Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD
Furniture, Works of Art and Tribal Art
Auctioneer: Woolley & Wallis Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire UK
Contact: Tel: 01722 424500 Fax: 01722 424508
Date: 8th January 2013 Time: 10:00AM
Details: Viewing:
Friday 4th January 10am to 4.30pm
Saturday 5th January 10am to 1pm
Monday 7th January 10am to 4.30pm
Tuesday 8th January 8.30am to 10am
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Auction Lots - Page 16
751
Two French longbows, with vellum and leather grips, with horn nocks, 75¾in (192.5cm) long, max. (2) £100-150
752
An Indian percussion rifle, with engraved calligraphy to the barrel and stamped '300', with a hardwood stock, 51½in (131cm) long. £150-200
753
A Middle Eastern percussion rifle, with a 53½in (136cm) long barrel, with stylized leafage to the end, 72¾in (185cm) long. £150-200
754
Two 19th century American Civil War rifle locks, both stamped 'STARR ARMS CO. YONKERS N.Y.', 4¾in (11.8cm) long. (2) £50-80
755
A Victorian brass handled dagger, cast 'VR', 18¼in (46.4cm) long, with a leather mounted scabbard stamped '7/99' and 'crown B70'. £50-80
756
An 18th century German hunting sword, the 21¼in (53.9cm) long double edge blade to a horn grip and white metal quillon decorated with dogs and deer heads. £100-150
757
A pair of Friendly Society ceremonial pole axes, numbered '4455' with initials 'SWW' and 'TWW', 77in (195.5cm) long. (2) £50-100
758
A pair of Victorian cast iron gauntlets, converted to lamp fittings, 12¼in (31cm) high. (2) £50-80
759
A pair of practice sabres, with disc and open wire guards and wooden grips, 40½in (103cm) long. (2) £100-150
760
An officer's dress sword, with an etched steel blade for '3rd Middlesex ARTY VOLTS' by 'Jones Chalk and Dwason, Sackville Street, London W.', with a sharkskin grip and open guard, with scabbard, 40in (101.5cm) long. £200-300
761
An early 19th century bandsman's sword, the 27½in (69.7cm) curved blade to a gilt brass hilt and a lion's head pommel, the quillon cast with musical instruments, together with a Victorian cadet's sword, with a shagreen grip. (2) £40-60
762
An Indian sabre, with a curved steel blade with a double edged tip, etched with arched scroll decoration and with calligraphy, with scabbard, 38in (96.5cm) long. £100-150
763
A pair of carved ivory tusks, Congo/Angola, with low relief panels of native animals and one with a seated male human holding his head, the other with a monkey carrying another on a spoon, all with inset bone eyes, 31¼in and 31¾in (79.5 and 81.6cm) long, mounted on hardwood stands. (4)
Collected by Evan & Florence Howells in the 1930's / 1940's whilst acting as Welsh Baptist Missionaries in Portuguese Angola. £400-600
764
A 19th century Mangbetu ivory oliphant, with reeded band decoration, 29in (73.5cm) long. £500-700
765
A Punu mask, with ribbed crescent coiffure, scarifications to the face, dark patina with red ears and mouth, 13in (33cm) h. £100-150
766
A Chokwe ebonised mask, 12in (30.5cm) high and another mask, with white pigmentation, 12½in (31.6cm) high. (2) £200-300
767
A Kifwebe mask, with incised striated decoration, 8½in (21.5cm) wide. £150-200
768
A Bobo mask, Burkino Faso, with a twin lobed coiffure with piercings, relief eyes, nose and mouth, with black, red and white decoration, 15½in (39.5cm) h. £100-200
769
A Dan mask, with applied vellum and fibre, 10in (25.5cm) high. £150-200
770
An African mask, with horn crest being supported by a figure, 22½in (57cm) h. £150-200
771
A Haida argillite bowl on four legs, North West Coast, 4½in (11.3cm) high, 6in (15cm) diameter, and an Inuit whalebone sled runner, pierced twice for suspension, 11¼in (28.4cm) long. (2) £30-50
772
A large Baga mask, with incised and polychrome decoration, with applied fibre, 63in (160cm) high. £300-400
773
A Fang seated figure, with remains of black crusty patination, 22in (56cm) high, on a later stand. £400-600
774
A Congo fertility figure, with two horizontal raised scarification to the back of her neck, with a leaf around her waist and thighs, 24¾in (63cm) high. £100-200
775
An Ekoi Janus head crest, vellum covered with painted eyes and teeth, with detachable horns and woven fibre base, 26½in (67.5cm) high. £300-400
776
A West African fertility figure, with a fan shape coiffure and a curved back, with white pigment to the hands, with an allover thick black patina, 24½in (62.2cm) high. £200-300
777
A 19th century rectangular wood prayer board, inscribed in differing hands, with a French inscription to one side, 'Verses from the Qur'an coming from the Great Mosque of Tlemcen, 10th February 1836' 11in (28cm) high, 6½in (16.5cm) wide.
