23rd Mar, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
A 19th Century Japanese Headrest, of dense hard wood, carved as a waisted and tapering rectangular column, the upper section bound with string and with twisted string handle, 33cm; an African Carved Wood Figure, as a small ebonised man seated naked on a high back chair, 35.5cm (2)
Sold for £900
Estimated at £100 - £150
1 - Chips to the edges of the top and base, string unravelling.
2 - Left leg of figure glued at the thigh.
Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 23rd Mar, 2022
Militaria and Ethnographica Sales encompass items across diverse areas of collecting, from European and Eastern armour to 18th and 19th century firearms, military uniforms and documents, edged weapons, World War I and World War II ephemera, masonic regalia and medals.
Also included are a vast range of objects created in the early 20th century or earlier by indigenous cultures around the world, from early American civilisations to African tribes and Polynesian island cultures, incorporating religious idols, domestic and ritual objects, figurative sculpture, jewellery and weapons of all descriptions.
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