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Step into a world of timeless heritage and global artistry with Artemis Fine Arts and Arte Primitivo’s meticulously curated two-day auction event, broadcasting live from Boulder, Colorado, starting June 11, 2026, at 9:00 AM GMT-6. Day One showcases a magnificent selection of Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art, followed by Day Two’s sweeping celebration of Native American, Tribal, African, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, Asian, Fine Art, and Fossils. Driven by an unwavering commitment to exceptional quality and attentive client service, this premier event invites collectors to discover and acquire extraordinary pieces of world history. Join the auction this June 11–12, 2026. Cocle Decorated Gold Diadem Crown | Saurians. Estimate: $36,000 - $54,000.

Exceptional Maya Vase Seated Dignitaries, ex-Merrin. Maya regions, ca. 500 - 800 CE. Fine polychrome decorated pottery vase, having a wide center band depicting four different, beautifully painted, seated gods, with three glyph columns below the figures. Upper glyph band having four orange painted glyphs. Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000.

Large Moche Algarroba Wood Votive Carving | Owl Head. La Liberdad, North Coast., ca. 100 - 300 CE. Large Algarroba hardwood votive carving of an owl head, the owl being a messenger to the afterlife, having large eyes surrounded by a bowl shaped feather tuffs. Long slender beak, tapered face. Custom block base. A very rare and large, impressive example. Size: 6”H x 5”W (15.2 x 12.7cm). Estimate: $16,000 - $24,000.

Important Royal Sican Silver Sheet Copper Mask, ex-Merrin. Lambayeque Valley, North coast, ca. 800 - 1200 CE. A large royal silvered sheet copper mummy mask having large drop shaped eyes with applied button pupils and silver bead eyes with extended sliver dangles (tear drops), relief nose of separate construction, with two dangles extending from beneath nose, a large dangler on each ear, and large flat dish ear ornaments with beaded borders. Estimate: $19,000 - $28,500.

Ica Gold Kero | Relief Decoration - Shaman Dignitaries, Monkeys. Ica, ca. 750 - 1000 CE. Beautifully decorated gold kero, having a relief decoration depicting two opposing standing shamanic dignitaries, holding a monkey in both raised hands. Wearing a crown with long danglers, v-neck tunic with a dangler between his legs, stepped necklace and geometric elements extending from their feet. Estimate: $15,000 - $22,500.

Huari-Inca Very Large Petroglyphic Stone. Huari-Tihuanaco. Chucu type, huari-Tiahuanaco to Inca period, ca. 1000 - 1400 CE. Very large hard stone slab, painted on one face with resin pigments in white, blue, brick-red and yellow ocher on a brick-red ground. Resinous paint with micaceous glitter. Elaborately painted scene suggests the Pachamama rite and earth mother with painted human figures and animals. Estimate: $15,000 - $22,500.

Maya Large Lidded Orangeware Cache Vessel Deity Face. Maya regions, ca. 800 - 1000 CE. Large orangeware pottery lidded urn with elaborate relief decoration depicting the face of a deity wearing a triangular headdress, and fancy flanges. The lid with a more intricate deity face having spiraled eyes, curled mustache, relief bird-form headdress and fancy side flanges. Frontal. A classic type. Size: 12.75”H x 9.3125”W (32.4 x 23.7cm). Estimate: $15,000 - $22,500.

Teotihuacan Standing Figure, Rasp Type Headdress. Teotihuacan, ca. 400 - 100 BCE. Fine carved grayish-green stone standing figure wearing a fancy headdress with a segmented hairdo and tall plume. Wearing a wide headband with a stylized rasp hanging from the right side of the headband. Carved wide recessed eyes, angular relief nose, angular shoulders and belted waist. Custom metal base. Size: 10.25”H x 3.75”W (26 x 9.5cm). Estimate: $15,000 - $22,500.

Muisca Fancy Gold Nose Ornament. Colombia, ca. 1000 - 1550 CE. Large gold nose ornament, of rectangular form with two wide horizontal bars of openwork triangular decoration with braided gold borders, having two stylized birds at both ends and a round center element. Estimate: $12,000 - $18,000.

Chorotega Large Stone Zoomorphic Metate + Mano. Chorotega, Nicoya Peninsula, western Costa Rica., ca. 300 BCE - 700 CE. Very large hardstone mano (grinding stone) and zoomorphic metate. The mono of elliptical form tapering to cylindrical hand grips. The wide central elliptical area has a very fine surface polish from ancient use, and the hand grips have a smooth matte surface. Estimate: $11,000 - $16,500.