Open sale

In our depot in Wurzburg you can find tribal art from past auctions - more than 478 objects from all continents and from European collections, which you can directly acquire at the minimum price.

See for yourself  in our online open sale catalogue, or visit us in our auction house in Wurzburg. We look forward to helping you!

Figurally carved spoon
Lot: 3049172

Philippines - Ifugao

Parrying shield "wunda"
Lot: 3047826

Western Australia

Throwing knife
Lot: 3047649

Chad, Sara-Laka / Cameroon, Musseye

Provenance Size Price
Isle of Man Collection L: 15.6 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Hattingh, Marna (*1977), Cape Town, South Africa
3045883
Provenance Size Price
M: 27.6 inch x 39 inch / 29.1 inch x 40.6 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Papua New Guinea, Abelam
3048817
Provenance Size Price
John Friede, Rye, USA
presumably ex Nelson A.Rockefeller (1908-1979) New York, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Nelson Rockefeller founded the Museum of Primitive Art in 1954 and donated his own collection of Tribal Art. The museum closed in 1976, and its collections were transferred to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
H: 8.1 inch / 8.7 inch (ornament), L: 24.8 inch & 26.8 inch (sticks) 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Ireland, Tabar Island
3048889
Provenance Size Price
Jean Bienaymé, France
de Ricqlès, Drouot-Richelieu, Paris, 25 March 2001, Lot 82
Yves Créhalet, Paris, France
H: 15.4 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Provenance Size Price
H: 11.2 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Inupiak
3044099
Provenance Size Price
American Private Collection H: 9.4 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
North Nepal, Helambu Region
3042111
Provenance Size Price
H: 8.5 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
D. R. Congo, Ubangi, Bwaka (Ngbaka)
3046995
Provenance Size Price
Old British Collection H: 13.2 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Nigeria, Ijaw (Ijo) - Kalabari
3046324
Provenance Size Price
San Francisco Collection, USA H: 17.7 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Philippines, Ifugao province, Lagawe
3048451
Provenance Size Price
American Private Collection H: 23.6 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Nepal (West) - Karnali
3048556
Provenance Size Price
German Collection H: 28.5 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3045095
Provenance Size Price
German Private Collection H: 25.6 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Nigeria, Montol / Chamba
3045969
Provenance Size Price
Manfred Zirngibl, Passau, Germany H: 40.6 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
D. R. Congo, Teke
3047148
Provenance Size Price
Knud Nielsen, Jelling, Denmark H: 19.1 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Papua New Guinea - Golf
3035680
Provenance Size Price
collected in situ, Era River, Papuan Gulf (1978) H: 40.4 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Papua New Guinea, East Sepik Province, Middle Sepik, Iatmul
3050279
Provenance Size Price
Paul Wirz (1892-1955), Zurich / Basel, Switzerland (field-collected in the 1930s)
John & Marcia Friede, Rye, USA

The manufacturer's son Paul Wirz was born in Moscow in 1892. He studied ethnology in Zurich and Basel and graduated in 1920 with a Dr. phil. His dissertation on the Marind-anim people in New Guinea became a standard work in ethnology.

