The Baroness of Laumont had dolls made wearing traditional or historical costumes during the First World War. Models with unbreakable heads and limbs are quite rare. This one is complete, in good cond[...]
Ancient Exceptional Rare Sword + Staff Rwanda Tutsi Tribe
Period: Early/mid 20th Century
Tutsi sword length with scabbard: 102 cm / without scabbard: 94 cm
Tutsi staff length: 61 cm
Very good cond[...]
THARAUD (Jérome and Jean) - Christmas at Deux Magots. Paris, The Divan, 1927; in-12, 113 pp., navy blue half-calf binding, spine with 4 raised bands, gilt stamped title, preserved cover. Jérôme and Je[...]
ORCHESTRA
Dhokra culture, India
20th century
Bronze
H. 7 cm
Orchestra of six musicians playing wind and percussion instruments.
Dhokra" groups of musicians hail from eastern and central Ind[...]
ndimba doll, mwila, Ambo subgroup The dolls are passed from mother to daughter and the little girls press them against their bellies. The future husband renames the family doll and the first child wil[...]
Fetish presenting a figure standing on a conical base. The arms are along the body with the hands resting around the navel. The look is drooping, the nose is made of a triangle in relief. The mouth fo[...]
Ancient Senufo zoomorphic helm mask of the Kponyungo type (Poro secret society)
Country of origin: Ivory Coast
Early 20th Century
Length: 60 cm
Very good/Perfect condition
Interesting Dancing stick from the malekula islands, also called malekula puppet.
this head with bulging eyes and a large nose is set on a dancing stick, it is made of sculpted topsoil then painted w[...]
HIGH-GRADE HEADDRESS / HAT Lega culture, DR Congo
First half of the 20th century Basketry, vegetable fibers and buttons
Total height without the strap 22 cm, Diameter 16 cm
Conical headgear in bra[...]
Very interesting Hemba mask, half monkey half human, with an important ritual patina, brown, cracked, shiny, it is probably an altar mask. Bought by Serge Sheer, Belgian collector at the Patric Claes [...]
THARAUD (Jérome and Jean) - A kingdom of god. Paris, Librairie Plon, 1920; in-12, 311 pp., navy blue half-calf binding, spine with 4 raised bands, gilt stamped title, preserved cover. Jérôme and Jean [...]
Large Bambara Mali crest mask. These masks were worn during agricultural festivals, this one is the male, he represents an antelope mixed with the sun, he still has his rattan headdress covered with f[...]
Solid silver cigarette case dated 08/31/1937.
The interior is vermeil and there are 4 lines of Danish writing.
Hallmark SJ for the silversmith and hallmarks date 1937 and title 830s.
Current cigare[...]
HEADSETS
Maasai culture, Kenya
First half of the 20th century
Wood
Length: 88.5; Width: 6 cm
(short old crack)
Dark hardwood club carved with a particularly tapered cylindrical handle and a[...]
ANGOISSE PEAR
Europe, circa 1900
Steel
Length: 17; L.: 4.5 cm
Considered an instrument of torture, the pear of anguish is a steel tool articulated in the shape of a pear. Once placed in the vi[...]
Important Mickey head part of a disguise. The structure is in painted fiberglass and covered in its largest black part with a foam fabric. The eyes are made of very fine mesh allowing the wearer to se[...]
THARAUD (Jérome and Jean) - A succession. Paris, Emile-Paul Freres, 1919; in-12, 167 pp., navy blue half-calf binding, spine with 4 raised bands, gilt stamped title, preserved cover. Jérôme and Jean T[...]
I offer you this large Sukuma mask from Tanzania. It was collected in Burundi in the 1970s. It is in northern Tanzania in a region south of Lake Victoria that the Sukuma people live. Their masks have [...]
Lime box used by the Batak populations of Sumatra for the consumption of betel.
The long container, carved from a buffalo horn, is closed at its base by a thin wooden plate.
Its small wooden stopper[...]
THARAUD (Jérome and Jean) - The tragedy of Ravaillac. Paris, Librairie Plon, 1913; in-12, VIII-290 pp., navy blue half-calf binding, 4-ribbed spine, gilt stamped title, preserved cover. Jérôme and Jea[...]
very beautiful fali hampilu doll model with a truncated head garnished with glass pastes in rows filling the body, very well arranged covered with a belt of glass paste also and in concentric shape to[...]
SUPERVIELLE (Jules) - Uruguay. Paris, Emile-Paul Freres, 1928; in-8, 76 pp., paperback, folded cover. Numbered copy. Collection "Belt of the world" published under the direction of Jean-Louis Vaudoyer[...]
