Artemis Gallery will hold its
Discovery Sale | Antiquities & Ethnographica sale
on May 12, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-5. The sale features Ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Fine art, and much more! Egyptian Wood & Painted Plaster Sarcophagus Mask. Estimate $3,500 - $5,000.
Tiahuanaco / Huari Polychrome Textile Four Corner Hat
. Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) or Huari (Wari) culture, ca. 600 to 900 CE. A lovely four cornered hat woven from a camelid (alpaca or llama) fiber that is dyed in hues of red, yellow, dark blue, and blue-green. Estimate $4,500 - $6,750.
Fine Panamanian Gold Frog Pendant
. Pre-Columbian, Central America, Panama, ca. 8th to 10th century CE. Simultaneously stunning and endearing, a wonderful 55.5% gold (equivalent to 12K+) frog amulet, finely cast via the lost wax (cire perdue) process, with twin integral loops below its raised front feet, perfect for suspending from your favorite gold chain. Estimate $4,500 - $6,750.
Fine Olmec Carved Orthoclase Jade Figure
. Pre-Columbian, southern Mexico, Guerrero region, Olmec culture, ca. 1000 to 600 BCE. An exceptional figure finely carved and string cut from orthoclase jade. Estimate $4,500 - $6,750.
Necklace w/ Costa Rican Greenstone, Gold, Jade Serpent
. Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A gorgeous necklace strung with dozens of ancient greenstone disc beads, 6 high quality gold beads, and a jade pendant. Estimate $3,200 - $4,800.
1960s Indonesian Sulawesi Wood Sculpture Kabango
. Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Sulawesi Island, Toraja people, ca. 1960s CE. A magnificent and sizable carved-wood sculpture of a water buffalo known as a kabongo. Estimate $2,600 - $3,900.
Ancient Sassanian Ring w/ Glass Intaglio Sphinx
. Near East, Sassanian, ca. 4th century CE. An exquisite 70% gold (equivalent to 15K+) Sassanian ring, with a stylish shank featuring granules joining the bezel to the shank on one side, the high oval bezel housing a deep wine-red glass intaglio carved with an abstract mythical creature resembling a sphinx. Estimate $2,400 - $3,600.
Ancient Holyland Bronze Zoomorphic Figure
. Ancient Near East, Holy Land, Israel, ca. 900 to 600 BCE. A cast-bronze vessel of intriguing form depicting an abstract zoomorphic creature, perhaps a goat, sheep, horse, or bull. Estimate $2,400 - $3,600.
Late 18th C. Maori Wood Canoe Prow / Tauihu
. New Zealand, Maori, ca. late 18th to mid-19th century CE. A finely carved wooden canoe prow presenting an expressive visage with an open mouth featuring lips incised with chevron motifs, a protruding tongue known as a tete or pakoko, and circular eyes adorned by a masklike band that is also incised with chevron motifs. Estimate $2,200 - $3,300
Gandharan Schist Head of an Ascetic
. Central Asia, Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan, Gandharan Empire, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. Estimate $2,200 - $3,300.
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