Cameroon and Zambia, with incised decoration, 15.5cm and 18.2cm high. (3)

£150­250

1415

Two Cameroon dolls

pottery, modelled sitting and standing with inset glass beads to the eyes and noses, with leather, cloth and cowrie shells, one with a bead necklace, 17cm and 20.2cm high. (2)

£150­200

1411

1413

1415

1412

1417

1416

A pair of Yoruba female Ibeji figures Ilaro, Egbado, Nigeria with a five part coiffure and facial scarifications, wearing glass beads, 25.5cm and 26cm high. (2)

cf. George Chemeche, Ibeji, The Cult of Yoruba Twins, 2003, p.297, no.267. £800­1,200

1417

A pair of Yoruba male Ibeji figures Ila area, Igbomina, Nigeria with metal pins eyes and scarifications to faces, lower abdomen and thighs, each wearing a brass bangle, 26.7cm high. (2)

cf. Mareidi and Gert Stoll, Twin Figures of the Yoruba, 1980, p.312, no.212. £700­1,000

1418

A Yoruba female Ibeji figure attributed to The Master of the Owu Shango Shrine, Igbomina, Nigeria with a four strand high coiffure, facial scarifications and hands placed on the lower abdomen, wearing glass beads, 26cm high.

£1,000­1,500

1419

A pair of Yoruba male Ibeji figures Ila area, Igbomina, Nigeria with facial and body scarifications and with Islamic tirah amulets to the chest and back, and with platform sandals, one with nut disc bands, 25.2cm high. (2)

cf. George Chemeche, Ibeji, The Cult of Yoruba Twins, 2003, p.221, no 186.

£800­1,200

1420

A pair of Yoruba male Ibeji figures Ikere, Nigeria with facial scarifications and a droopy left eye, with angled shoulders and wearing disc and glass beads, 29.3cm and 30cm high. (2)

Provenance Collected in Lome in 1988.

£800­1,000

1421

A Yoruba Ibeji figure Baba Magba, Igbomina, Nigeria with a two part domed coiffure, facial scarifications, eye lashes and remains of metal pins to the eyes, wearing a metal and a bead bangle, 26.4cm high.

cf. George Chemeche, Ibeji, The Cult of Yoruba Twins, 2003, p.171, no. 127.

£500­700

1421

1419

1420

1423

1422

A pair of Yoruba female Ibeji figures attributed to Oje, Ila Orangun, Igbomina, Nigeria with ribbed, crested, pierced and notched edge coiffures, eye lashes and shoulder mount amulets, both with an aluminium bangle, 26.4cm and 26.6cm high. (2)

cf. George Chemeche, Ibeji, The Cult of Yoruba Twins, 2003, p.189, no 150.

£500­700

1423

Two Yoruba female Ibeji figures Saki, Oyo, Nigeria with high strand coiffures and with a lip plugs, the lower abdomens with scarifications, with bead and nut disc bands, 26cm and 28.5cm high. (2)

Provenance

Gert and Mareidi Stoll Collection, Munich.

Published

Gert and Mareidi Stoll, Twin Figures of the Yoruba, 1980, p.245, no.134.

£800­1,200

1424

A pair of Yoruba Ibeji figures Iseyin, Nigeria male and female, with a knotted top quatrepartite coiffure and facial scarifications, the female wearing beads, 27cm and 27.5cm high. (2)

£700­900

1425

A pair of Yoruba Ibeji figures Ogbomoso, Oyo, Nigeria

male and female, with crested coiffures and facial scarifications and wearing bead and nut disc bands, 35.3cm high.

cf. George Chemeche, Ibeji, The Cult of Yoruba Twins, 2003, p.109, no 56.

£700­1,000

1426

A pair of Yoruba Ibeji figures Gbongan Modakeke, Nigeria male and female, wearing bead and nut disc bands, 21.5cm high. (2)

£400­500

1427

A Yoruba male Ibeji figure Ila area, Igbomina, Nigeria with scarifications to the face and back of the neck, pierced ears with Islamic tirah amulets to the chest and back and with platform sandals, 22.5cm high.

Provenance

Collected in Lome in 1988.

cf. George Chemeche, Ibeji, The Cult of Yoruba Twins, 2003, p.225, no 192.

£500­700

1425

1426

1427

1428

A pair of Yoruba Ibeji figures Omu Aran, Igbomina, Nigeria male and female, with high domed coiffures and scarifications to the faces, the female with a carved waistband and a vertebrae band and the male with a nut disc band, 27.5cm and 27.8cm high. (2)

cf. George Chemeche, Ibeji, The Cult of Yoruba Twins, 2003, p.234, no.202. £1,500­2,000

1429

A Yoruba male Ibeji figure Isayin, Oyo, Nigeria with a pointed crested coiffure, facial scarifications and metal pin eyes, wearing glass beads and aluminium bands, 25cm high.

cf. George Chemeche, Ibeji, The Cult of Yoruba Twins, 2003, p.105, no.51. £500­700

1430

A Yoruba female Ibeji figure Ogbomosho, Oyo, Nigeria the quatrepartite coiffure with a pierced top, and with facial and body scarifications, wearing nut disc bands, 24.3cm high.

Provenance

Collected in Lome in 1988.

£250­350

1431

Sixteen Akan goldweights

Ghana cast brass including a cicada, two beetles and a ground nut, two swords, a cannon, a pair of drums, a bell, two plaited ropes, a key, a war trumpet, on a stand, bound rods, a headdress, stylised animals as a circle, and a Lobi pendant, the longest 7cm. (18)

£100­200

1432

Forty­eight Akan geometric goldweights

Ghana brass, the longest 5.9cm. (48)

£100­200

1433

Thirty two Senufo figure ornaments

Ivory Coast cast bronze and brass, the highest 6.1cm, and four Lobi brass/bronze pendants. (36)

£100­200

1434

Twenty two West African rings

Lobi and Senufo bronze and iron, most cast with either animals, fish, birds and an anklet, the largest 5cm diameter, and thirteen bronze pendants, Ghana, Mali and Burkina Faso. (35)

Provenance Bonhams, London, Tribal Art, 20th September 2006, lots 154, 156, 157.

£150­200

1435

An Akan goldweight

Ghana

cast brass of a leopard with an antelope in its jaw, 5.2cm long, on a wood base, and six other brass animals, Ghana and Burkina Faso; a crocodile, 9.5cm long, an antelope, 6.2cm long, a buffalo pendant, 5cm long, a leopard with a porcupine, 4.5cm long, a swordfish, 5cm long and a pair of tortoises, 4cm long. (7)

£150­250

1436

Eighteen West African ornaments

Akan, Lobi and Senufo

bronze and brass, including three figural goldweights, two rings, two zoomorphic pendants, a comb pendant, a five headed snake, a part coiled snake, a turtle and bird group, a double crocodile and bird group, a fish, a headdress, a hook pendant, a panel pendant, a gold­dust spoon, a rope goldweight and an Indian brass stamp pendant, the longest 11cm. (19)

£100­200

1433

1434

1431

1432

1437

Five Afo currencies Nigeria iron of hoe form, 52cm, 56cm, 59cm, 63cm and 97cm, all on stands. (5)

£1,000­1,500

1438

A Mbole currency anklet Democratic Republic of the Congo copper, 27cm wide.

£150­200

1439

A Katanga currency cross Democratic Republic of the Congo copper, 18.5cm wide.

£150­200

1440

A Chamba currency torque Nigeria iron with part silvered metal, 33cm high.

£200­300

1441

A Yoruba Ijebu onile figure Nigeria

bronze, the kneeling female with three ring protrusions to the coiffure and rows of rings to either side of the face, and with raised crescent scarifications to the forehead, wearing a band necklace, holding a bell between her breasts, the knees with ring fasteners and with another to the back, with a label inscribed BERGANDAHL, 14, 28cm high, on a base. (2)

cf. Accumulating Histories, African Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Gallery, 2006.51.200, p.173.

£600­800

1442

A Yoruba janus sceptre ipawo ase Nigeria cast bronze with the two heads hung with bells and with a bell finial having bird supports, the part open shaft with an eliptical bell shape base with an internal spike and chameleons to the sides, one hung with two bells, 32cm high, on a stand. (2)

£200­300

1443

A Yoruba edan ogboni staff Nigeria brass and iron, 8.5cm long.

£50­100

1444

A pair of Yoruba Edan staffs Nigeria bronze and iron, 13cm and 13.5cm high, on a stand. (3)

£150­250

1443

1445

A Fon model leopard Benin bronze, 22cm long, on a stand. (2)

£150­250

1446

A Yoruba Ibeju bracelet Nigeria cast bronze with linked heads and bells and low relief mud fish legs, 13.5cm long, a Yoruba bronze edan staff, of a seated female, 23.5cm high, in a stand and a bronze disc ornament with stamped geometric decoration and a head terminal, 38.5cm high. (3)

£150­250

1447

Three Kotoko equestrain figures Chad bronze, 5.8cm, 5.7cm and 3.4cm high, two on bases, and a Senufo brass ring, with two warriors on horseback, 5.5cm high, on a stand. (7)

£200­300

1448

1448

A Senufo standing female figure Ivory Coast bronze, with a water pot on her head and with body ornaments, having large hands facing forwards, with white painted collection number X89­792, 14cm high, on a wood base.

Provenance

Bonhams, London, Tribal and PreColumbian Art, 3 June 1998, lot 35.

£100­200

1449

Four Senufo currency anklets Ivory Coast bronze, cast with plaited rope, triangle and bead decoration, approximately 12cm wide. (4)

£100­200

1445

1447

1449

1446

1450

A Tsogho harp ngombi Gabon

with a carved head finial having an oval channelled coiffure with pigment and wire earring loops, the main body with a skin decorated with pigment and the arm with eight strings and pegs, 74.5cm long.

Provenance

Dr Leonhard Adam (1891 - 1960) Anthropologist and lawyer, with label inscribed leihgabe Adam A1. Acquired from Mrs Konietzko, Hamburg in March 1957.

Exhibited

Seminar fuer Voelkerkunde, University of Bonn, 1962. Harp music is perceived to be the female voice of pity and comfort and keeps evil spirits at bay so that people can communicate with their ancestors.

£1,000­1,500

1451

An Ibo anthropomorphic slit drum Nigeria

with two carved heads to the top, with cap like coiffures, one with an arrow symbol to the forehead and with a zig

zag necklace, the other with a vertical line to the forehead, the rectangular body with an integral handle, the decoration burnished, with a hand written collection label Ibo drum from West of Niger - Purchased at ABARRA in WARRI Prov in 1944 32cm long.

£200­300

1452

A Dan staff Ivory Coast carved a stylised animal head finial with a pair of horns and inset brass tacks, on a knoped shaft with scalloped, triangle and cowrie shell decoration, with aluminium and brass bands, 121cm long, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Purchased in Paris in the early 1990s. By repute exhibited at the Grand Palais in 1989.

£1,000­1,500

1453

A Tanala shield ampinga Madagascar the domed front with a hide mount secured with wooden pegs, the back with an integral handle, 52cm high.

£300­500

1454

A Gogo club / staff Tanzania 50cm long, on a metal stand. (2)

Provenance

Formerly the property of the late Marguerite Littman (1930-2020)

£100­150

1453

1455

An Afo machete

Nigeria

with a carved animal head pommel with metal ring eyes and wire bound handle with a J. Moreton & Co. Sheffield steel blade, 60.5cm long, and an Afo anthropomorphic axe, with an iron blade, 48.5cm long. (2)

£100­200

1456

A Tiv axe

Nigeria

brass and iron, with a fullered blade to a head terminal with a crested coiffure, the flared base with a pierced disc and ring attachment, 42cm long.

£200­300

1457

A Boa sickle shape knife

Democratic Republic of the Congo the steel blade with linear decoration and a wood handle, 67cm long, an Ovambo knife and scabbard, with a ‘fish tail’ and belt lug to the back, 36cm long and a Somali circular hide shield, with relief linear decoration and a hide handle, 30cm diameter. (4)

£250­300

1458

Two Mfunte knives and scabbards Cameroon with shaped steel blades and hide covered wood handles, the bamboo scabbards with hippopotamus hide handles, with collection labels Working matchet Mfunte tribe, Bamenda. Forged at Kwedja, purchased at Ntong...June 1948, 57cm and 58.5cm. (4)

£100­200

1459

1459

An Ashanti stool

Ghana with carved and pierced decoration, 30cm high, 49cm long, and a Zulu oval bowl, on four legs with a central faceted nodule and a side lug pierced for suspension, 31cm wide, 12cm high.

£200­300

1460

Two Mangbetu stools

Democratic Republic of the Congo with incised linear decoration to the spreading supports, 17.5cm and 34cm high. (2)

£200­300

1457

1458

1461

Two Karamajong headrests

Kenya with a metal and leather stretcher, 22.5cm and 19.5cm high, and a small Ugandan tripod stool, 25cm high.(3)

£150­200

1463

A Zulu headrest

South Africa

with brass studs to the top corners, the lifts with carved linear decoration and triangle carving to the open support and base, 4cm high, and a Zulu pipe, with a plastic discs and a metal liner, 37.5cm long. (2)

£150­250

1465

A Hausa stool Nigeria with two handles and carved decoration with burnished highlights, 23.6cm high.

£150­200

1462

A Tsonga headrest South Africa with burnished highlights, 13.5cm high.

£300­400

1464

A Karamajong headrest Kenya the sides decorated with incised panels of leaves and with a hide stretcher, 19cm high.

£80­120

1466

A Luo stool Kenya with a dished circular top on four legs, 17.5cm high.

£200­300

1467

An Igbo mask mgbedike Western Isuama, Nigeria with open eyes and carved teeth, with a cloth back having applied bands of seed pods, with a two tier surmount of coiled snakes, standing figures, birds, an animal, two pairs of horns and a figure mounted on a large feline, with polychrome painted decoration, 98cm high.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection. Christie’s, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 134.

£400­600

1468

A Kuyu head

Democratic Republic of the Congo with a parted coiffure and attachment holes to the sides, having a central long tailed loop, scarifications to the face and with filed teeth, with black, white, yellow and blue pigment, 48.5cm high.

£400­600

1468

1467

1469

A Bwa plank mask nwantantay Burkina Faso with carved geometric and painted decoration, 173.5cm high.

Provenance

Peter Peretti, London. Acquired in Paris in the mid 1960s.

£300­500

1470

A Dogon mask Mali with a white pigment ground and remains of red, blue and black pigment decoration, 159.5cm high.

Provenance

Peter Peretti, London. Acquired in Paris in the mid 1960s.

£300­500

1471

A Nafana plank mask bedu Ivory Coast modelled after a buffalo, with three holes to the face, with red, black and white paint, the back with integral support ridges, 190.5cm high.

£400­600

1472

A pair of Bambara antelope headdresses chiwara Mali with applied brass, cloth, cowrie shells, fibre and hair, 131cm high. (2)

£200­300

1473

A Dogon walu mask Mali with remains of an encrusted patina to the horns and linear decoration to the face, 64cm high.

Provenance

Peter Peretti, London. Acquired in Paris in the mid 1960s.

£100­200

1474

A Bambara headdress chiwara Mali with a carved antelope head having the remains of blue pigment and mounted on a woven fibre cap with cloth, fibre and a string of red stone beads, 69cm high.

Provenance

Peter Peretti, London. Acquired in Paris in the mid 1960s.

£200­300

1472

1474

1473

1475

A Luba headrest

Democratic Republic of the Congo

the top with linear carved ends with a female half figure support, with a horizontal linear back coiffure, scarifications around the navel with with her hands places flat on the circular base, 15.2cm high.

