Buddha Sculpture Info & Price Pending, Chinese
From our African Collection: A Lwena Ceremonial Mask from Zambia, circa 1950 9 x 16" h
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The Lwena people, also spelled Lovale,Luvale, Balovale, Lubale, as well as Lwena or Luena in Angola, are a Bantu ethnic group found in northwestern Zambia and southeastern Angola. They are closely related to the Lunda and Ndembu to the northeast, but they also share cultural similarities to the Kaonde to the east, and to the Chokwe and Luchazi, important groups of eastern Angola...
Small Bronze Figure of Child, Continental, early to mid-20th century, the nude boy holding an apple behind his back, on socle mounted to a square verde antique marble base, incised "A. DAVMILLER," bronze ht. 4 3/4 in.
Sepik River Spear Effigy, Early 20th C.
Wood and paint. 24" H.
A wonderful porcelain maquette for a painting signed Steinmetz, a German Expressionist painter. Measuring 5.5” height by 5” width
From our African Collection: This "Ikenga" Southeast Nigerian Shrine Figure is from the Early to mid 20th century. A characteristic of all Ikenga Shrine Figures are their exaggerated bull horns. The basic form of an ikenga is a human figure with horns symbolizing power, sometimes reduced to only a head with horns on a base.
From our African Collection: A Nigerian Eket Figure, circa 1950. 5 x 18".
"The Eket are a people who live in this region. They are a sub-group of the Ibibio people. Eket is also the name of the main sub-language that they speak, a Benue–Congo language. Both languages are similar, but sufficiently distinct to give away the precise district the speaker originates from...
Important Mandalay Buddha Carved Gilt wood Sculpture 64” beautifully jeweled
African Ivory Coast Horned Mask, 8 x 16" h.
From our African Collection: Salampasu Ceremonial Mask with Rafia straw, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Circa 1950.
'“The 60,000 Salampasu people live on the frontier between the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) and Angola. They maintain strong commercial and cultural relations with their southern neighbours, the Tschokwe (Chokwe) and the Lunda, to whom they pay tribute...
Russian born sculptor and artist Ruben Kupur, born in modern day Lithuania, amd immigration to American in 1906. These matched pair of work in bronze measuring 19” in height each. Depicting a woman bring sheaves of wheat and a man bringing grapes., both signed KUPUR
This elegant 1930’s Art Deco bronze sculpture of a nude female seated on her leg that is folded, while the other leg extended, and she is resting her elbow on her knee and her face on her hand and her other hand stretched behind her near the signature L. Alliot. This beautiful sculpture is on a dark marble base. Condition: in good condition commiserate with its age.
Age: 1930’s
Size 21” wide x 11” x 10.5”
Weight: 20 Lbs.
An incredible intriguing wood sculpture of Temple Guardian measuring 35 inches tall on a wood base measuring 11x10 inches. Circa 1940s
From our African Collection: An Eastern Congo Stool, circa 1950.
Original marble sculpture by Theodor Mallener (Czech, 1892-1978). Mallener is a Czech sculptor born in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia. He apparently spent part of his life in Germany, where he died (Schwabmunchen, Bavaria) in 1972. He is listed mainly in Czech sources. There was also a sculptor named Mallener who worked in Vienna for the Goldscheider Factory in the early part of the century who may or may not be the same artist. This sculpture is signed Th. Mallener on the base...
ROBERT TAIT MCKENZIE (CANADIAN, 1867-1938), PLASTER MODELLO FIGURE OF THE BOY SCOUT Height: 17 In. (43.18 Cm.), With Base: 20 In. (50.80 Cm.
From our African Collection: An Old Base with Yoruba Spiritual Figure, the base measures 12" across x 30" h. Circa 1940.
"The Yoruba people (Yoruba: Ìran Yorùbá) are an ethnic group that inhabits western Africa, mainly the countries of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo. The Yoruba constitute around 30 million people in Africa...
Classical English Porcelain Sculpture Of Hercules Lusterware c.1900 A beautiful and rare work measuring 18 in tall