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Auction House:
Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)
Number of lots recorded:57
Lots with images:57
Prices available:57
Category:
African
LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** A rare african Senufo bed from Burkina Faso with the top made from a single piece of mahogany, early 20th century. Width 301 cm. Depth 102 cm. Height 70 cm ***
*** A good early Mendi mask, West Africa, 213.5 x 152.5 cm, with fine aged patina. 40 cm ***
*** A Bakongo female figure, Zaire wood with glass inlay eyes, 24 cm high. Provenance: Bert Garrebeek, Brussels old German collection ***
*** An Ekoi head dress, cross river, Nigeria antelope skin over wood. Height 65 cm. Provenance: mark Lissauer, old German collection cf. Sotheby's Paris June 2010, lot 66 ***
*** A Bukyi (Boki) head, cross river, Nigeria wood with attach. Holes for headdress. Height 24 cm. Provenance: mark Lissauer, old German collection cf. Barbier-Mueller collection ***
*** A large Dogon ganging door 190 cm high ***
*** A Standing Male Figure, Baule, Ivory Coast, West Africa, (nineteenth century), carved hardwood, 39.7 cm high. Provenance: Christie's, London 1976. Acquired from above by Dr Peter Elliott ***
*** A Makonde helmet mask, Mozambique wood and human hair. Height 20 cm. Provenance: mark Lissauer, old German collection ***
*** A Guro female figure, ivory Coast wood. Height 22 cm. Provenance: collectors gallery, Melbourne Morton Diamondstein, L. A ***
*** A Dogon kneeling female figure, Mali wood. Height 38.5 cm. Provenance: mark Lissauer, old German collection cf. Sotheby's Paris, June 2010, lot 53 ***
*** A pair of ancestor figures, Mumuye, South East Nigeria, West Africa, (twentieth century), carved wood and pigment, 82 cm; 97.7 cm (2). Provenance: Galleries Primitif, Sydney. Acquired from above by Dr Peter Elliott, in 1974 ***
*** A collection of West African metal figures ***
*** Two Fertility Figures (akan akua'ba), Ashanti Tribe, South Ghana, West Africa, (early twentieth century), carved wood, beads and coins, 20 cm; 25.5 cm high (2). Provenance: Christie's, London 1976. Acquired from above by Dr Peter Elliott ***
*** A Zulu Shield, leather and wood, South African, 19th century, 118 x 55 cm ***
*** A headdress (chiwara), Bambara, Mali (early-mid twentieth century), carved hardwood, animal hide, nails, shells, rattan and tin, 115 cm high ***
*** An Ashanti stool 29 cm high Provenance: Lewis Morley collection ***
*** Zulu leather shield 95 x 29 cm 95 cm length; 29 cm width; cow hide with 4 woven panels; central pole with some damage ***
*** A ceremonial African mask by the Kete People of the People's Republic of the Congo, early 20th century, 51 cm high ***
*** Three Kuba Raffia Velours cloth panels 66 x 32 cm each of typical complex geometric design, 19th/20th cent. Zaire. 66 x 32 cm & 26 x 34 cm ***
*** A mask, West Africa (early twentieth century), carved wood, nails, mud, resin, animal hide, string and feathers, 27 cm high. Provenance: West African Masks and Figures, Chapman Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, 29 October - 9 November 1973 ***
*** A pair of African bronze figures ***
*** A Yoruba Ibedji figure, Nigeria Wood 21 cm Provenance: Ian Auld, Camden Passage Islington, London ***
*** A large African fired mud circular mask shield with horns, wall mounted 102 high, 75 cm wide ***
*** A west African carved and pigmented male Ere Ibeji figure, 20th century, 30 cm high. Provenance: Christies London 1976, lot 103 ***
*** A Kuba cloth men's ceremonial skirt, 59 x 442 cm ***
*** Two west African carved and pigmented Ere Ibeji femail figures, 20th century, the tallest 27.5 cm high (2) ***
*** Two west African carved and pigmented Ere Ibeji figures, 20th century, the tallest 29.5 cm high (2) ***
*** Five African tribal masks ***
*** A Pair of ibejis, Yoruba, Nigeria ***
*** Fine African Fon ceremonial axe with wrought iron blade and copper over wood handle, circa early 20th century., 30 cm length ***
*** A West African carved and pigmented Ere Ibeji figure, 20th century, 25 cm high. Provenance: Christies, London 1976 ***
*** Three Kuba Congo cushions 48 x 48 cm ***
*** A West African Benin bronze head ***
*** A pair of African tribal figures ***
*** A Divination Bowl, (adjeke ifa or adjelefa), Yoruba, South Western Nigeria, West Africa, (early-mid twentieth), carved wood, 24.7 cm high. Provenance: David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney. Acquired from above by Dr Peter Elliott, in 1974 ***
*** An African tribal wooden mask, 44 cm high ***
*** An African double faced tribal mask, carved wood and polychrome finish, early 20th century, 30 cm high. Provenance: Property of a Gentleman, Melbourne ***
*** An African ivory bust of a woman. 14 cm high ***
*** An African ivory tusk carving in the form of a lady with a tall basket on her head, 24 cm high ***
*** A Dan mask, Liberia, Africa, mid-late 20th century. Carved wood. 40 cm (approximately) ***
*** A West African carved wooden tribal figure, 20th century, 36 cm high ***
*** A pair of West African iron figures ***
*** An Ibeji female figure, Yoruba, Nigeria Aged patina ***
*** An African chiefs robe 19th century. Nigeria ***
*** Three carved wooden Kuba pipes, Congo, 19th century, the largest 54 cm long ***
*** Knobkerrie Zulu club, South Africa, 19th century. 41 cm ***
*** An African metal mounted horseman from Mali ***
*** A pair of African carved wood figures possibly Nigerian ***
*** Two west African carved Ere Ibeji figures, 20th century, the tallest 31 cm high (2) ***
*** A pair of west African painted and carved Ere Ibeji figures, 20th century, 31 cm high (2) ***
*** A metal axe with wooden handle, Shona. Metal blade 38 cm long, wooden handle 47 cm long ***
*** An African bronze weight in the form of a stool Baule people, ivory Coast 8.5 cm long ***
*** A well patinated African Chief's stool ***
*** A well patinated African Chief's stool. 19 cm high, 28 cm wide, 28 cm deep ***
*** West African bronze figure group of 2 sitting figures. 20th century. 32 cm ***
*** Carved African tribal mask with shell decoration. Early 20th century. 71 cm ***
*** An ivory or bone maskette, style of the Kuba, Dr Congo ***