£600­800

1476

A Wongo anthropomorphic palm wine cup

Democratic Republic of the Congo

carved as a squatting female with her hands placed on her knees and with inset metal eyes and symbols to the chest and back, 25.5cm high.

£500­800

1475 1477

1477

A Tsonga headrest

Zimbabwe

1476

the top with end rows of carved diamonds and lifts under, the supports with a central platform and conforming base, 13cm high, 20.4cm wide.

Provenance

Christie’s, Tribal Art, 1 December 1993, lot 84.

£500­800

1478

A North African door probably Morocco the top half decorated with stamped circle, square and diamond designs, with three rows of large metal pins, the left side with a metal patched hole and with a later lock, 116cm high, 63cm wide.

Provenance

Peter Peretti, London. Acquired in Paris in the mid 1960s.

£200­300

1479

A Dogon ladder Mali with eight treads, 260cm high, on a base.

£800­1,200

1479

1478

1480

A Baule standing male figure

Ivory Coast with raised facial and body scarifications, 44.5cm high, on a base.

£300­400

1481

A Baule standing male figure

Ivory Coast wearing a hat and with his arms behind his back, 41cm high, on a base.

£300­400

1482

A colon standing male figure by Songo Democratic Republic of the Congo with burnished detailling and signed to the underside of the feet SONGO ASSALI, 53.5cm high.

£100­200

1483

A Baule standing female figure

Ivory Coast with an elaborate coiffure and with facial and body scarifications, wearing a loin cloth with a glass bead waistband, 37cm high.

£150­200

1484

A Fon standing male figure

Benin with a hole through the chest, raised on the remains of a post, 57.5cm high, on a plinth. (2)

£150­250

1485

A Tiv standing male figure

Nigeria the open mouth showing the tongue, 75cm high, on a stand. (2)

£150­250

1486 1488

1486

A Kuba standing female figure

Democratic Republic of the Congo with a diced coiffure and with her hands placed on her abdomen, with traces of pigment, 34cm high, on a stand, and a Yoruba standing female figure, with a crested coiffure and with facial and and abdominal scarifications, 48.5cm high, on a stand. (4)

£400­600

1487

A Mumuye standing female figure

Nigeria with a cap like coiffure on a her tilted up head, 50.5cm high, on a base. (2)

£200­300

1488

A Bamileke figure

Cameroon standing on an open base, with a hyena head at his feet and a brass disc nailed to the base of his neck, with burnished highlights, 64cm high.

£200­300

1489

A Bamum standing figure

Cameroon wearing a domed headdress and holding an ointment jar, 53cm high, on a perspex base. (2)

Provenance

Donald Taitt Collection, Paris. Woolley and Wallis, Tribal Art, 22 September 2020, lot 269.

£500­600

1487

1489

1490

1490

A Dogon box

Mali

with a standing female surmount with a crested coiffure, metal eyes and facial scarifications, the box with sunken relief corners and metal mounts, with a hinged door having a metal loop handle, the underside with remains of white painted collection number 16., 13.7cm high.

Provenance ex Ollers Collection. The Arcade Gallery, London.

Exhibited

The Arcade Gallery, London, Autumn 1978, no. 12. Described as boxes for betel, medicine, butter and tobacco.

£1,500­2,000

1492

1491

A Guro heddle pulley

Ivory Coast with carved head having a long nose and nostils to a pouting mouth and with a pair of large hare­like ears and with a vertical attachment hole towards the back of the head, with a nut reel, 19cm high, on a base. (2)

£1,500­2,000

1492

A Jimini heddle pulley

Ivory Coast carved a buffalo head and with a loop behind, the sides with incised linear decoration, 18.2cm high, on a base. (2)

Provenance

Philip Goldman Collection, London.

£600­800

1493

A Senufo figure porpianong

Ivory Coast

carved as a standing hornbill, with a multi spherical crest and a long beak resting on the swollen stomach, with a throat pouch and an amulet below, with curved rectangular wings, 127.5cm high.

£2,000­3,000

1494

A Chamba mask nam gbalang

Nigeria

carved as a buffalo head, 78cm high.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection. Christie’s, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 113.

£300­400

1495

A Yoruba divination bowl cover

Nigeria

the top carved a reclining male figure leaning on his left elbow and supporting a rifle with his right hand, the sides with a standing male and female figure, with traces of pigment decoration, 20.5cm high.

£200­300

1494

1493

1495

1496

An Ashanti kente cloth

Ghana silk and cotton of twenty­three strips, 315cm x 204cm.

£300­500

1497

A Ewe kente cloth Ghana silk, decorated lozenges and rectangles on a blue/green ground, 291cm x 223cm, and an Ashanti cotton kente cloth, 203cm x 107cm. (2)

£200­300

1498

Seven West African textiles including a Hausa blanket, strip woven with lines and eliptical forms, 251cm x 140cm, two Igbo woven cloths, 180cm x 96cm, a kente cloth, 203cm x 112cm, a Mali strip woven and indigo blanket, 226cm x 130cm, a strip woven striped blanket, 161cm x 167cm, and a small patterned yellow cloth, 151cm x 81cm. (7)

£200­300

1499

An Ashanti kente cloth

Ghana cotton, with an aubergine ground and green, yellow, blue and black, 297cm x 200cm, and two smaller kente cloths, aubergine, 196cm x 127cm and green, 210cm x 107cm. (3)

£150­250

1500

A Dinka corset

South Sudan

coloured glass beads, cloth and fibre, 93cm high, on a stand. (2)

£600­800

1501

Three Zulu beaded adornments

South Africa

including a necklace, a waistband with pubic cover, 70cm long, and a four panel neck piece section, and a Zulu long handled spoon, 49cm long and a miniature Shona knife and scabbard, 13.2cm long. (6)

£200­300

1501

1500

1502

A collection of East African adorments

fibre and coloured glass beads, including three panelled cache sexe, two stranded cache sexe, and another with brass buttons, metal discs and seeds, seven waistbands, two neckbands, one with leather spacers and the other with a cloth and brass mounted panel, a neck ornament with cowrie shells and a necklace. (17)

Provenance

Sir Guy Campbell, 1910 - 1993. Attached to the Camel Corps of the Sudan Defence Force in 1939 and appointed to command the Kenya Regiment in 1952.

£200­300

1502

1506

Eight Zulu staffs / knobkerries

South Africa

including one with a large spherical head, 64cm long, one with a disc shape head, 79cm long, one with an egg shape head, 61.2cm long, one with a faceted knop, 115cm long, one with a stylised head having snuff depressions to the top and base, 81.5cm long, the other three, 82.5cm, 85.5cm and 111.6cm long. (8)

£300­500

λ 1503

A Middle Eastern coral necklace comprising fifty­three pieces, the longest 5cm.

£100­200

1504

An Ottoman silver chatelaine Turkish, early 20th century with six pierced spherical pendants and a pistol, the main chain with a slider, stamped marks, 113cm long, 226.6 grams.

£100­150

λ 1505

A pair of Omani anklets Oman silver colouted metal, with pin hinges and chased decoration, 10cm wide, a Yemen bead necklace, with stamped signatures, an Egyptian cuff bracelet, a lapis lazuli bead necklace with an Ethiopian coptic cross pendant, a Senufo brass ring, a Baule brass necklace, a middle eastern cast panel belt, 75cm long, a Kazak bracelet, with overlaid carnelian ovals, a Tibetan amulet necklace with inset turquoise and coral, a Chinese embossed bangle, a plain bangle and an Indian coin necklace. (13)

£200­300

1507

1507

A Senufo headdress

Ivory Coast hide and hippopotamus teeth, 49cm wide, 28cm high, on a stand. (2)

£300­500

1508

A collection of twenty eight African spears

Cameroon and Nigeria

the differing steel blades with barbs, plain or engraved with wood and bamboo shafts, the five largest with coiled brass counter weights, three with identification labels, stating Wum and Bikon tribes, acquired in 1946, one indistinct, the longest 210cm. (28)

£300­400

1509

An Ethiopian large processional Coptic Cross silvered brass, pierced and incised, 74.5cm high, 57cm high, on a stand. (2)

£400­600

1510

An Ethiopian double sided diptych carved with hand crosses and continuous knot panels, painted the crucifixtion, the Virigin Mary with the infant Jesus, Jesus showing his stigmata and St George and the dragon, 23.2cm high

£150­200

1511

An Ethiopian panel painting on cloth, divided into sixty squares depicting scenes from the story of King Solomon and Queen Sheba, with script below each panel, 91cm x 154cm, with a wood baton along the base.

£200­300

1512

A Kongo crucifix Democratic Republic of the Congo cast bronze, 24.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

£200­300

1513

An Ethiopian brass processional cross 14th century

the main cross within an arched open frame with cross terminals and two bird heads towards the base, with incised linear and circle decoration, with an applied tapering connecting shaft, 28.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Sam Fogg, London.

£6,000­8,000

1513

1514

1514

An Ethiopian brass hand cross second half of the 15th century the cross with a central panel incised figures of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel to one side and the Saints Peter and Paul to the other, all holding crosses and with identifying inscriptions, bordered by pierced interlaced designs and birds, the pendant base with further figures and inscriptions, 25.5cm long.

Provenance

Sam Fogg, London.

£4,000­6,000

1516

1515

An Ethiopian icon mid 15th century tempera on gesso covered wood panel, decorated two archangles holding swords, with the inscriptions for Michael and Gabriel, 8.2cm x 6.7cm.

Provenance

Sam Fogg, London.

£600­800

1516

A religious staff the conical finial above two rattles and a carved shaft with a cross and saintly figures, the sides including two relief crosses and bentwood forming an open ovoid shape, to further carved knops, including a head, and a plain base, reduced, 86.5cm long.

Provenance

Peter Peretti, London. Acquired in Paris in the mid 1960s.

£150­250

1517

A Tuareg post Niger the knopped shaft with two rows of upward pointing hooks, with incised linear decoration, 101.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

£100­200

1518

A Yoruba staff Nigeria carved with three figures and two rattles, with embossed sheet copper, 183.5cm high.

£800­1,200

1519

A Fon staff asen

Benin

iron, the top with a seated figure wearing a hat, a flowing cloak, chameleons, plants, a hand with a tortoise and sun and moon symbols, the edge hung with aluminium lozenges, 123cm high, on a stand. (2)

£200­400

1520

A Pedi staff finial South Africa carved a standing figure with crested diaper coiffure with brass and iron wire to the neck and knees, 68cm long.

£100­200

1521

A Mende staff Sierra Leone with a bundu mask finial, with a curved, knopped and facet carved shaft, 86.2cm long, on a stand. (2)

Provenance Craig de Lora, New York.

Andrew J Berz, Sausalito, California / Mexico City.

£600­800

1522

A Kaguru figural staff

Tanzania

carved a standing female with a ribbed coiffure, pierced ears and nose, with a peg inserted into her left shoulder, wearing a cloth and coin, and bead necklaces, the shaft with carved decoration, 101cm long.

Provenance

Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium. Sulaiman Diane, New York, USA, 1997.

Rudolph Leopold (1925 - 2010) Collection, Vienna, Austria. By descent to Dr Elizabeth Leopold. Dorotheum, Vienna, Tribal Art, Africa, From the Collection of Rudolph Leopold, 3 May 2011, lot 141.

James Stephenson, New York, USA. Bonhams, New York, 15 May 2014, African, Oceanic & Pre-Columbian Art, lot 140.

£2,000­3,000

1523

A Makonde staff Mozambique with a carved head finial having a burnished coiffure, scarifications and a lip plug above carved teeth, the top of the shaft curved and faceted, 91.5cm long.

£600­800

1524

A Taureg tent post Niger with carved and incised linear decoration, 142.5cm high, on a base. (2)

£150­250

1525

Three Zulu staffs South Africa

all with spherical finials, one plain and very long, one with an entwined snake and the other with an entwined snake tail, 191.5cm, 133.5cm and 112cm long. (3)

£300­500

1526

1526

A Yoruba panel Nigeria relief carved animals, birds, swords and symbols, 164.5cm x 30cm.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

£50­100

1527

A Zulu staff South Africa with a mushroom knop finial and a cylindrical shaft with two lozenge sections with overlapping sides and a central spiral rib, 124cm long.

£150­250

λ 1528

A Zulu knobkerrie South Africa, late 19th century, rhinoceros horn, with a spherical head and a cylindrical tapering and slightly curved shaft, 60cm long, 511.6g.

£1,500­2,000

1529

An Ashanti staff fragment Ghana with a carved head finial with ears to the back, the shaft with elephants, humans, birds and other animals, 59cm long.

£50­100

1530

A Shilluk club South Sudan the mushroom shape head on a tapering cylindrical shaft with a leather bound grip, 67cm long.

£150­250

1527

1528

1529

1530

1531

A pair of Yoruba Ibeji figures Nigeria male and female, with glass beads and shell discs, the female with metal pins to the eyes, 26.5cm and 25.8cm high. (2)

£800­1,200

1532

A pair of Yoruba male Ibeji figures Nigeria with scarifications to the face and back of the neck, pierced ears and wearing shorts, one with metal pins to the eyes, 24cm high. (2)

£200­300

1532

1531

1533

A Yoruba female Ibeji figure Egbe, Yagba, Nigeria with the remains of a pointed coiffure and with her hands placed on her lower abdomen, with glass beads and metal bands, 29.5cm high.

£800­1,200

1534

A Yoruba male Ibeji figure Nigeria with pierced ears and pin recesses to the eyes, facial scarifications and a worn mouth, with further scarifications to the abdomen and with glass beads, cowrie shells, metal bands and nut disc bands, 24.5cm high.

Provenance

Marvin Chasin Collection, London. Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 19th September 2018, lot 585.

£300­500

1535

A Yoruba female Ibeji figure Nigeria with an elaborate coiffure and facial scarifications, wearing nut disc and glass beads, 28.8cm high, on a base.

Provenance Bonhams, London, 1990s.

£400­600

1536

1536

Two Yoruba female Ibeji figures Ilorin, Kware State, Nigeria with raised block coiffures, and with remains of metal pins to the eyes, wearing bead bands, 24.5cm and 27.8cm high. (2)

£200­300

1537

Two Yoruba female Ibeji figures Abeokuta, Nigeria with similar crested coiffures and with their finger tips to the hips, one with glass beads, 24.5cm high. (2)

£400­600

1538

A Yoruba female Ibeji figure by Salakatu Ayo Abeokuta, Nigeria with a fine layered and tied coiffure, wearing glass beads and a metal bangle, the base signed with two concentric triangles, 26cm high.

Salakatu Ayo (d. 1980) was the son of Oniyide Adugbologe and the brother to Makinde, who were all carvers in the Abeokuta workshop, a family traditon dating to the 19th century.

£300­500

1539

A Yoruba female Ibeji figure Nigeria with facial scarifications and a carved waistband, 27cm high.

£600­800

1540

A Yoruba female Ibeji figure Nigeria with a tied back coiffure, facial and abdominal scarifications, with visable ankle bones and with chevrons carved around the base, wearing glass beads and metal bands, 26cm high.

£300­500

1537

1541

A pair of Yoruba Ibeji figures

Nigeria male and female with worn faces and remains of encrusted cam powder, the female with bead necklaces, 20cm and 19.8cm high. (2)

£300­400

1542

A pair of Yoruba Ibeji figures with jackets Nigeria

male and female, with differing coiffures, metal pin eyes, filed teeth and platform sandals, with glass beads to the waists and the female with two cowrie shells, the beaded jackets decorated a mask, crocodile and snakes, 33cm high. (4)

£300­400

1543

A Yoruba female Ibeji figure Nigeria with a divided conical coiffure and a worn face, wearing glass beads and a nut disc band, 29.8cm high.

