Open sale

In our depot in Wurzburg you can find tribal art from past auctions - more than 427 objects from all continents and from European collections, which you can directly acquire at the minimum price.

See for yourself  in our online open sale catalogue, or visit us in our auction house in Wurzburg. We look forward to helping you!

Anthropomorphic "tu bodu" mask from the "lo" group
Lot: 3043575

Côte d'Ivoire, Yaure

Big dance mask with raffia beard "idiok"
Lot: 3021919

Nigeria, Ibibio

Two dishes "okwa oji"
Lot: 3046295

Nigeria, Idoma / Igbo

Helemt-shaped headdress
India, Naga
3046789
Provenance Size Price
H: 12.2 inch 450 EUR
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Anthropomorphic face mask "mfon ekpo"
Nigeria, Ibibio
3046787
Provenance Size Price
Siegfried & Johanna Fügener, Stuttgart, Germany (acquired in the 1960s/ 80s) H: 7.5 inch 450 EUR
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Wheeled "kuruma tansu" storage chest, late Edo period, 19th century
Japan
3046728
Provenance Size Price
H: 44.1 inch/ 50.2 inch (with wheels); B: 57.9 inch; T: 26.4 inch 5000 EUR
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Staff with female figure "solima bere"
Mali, Bamana, Sikasso region, Kolondiéba circle, village Fakola
3046702
Provenance Size Price
Karl-Heinz Krieg, Neuenkirchen, Germany
American Private Collection		 H: 58.7 inch 4000 EUR
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Fetish figure "biteki", 19th/ 20th Century
D. R. Congo, Yaka
3046700
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Nancy & Gerhard Mennen Williams, Michigan, USA (as a gift to)
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA (Accession no. "66.524")

Williams built his collection of West African art while serving as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the 1960s. He donated a part of his collection to The Detroit Institute of Arts about 1968. 		H: 7.1 inch 3000 EUR
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Statue for male aggression "iphri"
Nigeria, Urhobo
3046688
Provenance Size Price
German Private Collection (coll. in situ, 1972-75) H: 19.6 inch 800 EUR
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Anthropomorphic dance crest "mbaing"
Cameroon, Ngambè-Tikar
3046648
Provenance Size Price
German Private Collection (coll. in situ, 1972-75) H: 24 inch 3000 EUR
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Anthropomorphic headdress
Nigeria, Idoma
3046640
Provenance Size Price
German Private Collection (coll. in situ, 1972-75) H: 14.2 inch 1200 EUR
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Large disc-shaped deformation mask "idiok ekpo"
Nigeria, Ibibio / Eket
3046638
Provenance Size Price
German Private Collection (coll. in situ, 1972-75) D: 15.4 inch 2000 EUR
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Mask "idimu" of the "bwami" society, pre-1930
D. R. Congo, Lega
3046628
Provenance Size Price
Belgian Colonial Collection (arrived in Belgium in the early 1930s) H: 9.4 inch 1000 EUR
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Kneeling figure "eshu"
Nigeria, Yoruba
3046531
Provenance Size Price
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland H: 5.3 inch 500 EUR
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Comb
Malawi / Mozambique / Tanzania, Yao
3046526
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Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 307") (1969) H: 4.9 inch 300 EUR
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Standing female figure "asie usu" or "blolo bla"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
3046524
Provenance Size Price
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 27") H: 14.4 inch 2000 EUR
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Janiform magical figure "kabeja"
D. R. Congo, Northern Shaba Region, Maniema Area, Hemba
3046515
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Georges Frederick Keller (1899-1981), Paris, France
Paolo Morigi, Magliaso-Lugano, Switzerland
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 212") (1980)		 H: 9.3 inch 1500 EUR
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Janiform power figure "kabeja"
D. R. Congo, Hemba
3046514
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Paolo Morigi, Magliaso-Lugano, Switzerland ("305")
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 556") (ca.1978)
 H: 8.9 inch 1500 EUR
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Male fetish figure
D. R. Congo, Kusu
3046513
Provenance Size Price
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 214") H: 8.4 inch 800 EUR
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Fetish half figure
D. R. Congo, Hemba
3046512
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Han Coray (1880-1974), Zurich/Agnuzzo, Switzerland (according to W.S. Schwab / "HC" in graphite on the sculpture)
Paolo Morigi, Magliaso-Lugano, Switzerland ("356")
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 515")		 H: 7.1 inch 600 EUR
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Female figure with magical appendages
Sierra Leone, Mende
3046509
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Paolo Morigi, Magliaso-Lugano, Switzerland
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 162") (1977)		 H: 17.1 inch 1000 EUR
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Heddle pulley with buffalo head
Côte d'Ivoire, Jimini / Senufo
3046506
Provenance Size Price
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 324") H: 5.9 inch 500 EUR
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Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head "konantre"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
3046505
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Charles Sollberger, Bern/Biel, Switzerland
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 401") (1962)		 H: 8.1 inch 300 EUR
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Small power figure "mbulenga"
D. R. Congo, Lulua (Luluwa)
3046500
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Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 258") (coll. in situ, 1968/69) H: 5.5 inch 250 EUR
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Anthropo- / zoomorphic face mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Wè-Guéré / Wobé
3046496
Provenance Size Price
Swedish Private Collection H: 10.2 inch 300 EUR
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Anthropo- / zoomorphic face mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Wè-Guéré / Wobé
3046495
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Olof Jarbe, Stockholm/ Sundbyberg, Sweden (1940/50)
 H: 11 inch 450 EUR
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Anthropomorphic face mask
Tanzania, Sukuma
3046494
Provenance Size Price
Swedish Private Collection H: 13.2 inch 400 EUR
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Anthropomorphic mask "okoroshi"
Nigeria, Igbo
3046493
Provenance Size Price
Jon Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden H: 10.4 inch 300 EUR
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Kneeling figure
Tanzania, Tabwa / Rungu
3046492
Provenance Size Price
Swedish Private Collection H: 10.8 inch 400 EUR
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Anthropomorphic face mask "okua"
Nigeria, Idoma
3046479
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Bernd Muhlack, Kiel, Germany (received the mask as a present in Foumban, Cameroon, February 1976)
Moctar Touré, Conakry, Guinea (2009)
Peter Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden		 H: 8.3 inch 1000 EUR
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Sickle knife
D. R. Congo, Mangbetu
3046467
Provenance Size Price
Peter Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden L: 16.7 inch 250 EUR
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Two short swords "fa"
Gabon, Fang
3046465
Provenance Size Price
Peter Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden L: 21.9 inch / 22.2 inch 200 EUR
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Prestige axe "kilonda" or "kasuyu"
D. R. Congo, Songe / Nsapo
3046463
Provenance Size Price
Peter Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden L: 14 inch (shaft); B: 6.7 inch (blade) 200 EUR
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Anthropo-/zoomorphic face mask
Côte d'Ivoire / Liberia, Dan / Wé-Kran
3046441
Provenance Size Price
Jon Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden (2001)
Swedish Collection
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 5. Novmeber 2016, Lot 213
 H: 12.6 inch 250 EUR
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Large mask with articulated jaw
Liberia, Grebo / Kran
3046439
Provenance Size Price
Private Collection, Sundsvall, Sweden (1960s)
Swedish Private Collection
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 5 November 2016, Lot 115
Peter Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden		 H: 26.4 inch 2000 EUR
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Helmet mask "ndoli jowei" of the "sande" (or "bundu") society
Sierra Leone, Mende
3046436
Provenance Size Price
Eric Grate (1896-1983), Stockholm, Sweden
Swedish Private Collection
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 5 November 2016, Lot 122
Peter Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden

