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Artemis Fine Arts presents World Antiquities: Ancient & Ethnographic Art, a curated online auction celebrating the rich visual traditions of diverse global civilizations across the millennia. Opening for bidding on September 25, 2026, at 9:00 AM MDT, the sale features an exceptional array of legally acquired and meticulously vetted antiquities spanning ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Pre-Columbian Americas. Egyptian Late Period Bronze Eyes w/ Glass & Stone Inlay. Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500.

Maori Muka Korowai Woven Cloak - Hukahuka Tags & Red Wool Pompoms. New Zealand, Aotearoa, Maori. A fine korowai cloak, professionally mounted in an acrylic display case. The cloak is finely woven of muka, the prepared fiber of New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax), with closely spaced rows of twining forming a supple ground. The surface is decorated overall with black thread tags, known as hukahuka, and red wool pompoms arranged in loose rows. Estimate: $7,000 - $10,000.

"Contemporary Art from Cuba" Exhibition Proofs (1998). 7 Hand-Signed Printers Proofs by Various Contemporary Cuban Artists - Pedro Alvarez, Carlos Estevez, Luis Gomez, Malaquias Montoya (Mujer Zapatista), Fernando Rodriguez (phones), Jose Angel Toirac (Fidel), Tonel (Antonio Eligio Fernandez). Original, hand-signed printer's proofs printed in conjunction with "Contemporary Art from Cuba: Irony and Survival on the Utopian Island" at Arizona State University Museum. Estimate: $7,000 - $10,500.

Cimolichthys nepaholica Fossil Fish Plaque, Niobrara Chalk Kansas - Cretaceous. North America, Western Interior Seaway, Niobrara Chalk Formation, Kansas, Late Cretaceous. A striking wall-mounted fossil plaque displays the predatory teleost Cimolichthys Nepoholica in rich coffee-brown relief against an ochre matrix, the vertebral column running in a near-continuous chain with a sweeping rib cage, splayed cranial elements, and fin rays that read like a textbook of ancient anatomy. Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000.

Rare Fossil Eurypholis Fish with Stomach Contents. Ancient Seas, Near East, Lebanon, Haqil (Byblos region), Late Cretaceous period, ca. 100 to 95 million years ago. A well-preserved fossil specimen of Eurypholis boissieri, a prehistoric marine ray-finned fish of the aulopiform group, presented in fine detail against a light limestone matrix. Estimate: $3,000 - $4,500.

Pair of Spratling Taxco Silver Plates - Tomas Vega. Don Tomas Vega (Mexican, 20th century). Two silver dishes, ca. after 1979. Spratling hallmark, "DT," and "TS-24" stamped on underside of each base. A gleaming pair of sterling silver plates from the legendary Spratling workshop, where modern design and Mexican craftsmanship found their most famous handshake. Estimate: $2,800 - $4,200.

Pair of 19th C. Neoclassical Urn Lamps w/ Rams' Heads & Maenads. Europe, Neoclassical revival. A pair of cast brass urns, verdigris-patinated and later fitted for electricity, each shaped as a calyx krater with a gadrooned everted rim and a pair of ram's head handles whose curling horns and fleece are crisply modeled. Around each body runs a relief frieze of dancing maenads, drapery swept back in mid-step, the companions of Dionysos caught in ecstatic procession. Estimate: $1,800 - $2,500.

Navajo Handspun Wool Transitional Rugs, Group of 3. Native American, Dine (Navajo), American Southwest. Three handwoven wool textiles from the looms of the Dine, gathered out of the high mesa country where the Four Corners hold their geometry against the sky. Each was raised on an upright loom of cottonwood and juniper, the warps tensioned by hand, the wefts beaten home with a hardwood batten of the kind passed through the family across generations. Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500.

Japanese Meiji Ivory Figure - Warrior by Matsuyama. Matsuyama (Japanese, active late XIX century). Martial Arts Warrior. Ivory and wood okimono carving, ca. 1868 to 1912. Signed in Japanese characters on inlay on base. A lively study of motion and discipline, this finely carved okimono captures a martial artist mid-gesture, his stance grounded and alert as he raises a small hand drum, perhaps poised to punctuate rhythm or ritualized movement. Estimate: $2,600 - $3,900.

3 Roman Intaglios - Garnet Dolphin, Carnelian Pan & Glass Nike. Roman, Imperial period. A trio of miniature engraved gems, each cut in intaglio for setting into a finger ring and pressing into wax. The first, in red glass, carries a winged Nike striding right with a victory wreath raised before her. The second, in carnelian, presents the bearded head of Pan in profile to the left, the goat horns curling back from his brow. Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800.