Provenance

Marvin Chasin, London, late 1980s.

£800­1,200

1544

A Yoruba male Ibeji figure Oyo, Nigeria with glass and nut disc bands and a string of cowrie shells, 26.5cm high, and a Yoruba female Ibeji figure, with pin eyes and bead bands, left leg off, 31cm high. (2)

£150­250

1545

Six Yoruba Ibeji figures

Nigeria

including a male and female pair, 26.5cm high, two females, 25.5cm and 27.8cm high, a male, 24.5cm and one wearing an apron, 27.5cm high and a Nigerian female figure by I.O. Taiwo, with a child on her back and holding a covered bowl, the base signed I.O.TAIWO 84, 41.8cm high. (7)

£200­300

1547

A Yoruba Ibeji male figure

Nigeria

with carved Islamic tirah amulets to the chest and back, with facial, arm and abdominal scarifications, with Reckitt’s blue and cam powder, 30cm high, and a Makonde standing male figure, with a diaper carved cross to the cap coiffure, with a fabric loin cloth and job’s tear seed anklets, 31.5cm high. (2)

£100­200

1546

Five Yoruba Ibeji figures

Nigeria

including two males and three females, one with metal pin eyes and four with beads, 25cm ­ 28cm high. (5)

£300­500

1548

A pair of Yoruba Ibeji figures

Nigeria

male and female, with triangular amulets, the male with beads, 34cm high, and two Yoruba Ibeji figures, male and female, 24.5cm and 21.6cm high. (4)

£200­300

1549

A Bambara kono mask

Mali

representing an elephant with an encrusted patina and with a white painted collection number V.16, 76cm high, fixed on a stand.

Provenance

Thierry Leproust Collection, Paris.

Galerie Abla & Alain Lecomte, Paris.

Exhibited and Published

Galerie Abla & Alain Lecomte, Parcours des Mondes, Paris, September 2019, p.12.

£4,000­6,000

1550

A Dan Diomande mask

Ivory Coast

with scarification lines carved down the sides of the face, two nails to the forehead and with brass ring eyes, the mouth applied hide with hair, the roof of the mouth with a red pigment, 29cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Thierry Leproust Collection, Paris.

Galerie Abla & Alain Lecomte, Paris.

Exhibited and Published

Galerie Abla & Alain Lecomte, Parcours des Mondes, Paris, September 2019, p.11.

£1,500­2,500

1551

1551

A Dan monkey mask

Ivory Coast with the remains of a nail to the forehead and an articulated lower jaw with applied hide with hair, 25cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Thierry Leproust Collection, Paris.

Galerie Abla & Alain Lecomte, Paris.

Exhibited and Published

Galerie Abla & Alain Lecomte, Parcours des Mondes, Paris, September 2019, p.10.

£1,500­2,500

1550

1553

1552

A Guro mask

Ivory Coast with a parted coiffure and polychrome decoration, 26cm high, on a stand. (2)

£400­500

1553

A Baule small mask

Ivory Coast with the remains of surmount, the cheeks with raised scarifications and with a beard, 25.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

£200­300

1554

A Baule mask

Ivory Coast applied metal tacks and semi­circular metal plaques under the eyes, 53.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance ex Neil Keltie Collection, collected in the 1960s. £200­300

1555

A Bambara mask ntomo Mali with pierced eyes, ears and mouth, 43.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Kenneth John Hewett, London. Private Collection, Hampstead, London. Private Collection, London.

£400­600

1556

A Pende mask

1555 1557

Democratic Republic of the Congo with fibre and painted decoration, 25cm high.

£300­400

1557

An Igbo mask

Nigeria with a triple finned headdress and with remains of red and white pigment, 18cm high.

£100­200

1552

1554

1558

A Dan mask

Ivory Coast with a forehead arch and moulded brow, the large round eyes, pierced around the edges, pierced nostrils and curved open mouth, old staple repair to the top of the forehead, 22cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Kenneth John Hewett, London. Private Collection, Hampstead, London. Private Collection, London.

£4,000­6,000

1559

A Mossi standing female figure Burkino Faso with incised decoration, 47cm high, on a base, a Nigerian standing male figure, 46cm high, on a base and a Kenyan carved female figure, 61.5cm high. (5)

£100­200

1560

A Bambara standing female figure Mali with carved decoration to the head, shoulders and the circular base, with the remains of red and white pigment, 100.5cm high, on a fixed base.

£150­250

1561

A Dogon figure Mali fragmentary, with remains of an encrusted patina, 45cm high, and a Togo standing figure, 29cm high, on a stand. (3)

Provenance

Peter Peretti, London. Acquired in Paris in the mid 1960s.

£150­200

1562

A Mali four headed female figure standing on an oval base and with an encrusted patina, 43.5cm high.

£150­250

1563

A Baga shrine head anok Guinea with carved decoration, 29.5cm high.

£50­100

1564

An Igbo male shrine figure Nigeria with a raised boss to the top of the head and a chest pocket recess, nodules to the sides and two pairs of points to the back, 25cm high.

£150­200

1565

A Bambara standing female figure Mali with pierced arched ears and with incised linear decoration to the coiffure and body, 49.5cm high.

£150­250

1566

An Ibibio standing male figure Nigeria with painted black coiffure and yellow painted face with red lips, 48cm high.

£100­150

1567

A Chokwe mask

Democratic Republic of the Congo with red pigment and coin earrings, 16cm high, on a stand, and a Luba­Songye maskette, 14cm high, on a stand. (4)

£200­300

1568

A Baule mask Ivory Coast with raised scarifications and painted, 34cm high, a Chokwe mask, Angola, with scarifications and a fibre coiffure, 22cm high and a Dan mask, with aluminium inset teeth, 25cm high. (3)

£400­600

1569

An Igala helmet mask fragment Nigeria with a crescent shape eye, pouting lips, disc ear, a beard and scarifications, with pigment decoration, 31.5cm high.

£600­800

1570

An Ibibio mask idiok ekpo Nigeria with a double horn crest, keloids and an articulated jaw, with a black stain, 30.5cm high, and a Mambila mask, with painted decoration, with a collection label Mambila tribe - MaskDonga Valley - Colomewa. Present from Rev P. Gebeuer - Sept 1947, 36cm high. (2)

Provenance

Acquired in Africa in the late 1940s.

£150­250

1565

1566

1567

1568

1569

1570

1572

1571

A Dan Kran passport mask Liberia with the remains of an encrusted patina, 14.5cm high, with a stand. (2)

Provenance

ex Hans Schleger, Berlin/London.

£200­300

1572

Three Dan passport masks Ivory Coast one with pierced eyes, 8.2cm, 10.4cm and 11.5cm high. (3)

£150­250

1573

An Angola comb with a standing female figure handle, with inset glass bead eyes, 20.5cm high, a Nigerian miniature standing figure, with fibre around the neck, 13cm high, on a base, a Bwa miniature buffalo mask, 12cm high, on a stand and a Democratic of the Congo head finial, with a charge recess to the top, 15.5cm high, on a base. (7)

£200­300

1574

Three Chokwe combs Angola one carved a bird handle with inset white glass bead eyes, 23.3cm long, another carved an antelope, 24.5cm long, both with burnished highlights, the third double ended with fine carved decoration, 24.8cm long. (3)

£150­200

1573

1574

1575

An Akan comb Ghana with a carved head surmount having a braided coiffure with black staining, and with a long ringed neck and wearing a crucifix necklace, flanked by headrests, 26cm long.

Provenance

Hand written label stating - 20 May 68, Sothebys.

£100­200

1576

A Shona double end snuff container South Africa with carved bands of zig­zags and a suspension lug, 15cm long, and a South African brass and copper wirework covered glass bottle, 14.9cm high. (2)

£200­300

1577

A Nigerian box and cover carved as a leopard’s head with inset fangs, 24cm long, 12.5cm high.

£200­300

1577

1578

A Fang reliquary head Gabon with a ribbed and tripartite coiffure and glass panel and opaque eyes, 48.5cm high, in a base. (2)

Provenance

Private Collection, Southeast UK. Private Collection, London, UK.

£400­600

1578

1579

A Kota reliquary figure Gabon with applied brass and copper, 26cm high, on a base. (2)

Provenance

J H Beaverton Collection, Oregon, USA. Private Collection, Johannesburg, South Africa.

£400­600

1580

A Benin stool the top with a central carved knot design on a double snake support, with each mouth on a lying figure and with other relief symbols including heads, clenched fists and frogs, 44cm high.

£200­300

1581

A Dan mask

Ivory Coast with a vertical forehead ridge, pierced elliptical eyes and an open mouth, 21.2cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Peter Adler Collection, London. Private Collection, London.

£2,000­3,000

1582

A Guro heddle pulley

Ivory Coast with a long mask and pony tail, the block top pierced for attachment, with a reel, 17cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Josef Herman Collection (1911 - 2000) artist. Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 20 February 2019, lot 1118.

£300­500

1583

A Guro heddle pulley

Ivory Coast with a carved head finial with a pointed coiffure and pierced for attachment, the worn reel with a nail pin, with white painted collection number 3734, 21.2cm high, on a base. (2)

Exhibited Bruneaf, 2015.

£1,000­1,500

1584

A Kuba palm wine cup Democratic Republic of the Congo cephalomorphic, with a handle to the back, 14cm high, and a West African model of a vessel, 12.5cm high. (2)

£100­200

1585

A Democratic Republic of the Congo box and cover probably Mangbetu bark with fibre stitching and with painted geometric decoration, 29cm high.

£150­250

1586

A Zulu milk pail South Africa

with four relief bands of amasumpa and a pair of faceted side handles, with burnished highlights, 36cm high.

£200­300

1587

A Weh or Aghem basket and cover Cameroon natural and dyed plant fibre, 39cm high, and a Cameroon / Nigerian basket and cover, with a hide handle and loops to the sides, one with remains of cloth and the base with fibre braids, 63cm high, and a leaf sphere. (3)

Provenance

Collected in Nigeria / Cameroon in the 1940s.

£150­250

1588

A Bozo stool

Mali with male and female half figure supports and with bright painted decoration, 29cm high, a Bambara stool, with a carved aardvark support, 24.5cm high, a Bozo model hyena, with painted decoration, 62cm long and two Yoruba opon ife divination boards, 16cm and 42cm diameter. (5)

£300­400

1589

A Rotse child’s chair Zambia with chip carved decoration, 56.2cm high, and two Rotse stacking bowls and covers, 26cm high. (5)

£150­200

1584

1585

1586

1587

1590

1591 1594

1590

A Dan spoon Ivory Coast with a head finial having red pigment across the eyes and with carved decoration, 65cm long.

£100­200 1591

A Democratic Republic of the Congo rattle with a Lulua male figure having an open eliptical headdress and standing on a Kuba drum, with a pierced nut shell filled with seeds ?, to a pointed base, 52.5cm long.

£200­300

1592

A Chamba double figure Nigeria carved a male and female figure united by four knops and both wearing an iron neck ring, 79cm high, set into a base.

£150­200

1593

A Tanzania staff with a carved head terminal, drilled at the base for fibre attachment, 40cm long, a Yoruba brass and iron edan rod, 29.5cm long and a carved and painted half figure of An Ashanti Chief in State Costume, 18.5cm high. (3)

£100­200 1594

An African male figure of elongated form, 43.5cm, mounted. (2)

£100­200

1592

1595

A Dan zoomorphic mask gegon

Ivory Coast with relief brows and a beak, with inserted nails and a black patina, 22cm high.

£400­600

1597

1596

A Kamba seated maternity figure Kenya with a child in a carrier on her back and with a flask in her lap, both with inset stone eyes and the mother with metal earrings and the remains of a leather strap to her head, 27.7cm high.

£250­350

1597

Five Yoruba Shango divination tools Nigeria including four axes and a bundle of carved sticks, the longest 41cm, and thirteen orcacle bones. (18)

£100­200

1598

A Senufo stool Ivory Coast with an oblong dished seat and raised on four part chamfered legs, 22.5cm high, a Gurunsi zoomorphic tripod stool, 58cm long and a stool with a carved head of a man, with his chin acting as a support, with a glass bead necklace, 60cm long. (3)

£200­300

1605 1604

1599

Larry Otoo

b. 1956, Ghana

Squating Porridge Drinker oil on canvas

signed L. Otto and titled on the back with date 1990, 61cm x 45.5cm.

Exhibited

Savannah Gallery, 45 Derbyshire Street, London.

£200­300

1600

Gerard Bhengu 1910 ­ 1990

South Africa

Portrait of a child, watercolour, signed, 37.5cm x 27.5cm.

£100­150

1601

May Furniss (Marian Elizabeth Furniss)

1872 ­ 1955

Ploughing in Basutoland, watercolour, signed, 23.5cm x 33cm, and a child holding a plate of oranges, watercolour, signed, 23cm x 15cm. (2)

£150­250

1602

Guy Huzé 1912 ­ 1997

New Zealand

Ghanaian Surfport, gouache, signed and insrcibed GHANA, 44.4cm x 60cm.

£150­200

1603

James Cowles Prichard, M.D. F.R.S. M.R.I.A.

Illustrations to the Researches into the Physical History of Mankind Atlas, of Forty­four Coloured and Five plain plates, engraved on steel. Hippolyte Baillière, 219 Regent Street. 1844. Cloth and leather bound, with gilt stamped title along the spine, all leaves loose

£250­350

1604

Literature ­

R Lehuard, A Lecomte. Statuaire Babembe Sculpture, 2010; Museo Casa de la Moneda, Joyes del Niger y del Benue; E Eyo, F Willet. Treasures of Ancient Nigeria, 1982; Sandro Bocola (Ed.) African Seats, 2002; F Herreman (Ed.) In the Presence of Spirits, African Art from the National Museum of Ethnology, Lisbon, 2000; W Schmalenbach (Ed.) African Art from the Barbier­Mueller Collection, Geneva, 1998; Musée Dapper. le Geste kôngo, 2002; S Vogel (Ed.) For Spirits and Kings, African Art from the Tishman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,1981; F Neyt. Luba, aux Sources du Zaïre, 1993; F Herreman (Ed.) Material Differences, Art and Identity in Africa, 2003; T Northern. The Art of Cameroon, 1984; F Neyt. The Arts of the Benue, to the roots of tradition, 1985; P Gebauer. Art of Cameroon, 1979; H C C Lu, M L Felix. Kongo Kingdom Art, from ritual to cutting edge, 2003; Kiebé­Kiebé, Dança iniciática do CongoBrazzaville, 2012; A­M Boyer, P Girard, M Rivière. Arts Premiers de Côte D’Ivoire, 1997; Sotheby’s, Catalogue of Works of Art from Benin, The Property of a European Private Collector, 16th June 1980; F Lamp. Art of the Baga, A Drama of Cultural Reinvention, 1996; S M Vogel. Baule, African Art Western Eyes, 1997; S Eisenhofer, K Guggeis. Afrikanische Kunst, 2002. (20)

£150­250

1605

Literature ­

J Kerchache, J­L Paudrat, L Stephan. Art of Africa, 1993; The Tervuren Museum, Masterpieces from Central Africa, 1996; Alisa Lagamma. Kongo, Power and Majesty, 2015; Francois Neyt. Kifwebe, A Century of Songye and Luba Masks, 2019; E Fischer, L Homberger. Les Maîtres de la sculpture de Côte d’Ivoire, 2015; Frank Herreman. Oceanië, 2011; Christa Clarke, African Art in the Barnes Foundation, 2015; Peter Stepan. Spirits Speak, A Celebration of African Masks, 2005; Alisa Lagamma. Eternal Ancestors, The Art of the Central African Reliquary, 2007; Adrian Schlag. Masks of the We and Neighbours, 2022; African Art from the Mack Collection, 2017; Ezio Bassani. African Art, 2012. (12)

£150­200

OCEANIA, INDIA & SOUTH EAST ASIA

1606

Two Naga pipes

Nagaland

with carved head bowls, one with brass bell earrings and the other with yellow leaf fibre, both with a series of figures along the stem, and the larger with fibre binding and a bamboo mouthpiece, 22cm and 16.6cm long. (2)

£200­300

1607

A Tibet beggars bowl

burr wood with a brass fastener and hook, 19cm long, an Indian bronze hilt, cast Ganesh, Shiva, a mask and a sacred cow, 12cm high, on a stand, and an Indian bronze figure of Parvati, 10cm high. (4)

£250­350

1608

A pair of Indian doors carved and painted geometric designs and the double panelled backs with floral painted decoration, each 70.5cm high and 38.5cm wide. (2)

Provenance

Peter Peretti, London. Acquired in Paris in the mid 1960s.

