with expressive features and polychrome pitments. Old German collection.

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with keloid tatoeage and black-brown patina. Ex-collection Ten Houten with no. TH 61

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with hand next to protruding belly button, fine hair style and two carved crosses on the cheeks. The base with local restaurations. Ex collection Meulendijks, Rotterdam and private collection The Hague. With old Meulendijks label, A-007-008.

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with a pointed hair braid in relief and a dome shaped head with rows of braids and threee combs on top. With dark brown patina. Private collection The Hague.

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with a fine carved face and three crested hairstyle and carved flower patterns. With a glossy black patina. Provenance With Fathers Missionaries.

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two male and one female figure. With strings of glass beads and purple nail pollish.

the beard and eyebrows engraved and the hair style in many upright smaller braids. Ex-collection Ten Houten with no. TH 175. Collected before 1972.

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with a squated female figure surporting her breast.

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arched figure with a weathered surface and layers of grey patina. Private Dutch artist Leen Droppert, bought in the early 1960's.

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decorated with a seated figure with both hands on its belly, two bulbous reliefs and a oval carved mouth opening. With brown-yello patina. Private Dutch collection Maastricht.

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with brass plating and red textile tufts. Old German collection.

surmounted by a anthropomorphic head

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covered in leather. Old German collection.

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and a Luena-Chokwe comb.

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with two large horns and remnants of black and white pigments. Old German collection.

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with a fine hair style of four braids, slanting eyes and protruding lips. With layers of blackened patina. Ex-collection Dr. John and Nicole Dintenfass, New York.

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dressed in a beaded mantle.

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Ex. Coll. Jac Vogelzang, Hilversum.

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with four crown panels. Herewith two beaded pendants and two beaded pouches. (with damages) Ex collection Ursula Voorhuis.

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with a figural group of a rider wearing a large hat seated on top of a double headed animal, flanked by four birdheads and three female figures. With polychrome painting and a textile facial mask.

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WIth a Dutch written tekst: Vitu uit de missie Moossoi, Noord Ivoorkust. Masker 'Dioula', van de weversnaam Gbonbon. With old number in white 18267. Dutch private collection

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with movable lower jaw and traces of white pigments. Published VVE Nieuwsbrief, no 80, page 22. . Ex. Coll. Jac Vogelzang, Hilversum.

with polychrome paint. Ex collectie Rob Kok, Amsterdam.

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two Ogbomosho and a pair Ede Oyo. Ex collection Ursula Voorhuis.

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with original cotton accouterment. Ex collection Rob Kok, Amsterdam.

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with hart shaped face with decorations of conical points within triangle lines. The eyes close to the elongated nose and two double rows of conical circles decoration. With black to red patina. Provenance: collected by Johannes Bakker (1870-1930) a doctor and Sierk van der Land a agricultural engineer and his friend. They made travels together from then Alberville into the Kivu area between 1910-1930. These objects were collected in situ in those travels according to the family of Sierk van der Land. Inherited by descent.

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Herewith a bronze Ogboni sculpture of two figures. Ex collection Ursula Voorhuis.

with curved horns and geometric whitened patterns.

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with hart shaped face, short arms and decoration of several circulair points. Provenance: collected by Johannes Bakker (1870-1930) a doctor and Sierk van der Land a agricultural engineer and his friend. They made travels together from then Alberville into the Kivu area between 1910-1930. These objects were collected in situ in those travels according to the family of Sierk van der Land. Inherited by descent.

with fine adze marks, aluminium and copper plating and red to brown patina.

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with layers of encrusted patina.

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one with repair and a copper number attached. From a colonial Belgium collection, Alex van Opstal, before 1930. Artcurial, Paris, 1906/2008.

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with sharp carved eyes, nose and mouth. With plantfiber hair and raffia beard. With oker, black and white pigments.

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the face with a rows of lineair scarifications. With dark patina.

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with beaded ornaments

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finished with iron studs and geometrical carved pattern.

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with small upright braids as hair style. Ex collection Ten Houten with no. TH 178

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Ex collection Ten Houten with no. TH 437

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wearing a small hat and with fine patina. Bought at Peter Sloane, London

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with expressive bust with long braid. With geomatrical patterns and black patina. Ex. Coll. Jac Vogelzang, Hilversum.

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with characteristic pointy nose and small protruding mouth. With written numbers in chalk on the reverse and writing. For masks of the same age and probably the same carver see: 'Die Kunst der Guro Elfenbeinkuste', Museum Rietberg Zurich, Fischer and Homberger, 1985, page 82 and 83, figures 2-5. Mask no. 5 also has a washed surface. These masks are in the collection of Basel, ex. Sammlung Himmelheber and other collections. Collection of John Rädecker (1885-1956), the Dutch sculptor who designed the sculpture for the Dutch WW2 monument on the Dam Square, Amsterdam. He was a friend of Carel van Lier and could have bought from or traded Tribal Art objects with him.

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surmounted with standing female figure.

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Solid hanging system on the back

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pierced through circulair eyes and mouth, double pair of eyes below notched arched brows, topped by a pair of horns. With thick brownish black to grey patina and a mustache of animal hair, the reverse with a thick blackened patina. Old private German collection.

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Ex collection Ursula Voorhuis.

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With black and brown patina.

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the hair style decorated with two birds and two arcs. With black patina.

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with a carved face in high relief and birds and geometrical patterns in low relief. With pigments and kaolin. Little wear at the corners

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with layers of red, white and black paint.

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with elaborate hairstyle in six braids and painted in black.

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Ex collection Ursula Voorhuis.

with headdress, raffia hair and polychrome pigments.

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Provenance Ursula Voorhuis, St. Agatha

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and two other from this area. Provenance Ursula Voorhuis, St. Agatha

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with horns a picking bird and blackish patina. ex collection Michael Renandeau

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Provenance Ursula Voorhuis, St. Agatha

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carved as a stylized snake with alternating polychrome surface decoration with engraved patterns. At the top on both sides two copper disks. German collection, 1960's.

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a male and two females, glossy patina. Provenance Ursula Voorhuis, St. Agatha.

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with four cilindrical eyes, horns and protruding mouth. With painted pigments and blackish patina.

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and two ibeji from the same area, male and female, beaded ornaments. Provenance Ursula Voorhuis, St. Agatha

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Provenance Galerie de Ruimte, Eersel and private collection Jean Nies. (with document)

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