Bidspirit auctions | Ray's Premier Auction Auction May 9, 2025
Ray's Premier Auction, May 9, 2025. 398 lots, estimates 50 - 600 $.
Ray's Premier Auction - Karl Stirner (1923 - 2016) was an internationally recognized sculptor. Born in Germany during the Weimar Republic, his family immigrated to America in 1927, settling in Pennsylvania. Karl developed an interest in metal that stemmed from his father's work as a fine jeweler. By 1948, Karl had opened a metal arts studio, and by 1955 he was teaching art at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. Over the decades to follow, Karl developed an international reputation for his abstract metal sculpture, and was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Corcoran Gallery, among many others. Like notable artists that preceded him (Picasso, Derain, Matisse), Karl's fascination with fine art and tribal art, and particularly traditional African art, was substantive. He amassed a remarkable personal collection, which occupied every corner of his living space, from which around 400 pieces and books have been selected to present at this auction. These pieces and books are coming to market for the first time in many decades. Take advantage of this opportunity to acquire some excellent examples of African tribal art, Native American tribal objects, Oceanic pieces, and large collection of tribal books and catalogs, each of which was carefully selected by the eye of one of America's finest post-war metal sculptors.
Lots in this catalog (398)
- Lot 1000: Large Vintage Chinese Jingdezhen-Style Porcelain Vase — $100 - $500
- Lot 1001: Vintage Chinese Porcelain Vase-Bowl with Handles — $100 - $500
- Lot 1002: Antique Wooden Printing Block Calhoun Hartford Steam Printing — $50 - $100
- Lot 1003: Joseph Gionfriddo 'Vet Cong' Surrealist Painting Depicting Scenes From the Vietnam War — $100 - $200
- Lot 1004: Joseph Gionfriddo Oil Painting Physiognomical Genocidal Surrealism — $100 - $200
- Lot 1005: The Massacre at My Lai' By Joseph Gionfriddo 1970 — $100 - $200
- Lot 1006: 'Familia Huida' By Martha Ochoa (Attrib.) — $50 - $100
- Lot 1007: George V. Ross Oil Painting — $50 - $100
- Lot 1008: Surrealist Oil Painting By Louis Lamont — $50 - $100
- Lot 1009: Surrealist Oil Painting By Louis Lamont — $50 - $100
- Lot 1010: Oil Painting By Louis Lamont 1996 'Palace Hotel' — $50 - $100
- Lot 1011: Oil Painting on Board Harbor Scene — $100 - $500
- Lot 1012: Antique Hudson River School Landscape Painting — $100 - $500
- Lot 1013: A Real Photo Postcard (RPPC) of A Group of Native Americans — $50 - $100
- Lot 1014: Continental School Antique Landscape Oil Painting On a Wood Board From 19th Century — $100 - $500
- Lot 1015: Pastel Painting 'Nude at Night' By Louis Lamont — $50 - $100
- Lot 1016: Oil On Canvas Painting of the City of Geneva Featuring The Pont Du Mont-Blanc — $50 - $100
- Lot 1017: Vintage Hopi Coiled Basket 'Poota' Tray Crafted 1950's — $50 - $100
- Lot 1018: Vintage Inuit-style Muff Cushion From Early 20th Century — $50 - $100
- Lot 1019: 19th-Century Hindu Temple Wooden Doll — $50 - $100
- Lot 1020: Santa Clara Pueblo Wedding Vase From Mid-20th Century — $50 - $100
- Lot 1021: Antique Possibly A Native American Hunting Knife — $50 - $100
- Lot 1022: Lot of 2-Vintage Chinese Yi Of Yunnan Braided Horse Hair Fly Whisks-Fuchen — $50 - $100
- Lot 1023: Lot of 4-Vintage Blackware Casa Grandes Mata Ortiz Mexican Pottery — $100 - $500
- Lot 1024: Lot of 10-Native American-Style Artifacts From Plains Region — $100 - $500
- Lot 1025: Black Pottery Bowl Style of the Po-Woh-Ge-Owenge or Ohkah Owingeh Pueblo — $50 - $100
- Lot 1026: Navajo Pine Pitch Water Basket, Pitch Pot or Toshjeeh From Mid-1800s — $50 - $100
- Lot 1027: Chinese Stoneware Vase From the Vale Sung Period, Originating Sung Dynasty Era — $100 - $500