Grate was a Swedish sculptor, painter and graphics artist.		 H: 15.4 inch 1200 EUR
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Club ("knobkerrie") "ishungu", walking stick or dance wand
South Africa, Zulu
3046428
Provenance Size Price
Peter Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden L: 34.3 inch 450 EUR
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Door leaf with intact lock
Burkina Faso, Gurunsi / Nuna
3046427
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Jan Lundberg, Malmö, Sweden
Peter Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden		 H: 46.9 inch; B: 22 inch 1500 EUR
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Convolute: neckrest, miniature drum and pipe
Ethiopia, Sudan, South East Africa
3046414
Provenance Size Price
Peter Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden 500 EUR
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Small figure "bateba"
Burkina Faso, Lobi
3046412
Provenance Size Price
Peter Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden H: 9.8 inch 800 EUR
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Female power half figure "kakudji"
D. R. Congo, Luba-Hemba
3046409
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Jon Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden (acquired in Burundi, 1987)
Peter Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden		 H: 6.7 inch 1200 EUR
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Female miniature figure "bateba"
Burkina Faso, Lobi
3046405
Provenance Size Price
Peter Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden H: 6 inch 450 EUR
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Standing male figure "tugubele"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
3046404
Provenance Size Price
Sven Gustav Lundqvist (1918-2010), Swedish sculptor and cartoonist
Peter Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden		 H: 9.4 inch 1000 EUR
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Ethiopian manuscript
Unknown author
3046402
Provenance Size Price
400 EUR
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Ethiopian manuscript, 18th century (?)
Unknown author
3046401
Provenance Size Price
300 EUR
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Coptic psalm book, ethiopian manuscript, 18th century
Unknown author
3046400
Provenance Size Price
400 EUR
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Reiseskizzen aus Nord-Ost Afrika
Brehm, Dr. Alfred Edmund
3046396
Provenance Size Price
400 EUR
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Anthropomorphic face mask "kpan" of the "goli" group
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
3046361
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Edgar Beer, Brussels, Belgium (1976)
Dr. Oettli, Switzerland
Koller, Geneva, 26 June 2013, Lot 119
Private Collection, Berlin, Germany (2014)
Markus Gunti, Berlin, Germany (2016)
Christian Kennert, Potsdam, Germany 		H: 15.6 inch 2400 EUR
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Standing female figure
Nigeria, Igbo
3046360
Provenance Size Price
Italian Private Collection H: 20.3 inch 800 EUR
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Anthropomorphic mask with articulated lower jaw "idiok ekpo"
Nigeria, Ibibio
3046359
Provenance Size Price
German Private Collection, Munich H: 10.2 inch 1200 EUR
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Maternity
Nigeria, Bura
3046354
Provenance Size Price
H: 18.5 inch 450 EUR
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Two figures
India, Naga, Konyak
3046353
Provenance Size Price
H: 23.2 inch and 18.9 inch 600 EUR
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Anthropomorphic helmet mask
Nigeria, Igala
3046352
Provenance Size Price
Gerard Sand, Brussels, Belgium H: 12.2 inch 500 EUR
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