h. 49 cm.
Provenance: Emile Veranneman, Brussels.
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showing keloid tattoos and black to brown encrusted patina. Herewith a West African wooden divination stick. (figure with broken base)
h. 33 en 21,5 cm.
Provenance: M.L.J. Lemaire, Amsterdam, no. 34729
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h. 69 cm. mounted
Provenance: Private Dutch collection, 1980's.
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in a dancing possition.
h. 50,5 cm. custom made stand.
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two carved heads and an iron blade.
h. 42,5 cm. (not mounted)
a standing muscular figure holding his right hand to the chin, his left firmly holds the lower right arm; the expressive face with detailed features; the belly shows a deep circular cavity surrounded by traces of an oval box which was affixed to the body; circular cavities can also be seen at the back and back of the head; a piece of trade cloth is inserted in one of the cavities.
H. 34 cm.
Provenance: Johan August Abraham Marcusson (1853-1926) worked between 1876 and 1885 as a commercial agent for the Nieuwe Afrikaansche Handelsvennootschap (NAHV) in the Lower Congo region. During his uninterrupted ten-year stay he acquired several items, including power figures, he referred to as fetishes. In 1885 he donated part of his collection to the Ethnographic Museum of the Amsterdam zoo Natura Artis Magistra. Natura Artis Magistra (N.A.M.), with written numbers at the back and a sticker: N.A.M. / Ser. 137 nr. 83; deaccessioned. Collection C.T. Bertling, Bloemendaal. Of all the Kongo statues listed in the AHDRC archive with one of the two hands touching the chin, only six are in a standing position and all have the right or left hand firmly holding the lower part of the arm like the one discussed here.
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h. 36,5 cm.
pv0032147 number in white. Provenance by repute Philip Pearlstein.
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h. 89 cm. on stand.
Provenance: Galerie Lemaire, Amsterdam; Private Amsterdam collection.
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H. 15,5 cm.
Provenance: ex collection Simonis, Dusseldorf.
with painted pattern of an anthropomorphic head. With black and red pigments.
h. 134 cm. on a custom made stand.
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in janus form. (with written label)
h. 22,5 cm. mounted
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with layers of dark encrusted patina.
H. 39,5 cm. mounted.
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vegetal fibre, palm bark, coins and aluminium.
h. 107 cm.
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h. 52 cm.
Provenance Totem Meneghelli, Johannesburg, South Africa and private Dutch collection.
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L. 11 cm. mounted.
Provenance: Arte Primitivo, New York.
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surmounted with a janus face. Both staff with metal points.
L. 118 and 78 cm.
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h. 24 cm.
Provenance: private collection Germany, 2000-2005
h. 5,5 - 5,8 cm.
Provenance: Pierre Loos, Brussels, 2005.
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with hinged jaw and white and black pigments.
L. 18 cm.
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h. 28 - 30 cm.
Provenance: Staf van Roy, Brussels, 1998, two figures; smallest Artemission, London, 2006; Ref. Devisse, J. 'Vallees du Niger. Paris, Musee National des Arts d'Afrique et d'Oceanic. 1993.
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one as a closed pot with lid, the other cylindrical with an open end. The closed pot with engraved geometric lines.
h. 30 and 29 cm.
Provenance: Rob Aussen, Amsterdam, 2002; Private collection Amsterdam.
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with red patina and a red cotton cloth.
h. 33 and 37 cm.
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with old collection number on inside.
L. 44 cm. on stand.
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elongated mask with two carved seated figures and a overhanging banana tree. With remnants of pigments and grey encrusted patina. Herewith another Ijebu headdress mask.
L. 100 cm.
Provenance: Harvey Menist, Amsterdam and private collection The Hague for mask with banana tree.
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(string breakage)
ca. 53 cm.
De Wilma en Max Schuhmacher collectie
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a horned figure with pierced nose, neck showing a disc shape, the cilindrical base with pierced attachment hole. Black patina.
h. 36 cm.
Provenance: Dintenfass, New York.
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h. 43 cm. mounted
Provenance: Bergmans Fine Arts and private Belgium collection.
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the face in the form of a kifwebe mask.
h. 33,5 cm. on a metal stand.
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depicting a standing male and female figure. With pigments in red, white, black and ochre.
h. ca. 110 cm.
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Herewith three spears. (damaged)
L. 109 - 229 cm.
De Wilma en Max Schuhmacher collectie
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the face with a triangular patterns, arrow-shaped pierced nose with a red cloth inserted, pierced ears with plant fibre sticks, behind a ' fence' of two poles, shortened legs and struts below the elbows, red cotton loin cloth
H. 34 cm.
Provenance: C.T. Bertling (1891-1970), Bloemendaal, acquired in the late 1920s.
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wooden lid, originally with a singa head now missing, a squatting anthropomorphic figure on the neck, water buffalo horn with seated anthropomorphic figure as finial, crowned by a tuft of ijuk, dry encrusted patina.
L. 33 cm.
Provenance: Emile Deletaille, Brussels. Exhibited Parcours des Mondes, September 2013.
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in crouching position, bent arms and legs, the crescent eyes whitened, rectangular mouth below prominent nostrils. Included in this lot is a woodcut depicting this figure, made by C.T. Bertling himself.
H. 28 cm. on a custom made 1920s stand
Provenance: C. T. Bertling (1891-1970), Bloemendaal, acquired in the late 1920s in the Moluccas. The figure can be seen standing on the table in this picture where C.T. Bertling is seated in his home in Menado, Sulawesi, holding the one of the two Lake Sentani staffs, lot number 5638, in his hand, ca. 1927.
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consisting of shell beads and plant fiber.
a fine open-worked scrolling pattern, bordered by a sfinx-like korwar figure on both sides, plant fibre string.
W. 18 cm.
Provenance: C.T. Bertling (1891-1970), Bloemendaal, acquired in situ in the late 1920s.
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