- Lot 1028: Ceramic Kwangtung Yao Jar Possibly From the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) — $100 - $500
- Lot 1029: Chinese Celadon Ceramic Bowl From Sung Dynasty — $100 - $500
- Lot 1030: Chinese Celadon Ceramic Bowl From the Sung Dynasty — $100 - $500
- Lot 1031: Vintage Santa Clara Pueblo Wedding Clay Vase — $50 - $100
- Lot 1032: Hopi Native American Vase From the 1920s-1940s — $100 - $500
- Lot 1033: Hopi Native American Vase From the 1920s-1940s — $100 - $500
- Lot 1034: A Pair of Renaissance-style Painting — $50 - $100
- Lot 1035: Lot of 2-Artfully Carved Wood Chip Birds Ornaments — $50 - $100
- Lot 1036: Woven Pine Needle Native American-style Fishing Basket Box — $50 - $100
- Lot 1037: Lot of 5-Collection of Northwest Native American Covered Woven Baskets — $50 - $100
- Lot 1038: Vintage Hercules and Antaeus Sculpture — $50 - $100
- Lot 1039: Possibly Pre-Columbian Stone Figure From Soutwest Arizona — $50 - $100
- Lot 1040: Lot of 2-Antique Baroque-Style Iron Door Locks With Keys — $100 - $500
- Lot 1041: Lot of 2-Antique Zoomorphic Decoration Wrought Iron Door or Box Locks — $100 - $500
- Lot 1042: Vintage Hand-Carved Wooden Chain With 'Balls in Cages' — $50 - $100
- Lot 1043: Lof of 3-Vintage Wooden Hand Carved Wreath, Sculpture D?cor Was Done By Navy Sailors — $50 - $100
- Lot 1044: Lot of 3-Antique Kashmiri Lacquer Qalamdan (Pen Boxes) From the 19th Century — $100 - $500
- Lot 1045: Lot of 3-Antique Kashmiri Lacquer Qalamdan (Pen Boxes) From the 19th Century — $100 - $500
- Lot 1046: Lot of 3-Nubian Egyptian Doll With Two Birds Adorned With Antique Glass Beads — $50 - $100
- Lot 1047: Lot of 5- Antique German Old Master Collection of Smoking Pipes From 1900s — $100 - $500
- Lot 1048: Lot of 2-Possibly Makah/Nootka Northwest Coast Native Baskets From Early 20th Century — $100 - $500
- Lot 1049: Lot of 5- Collection of Louis Lamont Drawings Signed and Dated 1994-Chicago — $50 - $100
- Lot 1050: Lot of 2-Antique Tribal Warrior's Traditional Head Ornaments — $50 - $100
- Lot 1051: Lot of 3-Vintage Chilean Leather Tapaderos Valparaiso Trophagen School — $50 - $100
- Lot 1052: Lot of 5-Collection of Native American Beaded Artifacts From Early 20th Century — $100 - $500
- Lot 1053: Lot of 4-Collection of Primitive Native American Pipe Stems — $100 - $500
- Lot 1054: Lot of 2-Antique Tribal Pipe and Measuring Stick Possibly From Pacific Islands — $100 - $500
- Lot 1055: Lot of 2-Chinese Mingqi Tomb Figures From Han Dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE) — $100 - $500
- Lot 1056: Lot of 3-Native American-style Catlinite Ceremonial Pipes — $100 - $500
- Lot 1057: Lot of 2-Biedermeier Box Rim Locks (Kastenschloss in German)1815-1848 — $100 - $500
- Lot 1058: Lof of 3-Vintage Pre-Columbian Stone and Terracotta Figures From Peru-Chincha Culture — $100 - $500
- Lot 1059: Lof of 4-Native American Artifacts From Early 20th Century — $100 - $500
- Lot 1060: Lot of 2-Baroque Design Vintage Door Locks — $100 - $500
- Lot 1061: Lot of 4- Comanche Tomahawks From 1720-1780 — $500 - $1,000
- Lot 1062: Pair of 19th Century Carved Wood Giltwood Candlestick Table Lamps — $50 - $100
- Lot 1063: Siassi Ceremonial Carved Wood Bowl From Papua New Guinea — $50 - $100
- Lot 1064: Ramu River Hand-Carved Mask From Papua New Guinea Date Back Mid-20th Century — $50 - $100
- Lot 1065: Asmat Male Figure Meat Hook Carving From Asmat People Of Papua Indonesia — $50 - $100
- Lot 1066: Vintage Native American Ceremonial Wooden Pipe Stem — $50 - $100
- Lot 1067: Mughal-Era Indo-Persian Polearm Bronze Spear — $100 - $500
- Lot 1068: Chinese Silk Patchwork Textile — $50 - $100
- Lot 1069: Kutch Shisha Emroidered Inidan Textile Tapestry & Sari Border/Belt (2) — $50 - $100
