The Bernard Kay Studio Sale + Carpets & Tribal Art

Sale including contents of the Bernard Kay studio, paintings, furniture + carpets & tribal art

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The Bernard Kay Studio Sale + Carpets & Tribal Art

Sale including contents of the Bernard Kay studio, paintings, furniture + carpets & tribal art

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  • ( Lots: 1 - 268 )
  • ( Lots: 301 - 558)

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  • 09:00 BST - 13:00 BST
  • 09:00 BST - 17:00 BST
  • 09:00 BST - 17:00 BST

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Buyer's premium Inc. VAT/sales tax: 30.00%
Online commission inc. VAT/sales tax: 3.60%

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A West African Yoruba totem post, carved wood made up from stacked figures, with signs of old pigments, 93cm high ...[more]

An African walking staff with stand, Songye style, carved wood, top part has a janiform bird to a female figure, 87cm high on stand ...[more]

A Luba-Hemba sceptre on stand, Democratic Republic of the Congo, carved wood fish tail shape with etched line marks, topped by a female figure dec...

A Luba songye circumcision stool, carved wood squatting legs and ribbed face to a pillar topped by a circular platform, 30cm high ...[more]

A tall seated clay pottery figure, possibly Peruvian, with crossed arms and legs, white pigment in eyes dressed with a hat and cloak, 42cm high ....

Three Indian daggers, the first with a bone & horn grip and white metal scabbard, another all white metal with beaded decoration and a smaller dag...

A West African Benin carved rectangular panel depicting the central OBA, or traditional ruler, with attendant figures, 31 x 74cm; and another simi...

A Benin carved rectangular panel depicting a crown with crossed swords and snake, 56 x 36.5cm; and another hunter with snake and monkey amongst tr...

A Benin carved wooden rectangular panel depicting a man climbing a palm tree, dotted inscription verso:- 1952 carved by Aomeregie, 46 Freetown Str...

A Benin carved rectangular panel depicting an OBA with two attendant figures and mounted horsemen in European dress, 64 x 29cm ...[more]

A Benin carved rectangular table top depicting an OBA holding two crocodiles, 61 x 30cm; and a similar panel OBA and attendant figure, 61 x 30cm (...

A Benin carved wooden rectangular table or seat on stretcher support and carved with a central OBA with attendant figures, top inscribed 'Carve at...

A Bembe maternity figure, Democratic Republic of Congo, wood with carved braided hair, scarification marks around her eyes and on her body holding...

A Lega pipe, made from a gourd decorated with cowrie shells plus three carved bone face masks and a bone mouthpiece together with a separate Lega ...

A WWII US army machete by Legitimus & Collins, no. 1250, with ebonised handle and leather scabbard, 50cms long ...[more]

A Congo male head helmet mask, carved wood lacquered in two colours red and black, the head surmounted by an animal, 46cm high ...[more]

A Papua New Guinea, Sepik river mask, carved wood incised decoration with remnants of red pigments, 55cm long ...[more]

A East African Tanzania wooden doll, carved wood, holes in upper and bottom section for movable arms and legs, the eyes inset with white trade bea...

A Papua New Guinea ancestor figure, carved wood figure slightly leaning to one side with incised decoration to face and chest, 57cm high ...[more]

A South African Zulu knobkerrie, carved wood with metal wire grips together with an axe and a ebonised walking cane (3) ...[more]

Two Ethiopian healing scrolls, on parchment decorated with saints and talismanic symbols together with two West African manillas (4) ...[more]

A Songye power figure, carved wood with studded decoration to face and a hessian cape, 48cm highProvenance: Tomi van Duuren collection

A Lega mask, carved wood, incised circle-dot decoration with a banded feather border and fibre beard, 24cm longProvenance: Tomi van Duuren collect...

A Kuba King figure, carved wood statuette with cross legs seated on a incised geometric design base, 44.5cm highProvenance: Tomi van Duuren collec...

A Yoruba headdress mask, carved wood with orange & white pigments, straw hair and beard together with a red painted Baule mask (2) Provenance: Tom...

A large Kuba bwoom helmet mask, carved wood decorated with metal panels, multicoloured trade beads and cowrie shells, 45cm wide Provenance: Tomi v...

An East African pouring vessel, Turkana, carved wood together with an old east African basket with lidded cover decorated with cowrie shells and a...

A Makonde helmet mask, Mozambique, carved wood with a grotesque face and large ears with another smaller Makonde mask (2) Provenance: Tomi van Duu...

A Baule mask, Ivory Coast, carved wood with high incised coiffure topped by a bird with white and red pigments together with a Punu mask (2) Talle...

Three Fang masks, Gabon, all carved from wood with incised line marks and white pigments (3) tallest 59cm Provenance: Tomi van Duuren collection

An African Ceremonial Kuba dance skirt, raffia and cloth, with embroidered long panels, a dyed cut pile border and an undulating bound raffia edge...

Three African Kuba cloths, raffia cloth skirt decorated with cowrie shells, another with black dye square panels and a smaller one with a tanned c...

A mixed lot of tribal items including Yoruba ibeji figure, an African doll, two Tanzania thumb pianos together with three multicoloured beaded Sou...

A quantity of African trade bead necklaces with carnelian type beads, together with a Turkana white metal necklace and a fertility doll necklace p...

An early 20th century Kifwebe, Songye female mask on stand, with white pigments, raffia beard and animal fur coming out of nostrils, 95cm high on ...

A 20th century male Kifwebe, Songye mask with stand, wood carved with central tall upstanding comb, protruding eyes and square mouth with white an...

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