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Click here to subscribeA large Iatmul ceremonial house panelPapua New Guineacarved as a elongated mask, with large eyes, nose and protruding tongue, with smaller masks set within, with red, white, ochre and black pigment, 190cm high.ProvenanceDr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.Christies's, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 143.
A Panama tumbaga pendantWestern Peninsula, circa 800 - 1500 ADmodelled as a caiman with three bars to its back with gold discs, a stylised crustacean in its mouth and with a bifurcated tail, the back with a suspension loop, 9.5cm long.ProvenanceBonhams, London, Tribal Art, 2 December 1991, lot 12.Romy Rey Collection, London.
A Dayak hampatong figureIndonesiathe standing male with his head turned to his left, with large eliptical eyes and carved teeth, his headdress with the remains of an animal,201.5cm high, on a base.ProvenanceDr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.Christie's, London, Tribal Art, 1 December 1993, lot 131.
An Iatmul orator's stoolPapua New Guineathe curved back with carved stylised decoration and with a standing female figure with inset cowrie shell eyes and previously with resin/mud to the top of the head, her right arm inscribed MANIAMA, with an oval seat having two ancestor mask supports to a domed base, with earth and white pigments,86cm high.ProvenanceDr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.Christie's, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 150.
An Ewa figureKorowari River, Papua New Guineathe head with a serrated crest and a pierced septum, with a stylised body of spikes and contained plain and serrated protrusions, with earth and white pigments,147.5cm high, on a base. (2)ProvenanceDr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.Christie's, London, Tribal Art, 1 December 1993, lot 168.
A Songye male power figureDemocratic Republic of the Congowith an aperture to the top of the head, a ringed neck and with his hands on his abdomen, with a small recess,22.5cm high, on a base. (2)ProvenanceThe Michel Gaud Collection.Sotheby's, Important African Art: The Michel Gaud Collection, London, 29 November 1993, lot 132.
A Dayak hampatong Tundjung, Indonesia carved as a matabani jar with eight looped handles around the neck, surmounted by a head with carved teeth to the open mouth, 113cm high, on a base.Provenance Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection. Christie's, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 205. Exhibited The Divine Gifts, London, 1975, no. 31. These vases are generally termed matabani after the southern Kalimantan port of that name through which they were traded. They were manufactured as export ware in China and were highly valued by the Dayaks who used them in their mortuary rights.
A Yoruba shrine bowl arugba shangoIla-Orangun, Nigeriawith a kneeling maternity figure with a child strapped to her back, with raised arms and supporting a bowl on her head, with red, black, blue and white pigment,86cm high.ProvenanceDr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.Christie's, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 119.
A Zapotec figure urnMexico, circa 500 - 800 ADpottery, depicting Cocijo, seated wearing an ornate headdress, ear ornaments and an apron with carved glyphs, with hands placed on his knees, with a cylindrical body,41cm high.ProvenancePrivate Collection, London, collected from the late 1950s through to the 1970s, from the London art market. Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 3 April 2012, lot 779.Romy Rey Collection, London.
A Costa Rican zoomorphic container and coverstone, carved as a tortoise, raised on four legs with a head and tail, the top with rice like protrusions, the sides pierced for fastening and with crenulated rims,21cm long, 10.5cm high. (2)ProvenanceBonhams, London, Tribal Art, 9 December 1996, lot 27.Romy Rey Collection, London.
A Jalisco kneeling female figure Mexico, circa 100 BC - 200 AD pottery, with linear decoration to the face, wearing a cross-over strap headdress and disc ear ornaments, arm bands to the short arms and nodules to the shoulders, a knee length striped skirt, 42cm high, and a Colima pottery seated hunchback figure, circa 100 BC - 250 AD, with incised linear decoration to the face, with the remains of a handwritten label to the base, 29.5cm high. (2) Provenance Jalisco - Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 3 April 2012, lot 784. From a collection of pre-Columbian art, acquired from Sotheby's, Christie's and the London art market from the late 1950s through to the 1970s. Colima - Phillips, London, 11 December 1995, lot 203. Robert Mucci, Hastings. Romy Rey Collection, London.
An Asmat shieldCasuarina Coast, Irian Jayawith carved stylised figures and a stylised snake finial, with pigment decoration and fibre tufts to the sides, the back with a integral handle and with a painted zig-zag pattern, 196.5cm high.ProvenanceDr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.Christie's, London, Tribal Art, 1 December 1993, lot 153.