- Lot 1070: Vintage Guatemalan Huipils (Poncho) (2) — $50 - $100
- Lot 1071: Vintage Framed US Stamp Collection — $50 - $100
- Lot 1072: Louis Lamont Pastel Painting Neuweiler Brewery Allentown — $50 - $100
- Lot 1073: Vintage Lace Tablerunner/Tablecloth (10) — $50 - $100
- Lot 1074: Framed Pre-Columbian Textile — $100 - $500
- Lot 1075: Framed Pre-Columbian Textile — $100 - $500
- Lot 1076: E.J. Holder Vintage Folk Art Of A Young Boy — $100 - $500
- Lot 1077: Framed Pre-Columbian Head Band Textile — $100 - $500
- Lot 1078: Framed Textile Fragment Chimu 1200-1400 AD — $100 - $500
- Lot 1079: Framed Diamond Shaped Textile Fragment Chimu 1200-1400 AD — $100 - $500
- Lot 1080: Japanese Six-Fold Screen Gold-Leaf On Paper — $50 - $100
- Lot 1081: Louis Lamont Oil on Board "Players Only No Lookers" — $50 - $100
- Lot 1082: Embroidered Framed Tapestry — $50 - $100
- Lot 1083: Papua New Guinea Stone Axe — $50 - $100
- Lot 1084: Traditional Wooden Possibly Headrest/Stool — $50 - $100
- Lot 1085: Miniature Mixed Likely Michoacan Pottery (16) — $50 - $100
- Lot 1086: Mix Of Antique Animal-Shaped Tribal Clay Figurines (26) — $50 - $100
- Lot 1087: Mix Of Antique Human Face-Shaped Clay Figures (15) — $50 - $100
- Lot 1088: Mix Of Vintage Stone Artifacts (10) — $50 - $100
- Lot 1089: Mix Of Vintage Stone Carvings & Amulets (24) — $50 - $100
- Lot 1090: Mexico South the Isthmus of Tehuantepec by Miguel Covarrubias (Hardcover) — $50 - $100
- Lot 1091: Turquoise Mosaics From Mexico by Elizabeth Carmichael The British Museum (Paperback) — $50 - $100
- Lot 1092: Gods and Men in Pre-Columbian Art Emmerich Gallery 1967 Exhibition Catalog — $50 - $100
- Lot 1093: Pre-Columbian Art of Mesoamerica From the Collection of Jay C.Leff (Soft Cover) — $50 - $100
- Lot 1094: Amerika Vor Kolumbus by Sammlung Ernst J.Fischer — $50 - $100
- Lot 1095: Pre-Columbian Jade from Costa Rica by Elizabeth Kennedy Easby — $50 - $100
- Lot 1096: Antonio Castro Leal - Twenty - 20 Centuries of Mexican Art Viente Siglos De 1st — $50 - $100
- Lot 1097: A Pamphlet for the Cisneros Art Gallery's 1969 Exhibition "Surrealism in Pre-Columbian Art" in New — $50 - $100
- Lot 1098: Pipes That Won't Smoke, Coal That Won't Burn By Carol Sheehan — $50 - $100
- Lot 1099: Mexico: A History in Art by Bradley Smith — $50 - $100
- Lot 1100: The Nathan Cummings Collection: Ancient Peruvian Ceramics by Alan R. Sawyer — $50 - $100
- Lot 1101: Vintage Art Treasures from Japan by The National Commission for Protection of Cultural Properties — $50 - $100
- Lot 1102: Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages by Stanley Charles Nott — $50 - $100
- Lot 1103: Chinese Art: A Selection of Articles from the New 14th Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica — $50 - $100
- Lot 1104: Sacred Visions: Early Paintings from Central Tibet by Steven M. Kossak, Jane Casey Singer with an — $50 - $100
- Lot 1105: The Wonder of Chinese Bronzes by Li Xueqin, Han Dynasty, 1980 — $50 - $100
- Lot 1106: Things Chinese by Rita Aero, 1st Edition, Hardcover — $50 - $100
- Lot 1107: Principles of Chinese Painting by George Rowley — $50 - $100
- Lot 1108: Chinese Ivory Sculpture by Warren E.Cox Author of The Book of Pottery and Porcelain — $50 - $100
- Lot 1109: Asiatic Art by H.F.E. Visser Curator, Museum of Asiatic Art and Municipal Museums, Amsterdam — $50 - $100
- Lot 1110: Treasures From the Shanghai Museum 6,000 Years of Chinese Art, 1984 — $50 - $100
- Lot 1111: Tibet's Terrifying Deities, Sex and Aggression in Religious Acculturation by F.Sierksma — $50 - $100
- Lot 1112: Chinese Jades From Han to Ch'ing by James C.Y.Watt — $50 - $100
- Lot 1113: Chinese Ceramics From Japanese Collections T'hang Through Ming Dynaties — $50 - $100
