African and Oceanic Art | Antiquities

A Dan mask Ivory Coast with linear scarifications to the sides and a long projecting nose and jaw, with carved teeth and with metal pins, 24cm hig...

A Fang male reliquary figure Gabon with a crested and side ridged coiffure, raised scarification above the nose and square pupil recesses to the e...

A Songye power figure Democratic Republic of the Congo with a charged horn inset to the head, the face with applied copper strips and pin eyes, th...

Two Baule standing figures Ivory Coast male and female with scarifications and hands placed on their abdomens, 29.5cm and 28.5cm high. (2) ...[mo...

A Bambara standing female figure Mali with pokerwork decoration, 52cm high. Provenance Jonathan Mankowitz (1949 - 1992), London. ...[more]

A Songye kifwebe mask Democratic Republic of the Congo with a high crest, curved eye slits, nasal hair and a protruding square mouth with a cut ou...

A Yoruba equestrian figure Nigeria brass, the horseman wearing a conical headdress with busts and gourds, a textured tunic and kilt and a bell hun...

An Edo hip mask Benin Kingdom, Nigeria bronze, with a lattice headdress having coral decorations, raised scarifications to the forehead and ellipt...

A Yoruba colon figure Nigeria brass, holding an axe and a rifle and wearing a cap, 17cm high, and a Yoruba brass female offering figure, 15.5cm hi...

An Armenian tinned copper circular tray dated 1755 of shallow form with engraved decoration of a central six pointed star and linear bands, the ou...

A Hausa hoe currency Nigeria iron, 117.5cm high, and two Nigerian double serpent coils, 16cm and 18cm high. (3) ...[more]

Five West African snake ornaments brass with stamped decoration, the longest 37cm, two coiled snakes with birds in their mouths and a coiled snake...

Seven Akan gold-dust boxes Ghana brass, the covers with geometric designs, the longest 7.3cm, eleven Akan brass figural goldweights and a Tiv snuf...

A collection of eleven Ivory Coast bracelets brass, with cast spiral, fan, crescent, linear and zoomorphic designs, including three cuff bracelets...

An Ethiopia Coptic processional cross silver coloured metal with pierced and linear decoration, 22cm, on a wooden stand, four Ethiopia Coptic bras...

A collection of ten Ivory Coast bracelets and anklets mainly brass including a Senufo anklet bell, with linear, chevron and fan shape cast decorat...

An Igbo currency bracelet Nigeria brass with a finned centre and engraved geometric decoration, 12cm wide, two Fang brass bracelets and two West A...

A Mbole currency anklet Democratic Republic of the Congo copper, 22cm diameter, a Tutsi archers' bracelet, with copper insets, 16.5cm diameter and...

λA Mende oliphant Sierra Leone ivory, with a carved seated female figure wearing a burnished cap, with a raised oval mouthpiece, the end pierced f...

A Tuareg tent post North Africa with carved decoration, with a painted collection number 219 and collection sticker. 118cm long. Provenance Prince...

λA Zulu knobkerrie South Africa rhinoceros horn, with an ovoid head and the shaft tapering to a point, late 19th / early 20th century, 56cm long, ...

λA Zulu knobkerrie South Africa ebonised with an ivory disc to the top of the compressed spherical head, early 20th century, 89cm long, and a horn...

A Lobi staff Burkina Faso with a carved seated figure to the top, 70.8cm long. Provenance Prince Henricks of Denmark (1934 - 2018) ...[more]

A Dinka club Sudan with a metal wire bound grip, 62.8cm long, and a Maasai club, 63.5cm long. (2) ...[more]

A Zulu knobkerrie South Africa with a large onion shape head and copper and brass wire bound handle, 64.5cm long. ...[more]

A Zulu / Nguni staff South Africa with a carved head finial having pokerwork highlights, 101.5cm long. ...[more]

A Tsonga maternity staff South Africa carved a mother with a child on her back, with pokerwork, the staff reduced, 93cm long, and a Kamba staff, w...

Five Boni spoons Somalia with carved decorated handles, the longest 22cm. (5) ...[more]

Five Kamba spoons Kenya with figural finials including an Askari and four females, the longest 43.7cm. (5) ...[more]

Two Tswana staffs South Africa each with a standing bird finial having inset white glass beads, with spiral carved stems and pokerwork decoration,...