£200­300

1609

An Indian bronze recumbent Nandi bull 6cm long, fixed to a perspex base, and three Indian devotional bronzes, including Durga on a lioness, 10cm high, and two of a figure with a staff on a horse and a lioness, 8.5cm and 14cm high, on stands. (7)

£400­600

1610

A circular stone bowl and cover possibly Nepal carved bands of heads and the three supports, 13.5cm high.

£150­250

1611

Two Indian silver amulets of yoni form and die stamped deities representing Shiva and Ganesh, 7cm high, a koftgari decorated iron buckle, the s shape clip with duck head terminals, 8.5cm long, two Indian amulet stamps and an Egyptian composition scarab amulet, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, carved hieroglyphs depicting the throne name for Amenhotep III, pierced through the ends, 1.3cm long. (8)

Provenance

Scarab - found at Mataria 13 January 1921.

£100­200

1612

1613

1612

An Indian cloth painting depicting Krishna and eight gopis celebrating the Holi Festival, with syringes and red dye, 240cm x 293cm, and another Indian cloth painting, depicting gods and demons in animal drawn chariots, flanking a male deity sitting in a temple, 280cm x 275cm. (2)

£100­200

1613

A Rajasthan tandura

India

wood with bone detailling and punched circle and dot decoration, the wood skin with painted symbols and script, 114cm long.

Provenance

Tomi Van Duuren Collection.

£100­200

1614

Four Tibetan cham dance masks cloth and papier mache with brightly painted decoration, 46cm high. (4)

£400­600

1614

1615

A Paiwan house panel

Taiwan

relief carved a standing warrior wearing a horned headdress with feathers and holding a long knife and a harpoon in each hand and with a crossbow stock /rifle to his right, and with an animal to the left of his head, with pigment decoration, 168.5cm high, 77cm wide.

Provenance

Acquired from Chen Chi-Lu, Taiwan, circa 1979.

£4,000­6,000

1616

1617

1616

A Paiwan knife and sheath

Taiwan

carved masks and a female figure, 34.5cm long, and a spear blade and sheath, with carved heads to the end, 35cm long. (4)

£100­200

1617

A Bali figure of Rangda

Indonesia portrayed with fangs, a long tongue, large eyes and ears, with a mane of hair, pendulous breasts and rotund stomach, wearing a sarong and on a lotus leaf base, with painted and gilt decoration, 45.5cm high.

£150­250

1618

A Dayak necklace

Sarawak, Indonesian glass beads and a tapir tooth, with handwritten identification label, 23cm long, a Toraja spoon, with a head terminal, 18cm long, and a bone hair pin, fibre bound and with a glass bead, 18.2cm long. (3)

£200­300

1619

A Java wayang kulit shadow puppet

Indonesia painted cut out leather with horn supports, representing a noble prince, 57cm long.

£50­100

1618

1619

1620

A Dayak baby carrier

Indonesian wood, woven fibre, coloured glass beads and bone, 33.5cm high, and two Bali zoomorphic masks, with painted decoration. (3)

£150­200

1621

A pair of Batak house ornaments

Indonesia carved as singa masks, 47.5cm high. (2)

£400­600

1622

A Nias standing male figure

Indonesia with removeable arms, the right raised and previously with a spear and the left with a tenon end, 64.5cm high.

£150­250 1623

A Bali female figure

Indonesia wearing a jewelled headress, a scarf and supporting a pot on her right hand, 76cm high.

£150­250 1624

A Dayak post figure

Indonesian with a square aperture in the centre, 86cm high.

£200­300 1625

A standing male figure possibly Dayak, Indonesia with inset glass bead eyes and traces of paint, 68cm high.

£150­250 1626

An Atauro standing male figure itara

Timor­Leste, Indonesia with a top knot coiffure and a bent body with his hands placed above the knees, 37.5cm high.

£100­200

1623

1624

1622

1627

A Flores Island panel Indonesia with carved decoration depicting two birds, scrolls and petals, with rebated side edges, 106.5cm x 33.5cm.

£200­300

1628

A Toraja door Sulawesi, Indonesia

relief carved a buffalo head and a standing figure, 90.5cm high, 44.5cm wide.

£400­600

λ 1629

Three Dayak figural charms

Indonesia

one carved wood with arms across his chest, 9.6cm high, the other two carved in horn, with two large attachment holes, 12cm and 10cm high, on stands, a Dayak carved wood sword handle, 11.5cm long, two Dayak hair pins, carved wood and beads and turtleshell, 14.8cm and 11.7cm long, on a stand, and two Dayak lime containers, with a frog and figural stopper, 19.5cm and 10.4cm high. (14)

£300­500

1629

1628

1627

1630

A Bali rice sheath paddle panaptapan

Indonesia

with a carved smiling face wearing a headdress, with a black patina and red pigment underneath, the back flat and with a curved handle, 19th century, 35.5cm long.

The rice paddles were used to flatten the top surface of the bundles of rice, before they were taken to the rice barns.

£1,500­2,000

1631

Three Sumba ikats

Indonesia

cotton, one with a central ancestor figure with another figure under, with similar images to the sides and with skull houses, 270cm x 118cm, the other two with figures, heads and animals, 217cm x 107cm and 254cm x 112cm. (3)

£200­300

1632

A pair of Sumba ikats

Indonesia

cotton, each with five ancestor figures, 55cm x 168cm, and three Sumba ikats, with figures and one with a central band of dragons, a lobster, house of heads, a figure and other animals, 187cm x 50cm, 182cm x 40cm and 250cm x 60cm. (5)

£300­400

1630

1633

1633

A Sumba long ikat Indonesia depicting a ship with figures to the centre and flanked by birds, fish, monkey’s and mythical creatures, 658cm x 37cm.

£150­200

1634

Two Sumba ikat hinggi cloths Indonesia one depicting an equestrain figure with a shade and attendants, surrounded by other figures, animals, shrines and symbols, 230cm x 114cm and the other with rows of zoomorphic designs, 266cm x 122cm. (2)

£200­300

1635

Four Sumba ikat hinggi cloths Indonesia depicting shrimp, lobsters, figures, fish, turtles, mythical beasts, animals and skull houses, 250cm x 122cm. (4)

£200­300

1636

Three Indonesian ikats including Sumba, decorated with two large fish, birds, crocodiles, crabs, other fish, and sea horses, 201cm x 85cm, another with rows of horsemen and birds, 250cm x 110cm, and Flores, with rows of flowerhead symbols, 203cm x 69cm. (3)

£150­200

1637

Two Indonesian ikats cotton, one with six rows of two zoomorphic creatures, 186cm x 101cm, and the other with trellised leaf designs, within striped edges, 225cm x 49cm, and a Sumba skirt, decorated lions and birds, 119cm long. (3)

£300­400

1638

A pair of Sumba ikat cloths Indonesia with an all­over geometric design and the end borders with equestrian figures and a marine creature, 330cm x 111cm. (2)

£150­250

1639

A collection of South East Asian textiles including two Laos ikat skirts, pha sin, 159cm x 68cm and 138cm x 63cm, a Laos kit silk and embroidered mosquito net border, ends sewn together, 660cm, two Laos bags, yaam, a Hmong applique apron, two Laos chok and kit silk fragments, a Laos embroidered fragment, four Hmong embroidered and applique waist bands, four Lisu applique bands, two woven bands, two purses and a Cambodian silk ikat cloth. (22)

Provenance

Virginia Bond Korda Collection.

£100

200

1641

A Karawari River hunting charm yipwon

Papua New Guinea with a ribbed crest to the top, a hooked body and the face with a pierced septum, on a single leg, 47cm high, on a base.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

£500­800

1640

1642

A Karawari River small hunting charm yipwon

Papua New Guinea with an encrusted patina, 36cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

Christie’s, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 170.

£100­200

1640

An Upper Sepik River war canoe ornament utukwei Wogumus or Ngala, Papua New Guinea with three sago spathes bound to a cane frame, with an applied carved wood mask having a tall spine of hooks terminating in a bird’s head, with pigment decoration and with feather and seed attachments, 142cm high, on a base.

Provenance Collected in 1962.

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

Christie’s, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 149. £600­800

1641

1642

1644

1643

1645 1647

1643

A Murik Lakes canoe prow

Papua New Guinea carved as a crocodile head and the top with the creation myth of the crocodile giving birth to a man, 77cm long, mounted on a stand.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

£300­500

1644

An Iatmul stopper

Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea with a carved head finial with a red pigment and an integral loop to the back with a fibre suspension loop, 18cm high, on a stand. (2)

£200­300

1645

An Iatmul flute stopper

Middle Sepik, Papua New Guinea carved a bird and a mask, the base with fibre and feathers, 49.6cm high.

£100­150

1646

An Iatmul flute stopper

Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea carved a crocodile head and a mythical bird with inset shell eyes and with pigment, 53.5cm long, on a stand. (2)

£300­400

1647

Two Iatmul flute stoppers

Middle Sepik, Papua New Guinea each carved with a standing figure and with a mythical bird on his shoulders, one with inset shell eyes, 46.8cm and 40cm high, one in a stand. (3)

£150­200

1648

An Iatmul lime container with stopper Middle Sepik, Papua New Guinea bamboo with a woven fibre band and pigment, the carved zoomorphic stopper representing animals and fish with a mythical head finial and with pigment, 62.5cm long, on a stand. (3)

£300­500

1649

1649

An Asmat standing male figure Irian Jaya holding an inverted trophy head, 95cm high, on a base. (2)

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection. Christie’s, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 181.

£400­600

1650

A Middle Sepik River female ancestor figure Papua New Guinea seated on a mask support and with inset cowrie shell eyes, pierced ears and a long nose, with hands raised to her chest, the abdomen with carved ‘ribs’ and linear symbols, with pigment decoration, 98cm high, on a base.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection. Remains of exhibition label 1044 Middle Sepik.

£400­600

1650

1651

A Dayak hampatong figure

Indonesia the standing male with a petal and ropework headdress, 141cm high, on a base.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

Christie’s, Tribal Art, 1 December 1993, lot 127.

£300­500

1652

An Ewa figure Korowari River, Papua New Guinea the head with a serrated crest and a pierced septum, with a stylised body of spikes and contained plain and serrated protrusions, with earth and white pigments, 147.5cm high, on a base. (2)

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection. Christie’s, London, Tribal Art, 1 December 1993, lot 168.

£300­500

1653

A Dayak hamatong

Tundjung, Indonesia

carved as a matabani jar with eight looped handles around the neck, surmounted by a head with carved teeth to the open mouth, 113cm high, on a base.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection. Christie’s, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 205.

Exhibited

The Divine Gifts, London, 1975, no. 31. These vases are generally termed matabani after the southern Kalimantan port of that name through which they were traded. They were manufactured as export ware in China and were highly valued by the Dayaks who used them in their mortuary rights.

£500­800

1654

Five Simbai River shields

Papua New Guinea with relief carved geometric decoration and with fibre straps, 91cm, 96cm, 100.5cm, 102cm and 104cm high. (5)

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection. the highest - Christie’s, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 192.

£1,000­1,500

1655

An Iatmul orator’s stool

Papua New Guinea the curved back with carved stylised decoration and with a standing female figure with inset cowrie shell eyes and previously with resin/mud to the top of the head, her right arm inscribed MANIAMA, with an oval seat having two ancestor mask supports to a domed base, with earth and white pigments, 86cm high.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection. Christie’s, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 150.

£300­500

1655

1654

1656

An Asmat shield

Irian Jaya

with carved stylised figures and fibre tufts, the back with an integral handle with medial ribs terminating in carved hands, with white, black and red/brown pigment, 185cm high.

Provenance

Dr Laurance R. Goldman Collection.

Christie’s, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 136.

£300­400

1657

An Upper Sepik River shield

Papua New Guinea with a carved mask within scrolls and chevrons, the back with two integral parellel blocks with rattan handles, Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

Christie’s, London, Tribal Art, 1 December 1993, lot 155.

£200­300

1658

A large Iatmul ceremonial house panel

Papua New Guinea carved as a elongated mask, with large eyes, nose and protruding tongue, with smaller masks set within, with red, white, ochre and black pigment, 190cm high.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

Christies’s, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 143.

£300­500

1659

A Lumi shield

Papua New Guinea with a carved linear and scroll motif, highlighted with white pigment and painted a sun and two X’s, with an encrusted patina and with fibre and cloth strap handle, 101.5cm high.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

£600­800

1662

An Asmat shield

1660

A Lumi shield

Papua New Guinea with a relief carved stylized figure of scrolls and lines, with an encrusted patina and plaited fibre mounted strap handle, 123cm high.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

£600­800

Casuarina Coast, Irian Jaya with carved stylised figures and a stylised snake finial, with pigment decoration and fibre tufts to the sides, the back with a integral handle and with a painted zig­zag pattern, 196.5cm high.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection. Christie’s, London, Tribal Art, 1 December 1993, lot 153.

£200­300

1663

A Bahinemo cult hook garra

Papua New Guinea with a central mask having a large nose and cylinder eyes, with two hooks above and below, with pigment decoration, the back with a medial ridge and with carved stylised decoration, 173cm high.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection. Christie’s, London, Tribal Art, 1 December 1993, lot 172.

£400­600

1661

A Lumi shield

Papua New Guinea with a relief carved stylised figure of scrolls, lines, two elliptical forms and notches, with fibre bindings and a strap handle, 114.5cm high.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

£600­800

1662

1663

1664

1665

1666

1664

A Dayak hampatong figure

Indonesia

carved as a seated figure with a serrated edge cap, a long nose and an open mouth, with an inverted animal in his right arm and a crocodile along his back, with bands of foliage to the base, 182cm high, on a base.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

Christie’s, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 211.

£800­1,200

1665

A Dayak hampatong figure

Indonesia

the standing male with his head turned to his left, with large eliptical eyes and carved teeth, his headdress with the remains of an animal, 201.5cm high, on a base.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

Christie’s, London, Tribal Art, 1 December 1993, lot 131.

£600­800

1666

An Iatmul large ancestor figure

Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea with inset shell eyes, a long nose and a masked groin, 189.5cm high, on a base.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

£300­400

1667

An Indonesian carved trunk sculpture depicting figures, a crocodile and dog like animals, with white and black painted decoration, 114.5cm high, on a base. (2)

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

£100­200

1668

An Abelam male figure

Papua New Guinea standing and with red, yellow, black and white pigment decortation, 113cm high.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

£150­250

1667

1668

1669

A Mendi shield

Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea with a vertical medial ridge and with orange and white pigment decoration, the centre pierced for a leaf fibre strap, 120.5cm long.

£200­300

1670

A Lumi war shield

Torricelli Mountains, Papua New Guinea carved in relief a stylised multi­scroll motif and with attachment holes, 101cm high.

