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ICHIBAN STARTING TO CLOSE DOWN. We are starting to close down our business, a process that will take us a couple of years. We still have over 900 items either currently listed on our website catalog or still to be posted onto it. So, from now on ALL ITEMS IN THE CATALOG MAY BE PURCHASED AT 40 % OFF THE LISTED PRICE.(This discount does NOT apply to items purchased at auction.) At these low prices, we do ask that you pay shipping and insurance charges for all items purchased.

An African Sculpture – Yoruba Ibeji Twin – 20th Century Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1960   item# 1120512 (stock# Ichi2012EB)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $295.00  This handsome wooden carving comes from the Yoruba Ibeji tribe of Africa, Ogbo Mosho Region of Nigeria. It measure 13 ½” high by 4 ¼” wide by 3 ½” deep. It is in excellent condition. This is a single carving that would have been one of a pair of twins – this one being the female figure. We date it to the early to mid 20th century. It is in excellent condition. ...click for details

A Bronze Figure - Burkina Faso Tribe – “Moonwalker" Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1980   item# 1115971 (stock# COLL1202)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $325.00  This is a most interesting and finely bronze casting from the 1970s. It was purchased from a dealer in fine African antique masks and artifacts in 1980. The dealer informed me that this was done by an artist of the Burkina Faso tribe to mark the moon landings and is that artist’s creative idea of what a creature on the moon might look like. While it is obviously an imaginative figure, you have to enjoy both the excellent craftsmanship of the bronze worker artist and the creativity of his imagine ...click for details

Four Wooden Colonial Figures, Ivory Coast, Africa Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1980   item# 1110458 (stock# COLL 1100)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $1,500 for all four  These are four very nice Colonial Figures from the Baoulé Tribe of the Ivory Coast, West Africa. Hand crafted from solid wood, and painted simply, they retain a charming raw look. Carved from wood and painted with enamel colors, they portray the inhabitants of the Ivory Coast during the 1920's and 1930's, in period clothing. Hand crafted from solid wood, and painted simply, they retain a charming raw look. ...click for details

An African Iron Horse Mounted Warrior – BAMANA Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1940   item# 965712 (stock# ICHI 215)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 225.00  This is a rather abstract forged iron figure of a warrior brandishing a spear while riding on a horse. All the details are in cut out and/or coiled lines – yet the spirit of the warrior is quite distinct. These forged iron figures exhibit the technical skill and artistry that Bamana tribe blacksmiths in Mali brought to their work. They would do the smelting to get the iron from iron ore, then heat and hammer out both the tools and weapons used and the important ritual objects. ...click for details

African Mask – BaPende Tribe – Mid 20th Century Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1960   item# 588671 (stock# ICHI 219)  click for details Ichiban Japanese and Oriental Antiques 203.272.7392 $595.00  A classic Mbuya mask used in ceremonies following initiation of men into the tribe. The mask represents an important person in the BaPende Society and is used to control supernatural powers. The person being initiated may be required to wear a miniature copy of the mask, usually in ivory, as a pendant. Dates from the mid 20th century. Measures 16" long by 8" wide by 6" deep. Excellent condition. ...click for details

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