AN AFRICAN BRASS FIGURE OF A SNAKE HANDLER

on hardwood stand, 16cm high, three similar brass figures of a man, a hyena and a lizard respectively, also with stands, two African crocodile leather handbags, five other African leather bags/purses, five African woven rush labels and a South African painted wooden panel (20)

Provenance: Adolphe Cryns (b. 1903, Wetteren – d. 1991) lived and worked in Léopoldville (Kinshasa) as an Operations manager for CITAS shipping from 5 Sep 1924 to 14 Jul 1933, thence by family descent