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Artemis Gallery will hold its Fauna, Flora, Stones & Bones Auction on Tue, Jul 13, 2021 11:00 AM GMT-5. Join them for a very special summer auction featuring fabulous fossils, rocks, and minerals, plus art depicting flora and fauna from antiquity to present day. This is one you won't want to miss! In this image: Huge Fossilized Dinocrocuta Skull, Bone Crushing Hyena. Estimate $55,000 - $80,000.
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Rare Pre-Contact Hawaiian Stone Ring Poi Pounder. North Pacific, Hawaiian Islands, Kauai, Pre-Contact era, ca. 18th century CE or earlier. A fantastic and rare example of a ring-shaped poi pounder, known as a pohaku puka ku'i poi, that is hand-carved from lightweight, semi-porous stone of a chocolate brown color. Estimate $4,000 - $6,000.
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Large Fossilized North American Bison Skull. North America, Western United States, Late Pleistocene, ca. 10,000 years ago. A massive skull from the prehistoric North American bison known as Bison antiquus. Estimate $3,000 - $4,500.
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Published Greek Gold Earrings w/ Garnet & Turquoise. Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. 2nd to 1st century BCE. A dazzling pair of wearable 77% (equivalent to greater than 18K+) gold earrings with lovely inlays of translucent garnet in a rich hue of dark violet-red and turquoise from ancient Greece. Estimate $13,000 - $19,500.
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Massive 14th C. Inca Stone Game Board. Pre-Columbian, Peru and Ecuador, Inca Empire, ca. 1300 to 1500 CE. A stone game board in the form of a Chimu or Inca fortress depicting tiered structures as well as smaller quadrangular plots surrounding a central rectangle. Estimate $9,500 - $14,250.
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Gorgeous Roman Stone Tesserae Mosaic w/ Flamingos. Roman, the Levant, Imperial Period, ca. 3rd to 5th century CE. A beautiful and sizable mosaic panel constructed with hundreds of stone tesserae in hues of beige, cream, sage, ochre, grapefruit, cobalt, and jet. Estimate $6,500 - $8,500.
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20th C. Indonesian Wood & Horn Buffalo. 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 $4,500 - $6,750.
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Vintage Northwest Coast Wood Grease Bowl w/ Shell Inlay. Native American, Pacific Northwest, ca. mid-20th century CE. A fascinating, hand-carved bowl in the form of a zoomorph displaying an ovoid interior basin and flat base. Estimate $3,000 - $4,000.
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14th C. Chinese Ming Pottery Tile w/ Foo Lion. East Asia, China, Ming Dynasty, ca. 1368 to 1644 CE. A beautiful architectural tile made of stucco, depicting a stylized and mythical creature within the recessed center. Estimate $2,800 - $4,200.
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Moche Pottery Lobster Stirrup Vessel w/ TL, ex-Museum. Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 650 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel in the shape of a lobster bearing a stirrup-shaped handle and a cylindrical spout. Estimate $1,500 - $2,250.