£500­800

1671

A Lower Sepik River standing female figure

Papua New Guinea with a nodule to the back of the neck and concentric rings to the navel, 43cm high, on a stand.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

£200­300

1672

A Sepik River mask

Papua New Guinea with pierced eliptical eyes, ears and mouth, with a ridged long nose, with white and brown pigment decoration and a woven rattan beard, 57.5cm high.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection. Christie’s, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 182.

£200­300

1673

1673

A Papua New Guinea woman’s canoe

Melanesia

the prows with crocodile heads and standing curved male ancestor figures, with a carved stylised egde and a serrated rib with intersperced pierced fastening loops, the underside with an integral loop at either end, with traces of red pigment, 270cm long.

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection. (typed label 1081 Woman’s Canoe)

£400­600

1674

A Papuan Gulf gope board

Papua New Guinea

relief carved an ancestor figure, with traces of red and white pigment, 110.5cm high.

£300­400

1675

1675

A Kwoma ceiling panel

Washkuk Hills, Papua New Guinea sago palm with pigment decoration in white, yellow and black, depicting three ancestor faces, 116cm high, 44cm wide, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Peter Adler Collection, London.

Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 1 May 2019, lot 6. Private Collection, London.

£400­600

1676

An Abelam ceiling panel

Papua New Guinea sago palm with pigment decoration in yellow, black, white, orange and green, 124cm high, 32cm wide, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Michael Hamson, Palos Verdes, Los Angeles. Peter Adler, London, UK. Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 1 May 2019, lot 5. Private Collection, London, UK.

£400­600

1677

An Iatmul suspension hook

Papua New Guinea with a standing male figure having inset cowrie shell eyes and a pierced septum, 59cm high, a Chambri Lakes janus suspension hook, 64cm high, on a base, and a Papua New Guinea charm, carved as a mask with remains of pigment decoration, 54cm high, on a stand. (5)

Provenance

Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.

£300­500

1678

A Murik Lakes mask

Papua New Guinea with carved and pigment decoration, 61.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

£600­800

1676

1680

1679

A Massim seated figure

Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea with carved decoration, 46cm high.

£2,000­3,000

1680

Three Massim lime spatulas

Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea one with a carved figure terminal, 42.5cm long, one carved an animal, with shell inlay, 34cm long, one flat, 33.6cm long, two Collingwood Bay lime spatulas, 49cm and 27cm long, a Massim comb, 26.5cm, a Massim fish hook, with a carved head, 28cm long and a Massim carved head finial, 10cm long. (8)

Provenance

Harry Beran, Cambridge (1935 - 2021)

£100­200

1681

A Masssim dish

Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea oblong with carved scroll decoration and with a seated figure at one end, 16cm high, three Massim betel nut mortars, two pestles, a spatula, a club handle, an oblong bowl, a model stool with a marsupial support, and a coconut shell spinning top. (12)

Provenance

Harry Beran, Cambridge (1935 - 2021)

£100­150

1682

An Asmat panel

Irian Jaya, Indonesia carved two seated figures, stylised birds and a shield shape, with red and white pigment, 58cm wide, mounted on a board. (2)

£150­250

1681

1683

A Massim dish

Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea carved as a fish with an inset operculum shell eye, 90cm long.

£100­150

1684

A Massim club

Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea with a toothed blade, with carved scroll decoration and a male and female figure to the handle, 84.5cm long.

£100­150

1685

A Massim staff

Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea with two carved female figures and scroll decoration, 104cm high.

£100­150

1686

A Massim sword club

Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea one side with carved scroll and zig­zag decoration, 118cm long.

£100­200

1687

A Lake Sentani drum

Irian Jaya, Indonesia of waisted form with a central raised band with incised animal decoration and a pierced lug handle, the upper section with a carved crocodile with lime fill, with a reptile skin and reed collar, the base with a plaited reed band, with a handwritten label Drum from New Guinea, District of Bonggo, of Subdivision Sarmi, ca 100 miles west of Hollandia and 2 days inland. Native name of drum: “tifa.” Collected by Lieut. Hans Snelleman, 1945., 54.5cm high.

Provenance

Collected by Liuet Hans Snelleman, 1945. Dr Leonhard Adam (1891 - 1960) Anthropologist and lawyer.

£200­300

1686

1688

A Boiken bride currency hombulie Papua New Guinea giant turbo marmoratus snail shell and fibre with pigment and cassowary feathers, 27.5cm high.

Provenance

Mary-Clare Adam, anthropologist, Honorary Consul of Solomon Islands in Israel. Collected in the Yangoru area of the Mountain Arapesh region in 1974.

£400­600

1685

1689

1689

A Papuan Gulf gope board

Papua New Guinea with a central carved ancestor mask with a pierced septum, with a peg and with carved chevrons above and below, with traces of red paint and with lime pigment, the back inscribed OC 20 in white paint, 102cm high.

Provenance

Gallery 43, Philip Goldman, 28 Davies Street, London, 4 March 1969.

£1,500­2,000

1690

An Iatmul shield

Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea the front with carved decoration including three masks, the back with four integral lugs and one bamboo fibre bound handle, 151cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Richard I M Kelton Collection, Marina del Ray, California, USA. Private Collection, London, UK.

£800­1,200

1691

1690

1691

A Korwar figure

Geelvink Bay, Indonesia seated with pegged blue glass bead eyes and with a recess through the head, with the hands supporting the chin and a smaller standing figure with raised arms between the feet, 41.5cm high, mounted on a base. (2)

£1,000­1,500

1692

An Abelam female figure tetepeku

Burui Kunai region, Sepik Plains, Papua New Guinea of slender form with a wide leg stance and her hands on her hips, the back with two integral lugs for mounting, late 19th / early 20th century, 112cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Wayne Heathcote, New York.

cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Accession No. 1978.412.819

These images of a slender naked female were found inside the men’s ceremonial house above the main entrance and above the entrances to the interior chambers and the initiation chamber. As the initiates enter they stoop or crawl beneath the legs of the tetepeku, so they literally emerge from between her legs to enter the sacred space beyond, an act that symbolises the rebirth of the novices as initiated men. The figure also acts as a door, blocking the uninitiated from entering the ceremonial house.

£10,000­15,000

1693

1694

A Manambu head

Yambun Village, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea with an integral spike to the top of the head, with cowrie shell eyes and paint decoration, the back with a sticker inscribed 585.68 DN and a paper label inscribed DN 585.68, 55cm high.

Provenance

Douglas Newton, New York, field collected in 1967. Marcia and John Friede Collection, USA

Exhibited and Published

Crocodile and Cassowary, Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1971, no. 122. The personal name for this head is Meiyamogwei, sister of the meiurr Ambiyanggei of the Niyanggandau clan.

£150­250

1693

A Kwoma mindja yam spirit figure

Papua New Guinea

with a suspension loop above a head with pierced eyes and mouth and with a long nose, above three further heads with protrusions and a mask to the base, with pigment decoration, 205cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Dutch Collection. Tony Anninos, Brussels. £4,000­6,000

1694

1695

A Papua New Guinea comb

Melanesia

bamboo, with fine incised decoration, 12.2cm long, a Papua New Guinea basalt axe blade, 12.8cm long and two model canoes, 45cm and 52.5cm long. (4)

£150­200

1696

Three Mendi dolls

Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea two males and a female, pandanus leaves, fibre, reeds, shells, seeds, hair and pigment, 53cm high. (3)

Provenance

Collected by the present owners in 1988/89 whilst working in Papua New Guinea.

£300­400

1697

An Asmat standing female figure Irian Jaya, Indonesia with linear carved decoration, with white and red/brown pigment, 71.5cm high.

£150­250

1698

An Iatmul drum

Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea of waisted form with an integral handle and carved decoration, with reptile skin, fibre and cloth, 77cm long.

£200­300

1699

A Solomon Islands alms dish

Melanesia with inlaid shell and gum and with a scalloped edge, with label to the underside Alms Dish as used in churches in Melanesia (S. Pacific) inliad mother-of-pearl made with native tools by boys of Vurcas School, 16cm diameter, and four Solomon Islands shell inlaid spoons. (5)

£150­200

1700

A Massim pig group

Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea copulating and with engraved decoration, 12cm high.

£150­250

1701

A Santa Cruz Islands feather currency tevau Solomon Islands, Melanesia honeyeater bird feathers (myzomela cardinalis) on a fibre strip, the back of the centre with a woven chequer design, coiled into two rings with coiled bark and palm leaf, and hung with strands of coix seeds and shells, each coil 35cm diameter.

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner in 1983 whilst on Temotu Island, from Joseph Olu, one of the local elders / chiefs whose family had owned the tevau for generations.

Used in the exchange of goods such as canoes, fine pigs, turtles, crops, as well as certain forms of labour and during ceremonies, such as weddings. Their value dependant on size and richness of colour, that was maintained by not having on display but kept wrapped in large palm leaves and bark cloth and protected by powerful charms whilst stored on the rafters of the houses. Each tevau was made by three specialists, that involved plucking the feathers from over 300 honeyeater birds, then small platelets are made from the feathers of the grey pigeon and the red feathers attached. Then these were bound to fibre cords, overlapping to show the red feathers.

£6,000­8,000

1704

1702

A Solomon Islands pendant bakiha

Melanesia shell, fibre, coloured glass beads, teeth and seeds, 23cm wide.

Provenance

Gerasimof Gallery, Noumea, New Caledonia.

£1,000­1,500

1703

A Malaita Island comb

Solomon Islands, Melanesia tree fern, natural and dyed fibre with gum, 23cm long.

£800­1,200

1704

A Malaita Island comb

Solomon Islands, Melanesia tree fern, natural and dyed fibre, 17.2cm long.

£400­600

λ 1705

A Solomon Islands kap kap ornament

Melanesia shell and turtleshell, worked triangles, lines and four frigate birds, mounted on two discs, and with a shell band, 11cm diameter. (2)

Provenance

David Moore Barlow, collected in the Solomon Islands, circa 1933.

£600­800

1706

Ten Solomon Islands armbands

Melanesia orchid fibre and red dye, two fibre ear ornaments, 25.5cm long, a quill nose ornament, 18cm long, a bamboo container and cover with carved decoration and fibre binding, 32.5cm long and two clay pipes with fibre bound wood mouthpieces. (17)

Provenance

David Moore Barlow, collected in the Solomon Islands, circa 1933.

£200­300

1703

1707

1708

1709

1707

A Solomon Islands club kila Melanesia with a medial ridge to the blade and the shaft with a natural and dyed banded fibre binding, 126.5cm long.

£150­250

1708

A Malaita Island club supe Solomon Islands of stylised fish form with medial ridges and black patina, 92cm long.

£1,500­2,000

1709

A Fiji club vunikau Melanesia with a worn root ball head to a tapering shaft with a worked grip having the remains of a fibre binding, 109cm long.

£300­400

1710

A Solomon Islands bowl St Cristobal, Melanesia with abalone shell inlay and a black patina, 34cm long.

£100­200

1710

1711

1711

A Kanak club New Calendonia with a domed and pointed root head and the handle with fibre bound printed fabric, the end with collection number 68.2, 76.5cm long.

£200­300

1712

A Kanak bird head club New Caledonia the stylised head with relief eyes and the shaft with a raised grip, 68.5cm long.

£300­400

1712

1714

1713

An Austral Islands paddle Polynesia with all­over carving of x’s, crescents, niho and two suns to the base of the shaft, the terminal with eight ‘dancing girls,’ heads removed, and with eight triangles with niho decoration to the top, 83cm long.

£1,500­2,000

1714 detail

λ 1714

A Fiji pole club bowai

Melanesia of tapering cylindrical form with a domed end and a finely carved grip of lines and zig­zags in varoius patterns, the flat terminal inset a carved marine ivory thirteen point star, 109cm long.

Provenance

Alexander Martin, London.

£1,500­2,000

1715

A Fiji pole club bowai Melanesia of slightly tapered form with a domed end and a carved tavatava grip, one of the lines with six triangle notches, with a concave terminal, 114cm long.

£400­500

1716

A Fiji pole club bowai

Melanesia with a notch carved grip and with a series of scored ‘kill’ marks above and with a concave butt, pierced at the edge for attachment, 19th century, 119cm long.

£400­600

1713

1715

1716

1718

1717

1719 1721

1717

A Marquesas Islands fan handle French Polynesia

carved two seated tiki figures with hands placed on abdomens, 8.2cm long, on a wood base. (2)

Provenance

Harry Bober, New York, USA.

£2,000­3,000

1718

A Marquesas Islands bowl and cover Polynesia

ovoid with a circular foot and knob handle, with incised linear geometric decoration, 19.5cm high. (2)

£200­300

1719

A Tokelau Islands large fishing tackle box tuluma

Polynesia

kanava wood, with a cover and lugs with a sennit cord, 31.5cm high, 35cm wide.

£300­400

1720

A Polynesian fish hook with fibre binding and red painted collection number 134, 27cm high.

£200­300

λ 1721

A Fiji tabua pendant

Melanesia, late 19th / early 20th century sperm whale tooth, pierced either end for attachment, with a handwritten label Fiji, Whale’s Tooth Much respected by Fijians, Whales teeth are always exchanged when anything important is arranged as a seal of contract, with a sennit necklace, 15.5cm long.

£300­400

1722

A pair of New Ireland Rainmaker skulls Bismarck Archipelago, Melanesia with yellow, black and red pigment decoration, each with a differing symbol to the front, one inscribed NEW IRELAND RAIN MAKER’S SKULL M1837 MARAMAKAS VILLAGE and 229.08.1 and the other inscribed 229.08.2, 14cm and 14.5cm high, in a tridacna gagas shell, 57.5cm wide. (3)

Provenance

Stanley Gordon Moriarty Collection, Sydney.

Reputedly the remains of father and son shaman priests, these skulls were stored in the giant clam shell. They would have been taken out for rituals and placed on wooden statues, functioning as sacred objects embodying the power of ancestral shamens.

£6,000­8,000

1723

An Admiralty Islands bowl purukei Melanesia with a carved border, part lime filled and with a pair of scalloped edged scroll handles and raised on four lug feet, 19.5cm high, 48cm wide.

Provenance

Gerasimof Gallery, Noumea, New Caledonia.

£4,000­5,000

1725

1724

1724

A Wallis Island ceremonial tapa Polynesia

bark cloth with painted decoration and cut end borders, 232cm x 65cm, mounted.

Provenance Brant Mackley, Santa Fe, USA. Clive Loveless, London.

£1,000­1,500

1725

A Malekula Island ceremonial hat janus mask Vanuatu

fibre and mud with boars tusks and pigment decoration, with a fibre bound feather finial, 122cm high.

£400­600

1726

1726 1728

A Kanak bird head club New Caledonia the stylised head with relief eyes and with a raised grip, 67cm long.

£300­400

1727

A Fiji ula i ula drisia

Melanesia with an onion shape burr head, 40cm long, and a Kanak club, New Caledonia, with stippled markings to the top of the shaft and underside of the head, 40cm long. (2)

£150­250

1728

An Oceanic tooth necklace possibly Fiji

human teeth and nut shell discs, strung on a twisted leaf fibre, 98cm long.

£100­200

1729

1729

A Melanesia fighting staff possibly Wuvulu the flattened end pierced and with locating grooves, the sides with small recesses, possibly for shark teeth, 221cm long.

£200­300

1730

A Papua New Guinea spear with a barbed wooden tip, having carved scroll decoration and lime and red pigment, applied woven leaf fibre and a part incised bamboo shaft, 125cm long.

£100­150

1731

An Oro Province tapa cloth

Papua New Guinea bark cloth with pigment decoration, the back with a handwritten paper label Dr ALLEN, 140cm x 92cm, mounted.