A Veracruz seated warriorMexico, circa 600 - 900 ADpottery, wearing a mask headdress, disc ear ornaments, a necklace, chest armour, a belt and laces, with red paint and bitumen,44.5cm high.ProvenanceWoolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 19 February 2020, lot 30.Romy Rey Collection, London.
A Jalisco seated male figureMexico, circa 100 BC - 200 ADpottery, with a spout to the head and a wearing a rimmed headdress and a oval domed and incised chest ornament,34cm high.ProvenancePrivate Collection, London, collected from the late 1950s through to the 1970s, from the London art market.Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 3 April 2012, lot 781.Romy Rey Collection, London.
A Chancay figural vesselPeru, circa 1100 - 1450 ADpottery, with applied ear and forehead discs and a tethered dog on the shoulder, the back of the neck with a handle, with cream and brown slip decoration, 31.5cm high, with a stand. (2)ProvenanceWoolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 19th June 2014, lot 1024.Romy Rey Collection, London.
Richard Sumner (1956 - 2003)Kwakwaka'wakw, Victoria, CanadaBear/Human/Eagle Transformation Boxred cedar and opercula, signed with initials RJS to the underside, 38cm high, 41cm wide, 30.5cm deep.Exhibited and publishedDerek Simkins Gallery of Tribal Art, Vancouver. Transformation, A Unity of Spirits, An Exhibition of New Works by Fifteen First Nations Artists from the Pacific Northwest, November 10 - November 30, 1994.
A Chancay vessel Peru, circa 1100 - 1400 AD ceramic, with a lobed neck and ovoid body, with a pair of applied monkeys and a pair of loop handles, with geometric and block black slip decoration, the base with a painted white collection number N-539, 31.5cm high. Provenance Arthur M. Sackler Collection, 1913 - 1987. ArtAncient, London, 1 Feb 2016. Romy Rey Collection, London. Exhibited The City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, 15 August 1983 - 2 October 1983. Bayley Art Museum, University of Virginia, USA, 15 November 1983 - 15 January 1984.Published Art of The Andes, Pre-Columbian Sculpted and Painted Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection.
A Chimu implement / sceptrePeru, circa 1100 - 1400 ADthe burnt blade to an open rattle handle, containing seeds, with a finial carved as a seated monkey holding an object to its mouth,51cm long, on a stand,and a Chimu weaving shuttle, Peru, circa 1100 - 1400 AD, carved a figure wearing a headdress, with a pierced pointed base having a slot with two clay spheres, 37cm long. (3)Provenanceshuttle - Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 18 September 2019, lot 1002.Romy Rey Collection, London.
Brogas Jabanardi / Brogus Tjapangati (born 1949)AustraliaGoanna Dreaming, acrylic on canvas, 97cm x 90cm, unframed, with a frame in four parts and a certificate from Outback Art dated 6 June 1997.The painting shows a central waterhole, surrounded by perenti (goanna) tracks. The different coloured dots representing the surrounding countryside while the grey dots are the rain carrying clouds overhead.
A Colima seated figure vesselMexico, circa 100 BC - 250 ADpottery, with a side fin and horn coiffure, a spout to the back of the head and with his hands clenching his cheeks, the lower back with a protrusion, collection sticker 48 to the back, 30cm high.ProvenanceLondon collection of Pre-Columbian art, collected over 20-30 years, from the late 1950s to the 1970s, mostly from Sotheby's, Christie's and the London art market.Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 3 April 2012, lot 777.Romy Rey Collection, London.
A Jalisco standing figure of a warriorMexico, circa 100 BC - 250 ADwearing a banded headdress and with disc adornments to the top of the arms, holding a shield in his left hand and a dagger in his right hand, with a clothing flap to the lower back, with remains of red pigment decoration, with a Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery sticker inscribed AC 87, and a tie on label inscribed Ex Mrs C Abrahams-Curiel., with white collection number ME 20,44cm high.ProvenanceRomy Rey Collection, London.
A Manambu headYambun Village, East Sepik, Papua New Guineawith an integral spike to the top of the head, with cowrie shell eyes and paint decoration, the back with a sticker inscribed 585.68 DN and a paper label inscribed DN 585.68,55cm high.ProvenanceDouglas Newton, New York, field collected in 1967.Marcia and John Friede Collection, USAExhibited and PublishedCrocodile and Cassowary, Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1971, no. 122.The personal name for this head is Meiyamogwei, sister of the meiurr Ambiyanggei of the Niyanggandau clan.
