Current auction

Auction 103
2024-11-16

AFRICAN, ASIAN, OCEANIC AND PRE-COLUMBIAN ART
Artworks from the Vienna collection of Erwin Melchardt, art critic, cultural editor, and auction expert. Selected pieces from the collection of Bruno Heimberg, Munich, former restorer of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen and Director of the Doerner Institute. Objects from the collection of Helmut Bruchner, Munich. Pre-Columbian ceramics from the estate of Klaus Kalz, Berlin (Part 2).

The after sale has started

The after sale of our 103rd Auction has started. Some items are still available. Maybe you will discover one of this objects for your collection.

After sale catalogue

Highlights of the current auction

Stone head "hacha", Late Classical Period, ca. 600 to 900 AD
Lot: 2

Mexico, Central Gulf Coast, Veracruz

Fragment of a female Cycladic idol
Lot: 7

Europe-Antiques, Greece, Cyclades

Ancestor figure "adu zatua"
Lot: 53

Indonesia - Nias

Standing male ancestor figure ‘kandimbong’
Lot: 58

Papua New Guinea - Lower Sepik, Ramu River

Helmet mask 'tatanua
Lot: 61

Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Ireland

Male 'malagan' figure with crossed arms
Lot: 62

Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Ireland

Malagan' figure with outstretched arms
Lot: 63

Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Ireland

Rare head sculpture
Lot: 64

Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Irland - Tabar Island

Zoomorphic mask 'kavat
Lot: 65

Papua New Guinea, New Britain, Gazelle Peninsula, Uramot Baining

Birdhead club 'porowa ra maru
Lot: 66

New Caledonia, Kanak

Paddle club "culacula"
Lot: 69

Fidji Islands

Club "u'u"
Lot: 70

Marquesas Islands

Treasure box "waka huia"
Lot:

New Zealand, Maori

Rare shaman's mask, ca. 1900-1930
Lot: 76

South West Alaska, Nunivak Island, Yupik

Large flaring bowl 'florero' with painted scene
Lot: 86

Peru, Moche

Sarcophagus mask of a youth, ca. 2nd century AD
Lot: 120

Europe-Antiques, Romano-Egyptian

Antique helmet, 3rd century BC
Lot: 121

Europe-Antiques, etruscian

Anthropomorphic face mask "deangle"
Lot: 138

Liberia, Dan

Figure of a seated warrior
Lot: 139

Sierra Leone, Kissi

Standing male figure 'bateba phuwe
Lot: 154

Burkina Faso, Lobi

Artfully crafted handle or staff finial
Lot: 158

Côte d'Ivoire, Atié (Akye)

Figure of a spirit wife "blolo bla"
Lot: 164

Côte d'Ivoire, Baule

Anthropomorphic face mask
Lot: 186

Nigeria, Urhobo

Reliquary guardian figure "éyéma-o-byéri" (image of the ancestor)
Lot: 203

Gabon, Fang-Ntumu / Betsi-Fang

Figural pendant "mikisi mihasi"
Lot: 223

D. R. Congo, Luba

Standing female figure
Lot: 225

D. R. Congo, Mangbetu / Azande, Uele, "Master of the T-shaped brow"

Anthropomorphic vessel "sundu"
Lot: 226

D. R. Congo, Uele, Mangbetu

Power figure "nkisi" / "nkishi"
Lot: 234

D. R. Congo, Songye-Tetela

Male power figure "nkisi" / "nkishi"
Lot: 235

D. R. Congo, Songye

Filigree dance wand "bair"
Lot: 320

Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Gazelle Peninsula, Tolai

Rare stone "tjuringa" ("churinga") of unusual size
Lot: 339

Australia

dropped
Lot: 354

Africa-Antiques, Egypt

Standing female figure
Lot: 359

Mali, Dogon

Power figure "nkisi" / "nkishi"
Lot: 390

D. R. Congo, Songye

Staff crowning with four mask faces
Lot: 395

Angola, Chokwe

Rare prestige dagger with scabbard "omuele guosipika"
Lot: 405

Namibia, Ovambo, Ondonga