GENTLEMEN'S LIBRARY AND GRAND TOUR AND AUCTION OF CURIOSITIES

Tribal Art - a large Zulu cowhide shield or isihlangu, of typical form, 130cm long, South Africa, c. 1900; a Zulu spear, 20cm pointed blade, wire ...

A Colonial fly whisk, turned hardwood haft, 69cm long overall, early 20th century; a North African dagger, 27.5cm curved blade, the hardwood hilt ...

A Tibetan Buddhist silver coloured metal mounted goat skull Kapala mask, the fittings chased and set with cabochons, 26cm long

An Egytian 'Grand Tour' type painted gesso and softwood panel, after an ancient sarcophagus fragment, 35.5cm x 20cm

Antiquities - a Near Eastern yellow metal canted lozenge-shaped pendant, possibly gold, cast in the ancient manner, centred by a green stone, rope...

Antiquities - a Roman terracotta flared shallow dish, painted in earth tones and centred by a blush, 19.5cm diam, probably North African, 2nd/3rd ...

Antiquities - a terracotta pre-Columbian figure, seated cross-legged, holding a vessel, ring ornaments to ears, 28cm high, Nayarit, Mexico

Antiquities - an alabaster section, inscribed Fragment of Assyrian ** Given to William Howard by Sir Henry Austen Layard at Nineveh 1850, Later Pr...

Natural History - a transverse section of fossilised wood, cut and polished, 16cm x 20.5cm, Oregon, USA

Natural History - Paleontology - a fossilized mammoth tooth, 20cm x 17cm

Tribal Art - a Benin bronze bronze figure, female, kneeling in veneration, 20.5cm high, Nigeria; another, similar (2)

Tribal Art - a Benin bronze female figure, she stands, 29.5cm high, Nigeria

Tribal Art - a Fang Ngil mask, typically concave with elongated features, decorated with white pigment, 53cm long, Gabon, West Africa

Tribal Art - a figural peg or implement, iron mounted terminal, 36cm long

Tribal Art - a large eliptical shield shaped mask, crested by a bird, carved throughout, 131cm long

Tribal Art - a large South-Western Pacific tapa cloth, painted in earth pigments with stylized crosses within a geometric framework, 85cm x 159cm,...

Tribal Art - a Maori hardwood contemplative evening pipe, the bowl as a grotesque man, inset and applied with irregularly opalescent stones for ey...

Tribal Art - a Maori taiaha fighting staff, the upoko typically carved with scrolls and protruding arero, 141.5cm long, New Zealand, 19th/early 20...

Tribal Art - a Native American tomahawk, iron fan shaped blade, the shaft carved with geometric motifs and decorated with coloured pigments, hide ...

Tribal Art - a Polynesian hardwood club, the blade-shaped head with central ridge, chip-carved with geometric motifs, conforming 'signature' or ow...

Tribal Art - a Polynesian low table or stool, shaped and carved as a stylized figure, 119cm wide

Tribal Art - a Polynesian pouwhena type club, spatulate head with central ridge, ratan bound grip, 116.5cm long, possibly Solomon Islands, 19th/ea...

Tribal Art - a Shona bakatwa dagger, 16.5cm pointed double-edged blade, wire bound hardwood haft and scabbard, 27cm long overall

Tribal Art - a South East Asian rattan pasiking pack-basket, hooped shoulder straps, 67cm high, probably Ifugao, North Luzon, Philippines; another...

Tribal Art - a South-Western Pacific ancestor gable mask, the woven rattan field painted and picked out in red, black and white pigments, the side...

Tribal Art - a South-Western Pacific softwood oval panel, carved in high relief with a tableau of tribal life with typical figures, canoes, animal...

Tribal Art - an African fertility figure, she stands, holding an infant, chip-carved and decorated with white pigment, 44.5cm high

Tribal Art - an African hide and woven measuring gourd, 25cm high; a Baoulé 'Colon' coromandel figure, carved as a schoolboy, seated reading, 22cm...

Tribal Art - an African mask, carved coiffure, eliptical features, traces of white pigment, 27cm long

Tribal Art - an African mask, domed forehead, eliptical eyes and angular features, 23cm long, probably Dan people, Liberia

Tribal Art - an Austral Islands paddle, chip-carved overall with bands of zig-zag motifs, stylized leafy pommel carved with concentric sunbursts, ...

Tribal Art - an Australian Aboriginal boomerang, 63cm long; a club or paddle, leaf-shaped blade, 89cm long (2)

Tribal Art - an Australian Aboriginal wanda parrying shield, incised with Z-shaped geometric motifs, handle to verso, earth pigment finish, 66.5cm...