Literature - J Kerchache, J-L Paudrat, L Stephan. Art of Africa, 1993; The Tervuren Museum, Masterpieces from Central Africa, 1996; Alisa Lagamma. Kongo, Power and Majesty, 2015; Francois Neyt. Kifwebe, A Century of Songye and Luba Masks, 2019; E Fischer, L Homberger. Les Maîtres de la sculpture de Côte d'Ivoire, 2015; Frank Herreman. Oceanië, 2011; Christa Clarke, African Art in the Barnes Foundation, 2015; Peter Stepan. Spirits Speak, A Celebration of African Masks, 2005; Alisa Lagamma. Eternal Ancestors, The Art of the Central African Reliquary, 2007; Adrian Schlag. Masks of the We and Neighbours, 2022; African Art from the Mack Collection, 2017; Ezio Bassani. African Art, 2012. (12)
A Lambayeque double spout stirrup vesselPeru, circa 700 - 1200 ADpottery, with a deity head flanked by two lying figures and zoomorhpic heads at the base of the spouts, painted circles, scrolls, birds and dots, the base with a white painted inventory number 931, 18.5cm high.ProvenanceArthur M. Sackler Collection, 1913 - 1987.Art Ancient, London, 1 February 2016.Romy Rey Collection, London.Published Art of the Andes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, 1983. p. 194, plate 70.
An Upper Sepik River war canoe ornament utukweiWogumus or Ngala, Papua New Guineawith three sago spathes bound to a cane frame, with an applied carved wood mask having a tall spine of hooks terminating in a bird's head, with pigment decoration and with feather and seed attachments,142cm high, on a base.ProvenanceCollected in 1962.Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.Christie's, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 149.
A Cocle tumbaga pendantWestern Peninsula, Panama, circa 800 - 1500 AD of a standing male figure with two S shape head ornaments, the back with an attachment loop, 6.8cm high, and a South Western Peninsula, Panama tumbaga eagle pendant, circa 800 - 1500 AD, with an attachment loop to the back, 6.4cm high. (2)ProvenanceBonhams, London, Tribal Art, 2 December 1991, lots 5 and 6.Romy Rey Collection, London.
A Gabon drummer figurestanding with his right leg raised and with his foot on the heel rail of the drum, his hands placed on the hide skin of the solid drum, with inset carved bone teeth and eyes, with a nailed hide coiffure,66cm high, on a base.ProvenanceA civil engineer attached to the Spanish Delegation to Rio Muni until 1933.Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.Christie's, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 129.
An Asmat shield Irian Jayawith carved stylised figures and fibre tufts, the back with an integral handle with medial ribs terminating in carved hands, with white, black and red/brown pigment,185cm high.ProvenanceDr Laurance R. Goldman Collection.Christie's, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 136.
A Maya cylindrical vesselMexico, circa 250 - 950 ADpottery, with two painted stylised leaf designs,13.5cm high,two Maya pottery bowls, Mexico, circa 250 - 950 AD, with painted scrolls and u shapes, 18.5cm and 16cm diameter, and two Maya pottery bowls, Guatemala, circa 250 - 950 AD, with incised linear decoration, 13cm and 13.2cm diameter. (5)Provenancecylindrical vessel - Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 19 June 2014, lot 1021.Guatemala bowls - J. B. Weymes, Battle, East Sussex.Romy Rey Collection, London.
A Yoruba male Ibeji figureNigeriawith pierced ears and pin recesses to the eyes, facial scarifications and a worn mouth, with further scarifications to the abdomen and with glass beads, cowrie shells, metal bands and nut disc bands,24.5cm high.ProvenanceMarvin Chasin Collection, London.Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 19th September 2018, lot 585.
A Yoruba standing female figureAbeokuta, Nigeriawith a tied coiffure and holding a staff with an arrow head termimal in each hand, with remains of cam powder, the base with a handwritten label An African Idol given to a Missionary at Abeokuta by a Native Convert,25.5cm high.ProvenanceKenneth Athol Webster, London / Wellington.Josef Herman, London / Suffolk.Christie's, Amsterdam, The Joseph Herman Collection of African Art, 12 December 2000, lot 146.
An Art Deco 9ct white gold and diamond Hantily cocktail wristwatch. The watch having a rectangular white dial with striped silver tone panel to the centre with Arabic numeral indices and blued hands to an Art Deco style stepped rectangular case set with a cluster of round cut diamonds and etched detail shoulders on a black material strap with stainless steel Montal clasp. Marked 9ct and Hantily to case interior. Movement marked 15 jewels 4 adjs Swiss made. Stones measure approx 2.5mm. Total weight approx 13.6g. Case including crown measures approx 1.5x3cm. Ticking at time of cataloguing.