Provenance Dr Allen.

Clive Loveless, London.

£1,000­1,500

1732

A Samoa tapa Polynesia bark cloth, pigment decorated forty­eight rectangles of geometric designs, 168cm x 165cm.

Provenance Seward Kennedy Collection, New York / London.

£600­800

1730

1732

1731

1733

A Marquesas Islands U’u club French Polynesia with relief carved tiki heads, faces, eyes and geometric symbols, with bound sennit to the base of the shaft, 141cm long.

£15,000­20,000

1734

1734

An Aboriginal narrow shield Australia slightly curved with carved grooved linear decoration to both sides, the integral handle is missing, 81cm long.

£200­300

1735

An Aboriginal shield Northern Territory, Australia with a carved channelled surface and integral handle, with an all­over red pigment and dot decoration to the front, 64.5cm long.

£300­400

1736

An Aboriginal message stick churinga Australia with carved chanelled and dot decoration to the front and channelled to the back, 50cm long.

£200­300

1737

Six Aboriginal boomerangs Australia three carved depicting animals, 39.5cm, 61cm and 71cm wide, one with notched wavy and linear decoration, 66cm wide, one with textured surfaces, 52cm wide, one with incised linear decoration to one end, 62cm wide, a boomerang spear with burnt decoration depicting a koala, 59cm long, and two spear throwers woomeras, the longer carved depicting emu’s and kangeroo’s, with a gum terminal, 81cm and 58.5cm long. (9)

£300­400

1738

An Aboriginal churinga Australia with carved channeled and dot decoration to the front and textured to the curved back, with a later hole to one end, 80cm long, and an Aboriginal spear thrower woomera, with carved stylised channelled linear and dot decoration, with a textured back, 77.7cm long. (2)

£300­500

1739

An Aboriginal narrow shield Australia with incised geometric decoration and with an integral handle, 77cm long, another shield with carved and polychrome decoration, 57cm long and a boomerang, 76cm long.

£200­300

1735

1736

1740

1741

1740

An Aboriginal spear thrower woomera Australia the concave front carved meandering lines, with remains of a sinew bound wood point and resin to the end of the handle, 89.5cm long.

£150­250

1741

An Aboriginal club Australia with a pointed cylindrical head and a spiral ribbed grip, 60.5cm long.

£200­300

1742

A Maori short staff New Zealand with a bulbous handle above four carved tiki heads with sticking out tongues, to lines, notches and bead decoration and a stylised head with haliotis shell inlay, 51.5cm long.

£300­400

1743

A Maori staff New Zealand with pointed ends and a carved shaft of lines and notches, a pair of standing tiki figures with tattooed faces and a janus tiki head, all with haliotis shell eyes, 78cm long.

£400­600

1744

A Maori hoe paddle

New Zealand with all­over carving of grooved lines and notches and with haliotis shell insets, the top of the blade relief carved two tiki figures and with a janus tiki head to the terminal of the wavy shaft, 91.7cm long.

£400­600

1743

1744

1745

λ 1745

A Maori pendant

New Zealand

sperm whale tooth, with inlaid scalloped edged haliotis shell eyes and incised decoration, the back top edge with three holes for attachment, and with a printed label New Zealand, 18.6cm long.

£300­400

1746

A Maori house panel fragment

New Zealand

carved a standing tiki figure, with black and white pigment and a later mother of pearl eye, 153cm high, on a stand.

Provenance

Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art and Antiquities, 19 September 2018, lot 860.

£400­600

1747

A Maori paddle hoe

New Zealand

the blade carved with a tiki heads, notched scrolls and lines, eyes and crescents, with a curved handle having a seated tiki finial, 147.2cm long.

£5,000­8,000

1746

1747

1747 detail

1748

A Maori large hei­tiki pendant

New Zealand nephrite with haliotis shell inset eyes, the top and back with an attachment hole, the back with a handwritten label 1863 Sept 23’’, with a cord and a nephrite ear pendant, hei­tiki 13cm high, ear pendant 5.2cm long.

£600­800

1749

A Maori hei­tiki pendant

New Zealand nephrite, with remains of a red wax / gum to the eyes and with an attachment hole to the top, 8.7cm high.

£800­1,200

1750

Two Maori ear pendants New Zealand nephrite, both pierced, one with a curved end and grooves either side of the attachment hole, 11.1cm long and the other with a rounded end and with flax to the attachment hole, 10.5cm long. (2)

£400­600

1751

A Maori hei­tiki pendant New Zealand nephrite with red sealing wax to the eyes, drilled for attachment, 4.7cm high.

£150­200

1752

Robert Frederick Way

1872 ­ 1947

Tomika te Mutu (Ngaiterangi Chief) etching, signed and titled in pencil, 30cm x 22.5cm.

£150­200

1753

Rayleen Foster

Australia

Kalajiti­ Spinafex Dreaming, acrylic on canvas, 66cm x 48cm.

the back inscribed It belongs to Nakamara, Jakamara, Juburula, Nuburula, Its the old people’s tucker, they used to eat these spinafex, and it was done by Rayleen Foster 1992, with a Burnt Shirt Gallery stamp.

£150­200

1754

Barbara Nangala Foster

Australia

Bush Plum, acrylic on canvas, 66cm x 48.5cm

The back inscribed Bush Plum: It is grown around the central Australia, it is my great grandfather + father around Devils Marble. It stretches one root to a root. Barbara Nangala Foster, with Burnt Shirt Gallery stamp.

£150­250

1755

Lilly Kelly, 20th century Papunya Tule Artists, Australia

Untitled ­ meeting places and trees, acrylic on canvas, inscribed on the verso, 31cm x 61cm.

£150­250

1756

Eileen Nafammga Gibson, 20th century

Australia

Mens Dreaming acrylic on canvas, inscribed on the verso with title and explanation, 35cm x 57.5cm.

£150­250

1758

Brogas Jabanardi / Brogus Tjapangati (born 1949) Australia

Goanna Dreaming, acrylic on canvas, 97cm x 90cm, unframed, with a frame in four parts and a certificate from Outback Art dated 6 June 1997.

The painting shows a central waterhole, surrounded by perenti (goanna) tracks. The different coloured dots representing the surrounding countryside while the grey dots are the rain carrying clouds overhead.

£400­600

1757

Rosella Namok b.1979 Australia

Take off fishing...morning time acrylic on canvas, signed and dated 04, and titled on the back, 91cm x 92cm.

£600­800

1758

1757

END OF SALE

1759

Pansy Napangardi (b.1948)

Papunya Tula, Northern Territory, Australia

Untitled, acrylic on canvas, inscribed on the back Pansy Napagati, Papunya Tula Artists, 121cm x 91.5cm £400­600

BRITISH ART POTTERY

WEDNESDAY 29TH NOVEMBER 2023

John Ward (1938­2023) Two hand­built stoneware vases Estimates ranging from £800­2,000*

AUCTION INFORMATION

OPENING HOURS City Centre Salerooms

Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm

Old Sarum Galleries

Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm

VIEWING

All our auctions are on view at least two days prior to the sale and details will be found in the relevant catalogues.

REGISTERING WITH US

All first time buyers need to register with us. To register, you will need to provide two forms of identification:

1. a passport or photographic driving licence

2. a utility bill or document showing your name and address

You can register in person or by contacting the office on 01722 424500 or emailing id@woolleyandwallis.co.uk

You will be asked to show your documents or email copies.

PLEASE NOTE: Registering with our website, or any third party website, does not automatically register you to bid with us.

BIDDING AT AUCTION

See below for the different options for bidding. Please note that you may be asked to provide two forms of identification, even if you have bid with us before, in order that we are compliant with Money Laundering Regulations.

BIDDING IN THE ROOM

To bid at auction you will need a paddle number. This can be obtained from the office either during the view or on the day of the sale.

COMMISSION BIDDING

If you are unable to attend the sale you can leave a commission bid. This will be executed on your behalf by the auctioneer who will purchase the lot as cheaply as possible bearing in mind any reserve price and other bids.

TELEPHONE BIDDING

It is usually possible to bid on the telephone by prior arrangement with the office.

LIVE ONLINE BIDDING

Live online bidding is now available free of charge for most of our auctions via bid.woolleyandwallis.co.uk, enabling you to take part in the bidding from anywhere in the world live as it happens.

BUYER’S PREMIUM

The Buyer shall pay the hammer price together with a premium thereon of 26% plus VAT @20% (totalling 31.2% inclusive) on the first £500,000 and 20% plus VAT @20% (24% inclusive) thereafter.

CONDITION REPORTS

The relevant department will be pleased to give condition reports on any lot, where practical. All weights and measures given in the catalogue should be regarded as approximate.

The colours printed in the catalogue are not necessarily true.

SALE RESULTS

These will be posted on our website shortly after the sale.

PACKING AND SHIPPING

Woolley & Wallis do not offer a packing and despatch service but the following are carriers in our area.

Alban Shipping +44 (0)1582 493099 info@albanshipping.co.uk www.albanshipping.co.uk

Kimdan Ltd +44 (0)7973 389436 andy@kimdan.co.uk

Mailboxes +44 (0)1962 622133 mbewinchester@btconnect.com www.mbe.co.uk/winchester

Pack & Send +44 (0)1635 887237 newbury@packsend.co.uk www.packsend.co.uk/newbury

ZIXIS Fine Art Limited +44 (0)7873 981026 zixisfineart@163.com www.zixisfineart.co.uk

Please note that we cannot be held responsible for any damage or loss to items once they are in the hands of a carrier.

EXPORTING YOUR PROPERTY FROM THE UK

If you are exporting your property, import taxes, customs duties and other fees may apply at the country of destination. It is also your responsibility to ensure that your shipment can be lawfully imported to the destination country.

Please note that due to the withdrawal of the Retail Export Scheme by HMRC, we are unable to provide VAT refund documentation (C88) for hand­carried exports.

In order to qualify for a VAT refund, your lots must be exported by a shipper and valid export documentation must be provided.

PAYMENT AND CLEARANCE

Payment is due immediately after the auction in pounds sterling. If you are a first time buyer we will need your name, address and bank details and will require funds to be cleared before purchases can be released.

The following methods of payment may be made: Bankers draft, cashiers cheque, personal cheque, travellers cheques, debit and credit cards. We are no longer able to accept card payments of over £1,000 where the card­holder is not present.

Wire transfers should be sent to:

Lloyds Bank plc, Blue Boar Row, Salisbury SP1 1DB. Account no. 00957707

Sort code 30­97­41

IBAN no. GB20LOYD30974100957707

BIC code LOYDGB21063

Debit and Credit cards: Visa, Mastercard, Amex or Union Pay. Where practical, payment can be made and purchases collected during the auction.

We reserve the right to add storage charges to all lots not collected within 30 calendar days of the sale. This will include a handling fee of £20 (+ VAT) per consignment and a storage charge of £2 (+ VAT) per lot per day. No goods will be allowed to be collected until these charges have been paid.

LOT SYMBOLS

VAT

Lots marked with an dagger (†) are subject to VAT on the hammer price. Lots marked with an omega (Ω) have been temporarily imported from outside the EU and are subject to VAT at 5% on the hammer price and the buyer’s premium. In online catalogues, the Sales Tax % column indicates the rate of VAT on hammer price.

CITES REGULATIONS

Please note that lots marked λ may be subject to CITES Regulations when exported.

The CITES Regulations may be found at www.defra.gov.uk/ahvlaen/imports­exports/cites/

ARTIST’S RESALE RIGHT / DROIT DE SUITE

Lots marked with a Φ symbol are potentially subject to a levy.

Droit de Suite is a royalty payable to a qualifying artist or the artist’s heirs each time a work is resold during the artist’s lifetime and up to a period of 70 years after the artist’s death.

Royalties are calculated on a sliding percentage scale based on the hammer price excluding the buyer’s premium. The royalty does not apply to lots selling below the sterling equivalent of €1,000 and the maximum royalty payable on any single lot is the sterling equivalent of €10,000.

Droit de Suite, which is not subject to VAT, will be added to the buyer’s purchase price and then passed on to the relevant collecting agency.

Please enquire for the accepted exchange rate on the day of the sale.

Royalties for Droit de Suite are as follows:

4% Up to €50,000

3%€50,000.01 ­ 200,000

1%€200,000.01 ­ 350,000

0.5%€350,000.01 ­ 500,000

0.25% In excess of €500,000

Up to a maximum levy of €10,000

FIREARMS

Lots marked Ƒ in the catalogue, or by any other means identified as controlled firearms, are subject to the UK firearms/shotgun licencing regime, and should only be viewed/purchased by individuals with appropriate licences. It is the responsibility of the bidders to ensure that they are legally authorised to acquire the lot that they are bidding for. In the event that such a lot is successfully bid for by an individual who is not authorised to possess it, that individual will be required to pay for it, but will not be allowed to take physical possession of it. The auctioneers will re­offer the lot on behalf of the buyer in a future auction; or may accept instructions to dispose of it by some other legal means, at their discretion.

INFORMATION FOR BUYERS

INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS

1 . Introduction. The following informative notes are intended to assist Buyers, particularly those inexperienced or new to our salerooms. All sales are conducted on our printed Conditions of Sale which are readily available for inspection and normally accompany catalogues. Our staff will be happy to help you if there is anything you do not fully understand.

2. Agency. As auctioneers we usually contract as agents for the seller whose identity, for reasons of confidentiality, is not normally disclosed. Accordingly if you buy your primary contract is with the seller.

3. Estimates. Estimates are designed to help buyers gauge what sort of sum might be involved for the purchase of a particular lot. The lower estimate may represent the reserve price and certainly will not be below it. Estimates do not include the Buyer’s Premium or VAT (where chargeable). Estimates are prepared some time before the sale and may be altered by announcement before the sale. They are in no sense definitive.

4. The purchase price. The Buyer shall pay the hammer price together with a premium thereon of 26% plus VAT @20% (totalling 31.2% inclusive) on the first £500,000 and 20% plus VAT @20% (24%) inclusive thereafter.

5. VAT. (†) indicates that VAT at the current standard rate is payable by the purchaser on the hammer price as well as being an element in the buyer’s premium. This imposition of VAT is likely to be because the seller is registered for VAT within the European Union and is not operating the Dealers Margin Scheme or because VAT is due at 20% on importation into the UK. The omega symbol (Ω) indicates that the lot has been imported from outside the European Union and the present position is that these lots are liable to a reduced rate of VAT (5%) on the gross lot price (i.e. both the hammer price and the buyer’s premium). Lots which appear without either of the above symbols indicate that no VAT is payable on the hammer price. This is because such lots are sold using the Auctioneers’ Margin Scheme and it should be noted that the VAT included within the Premium is not recoverable as input tax.

6. We are, primarily, agents for the seller. We are dependent on information provided by the seller and whilst we may inspect lots and act reasonably in taking a general view about them we are normally unable to carry out a detailed or any examination of lots in order to ascertain their condition in the way in which it would be wise for a buyer to do. Intending buyers have ample opportunity for inspection of goods and, therefore, accept responsibility for inspecting and investigating lots in which they may be interested. Please note carefully the exclusion of liability for the condition of lots contained in the Conditions of Sale. Neither the seller nor we, as the auctioneers, accept any responsibility for their condition. In particular, mechanical objects of any age are not guaranteed to be in working order. However, in so far as we have examined the goods and make a representation about their condition, we shall be liable for any defect which that examination ought to have revealed to the auctioneer but which would not have been revealed to the buyer had the buyer examined the goods. Additionally, in specified circumstances lots misdescribed because they are ‘deliberate forgeries’ may be returned and repayment made. There is a 3 week time limit. (The expression ‘deliberate forgery’ is defined in our Conditions of Sale).

