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Artemis Gallery will hold their June Timed Marketplace Auction on Jun 27, 2022 11:00 AM GMT-5. The sale features fabulously priced clearance items and newly listed items at pricing perfect for dealers or collectors. Costa Rican Stone Flying Panel Metate, ex Museum. Estimate $6,500 - $9,750.
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17th C. Chinese Qing Brass Censer Dragon Handles. East Asia, China, Qing Dynasty, ca. late 17th to early 18th century CE. A wonderful brass censer exhibiting a compressed body and a flared rim, all sitting upon three bulbous legs with petite feet. Estimate $3,400 - $5,100.
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19th C. Samoan Wood Model of Catamaran. Polynesia, Western Samoa, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE. A handsome wooden model of a catamaran, featuring two canoes lashed together in realistic manner with wooden booms. Estimate $2,400 - $3,600.
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19th C. German Percussion Pistol - A. ROSEN IN DYCK. Western Europe, Germany, ca. 1801 to 1860 CE. A very handsome percussion pistol with a wooden stock and steel barrel with engraved foliate motifs on the fittings. Estimate $2,000 - $3,000.
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Gorgeous 7th C. Islamic Glass Bowl w/ Vertical Ribbing. Early Islamic, ca. 7th to 10th century CE, after an earlier variant in the Roman Empire which was done from 1st to 4th century CE. A beautiful, ribbed glass bowl with 19 vertical ribs adorning the exterior walls, a concave base, and a pronounced/delineated rim. Estimate $1,700 - $2,550.
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18th C. South American Wood Triptych, Raised Pastiglia. South America, ca. 18th or 19th century CE. A portable mini altar, the wooden triptych framing six images comprised of finely painted raised pastiglia with figures in relief. Estimate $1,300 - $1,950.
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Four 20th C. African Wood Female Figures. West Africa, Liberia or Sierra Leone, Mende people; Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Luena (Lwena, also Lovale) people; Western Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. mid to late 20th century CE. Estimate $1,200 - $1,800.
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3 Colima Pottery Flat Female Figures. Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A group of 3 hand-built pottery figures of characteristically flat forms. The first figure stands with splayed feet and presents perky breasts and an elongated head while holding a conical vessel behind her right shoulder. Estimate $800 - $1,200.
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Lot of 2 Holy Land Pottery Oil Lamps. Ancient Near East, Holy Land / Levant, Late Bronze Age, ca. 1550 to 1200 BCE. A pair of terracotta oil lamps, each made from coarse clay with small, pebble-shaped inclusions, with a saucer-shaped profile and a small, flat base. Both are pinched in one spot, creating a narrow rest for its wick spout and a shallow interior cavity. Estimate $800 - $1,200.
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20th C. Papua New Guinea Wood Crocodile Canoe Prow. Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Middle Sepik River region, Iatmul peoples, ca. first half of the 20th century CE. A magnificent hand-carved canoe prow depicting the head of a crocodile. Estimate $700 - $1,050.