A group of three assorted vintage wristwatches. The first a Citizen Eco-Drive with circular dial, three subsidiary dials, date aperture, radium filled hands and tachymeter to silver tone case and leather strap, in box with paperwork, ticking art time of cataloguing. Together with a Skagen Denmark titanium cased blue sunburst dial on mesh strap watch and a gold tone Rotary quartz with black enamelled hands and indices and date aperture to bracelet strap, neither ticking at time of cataloguing. Total weight of watches approx 174.7g. Largest case including crown measures approx 4.5cm.
A vintage mid 20th Century Art Deco style diamond, gold and platinum wrist watch. The watch having a round face with Arabic numerals to the chapter ring set within a diamond set mount on a rolled mesh chain bracelet with hinged clasp. Bracelet hallmarked 9ct Birmingham 1958. Marked Platinum to interior of the case. Weight 16.2g. Case including crown measures approx 2cm.
A 1920s Art Deco antique 9ct yellow gold, platinum, emerald and diamond panel ring. The ring having a central square cut emerald, noticeably chipped, surrounded in a halo of round cut diamonds on a squared scalloped head to cathedral style shoulders and straight shank. Marked 9ct & PLAT. Total weight approx 1.9g. Approx size S.5. head measures approx 0.8cm.
A pair of Art Deco 18ct white gold and diamond ear clips. The earrings set with 21 round brilliant cut diamonds to each. Set to a fan style mount having lever clip fasteners. Unmarked, tests indicate 18ct gold. Total weight 9g. Measures 1.5cm each. All weights, measurements and sizes are approximate.
AMENDED CONDITION & PHOTO Art Deco owl and tree pendant, rectangular rose cut diamond set frame measuring 2.9cm x 4.8cm with central tree motif, with trunk set with old cut diamonds, and leaves set with cabochon cut emeralds, with a perched owl in yellow gold, with old cut diamond set eyes, with an articulated diamond bale, in white metal testing as 18 ct gold, on an 18 ct white gold paper clip chain, 40.3cm in lengthCondition Report: Gross weight 12.59 grams Overall good condition, evidence of small minor repair work visible to bottom of frame, and solder mark on the back and bottom of the owlOne diamond missing, a few of the smaller diamonds have small chips to surface clasp fastens securely
Art Deco diamond cocktail watch, patina dial with Arabic hour markers, with diamonds set around the face, case testing as platinum, with strap in 9 ct white goldCondition Report: Gross weight 13.89 gramsPlease note that the movement has not been tested for the accuracy of time and may need a service at the buyer's expense.Ewbanks does not guarantee the future working of the movement and we do not guarantee the authenticity of any individual component parts since subsequent repairs and restoration work may have resulted in the replacement of original parts
A selection of jewellery including an Art Noveau amethyst and pearl pendant in 15 ct, an amethyst and pearl brooch in 9 ct, a painted portrait brooch with pearls, in 9 ct, and a coral necklace and base metal coral broochCondition Report: 9 ct gross weight 11 grams15 ct gross weight 3.54 grams
Auguste Peyroula, Art Deco enamelled vanity case, with red enamel and rose cut diamonds set in an oval to the lid, the inside containing two compartments with hinged covers, a mirror set to the underside of the lid, and a slide out lipstick compartment to the bottom of the case, with French hallmark for 18 ct, and makers mark AP with a tripodAuguste Peyroula was a French maker recorded as working between 1904 and 1937 in Paris. Most famously known for creating jewelled vanity cases adorned with gemstones and enamel. Some of his work was offered to jewellery houses such as Cartier, Tiffany and Van Cleef & ArpelsCondition Report: Gross weight 125.74 gramsone diamond is missing from the lid, scuffs and scratches on the enamel to the bottom of the case, surface scratches to the metal, some remnants of lipstick and powder inside
Art Deco diamond set brooch, openwork design set with old cut diamonds weighing an estimated total of 2.50 carat, mounted in tested platinum, with a milgrain edge, measures 45x21mm, in a fitted boxCondition Report: Gross weight 6.7gVery good condition for age, no signs of damage or repair, clasp fully workingEstimated colour G-IEstimated clarity SI1-I1 (a few of the smaller stones may be I2)
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