7. Electrical goods. These are sold as ‘antiques’ only and if bought for use must be checked over for compliance with safety regulations by a qualified electrician first.

8. Export of goods. Buyers intending to export goods should ascertain (a) whether an export licence is required for the goods to leave the U.K. and (b) whether there is any specific prohibition on importing the goods in question into the destination country because, e.g. they may contain prohibited materials such as ivory. Charges may be applicable for export licences. Ask us if you need help. The denial of any permit or licence shall not justify cancellation or rescission of the sale contract or any delay in payment.

9. Bidding. Bidders will be required to register before the sale commences and lots will be invoiced to the name and address on the registration form. Some form of identification will be required if you are unknown to us. Please enquire in advance about our arrangements for telephone bidding.

10. Commission bidding. Commission bids may be left with the auctioneers indicating the maximum amount to be bid excluding buyers’ premium. They will be executed as cheaply as possible having regard to the reserve (if any) and competing bids. If two buyers submit identical commission bids the auctioneers may prefer the first bid received. Please enquire in advance about our arrangements for the leaving of commission bids by telephone.

11. Methods of Payment. As a general rule any cheques tendered will need to be cleared before removal of the goods is permitted. Please discuss with our Office in advance of the sale if other methods of payment are envisaged.

12. Collection and storage. Please note what the Conditions of Sale state about collection and storage. It is important that goods are paid for and collected promptly. Any delay may involve the buyer in paying storage charges.

TERMS OF CONSIGNMENT FOR SELLERS

1. Interpretation. In these Terms the words ‘you’, ‘yours’, etc. refer to the Seller and if the consignment of goods to us is made by an agent we assume that the Seller has authorised the consignment and that the consignor has the Seller’s authority to contract. Similarly the words ‘we’, ‘us’, etc. refer to the Auctioneers.

2. Commission is charged to sellers at the following rates: 15% + VAT on each lot sold for up to £999, 10% + VAT on each lot realising £1,000 and above.

3. Removal costs. Items for sale must be consigned to the sale room by any stated deadline and at your expense. We may be able to assist you with this process but any liability incurred to a carrier for haulage charges is solely your responsibility.

4. Loss and damage waiver. We are not regulated by the FSA for the provision of insurance to clients. However, we for our own protection assume liability for property consigned to us at lower pre­sale estimate. To justify accepting liability, we make a charge of 1.5% of the hammer price plus VAT or, if unsold, our mid estimate of the hammer price. If the owner of goods consigned instructs us in writing not to take such action, they then remain at owner’s risk unless and until the property in them passes to the Buyer or they are collected by or on behalf of the owner, and clause 4 is inapplicable.

5. Illustrations. The cost of any illustrations is borne by you. If we consider that the lot should be illustrated your permission will usually be asked first. The copyright in respect of such illustrations shall be the property of us, the auctioneers, as is the text of the catalogue.

6. Minimum bids and our discretion. Goods may be offered subject to a reserve agreed between us before the sale in accordance with clause 7.

7. We may sell lots below the reserve provided we account to you for the same sale proceeds as you would have received had the reserve been the hammer price. If you specifically give us ‘discretion’ we may accept a bid of up to 10% below the formal reserve.

Reserves.

(a) You are entitled to place prior to the auction a reserve on any lot consigned, being the minimum hammer price at which that lot may be sold. Reserves must be reasonable and we may decline to offer goods which in our opinion would be subject to an unreasonably high reserve (in which case goods carry the storage and insurance charges stipulated in these Terms of Consignment).

(b) A reserve once set cannot be changed except with our consent.

(c) Where a reserve has been placed only we may bid on your behalf and only up to the reserve (if any) and you may in no circumstances bid personally.

8. Electrical items. These are subject to detailed statutory safety controls. Where such items are accepted for sale you accept responsibility for the cost of testing by external contractors. Goods not certified as safe by an electrician (unless antiques) will not be accepted for sale. They must be removed at your expense on your being notified. We reserve the right to dispose of unsafe goods as refuse, at your expense.

9. Soft furnishings. The sale of soft furnishings is strictly regulated by statute law in the interests of fire safety. Goods found to infringe safety regulations will not be offered and must be removed at your expense. We reserve the right to dispose of unsafe goods as refuse, at your expense. The rights of disposal referred to in clause 8 and 9 are subject to the provisions of The Torts (Interference with Goods) Act 1977, Schedule 1, a copy of which is available for inspection on request.

10. Descriptions. Please assist us with accurate information as to the provenance etc. of goods where this is relevant. There is strict liability for the accuracy of descriptions under modern consumer legislation and in some circumstances responsibility lies with sellers if inaccuracies occur. We will assume that you have approved the catalogue description of your lots unless informed to the contrary. Where we are obliged to return the price to the buyer when the lot is a deliberate forgery under Condition 15 of the Conditions of Sale and we have accounted to you for the proceeds of sale you agree to reimburse us the sale proceeds. The liability to reimburse the sale proceeds shall not arise where you are acting reasonably and honestly and are unaware of the forgery but we are or ought to have been aware of it.

11. Unsold and withdrawn items. If an item is unsold it may with your consent be reoffered at a future sale. Where in our opinion an item is unsaleable you must collect such items from the saleroom promptly on being so informed. Otherwise, storage charges may be incurred. We reserve the right to charge for storage in these circumstances at a reasonable daily rate.

12. Withdrawn and bought in items. These are liable to incur a charge of up to 10% plus VAT of the reserve or low estimate on being bought in or withdrawn after being catalogued.

13. Conditions of Sale. You agree that all goods will be sold on our Conditions of Sale. In particular you undertake that you have the right to sell the goods either as owner or agent for the owner. You undertake to compensate us and any buyer or third party for all losses liabilities and expenses incurred in respect of and as a result of any breach of this undertaking.

14. Authority to deduct commission and expenses and retain premium and interest.

(a) You authorise us to deduct commission at the stated rate and all expenses incurred for your account from the hammer price and consent to our right to retain beneficially the premium paid by the buyer in accordance with our Conditions of Sale and any interest earned on the sale proceeds until the date of settlement.

(b) You authorise us in our discretion to negotiate a sale by private treaty not later than the close of business on the day of the sale in the case of lots unsold at auction, in which case the same charges will be payable as if such lots had been sold at auction and so far as appropriate these terms apply.

15. Warehousing. We disclaim all liability for goods delivered to our saleroom without sufficient sale instructions and reserve the right to make minimum warehousing charge of £2 per lot per day. Unsold lots are subject to the same charges if you do not remove them within a reasonable time of notification. If not removed within three weeks we reserve the right to sell them and defray charges from any net proceeds of sale or at your expense to consign them to the local authority for disposal.

16. Settlement. Subject to our normal trading conditions, payment will be made by BACS or cheque 5 weeks after the sale unless the buyer has not paid for the goods. In this case no settlement will then be made but we will take your instructions in the light of our Conditions of Sale. You authorise any sums owed by you to us on other transactions to be deducted from the sale proceeds. You must note the liability to reimburse the proceeds of sale to us as under the circumstances provided for in Condition 10 above. You should therefore bear this potential liability in mind before parting with the proceeds of sale until the expiry of 28 days from the date of sale.

CONDITIONS OF SALE

Woolley & Wallis Salisbury Salerooms Ltd carries on business with bidders, buyers and all those present in the auction room prior to or in connection with a sale on the following General Conditions and on such other terms, conditions and notices as may be referred to herein.

1. DEFINITIONS

In these Conditions:

(a) ‘auctioneer’ means Woolley & Wallis Salisbury Salerooms Ltd or its authorised auctioneer, as appropriate;

(b) ‘deliberate forgery’ means an imitation made with the intention of deceiving as to authorship, origin, date, age, period, culture or source but which is unequivocally described in the catalogue as being the work of a particular creator and which at the date of the sale had a value materially less than it would have had if it had been in accordance with the description;

(c) ‘hammer price’ means the level of bidding reached (at or above any reserve) when the auctioneer brings down the hammer;

(d) ‘terms of consignment’ means the stipulated terms and rates of commission on which Woolley & Wallis Salisbury Salerooms Ltd accepts instructions from sellers or their agents;

(e) ‘total amount due’ means the hammer price in respect of the lot sold together with any premium, Value Added Tax chargeable and any additional charges payable by a defaulting buyer under these Conditions;

(f) ‘sale proceeds’ means the net amount due to the seller, being the hammer price of the lot sold less commission at the stated rate, Value Added Tax chargeable and any other amounts due to us by the seller in whatever capacity and however arising.

(g) ‘‘You’, ‘Your’, etc. refer to the buyer as identified in Condition 2.

(h) The singular includes the plural and vice versa as appropriate.

2. BIDDING PROCEDURES AND THE BUYER

(a) Bidders are required to register their particulars before bidding and to satisfy any security arrangements before entering the auction room to view or bid;

(b) the maker of the highest bid accepted by the auctioneer conducting the sale shall be the buyer at the hammer price and any dispute about a bid shall be settled at the auctioneer’s absolute discretion by reoffering the Lot during the course of the auction or otherwise. The auctioneer shall act reasonably in exercising this discretion.

(c) Bidders shall be deemed to act as principals.

(d) Our right to bid on behalf of the seller is expressly reserved up to the amount of any reserve and the right to refuse any bid is also reserved.

3. INCREMENTS

Bidding increments shall be at the auctioneer’s sole discretion.

4. THE PURCHASE PRICE

The Buyer shall pay the hammer price together with a premium thereon of 26% plus VAT @20% (totalling 31.2% inclusive) on the first £500,000 and 20% plus VAT @20% (24%) inclusive thereafter.

5. VALUE ADDED TAX

Value Added Tax on the hammer price is imposed by law on all items affixed with a † or Ω. Value Added Tax is charged at the appropriate rate prevailing by law at the date of sale and is payable by buyers of relevant lots. (Please refer to ‘Information for Buyers’ for a brief explanation of the VAT position).

6. PAYMENT

(a) Immediately a lot is sold you will:

(i) give to us, if requested, proof of identity, and

(ii) pay to us the total amount due in pounds sterling

(b) Any payments by you to us may be applied by us towards any sums owing from you to us on any account whatever without regard to any directions of you or your agent, whether express or implied.

(c) In line with new legislation we reserve the right to investigate and identify the source of any funds received by us. The completion of the sale of a Lot will be postponed or cancelled at our discretion if further time is needed for investigation, or if you are in breach of your warranties as a buyer, or if we consider the sale to be unlawful or in any way cause liabilities or be detrimental to either Woolley and Wallis or the Seller.

7. TITLE AND COLLECTION OF PURCHASES

(a) The ownership of any Lots purchased shall not pass to you until you have made payment in full to us of the total amount due.

(b) You shall at your own risk and expense collect any lots that you have purchased and paid for from our premises not later than 3 working days following the day of the auction or upon the clearance of any cheque used for payment (if later) after which you shall be responsible for any collection, storage and insurance charges.

(c) No purchase may be collected and we shall not release any lot to you or your agent until it has been paid for.

8. REMEDIES FOR NON­PAYMENT OR FAILURE TO COLLECT PURCHASES

(a) If any Lot is not paid for in full and taken away in accordance with these Conditions or if there is any other breach of these Conditions, we, as agent for the seller and on our own behalf, shall at our absolute discretion and without prejudice to any other rights we may have, be entitled to exercise one or more of the following rights and remedies:

(i) to proceed against you for damages for breach of contract;

(ii) to rescind the sale of that lot and/or any other lots sold by us to you;

(iii) to resell the lot (by auction or private treaty) in which case you shall be responsible for any resulting deficiency in the total amount due (after crediting any part payment and adding any resale costs). Any surplus so arising shall belong to the seller;

(iv) to remove, store and insure the lot at your expense and, in the case of storage, either at our premises or elsewhere;

(v) to charge interest at a rate not exceeding 1.5% per month on the total amount due to the extent it remains unpaid for more than 3 working days after the sale;

(vi) to retain that or any other lot sold to you until you pay the total amount due;

(vii) to reject or ignore bids from you or your agent at future auctions or to impose conditions before any such bids shall be accepted;

(viii) to apply any proceeds of sale of other Lots due or in future becoming due to you towards the settlement of the total amount due and to exercise a lien (that is a right to retain possession of any of your property in our possession for any purpose until the debt due is satisfied.

(b) We shall, as agent for the seller and on our own behalf pursue these rights and remedies only so far as is reasonable to make appropriate recovery in respect of breach of these conditions

9. THIRD PARTY LIABILITY

All members of the public on our premises are there at their own risk and must note the lay­out of the accommodation and security arrangements. Accordingly neither the auctioneer nor our employees or agents shall incur liability for death or personal injury (except as required by law by reason of our negligence) or similarly for the safety of the property of persons visiting prior to or at a sale.

Whilst prospective buyers are strongly advised to attend the auction and are always responsible for any decision to bid for a particular lot and shall be assumed to have carefully inspected and satisfied themselves as to its condition, we will if so instructed clearly and in writing execute bids on their behalf. Neither the auctioneer nor our employees or agents shall be responsible for any failure to do so save where such failure is unreasonable. Where two or more commission bids at the same level are recorded we reserve the right in our absolute discretion to prefer the first bid so made.

11. WARRANTY OF TITLE AND AVAILABILITY

The seller warrants to the auctioneer and you that the seller is the true owner of the property consigned or is properly authorised by the true owner to consign it for sale and is able to transfer good and marketable title to the property free from any third party claims.

12. AGENCY

The auctioneer normally acts as agent only and disclaims any responsibility for default by sellers or buyers.

13. TERMS OF SALE

The seller acknowledges that lots are sold subject to the stipulations of these Conditions in their entirety and on the Terms of Consignment as notified to the consignor at the time of the entry of the lot.

14. DESCRIPTIONS AND CONDITION

(a) Whilst we seek to describe lots accurately, it may be impractical for us to carry out exhaustive due diligence on each lot. Prospective buyers are given ample opportunities to view and inspect before any sale and they (and any independent experts on their behalf) must satisfy themselves as to the accuracy of any description applied to a lot. Prospective buyers also bid on the understanding that, inevitably, representations or statements by us as to authorship, genuineness, origin, date, age, provenance, condition or estimated selling price involve matters of opinion. We undertake that any such opinion shall be honestly and reasonably held and accept liability for opinions given negligently or fraudulently. Subject to the foregoing neither we the auctioneer nor our employees or agents nor the seller accept liability for the correctness of such opinions and all conditions and warranties, whether relating to description, condition or quality of lots, express, implied or statutory, are hereby excluded. This Condition is subject to the next following Condition concerning deliberate forgeries and applies save as provided for in paragraph 6 ‘information to buyers’.

(b) Private treaty sales made under these Conditions are deemed to be sales by auction for purposes of consumer legislation.

15. FORGERIES

Notwithstanding the preceding Condition, any lot which proves to be a deliberate forgery (as defined) may be returned to us by you within 21 days of the auction provided it is in the same condition as when bought, and is accompanied by particulars identifying it from the relevant catalogue description and a written statement of defects. If we are satisfied from the evidence presented that the lot is a deliberate forgery we shall refund the money paid by you for the lot including any buyer’s premium provided that (1) if the catalogue description reflected the accepted view of scholars and experts as at the date of sale or (2) you personally are not able to transfer a good and marketable title to us, you shall have no rights under this condition. The right of return provided by this Condition is additional to any right or remedy provided by law or by these Conditions of Sale.

GENERAL

16. We shall have the right at our discretion, to refuse admission to our premises or attendance at our auctions by any person.

17. (a) Any right to compensation for losses liabilities and expenses incurred in respect of and as a result of any breach of these Conditions and any exclusions provided by them shall be available to the seller and/or the auctioneer as appropriate.