BILIBINE (Ivan) - Пёрышко Финиста ясна сокола (The Feather of Finist-Clair-Faucon *).
Saint-Petersburg, Manufacture of State Papers, 1902, 1 vol. large in-4° (327 x 256 mm) publisher's soft cardbo[...]
--1 of the 50 leading copies with suites on Tonkin--
[BERTHOMME SAINT-ANDRE] – A. de M. (Alfred de Musset) - Gamiani or two nights of excess.
Slnd (Henri Pasquinelli, ca 1940), Edition produced[...]
[MARINOT (Maurice)] - JANNEAU (Guillaume) - Glass and the Art of Marinot.
P., Floury, 1925, 1 vol. small in-4° (245 x 185 mm) paperback under beige folded cover printed in black and red, vignette [...]
Important batch of advertisements dating from the 1920s. Condition like new for almost a hundred years of age. This lot includes: - 60 small advertising mirrors where does it run? to the bus. - 48 St [...]
SUARÈS (André) - Rosalind on the water. Paris, Fine Books Great Friends, 1960; folio, 114 pp. , sheets, under casing. Copy No. 64/210, on Djebel vellum paper. French writer, born in Marseilles, in 186[...]
Statue representing a standing male figure. The arms are folded over the torso and the hands carry something, perhaps cowbells. An abdominal cavity is present and must have contained a magic charge. T[...]
Beautiful old statue representing a begging monkey called GBEKRE Ethnic Baoulé from Côte d'Ivoire hardwood with very thick sacrificial patina with remains of libation castings height 53cm cracked wood[...]
Lunda male statuette in very good condition with its original red patina. Like other statues of this ethnic group, it has its arms folded over its chest and its hands resting on its stomach. It is sur[...]
Fetish mask with a face adorned with upholstery nails and surmounted by two horns that meet. The back of the mask is filled with a sacrificial material. Wood, nails, cowries, composite material. H: 14[...]
A beautiful decorative object a Berber necklace XXL, about 2 m and a weight of 25 kg, made by the artisans of taroudant in Morocco, consisting of a cascade of colored terracotta beads with in the cent[...]
Very nice little stool model. In carved wood, monoxyle it rests on 4 wide feet. The seat, very fine, is decorated in engraving with geometric shapes, then blackened for contrast, just like the long ne[...]
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Lot of ten (10) hat racks from a former hat shop.
They are made of softwood.
Different sizes: 2 x 94 cm, 4 x 80 cm, 4 x 63 cm
Price for the set of 10.
Good condition, see phot[...]
Our Dan passport mask is particularly fine and regular: Its prominent mouth is well drawn, its fine nose, its perfectly rounded forehead and its chin forms a regular triangle. It has a beautiful old p[...]
From the same collection as the match holder in the shape of a house, visible on my gallery, here is a superb letter holder. Made in a single piece, it is folded, in two parts, cut out with scaloped s[...]
ARTICULATED TOY
Kobe, Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) circa 1900
Wood and bone
H. 10 ; L 6 cm
A carved and articulated wooden toy depicting a waiter or a man eating. He is dressed in a kimono a[...]
curious Corkscrew and its support, in bronze. Dimensions of the plate: 10.5 cm x 6.2 cm. Total weight: 0.288 kg. Good condition. Postage extra: 12€, registered mail for France, thank you
Jacques Despierre (1912-1995)
Notre-Dame de Liesse
On the head, Notre-Dame de Liesse carrying Jesus on her knees. Behind her stands the Maltese Cross.
On the reverse is a rebus inspired by traditio[...]
Vermeille silver wedding medal, decorated on one side with count's coat of arms with a coat of arms with three flowers and chevron framed by two greyhounds; on the back the name of the bride and groom[...]
Jacques Despierre (1912-1995)
The Loire
On the obverse, the Loire in the form of a vigorous and languid woman; on the reverse, the river encumbered with sandbanks, the bridge and the town of Saumur.[...]
Jacques Despierre (1912-1995)
Bronze medal with the effigy of JMW Turner (1775-1815), inspired by the self-portrait of the Tate Gallery.
On the reverse is a landscape with mists, smoke and water mov[...]
Yam mask collected in the village of Maprik in Papua New Guinea. Yam masks are used to dress up the most beautiful yams selected at harvest time. This basketry mask represents the head of the yam, a v[...]
Saddle horse harnessing
Yi culture, also known as Lolo, Yunnan province, southern China
Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), late 19th - early 20th century
Wood, leather, fabric, lacquer, pigments and brass
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