23rd Aug, 2022 9:30

Ethnographic Art

 
  Lot 137
 

Two Nyamwesi standing figures, Tanzania, the taller figure with a string of coloured glass beads, his hands by his hips, the smaller figure with white glass bead inset eyes, 45.5cm & 54cm; a Tanzanian kneeling figure, 44cm; a Kamba style standing figure of a female, with facial scarifications, on a later wood base with brass ball feet, 51cm overall and a South African figure of a male hunter with dog and prey, 57cm; and a standing male figure, with an elongated body, the arms beneath a swollen abdomen, covered in crackled black pigment, 59.5cm

The Andrzej von Staranburg Niedenthal collection, London, UK.

Sold for £120


 

Two Nyamwesi standing figures, Tanzania, the taller figure with a string of coloured glass beads, his hands by his hips, the smaller figure with white glass bead inset eyes, 45.5cm & 54cm; a Tanzanian kneeling figure, 44cm; a Kamba style standing figure of a female, with facial scarifications, on a later wood base with brass ball feet, 51cm overall and a South African figure of a male hunter with dog and prey, 57cm; and a standing male figure, with an elongated body, the arms beneath a swollen abdomen, covered in crackled black pigment, 59.5cm

Provenance

The Andrzej von Staranburg Niedenthal collection, London, UK.

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