(b) Such rights and exclusions shall extend to and be deemed to be for the benefit of employees and agents of the seller and/or the auctioneer who may themselves enforce them.

18. Any notice to any buyer, seller, bidder or viewer may be given by first class mail or Swiftmail in which case it shall be deemed to have been received by the addressee 48 hours after posting.

19. Special terms may be used in catalogue descriptions of particular classes of items in which case the descriptions must be interpreted in accordance with any glossary appearing in the catalogue.

20. Any indulgence extended to bidders buyers or sellers by us notwithstanding the strict terms of these Conditions or of the Terms of Consignment shall affect the position at the relevant time only and in respect of that particular concession only; in all other respects these Conditions shall be construed as having full force and effect.

21. English law applies to the interpretation of these Conditions.

22. Prior written consent must be sought by the buyer or any other party for the use of any images, illustrations and written materials produced by or for Woolley & Wallis relating to a lot or sale, including the contents of a catalogue. Copyright for any of the aforementioned will remain the property of Woolley & Wallis, subject to the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Woolley & Wallis and the seller make no representations or warranties that the buyer of a lot will acquire any copyright or other reproduction rights to it.

PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, LITHOGRAPHS, ENGRAVINGS AND PRINTS

In accordance with long standing practice in Fine Art Sale Rooms certain terms used in descriptions in the Catalogue have the meanings ascribed to them in the glossary below.

GLOSSARY

Any statement as to authorship, attribution, origin, date, age, provenance and condition is a statement of opinion and is not to be taken as a statement of fact. The Company reserves the right, in forming their opinion, to consult and rely upon any expect or authority considered by them to be reliable.

(a) Edward Lear: In our opinion a work by the artist. (When the artist’s forename(s) is not known, a series of asterisks, followed by the surname of the artist, whether preceded by an initial or not, indicates that in our opinion the work is by the artist named.

(b) Attributed to Edward Lear: In our opinion probably a work by the artist but less certainly as to authorship is expressed than in the preceding category.

(c) Studio of Edward Lear: In our opinion a work by an unknown hand in the studio of the artist which may be or may not have been executed under the artist’s direction.

(d) Circle of Edward Lear: In our opinion a work by an as yet unidentified but distinct hand, closely associated with the named artist but not necessarily his pupil.

(e) Style of ...; Follower of Edward Lear: In our opinion a work by a painter working in the artist’s style, contemporary or nearly contemporary, but not necessarily his pupil.

(f) Manner of Edward Lear: In our opinion a work in the style of the artist and of a later date.

(g) After Edward Lear: In our opinion a copy of a known work of the artist.

(h) The term signed and/or dated and/or inscribed means that in our opinion the signature and/or date and/or inscription are from the hand of the artist.

(i) The term bears a signature and/or date and/or inscription means that in our opinion the signature and/or date and/or inscription have been added by another hand.

(j) Dimensions are given height before width.

(k) Pictures are framed unless otherwise stated.

BOOK AUCTIONS

If, on collation, any named item in this catalogue proves defective in text or illustration, the lot may be returned within 14 days of the sale with the defects stated in writing. This proviso shall not apply to defects stated in the catalogue or announced at the time of sale; nor to the absence of blanks, half titles, tissue guards or advertisements, damage in respect of bindings, stains, spotting, marginal tears or other defects not affecting completeness of text or illustration; nor to drawings, autographs, letters or manuscripts, signed photographs, music, atlases, maps or periodicals; nor to books not identified by title; nor to books sold not subject to return.

ARTIST’S RESALE RIGHT / DROIT DE SUITE

Droit de Suite is a royalty payable to a qualifying artist or the artist’s heirs each time a work is resold during the artist’s lifetime and up to a period of 70 years after the artist’s death.

Royalties are calculated on a sliding percentage scale based on the hammer price excluding the buyer’s premium. The royalty does not apply to lots selling below the sterling equivalent of €1,000 and the maximum royalty payable on any single lot is the sterling equivalent of €10,000.

Droit de Suite, which is not subject to VAT, will be added to the buyer’s purchase price and then passed on to the relevant collecting agency by the auctioneer. Please enquire for the accepted exchange rate on the day of the sale.

Royalties for Droit de Suite are as follows:

4% Up to €50,000

3% €50,000.01 ­ 200,000

1% €200,000.01 ­ 350,000

0.5% €350,000.01 ­ 500,000

0.25% In excess of €500,000

Up to a maximum levy of €10,000

Lots marked with a Φ symbol are potentially subject to the levy.

PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CUSTOMERS

WHAT THIS PRIVACY NOTICE DOES

This privacy notice (Notice) explains how Woolley and Wallis Salisbury Salerooms Limited (us, we, our, Woolley & Wallis), processes the personal data of users of our auction and valuation services (Services) and includes buyers, bidders and sellers of auction items as well as prospective users of our Services (you, your). It also explains your rights in relation to the personal data we hold about you.

This Notice is effective from May 2018. We may change this Notice from time to time. Any significant changes will be notified to you.

DATA CONTROLLER AND CONTACT DETAILS

Woolley and Wallis is the data controller of your personal data and is subject to the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

If you have any questions about how we use your personal data, whom we share it with, or if you wish to exercise any of the rights set out in this Notice, please contact us using the following details:

• By post – Privacy Officer, Woolley and Wallis Salisbury Salerooms, 51­61 Castle Street, Salisbury, SP1 3SU.

• By email – privacyofficer@woolleyandwallis.co.uk

• By telephone – +44 (0)1722 424599

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We collect your personal data from the following sources:

From you when you:

• interact with us before entering into a contract with us, for example when you express your interest in our Services;

• instruct us to provide Services to you, sign contractual documentation and provide information in connection with those instructions;

• communicate with us by post, telephone, email or via our website, for example in order to make enquiries or register for an online account;

• in various other ways as you interact with us during your time as a user (or potential user) of our Services, for the various purposes set out below.

From third parties such as:

• other auction houses and individuals and organisations in the auctioneering trade whom we may contact to check background details about you;

• the­saleroom.com who enable live online bidding and provide us with the name, contact details, the last four digits of registered payment cards and transaction history (in relation to activity on the­saleroom.com) of individuals who register for one of our auctions (please see the­saleroom.com’s privacy policy for further information). We also receive names, contact details, sale details and payment details (the amount and date paid) from realex payments (the­saleroom.com’s payment provider);

• sage paywho process payments on our behalf and who provide us with your name, contact details and payment details (only the last four digits of your payment card are provided);

• shipping companies whom you hire to collect items you purchased from us.

THE CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT

We may collect the following personal data about you:

• your name and contact details including address, telephone and email address;

• your image, as captured by CCTV, if you attend our premises;

• personal identification documents, including copies of government­issued identification such as passport and driving license which are required to register bidders (or when we need to verify a seller’s details);

• account details and other information relating to your transactions/dealings with us and your use of our Services;

• payment details such as credit card and bank account details;

• credit and payment history (where you open an account with us as a buyer or bidder);

• information on your collecting preferences and aspirations, and your collections, acquisitions and disposals; and

• other information that you provide to us, for example, when you have a comment/complaint, submit a question, take part in a survey or where you express an interest in receiving marketing material or request further information.

We may also process special categories of personal data, including information concerning your health and medical conditions (for example, disability), where relevant to the provision of our Services.

THE BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR DATA, HOW WE USE THAT DATA AND WITH WHOM WE SHARE THAT DATA

WHERE WE HAVE A CONTRACTUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU

We will process your personal data because it is necessary for the performance of a contract with you (for example, a contract to use our Services) or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract. In this respect, we use your personal data for the following:

• to interact with you before you enter into a contract with us, such as when you express your interest in our Services (for example, to send you information about our Services or answer enquiries about our Services);

• once you have engaged us and entered into a contract, to provide you with the Services set out in any contractual documents.

In this respect we will provide your data to our third party suppliers or subcontractors as necessary whom we engage to help us perform our Services or who assist us in conducting our business, such as our IT suppliers, data storage providers, and valuation companies.

LEGITIMATE INTERESTS

We may also process your personal data because it is necessary for our or a third party’s legitimate interests. Our legitimate interests include our commercial interests. In this respect, we may use your personal data for the following:

• to monitor and evaluate the performance and effectiveness of our Services, including by training our staff or monitoring their performance;

• to deal with any concerns or feedback you may have in the performance of the Services;

• for our internal business record keeping and processes;

• to seek advice on our rights and obligations, including obtaining legal advice;

• to contact you for marketing purposes. If you do not wish to receive such information, please let us know now or at any time in the future, and your details will be removed from our marketing list. We will not provide your personal data to third party organisations to use for their own marketing purposes;

• to customise our website and marketing communications in line with your particular interests or preferences;

• to collect money owed to us or our consignors;

• to carry out background and credit checks in relation to bidders and buyers.

In this respect we will provide your data to the following:

• our professional advisors;

• the­saleroom.com;

• debt collection agencies;

• third parties who assist us with our marketing;

• our website and email management software provider.

LEGAL OBLIGATIONS

We may also process your Personal Data for our compliance with our legal obligations. In this respect, we may use your Personal Data for the following:

• to meet our compliance and regulatory obligations, such as our tax reporting requirements or to carry out identity checks;

• in order to assist with investigations (including criminal investigations) carried out by competent authorities;

In this respect we will provide your data to the following:

• external auditors;

• the police and other competent authorities, including HMRC;

CONSENT

We may also process your Personal Data where we have your specific consent to do so (for example, where we have your agreement to include information about you (as a seller) in sale marketing materials) or where we have sought and obtained your consent to send you direct marketing by email, or for the use of cookies on our website. If you have given your consent and you wish to withdraw it, please contact us using the contact details set out above.

Please note that where our processing of your personal data relies on your consent and where you then withdraw that consent, we may not be able to provide all or some aspects of our Services to you and/or it may affect the provision of our Services.

SPECIAL CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA

We process special categories of personal data for the following reasons:

• if it is necessary to protect your or another person’s vital interests (for example, where you have a life­threatening accident or illness and we have to process your personal data to ensure you receive appropriate medical attention);

• if it is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims (for example, to protect and defend our rights, and/or the rights of our customers);

We may process information relating to your health where we have your explicit consent to do so (for example, when you provide information about your access requirements prior to attending one of our events).

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS OF DATA

We transfer names and addresses on our Asian mailing list to a printing company in Hong Kong to distribute our auction catalogues and promotional material. In these circumstances, your personal data will be transferred subject to standard data protection clauses (adopted by the European Commission) and included in our contract with the printing company.

We share your data collected for marketing purposes and through our website with our website and email management software provider who are based in Jersey. In these circumstances, your personal data is transferred to them subject to an Adequacy Decision made by the European Commission in respect of Jersey.

PROFILING

We may use your geographical location to target our communications and advertising and promotions to you. If you do not wish us to do this, then please contact us using the details provided above.

HOW LONG YOUR INFORMATION IS KEPT

We will retain your personal data for as long as we are providing you with the Services referred to in any contractual document, and for as long as is required for legal, regulatory, fraud prevention and our legitimate business purposes after the termination of your account/agreement with us, or if your application for a particular Service is declined or abandoned.

In particular:

• in relation to CCTV images taken when you attend our premises, we will retain these for a few months;

• in relation to personal data relating to the transactions you have entered into with us as part of the provision of our Services, we will retain that data for period of seven years after that transaction has concluded in case any legal claims arise out of the provision of those Services;

• we will retain your details on our marketing database until you inform us that you no longer wish to receive our marketing communications. However, where you do unsubscribe from our marketing communications we will keep your details on a suppression list to ensure that we do not send you information you have asked not to receive;

• in relation to personal data relating to the provenance of works, we may retain that data indefinitely in our legitimate interests and the legitimate interests of the wider art market in maintaining the integrity of that market.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under the DPA you have the following rights:

• to obtain access to, and copies of, the personal data that we hold about you;

• to require that we cease processing your personal data if the processing is causing you damage or distress;

• to require us not to send you marketing communications.

• to require us to correct the personal data we hold about you if it is incorrect;

• to require us to erase your personal data;

• to require us to restrict our data processing activities (and, where our processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent, without affecting the lawfulness of our processing based on consent before its withdrawal);

• to receive from us the personal data we hold about you which you have provided to us, in a reasonable format specified by you, including for the purpose of you transmitting that personal data to another data controller;

• to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to any of our particular processing activities where you feel this has a disproportionate impact on your rights.

Please note that the above rights are not absolute, and we may be entitled to refuse requests where exceptions apply.

If you are not satisfied with how we are processing your personal data, you can raise a concern with the Information Commissioner. You can also find out more about your rights under data protection legislation from the Information Commissioner’s Office website available at: www.ico.org.uk

VALUATIONS

Valuations are a core part of our business and are usually carried out by a senior specialist or directors. Accuracy, speed and above all confidentiality are paramount.

INSURANCE VALUATIONS

Written valuations for insurance can vary from a single item to a large estate. Before starting we discuss the various options available so that the valuation is specifically tailored to individual client’s needs. For valuations of an entire house contents an itemised bound valuation is produced and can be accompanied by photographs when required. In addition to providing an inventory, written valuations can prevent painful arguments with a loss adjuster in the event of a claim.

Woolley & Wallis valuations are accepted by all leading insurance companies.

PROBATE VALUATIONS

We offer a speedy and professional service for executors and trustees and provide bound valuations for probate and duplicate copies when required. Since security is often a consideration, we can usually arrange for a house to be cleared and sent for auction, our Valuations Department ensures that executors are informed of which sales are involved and the results thereof.

We also carry out valuations for Family Division, Capital Gains Tax, and Private Treaty Sales.

Contact Amanda Lawrence +44 (0)1722 424500 | valuations@woolleyandwallis.co.uk

FREE AUCTION VALUATIONS

Free verbal valuations of items for sale are available by appointment. Please email valuations@woolleyandwallis.co.uk or call +44 (0)1722 424500

PLEASE

ABSENTEE BID FORM ARTS OFAFRICA, OCEANIA AND THE AMERICAS ANTIQUITIES

20TH & 21ST SEPTEMBER 2023

Please bid, on my behalf, for the undermentioned lots up to the prices shown which do not include the buyer’s premium or any V.A.T. payable on lots. These bids are to be executed as cheaply as is permitted by other bids, and/or reserves if any, and subject to the Conditions of Business printed in the catalogue. Please note we cannot guarantee that bids received after 4pm on the day prior to the auction will be executed.

Billing Name (please print)

Address Postcode

Daytime telephone

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ID may be required even if you have bid with us before.

City Centre Salerooms, 51­61 Castle Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP1 3SU | Tel: +44 (0) 1722 424500 www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk

ENTRIES ARE CURRENTLY BEING ACCEPTED FOR OUR 2024 AUCTIONS

2023 CALENDAR

SEPTEMBER

5th & 6th Old Masters, British & European Paintings

19th British and Continental Ceramics & Glass

20th & 21st Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities

OCTOBER

4th & 5th Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks

18th Design

24th The Jewellery Collection of the late Jean Louis Chameroy

25th & 26th Fine Jewellery

31st Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu

NOVEMBER

1st & 2nd Silver & Objects of Vertu

14th ­ 16th Asian Art, Chinese Paintings & Japanese Works of Art

28th Medals & Coins, Arms & Armour

29th British Art Pottery

DECEMBER

13th Modern British & 20th Century Art

Dates may be subject to change

+44 (0) 1722 424500

enquiries@woolleyandwallis.co.uk

51­61 Castle Street, Salisbury, SP1 3SU

www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk

*Price includes buyer’s premium

A Moche stirrup spout portrait head vessel Peru, circa 200 ­ 600 AD SOLD FOR £2,250*