Artemis Gallery will hold its
Ancient & Ethnographic Art Through The Ages
sale on Jun 02, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-5. The sale features antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian Art, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African/Tribal / Oceanic, Fine / Visual art, and much more! Egyptian Faience Ring w/ Aegis, ex-Royal Athena. Estimate $5,000 - $7,500.
Stunning Nazca Carved Wood Figural Mother & Child
. Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 100 BCE to 500 CE. A rare and stunning carved-wooden sculpture of tall, rectangular form depicting a mother embracing her child. Estimate $5,000 - $7,500.
19th C. Chinese Porcelain Vases w/ Shuang-Xi (pr)
. East Asia, China, Qing Dynasty, ca. 19th century CE. A stunning pair of blue-on-white porcelain vases, skillfully hand-painted with decoration of Shuang-xi or "double happiness" symbols representing contentment in marriage. Estimate $5,000 - $7,500.
Huge Chinese Ming Dynasty Stone Panel Palace Scene
. East Asia, China, Ming Dynasty, ca. 1368 to 1644 CE. A beautiful hand-carved stone panel made from a massive piece of granite featuring a scene of 3 scholars and a young man. Estimate $4,000 - $6,000.
Exhibited 19th C. Burmese Leaded Bronze Rain Drum
. Southeast Asia, Burma (Myanmar), ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. An enticing leaded bronze drum known as a "Karen Rain Drum" with dense decorations and rich iconography with zoomorphic forms. Estimate $4,000 - $6,000.
91 Prehistoric Native American Stone "Bird Points"
. Native American, North America, Middle Archaic to Classic, ca. 2500 BCE to 1650 CE (4500 to 350 BP). A fascinating ensemble of 91 hand-knapped stone arrowheads, known as "bird points" for their miniature scale, boasting a variety of stemmed, bifurcated, and lanceolate forms in varying hues of white, cream, caramel, butterscotch, black, and gray. Estimate $1,000 - $1,500.
Large Fossilized American Mastodon Tusk Fragment
. North America, Southeastern United States, Florida, Pliocene to Pleistocene, Ice Age, ca. 100,000 to 11,000 years old. A massive, fossilized tusk fragment from a mastodon (Mammut americanum) that displays stunning crystalline formations inside the cavity. Estimate $2,600 - $3,900
Pair of 19th C. Chinese Qing Wood Corbels w/ Phoenix
. East Asia, China, Qing Dynasty, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A beautiful pair of intricate hand-carved wooden corbel panels that depict peonies and foliage surrounding phoenixes and songbirds. Both panels are made to be viewed from all sides, once serving as ornamental and symbolic embellishments on a special building, and the vertical tenon side of one corbel has a handwritten Chinese inscription in black ink. Estimate $2,200 - $3,300.
Rare 19th C. Solomon Islands Wood Dance Staff w/ Nacre
. South Pacific, Solomon Islands, San Cristobal Island, ca. 19th to early 20th century. Carved from a single piece of wood in the form of a large Bonito fish or shark, this lengthy sculpture is inlaid with dozens of nacre shell inlays. Estimate $2,000 - $3,000.
Translated Neo-Sumerian Pottery Foundation Cones, TL'd
. Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Sumer, city of Lagash, Neo-Sumerian Period, reign of Gudea of Lagash, ca. 2120 to 2090 BCE. A fine pair of hand-built pottery foundation cones with tapered, conical bodies and discoid heads. Estimate $1,500 - $2,500.
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