- Lot 1114: The Great Age of Japanese Buddhist Sculpture, AD 600-1300 by Nishikawa Kyotaro, Emily J.Sano — $50 - $100
- Lot 1115: China House of Arts, Chinese Ceramics, Sieur Tzen, 1100 Madison Ave New York 1981 — $50 - $100
- Lot 1116: The Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of The People's Republic of China — $50 - $100
- Lot 1117: The Art of Contemplation, Religious Sculpture from Private Collections — $50 - $100
- Lot 1118: Art of the Brush, Chinese & Japanese Painting & Calligraphy — $50 - $100
- Lot 1119: The Arts of Ancient China by Maxwell Hearn, Wen Fong — $50 - $100
- Lot 1120: Ming Blue and White, Philadelphia Museum Bulletin, An Exhibition of Blue-Decorated Porcelain of the — $50 - $100
- Lot 1121: Chinese Art II by R.Soame Jenyns, William Watson F.S.A — $50 - $100
- Lot 1122: Chinese Art by Judith and Arthur Hart Burling — $50 - $100
- Lot 1123: The Arts of China by Michael Sullivan Third Edition — $50 - $100
- Lot 1124: Dogs of China & Japan in Nature and Art by V.W.F. Collier — $50 - $100
- Lot 1125: Treasures From the Bronze Age of China an Exhibition from the People's Republic of China — $50 - $100
- Lot 1126: 3 Issues-Arts of Asia, Hong Kong in Transition, Opening of the New Hong Kong of Art 1991, Gold — $50 - $100
- Lot 1127: 5 Issues-Arts of Asia Old Manila in Photographs 1978, Tomb Pottery in the National Museum of Hisyory — $50 - $100
- Lot 1128: 5 Issues-Arts of Asia Aspects of Macau 1977, Hung Hsien Seal Marks: Which is Genuine 1977, Woodblock — $50 - $100
- Lot 1129: The Arts of India and Nepal: The Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston — $50 - $100
- Lot 1130: Ancient Indonesian Art of the Central and Eastern Javanese Periods, Jan Fontein R. Soekmono, — $50 - $100
- Lot 1131: 5000 Years of Korean Art-An Exhibition Organized by the National Museum of Korea for the Following — $50 - $100
- Lot 1132: New Guinea Art Karl Mann Celebrates His Initial Collection of Hand Printed Fabrics and Coordinated — $50 - $100
- Lot 1133: Melanesia Spring 2007 Catalog, Pace Primitive, Director Carlo Bella — $50 - $100
- Lot 1134: The Earth and Its Inhabitants Oceanica by Elisee Reclus. New York: D. Appleton and Company 72 Fifth — $50 - $100
- Lot 1135: The Art of Tahiti by Terence Barrow-Blacker Calmann Cooper Ltd. 1979 — $50 - $100
- Lot 1136: The Metropolitan Museum of Art-Bulletin Autumn 1975, Thomas Hoving Director — $50 - $100
- Lot 1137: Spring Art Books Jade by J.P.Palmer-Published bySpring Books 1967 — $50 - $100
- Lot 1138: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York-The Pacific Islands, Africa, and the Americas by Douglas — $50 - $100
- Lot 1139: The Art of the Korean Pottery by Silla Koryo Yi. An Asia House Gallery Publication Copyright 1968. — $50 - $100
- Lot 1140: New Guinea and the Philippines Over 700 Photos of the Islands and Their Peoples — $50 - $100
- Lot 1141: The Unuversity Prints Series O Section 1, Early Indian and Indonesian Art Rowland Cambridge Mass — $50 - $100
- Lot 1142: Oceanic Art-71 Plates in Full Colour by Alberto Cesare Ambesi-Hamlyn — $50 - $100
- Lot 1143: Oceanic Art-The Sepik Area of New Guinea Text by Jean Guiart — $50 - $100
- Lot 1144: New Guine Gold Cannibals & Gold-Seekers in New Guinea by Edmond Demaitre — $50 - $100
- Lot 1145: Traditional Art of Africa Oceania and the Americas by Jane Powell Dwyer and Edward Bridgman Dwyer. — $50 - $100
- Lot 1146: Die Kunst Ostasiens by Otto Kummel, William Cohn. Bruno Cassirer Verlag Berlin, 1921 — $50 - $100
- Lot 1147: The Sculpture of Polynesia, Catalogue by Allen Wardwell — $50 - $100
- Lot 1148: The Art of Africa, the Pacific Islands and the Americas. The Metropolitan of Art by the Michael — $50 - $100
- Lot 1149: Displays of Power Art and War Among the Marings of New Guinea by Cherry Lowman With a Design — $50 - $100