Auction 110 - Tag 1
Collectibles, Military, Asian & Russian Art
By Auktionshaus Mehlis
Contact auction house
May 25, 2023
Hammerstraße 30, 8523 Plauen, Germany
Terms of sale
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This is session 1 of 3 of our 110th auction
We're offering a variety of collectibles and antiques of different eras and cultures in 13 different categories. Please visit our webpage to find the current session schedule with the respective categories and further information.
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LOT 502:
Top mask of the Bamileke
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Start price:
€
360
Buyer's Premium: 27%
VAT: 19%
On commission only
Users from foreign countries may be exempted from tax payments, according to the relevant tax regulations
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Top mask of the Bamileke
Cameroon grassland, 1st half 20th c., carved wood, raffia and cotton with sewn-on coloured glass beads, abstract elephant head, crowned by a plastic wild cat, according to the opinion of the grassland dwellers the animals had a hierarchical relation to each other, comparable to the hierarchy in the human world, the elephant was related to the king, it was considered - together with the leopard and the python - as symbolic animal of dominance, traces of age, minor losses of substance, h approx. 50 cm.