A Zulu staff South Africa with carved ribbed nodules and a band of amasumpa and ribs, 151.5cm long. ...[more]

A Kamba cane Kenya with a carved European king finial and a relief snake to the shaft, 97.5cm long, a Kamba askari figure finial on a later bamboo...

Two Mangbetu combs Democratic Republic of the Congo with woven patterned fabric, 22.5cm and 26cm long, a pair of Ibibio combs and two Nigerian com...

A Nguni spoon / ladle South Africa the handle carved in relief a pair of breasts, a line of amasumpa and two horizontal lines, the bowl inscribed ...

Four Swahili spoons Tanzania with incised and pokerwork decoration, the longest 62cm. (4) ...[more]

A Dan ladle Ivory Coast with a carved head handle having a ribbed coiffure and with incised decoration to the exterior of the scoop, 54cm long, on...

A Ngombe double bladed 'execution' knife Democratic Republic of the Congo the iron blade with incised decoration and with a double knop wood handl...

A Shona dancing axe tsomho Zimbabwe the shaft with an ovoid head having a carved band of beads and with a metal blade having incised linear decora...

A Yakoma knife Democratic Republic of the Congo the iron blade with incised linear and dot decoration and inset copper spots, and a wire bound woo...

A wide bladed knife possibly Sudan with a wood handle, 35cm long. ...[more]

A Toma axe Sierra Leone with an engraved iron blade and brass mounts to the head, with a part knopped shaft, 50cm long, and a Yakoma copper spear ...

A Chokwe axe Angola with an iron fan shape blade and a handle with a carved head terminal, 39cm long, and a Dan adze, with a carved head terminal ...

A Yakoma knife Democratic Republic of the Congo the iron blade with incised decoration and inlaid brass spots, the wood handle with metal binding,...

A Mangbetu knife Democratic Republic of the Congo with a ribbed iron blade, copper and twisted wire binding with a wood butt, 34.8cm long. ...[mo...

A Mangbetu knife Democratic Republic of the Congo with a ribbed iron blade and a wood handle with wire binding, 38cm long. ...[more]

A Mangbetu knife Democratic Republic of the Congo with an iron blade and a wood handle with brass tacks and a metal wire binding, 38.2cm long. .....

A Ngandu knife Democratic Republic of the Congo with a part fullered wing shape blade and a wood knop handle with copper binding, 62.5cm long. .....

A Yakoma knife Democratic Republic of the Congo the iron blade with incised linear decoration and inset copper and brass spots, the wood handle wi...

An Ibibio mask idiok ekpo Nigeria painted black with an articulated jaw having painted white teeth, deep eyelids and keloids to the temples and fo...

A Yoruba female Ibeji figure Abeokuta, Nigeria with a ridged crested coiffure and facial scarifications with traces of Reckitts' Blue, with large ...

A Yoruba female Ibeji figure Abeokuta, Nigeria with the remains of Reckitts' Blue to the finely plaited and ridged crested coiffure, facial scarif...

A Yoruba female Ibeji figure Abeokuta, Nigeria with a ridged crested coiffure and facial scarification, with remains of Reckitts' Blue and Cam pow...

A Yoruba Ibeji female figure Nigeria with facial scarifications and a metal pin to the right eye, wearing a red bead necklace, 21cm high, glued to...

A pair of Yoruba Ibeji figures Nigeria male and female with filed top front teeth and wearing beads, 33.5cm and 31cm high, and two other Yoruba Ib...

A pair of Yoruba Ibeji figures Nigeria male and female, with Reckitts' Blue to the coiffures and with Islamic tirah amulets, the male with glass b...

A Yoruba divination bowl Nigeria the previously circular base with a carved maternal group of a seated female supporting a child suckling from her...

A Kuba drum Democratic Republic of the Congo with carved geometric decoration and black staining, the open handle with a hand terminal, with a hid...

A Zande harp Democratic Republic of the Congo wood, hide and fibre with a carved head finial and five strings, 43.5cm long, on a stand. (2) Proven...

A Sudan writing board 19th century with hand written koranic script to each side and School boys slate Picked up at the gate of the Mahdi's Tomb O...

A Congo crucifix sceptre with a trefoil platform finial above relief carved figures of Christ and the Virgin Mother, lobed sides and the base with...