Artemis Gallery will hold a sale of
Ancient | Asian | Ethnographic art
on Thu, Jan 16, 2020 9:00 AM CST featuring classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fossils, Fine Art, more! In this image: Fantastic Egyptian Polychrome Canopic Jar Lid - TL.
Dramatic Egyptian Gesso'd Wood Ibis Head
. Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate to Late Dynastic Period, ca. 1070 to 332 BCE. A dramatic, playful head of an ibis, carved with a dramatically long beak, a large eye, incised curves behind the eye giving the impression of a swirl of feathers, and a long, straight tab for insertion into a body. Estimate $2,400 - $3,600.
Egyptian Bronze Votive Sarcophagus w/ Shrew
. Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A cast-bronze votive sarcophagus of a slender, rectangular form with a plug on one end and an openwork pyramidal ornament on the other. Estimate $450 - $650.
Egyptian Ptolemaic Cedar / Gesso Mummy Mask
. Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, ca. 332 to 30 BCE. A hand-carved cedar mummy mask with an acorn-shaped face topped with a broad headdress. Estimate $2,000 - $3,000.
Rare Greek Boeotian Pottery Horse -Shaped Askos w/ TL. Greek, Boeotian, Archaic Period, ca. 575 to 550 BCE
. A wonderful hand-built terracotta horse vessel with a filler hole emerging from its back, standing upon raised front and back conjoined legs, and presenting a stylized head with a nicely modeled mane as well as a pronounced snout that doubles as a spout. Estimate $2,000 - $3,000.
Greek Apulian Glazed Pottery Pelike, ex Bonhams
. Magna Graecia, South Italic Colonies, Apulia, ca. 340 to 325 BCE. A wheel-thrown pottery vessel known as a pelike (wine container). Estimate $700 - $1,000.
Greek Hellenistic Marble Female Head - Aphrodite
. Greece, Hellenistic, ca. 4th to 3rd century BCE. Carved in the round, a lovely marble head of a female, perhaps Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, depicted with her head turned slightly toward the right, carved with beautiful facial features and a wavy, centrally-parted, upswept coiffure - bound in a bow-shaped chignon over the nape of her neck. Estimate $6,500 - $9,750.
Massive / Long Thracian Iron Blade, Sickle Form (Falx)
. Classical World, Balkan Europe, Thrace / Dacia, ca. 4th to 1st century BCE. A massive, terrifying long iron blade of sickle form with a one-sided guard and a long, straight tang terminating in a knotted shape for a hilt. Estimate $4,000 - $6,000.
Roman / Byzantine Bronze & Brass Bread Stamps (3)
. Roman, late Imperial Period to early Byzantine Empire, ca. 4th to 6th century CE. A lovely set of two cast-bronze stamps and one cast-brass stamp used for labeling bread at the local bakery. Estimate $1,200 - $1,500
Mesopotamian Pottery Relief Panel of Deity - Martu
. Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, ca. late 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. A mold-formed pottery plaque exhibiting a relief image of Martu (also Amurru in later times), the Mesopotamian god described as a shepherd, a storm god, or 'the lord of the mountain.' Estimate $1,200 - $1,800
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