The Great Mosque of Tlemcen, Algeria was built in 1082 and later reconstructed by Ali Ibn Yusef. £400-600
778
A Ligbi mask, with a hornbill crest and ebonised, white and red stain finish, 8¾in (22cm) high. £200-300
779
A Dan ceremonial spoon, 15¼in (39cm) high. £80-120
780
A Dan mask, with a cloth headdress mounted with horns, cowrie shells and remains of feathers, 21½in (54.5cm) high. £200-300
781
A Punu mask, with horn crest and white, ebonised and red decoration, 12in (30.5cm) high. £150-200
782
A West African group, with a head finial supported on an open jaw with pointed teeth, with a mask to the reverse, 28in (71cm) high. £80-120
783
A Kuba helmet mask, with painted pigment decoration, with applied beads, shells and fibre, 18in (45.6cm) high. £200-300
784
An African hardwood staff, with a baluster finial and two prong base, 69in (175.3cm) long, and a carved and ebonised wood three prong staff, 35in (89cm) long. (2) £20-30
785
An African wood club, with an ovoid head, 24¼in (61.5cm) long and an Irish Shillelagh, inscribed A.H. Cuthell XIV, 26¼in (66.5cm) long. (2) £100-150
786
An African hardwood knobkerrie, with a bulbous head with a nipple, 23in (58.5cm) long. £50-100
787
A South African knobkerrie, with an interlaced copper band, 23in (58.4cm) long, and a hardwood baton, 18¼in (46cm) long. (2) £60-100
788
An African ceremonial knife, with a curved steel blade and applied a brass sheet with geometric designs and with a wooden handle, 17¼in (43.6cm) long. £150-200
789
A hippopotamus tail fly whisk, with a silver coloured metal mounted end, 25in (65cm) long, and a giraffe tail fly whisk, with a wooden support. (2) £50-70
790
An African woven basket and cover, possibly Barotse, Zambia, with a lizard handle, 4in (10cm) high, 6in (15cm) wide, together with a Fon bronze staff, Nigeria, the finial formed as a man riding a horse, 10½in (26.3cm) high. (2) £50-100
791
An oil painting of an Askari, signed lower right with initials 'K M M' and dated '1931', 27¾ x 17½in (70.5 x 44.4cm), in a glazed carved giltwood frame, together with the Askari's felt Fez and ceremonial mace inscribed 'NORTHERN TERRITORIES CONSTABULARY GOLD COAST' and 'HAWKES & SONS MAKERS 23937', 69in (175.3cm) long. (3) £400-600
792
A Luba staff of office, with a Janus head finial with a slightly flared panel above carved with an interlaced motif and angled ribbed panel, with metal finials, one missing, the base with an elliptical panel with stepped borders and further carved designs, with a metal tip, 60¼in (153cm) high.
Provenance: Ernest Ohly, Berkeley Galleries, London. £600-800
793
An Ashanti wood doll, with a curved disc head slanting backwards with stylised coiffure to the reverse, with a ribbed neck and without arms, white inventory number 2, 13¾in (35cm) high, on a later stand. (2)
Provenance: Ernest Ohly, Berkeley Galleries, London. Purchased November 1962. £500-800
794
A Kuba wood cup, with a reeded rim and a head with relief scarifications and an interlaced knot to the reverse, above an open handle and stepped base, paper label inventory number 3304, 7¾in (19.6cm) high.
Provenance: Ernest Ohly, Berkeley Galleries, London. Purchased May 1960. £300-500
795
A Kuba anthropomorphic cup, with a shaped coiffure with interlaced line and dash motif the the reverse, the face and body with scarifications, the toes missing, white inventory number 7, 10in (25.5cm) high, on a later stand.
Provenance: Ernest Ohly, Berkeley Galleries, London. Purchased June 1960. £800-1,200
796
A Fante wood doll, with a rectangular head with incised triangles and lines to the back and sides and with a lug finial, the back of the body with three raised scarifications, white inventory number 208, 11¼in (28.5cm) high.
Provenance: Ernest Ohly, Berkeley Galleries, London. Purchased July 1966. £200-300
797
An East African carved wood club, with a mask finial and tapering handle with inlaid beads, with a circular pestle base, 14½in (37cm) high.
Provenance: Ernest Ohly, Berkeley Galleries, London. £100-200
798
A heddle pulley, possibly Dan, carved as a standing female figure with a crested coiffure, one side with incised line decoration, with a long neck and with both hands on the abdomen, the legs with an old 'native' repair, white inventory number 277, 13in (33cm) high, on a later stand.
Provenance: Ernest Ohly, Berkeley Galleries, London. Purchased March 1962. £150-250
799
A Ovimbundu wood pipe, of a standing figure with a pointed back coiffure, with a bead necklace above metal bands and studs, with a waisted cylindrical bowl, with a folded metal shaft, white inventory number 6, 20¾in (52.8cm) long.
Provenance: Ernest Ohly, Berkeley Galleries, London. £600-800
800
A Gabon wood mask, possibly Fang, with a triple crest coiffure, thin elliptical pierced eyes and an open mouth with teeth, with small crescent ears, having ebonised, red and white pigment, paper inventory label 3367, 12½in (31.8cm) high.
Provenance: Ernest Ohly, Berkeley Galleries, London. Purchased 1971. £200-300
Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD
Furniture, Works of Art and Tribal Art
Auctioneer: Woolley & Wallis Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire UK
Contact: Tel: 01722 424500 Fax: 01722 424508
Date: 8th January 2013 Time: 10:00AM
Details: Viewing:
Friday 4th January 10am to 4.30pm
Saturday 5th January 10am to 1pm
Monday 7th January 10am to 4.30pm
Tuesday 8th January 8.30am to 10am
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