Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Day Two - 18th September 2025
Lot 432
A Yaka zoomorphic mask
Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £1143
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Description
A Yaka zoomorphic mask
Democratic Republic of the Congo
carved a bush cow head with a crested fibre surmount with two side 'horns,' with polychrome decoration, with an integral tapered handle and a rattan main,
51cm high, in a perspex case. (2)
Provenance
by family repute
Andre Malraux, Paris.
Eddie Du Perron, Dutch writer. (1899 - 1940)
John Buckland Wright, British printmaker. (1897 - 1954) and thence by descent.