On October 26, 2026,
Artemis Fine Arts
will hold
a dual-session timed auction
presenting an eclectic array of antiquities and curated artifacts, pairing a specialized sale of ancient ethnographic pieces with an expansive "Odds & Ends Marketplace" featuring pre-Columbian pottery, jadeite beads, and rare decorative art.
Roman Bronze & Brass Fascinum Amulets, Set of 3
. Estimate: $800 - $1,200.
Tairona Tumbaga Gold Labret - Filigree & Granulation Crest
. Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona. A hollow, cap-shaped labret of cast tumbaga, its burnished dome rising from a plain cylindrical collar and crowned by an arched crest of openwork. Twisted wire mimicking braided rope frames a register of pierced loops, punctuated by granulated spheres set at the apex and at each volute-curled terminus, the whole finished with a raised roped border. Estimate: $1,600 - $2,250.
Three Ancient Roman Black Glass Bracelet Bangles
. Roman, Imperial period. Three ancient glass bangles of plain annular form, each drawn from a single rod of dark glass, bent to a circle and fused at the join, with rounded outer profiles and fine tooling ridges on one example. Estimate: $700 - $1,000.
Ancient Indus Valley Mehrgarh Polychrome Wheel-Thrown Bowl
. South Asia, Pakistan, Baluchistan, Indus Valley, Mehrgarh culture. A wheel-thrown earthenware bowl with a rounded body, a gently incurving rim, and a flat disc base. Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500.
Fossilized Sperm Whale & Assorted Dinosaur Teeth
. North America, likely United States, Jurassic to Miocene periods, ca. 199 to 66 million years ago. A collection of fossilized carnivore dinosaur teeth displayed alongside a curved sperm whale tooth. Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500.
Oceania Cone Shell Disc Pendants / Toea Currency
. Southeast Asia / Oceania, Indonesia / Papua New Guinea, ca. 20th century CE. A pair of shell discs with slightly conical openings drilled into the center of the spiraling grooves of the shells' spires. Shell pendants like these were used throughout Oceania for decorative and ceremonial purposes, as well as a form of currency, known as toea in Papua New Guinea. Estimate: $1,100 - $1,650.
Vibrant Tiahuanaco Textile Sash - Mirrored Jaguar Masks
. Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) culture. A lovely textile sash fragment comprised of tightly-woven camelid (alpaca or llama wool) fibers in vivid hues of crimson, wheat, cream, olive-green, and midnight-blue. Against the red ground are several abstract jaguar masks with diamond-shaped mouths, spiraling eyes, and three-pronged crowns. Estimate: $900 - $1,300.
Hohokam Sacaton Phase Mountain Lion Effigy, Possible Whistle - TL Tested
. Native American, Hohokam, Sacaton phase. A four-legged creature modeled in buff earthenware, its body a smooth elongated barrel raised on four sturdy tapering legs, the head lifted and thrust forward on a thick neck. The modeling is deliberately spare: shallow depressions mark the eyes, the muzzle terminates in a blunt snout, and a small perforation pierces the side of the head. Estimate: $1,300 - $1,900.
Tlatilco Pottery Cylinder Stamp with Incised Chevrons
. Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Tlatilco. A cylinder stamp of fired pottery, made to be rolled rather than pressed. Its barrel is split into two equal drums by a sunken central band. Each drum carries a deeply incised chevron that runs all the way around it, so when the stamp is rolled it prints two unbroken columns. Estimate: $500 - $750.
Sumerian Limestone Plaque Pendant w/ Incised Canines
. Near East, Mesopotamia, Sumerian. A pale limestone plaque of irregular, roughly trapezoidal outline, its smoothed obverse incised with a pair of lean quadrupeds in profile, likely wolves or a related predator, one striding forward with pricked triangular ears and a punched eye, the second reduced to a hindquarter and a tightly coiled, spiral-curled tail. Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500.
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