Numerous research and collecting trips as a private scholar took Wirz to North Africa (1912-1913), New Guinea (1915-1931 and 1949-1955, with interruptions), Sardinia, Tunisia, Morocco, West Africa, Spain and the Canary Islands (1932-1934), to India, East and Southeast Asia (1934–1940), the Caribbean (1941–1945), and to Ceylon, now Sri Lanka (1947–1948). In between his travels he worked on his research work. Among other things, he explored the mythical world of the Marind-anim in southern Dutch New Guinea (West Neuguinea). He also devoted research to the Sentani and Gogodara.
H: 15.6 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Austral Islands
3050091
Provenance Size Price
Hellmut Patzer, Silesia, Poland (acquired in the 1st half of the 20th century) L: 37.8 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Provenance Size Price
Private Collection, Oslo, Norway L: 48.8 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
D. R. Congo, Ubangi, Bwaka (Ngbaka) / Mbanja
3048915
Provenance Size Price
Belgian Private Collection H: 10.6 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3040252
Provenance Size Price
H: 9.4 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Cameroon, Mambila
3049542
Provenance Size Price
American Private Collection H: 49.2 inch; B: 41.9 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3049502
Provenance Size Price
Merton Simpson, New York, USA H: 8.7 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3050385
Provenance Size Price
René and Maud Garcia, Paris, France H: 22.4 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Provenance Size Price
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 15 June 2002, Lot 772
Michael Beckmann, Marburg, Germany
H: 5.6 inch; 2.6 inch & 3.1 inch (figures) 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Provenance Size Price
German Private Collection H: 33.7 inch 2200 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Provenance Size Price
John Falcon, New York, USA
Michael Rhodes, New York, USA
H: 7.9 inch 2200 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
3050114
Provenance Size Price
H: 6.1 inch 2200 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Papua New Guinea, Asmat
3035684
Provenance Size Price
collected in situ, Asmat (before 1970)
Cenderawashi Museum Jayapura, West Papua (1985)
L: 34.6 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamum
3047181
Provenance Size Price
Lance Entwistle, London, Great Britain M: 41.3 inch x 30.7 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3044015
Provenance Size Price
Mark Eglinton, New York, USA H: 25.4 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Austral Islands
3050093
Provenance Size Price
Hellmut Patzer, Silesia, Poland (acquired in the 1st half of the 20th century) L: 44.5 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
South-East Australia
3050099
Provenance Size Price
Hellmut Patzer, Silesia, Poland (acquired in the 1st half of the 20th century) L: ca. 32.7 inch (both) 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3050344
Provenance Size Price
German Collection H: 27.6 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Côte d'Ivoire, Wè-Wobé
3050032
Provenance Size Price
H: 17.8 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Nigeria, Igbo-Afikpo
3050023
Provenance Size Price
H: 22.4 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Nigeria, Vere (Verre), Yawam from Lainde
3050355
Provenance Size Price
Monsieur et Madame T. Collection, 2016
Tajan, Paris, "L'Univers de monsieur et madame T.", 28 September 2016, Lot 32
H: 13.4 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Cameroon Grassfields, Babanki or Kom (Bekom)
3050280
Provenance Size Price
American Private Collection H: 19.3 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Western Australia
3047826
Provenance Size Price
Willem Zwiep, Amsterdam, The Netherlands L: 24 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Provenance Size Price
Herbert Hamak, Hammelburg, Germany H: 17.1 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule / Guro
3049730
Provenance Size Price
Edward J. Klejman, Paris, France (acquired between 1979-81) H: 7.9 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Philippines - Kankanay / Ifugao
3048211
Provenance Size Price
Luciano Federico, Italy

Luciano first visited the Philippines in 1978 with his Japanese wife Mayumi. They spent six months there, mainly in the mountain province of Luzon, where they collected many interesting pieces. From 1978 to 1984 he made at least more ten trips, travelling throughout the country.
H: 11.8 inch; L: 10.2 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Papua New Guinea - Humboldt Bay, Walamo Village
3049517
Provenance Size Price
American Private Collection L: 21.7 inch & 22.6 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3048896
Provenance Size Price
Pater Josef Malfliet, Schifferstadt, Germany
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 22 March 2014, Lot 604
H: 9.3 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Provenance Size Price
American Collection H: 16.9 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Côte d'Ivoire, Jimini / Ligbi
3041538
Provenance Size Price
British Collection H: 18.1 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
3041536
Provenance Size Price
Thomas McNemar, Virgina, USA (collected in situ in 1969)
Amyas Naegele, New York, USA


H: 7.1 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan / Bété
3049514
Provenance Size Price
American Private Collection H: 15 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan / Kran
3048887
Provenance Size Price
Yves Créhalet, Paris, France H: 9.6 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Côte d'Ivoire, Abron
3040983
Provenance Size Price
American Museum (Inventory number "68-36-281" at the bottom) H: 15.9 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
3049163
Provenance Size Price
H: 13 inch (seat); 23.6 inch (backrest); B: 20.5 inch x 20.5 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance