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Artemis Gallery will hold their CLEARANCE | Warehouse Finds & Dazzling Deals on Jul 21, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-5. Join them for a fabulous clearance sale featuring amazing discounts and many new items! Huge Roman Stone Mosaic Intricate Star Pattern. Estimate $12,000 - $18,000.
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Ancient Achaemenid Persian Gold Necklace + Earrings. Ancient Near East, Achaemenid Persian Empire, ca. 400 BCE. A breathtaking necklace and earrings composed of 64% to 90% gold, equivalent to 15K+ to 21K+. The attention to detail and craftmanship on each piece is astounding. Estimate $16,000 - $24,000.
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Chancay Polychrome Figures Male + Female, TL Tested. Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. An impressive and rare pair of terracotta cuchimilco figures - a male and a female - wrapped in woven textiles of orange, tan, peach, and cream hues. Both figures stand atop delineated legs and feature a welcoming pose with stubby arms outstretched and their heads pointed skyward. Estimate $7,000 - $10,500.
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Colima Gadrooned Vessel w/ Shaman Legs, ex-Messick. Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A most unusual Colima redware vessel presenting a gadrooned squash form body supported by three shaman figures, each one wearing a horned headdress that denotes his shamanic status, facing outward and carrying the ribbed vessel on his back and with extended arms.
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Casas Grandes Polychrome Janiform Portrait Jar. Pre-Columbian, North Mexico, Chihuahua, Casas Grandes (Paquime), ca. 1280 to 1450 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel featuring a janiform pinched visage of a human face and hand painted polychrome patterns. Estimate $4,500 - $6,750.
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Rare / Complete Fossilized Pig Skull - Chleuastochoerus. Central to Northeastern Asia, late Miocene to early Pliocene, ca. 11.6 to 3.6 million years ago. Estimate $3,800 - $5,700.
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Large 20th C. Kwakiutl Wooden Eagle Totem w/ Sisiutl. Native American, Northwestern United States / Canada, British Columbia, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), Haida or Tlingit, ca. 1950 to 1975 CE. A hand-carved cedar totem sculpture of a large eagle standing atop an effigy of a legendary creature known as the sisiutl with an additional face of a bear in the middle. Estimate $2,500 - $3,500.
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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. Estimate $2,200 - $3,300.
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Rare Nayarit Pottery Vessel - Double-Headed Dog. Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit / Chinesco, ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE. A delightful pottery vessel in the form of a double-headed dog adorned in red and beige pigments. Estimate $1,400 - $2,100.
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19th C. Chinese Qing Brass Figures "Three Star Deities". East Asia, China, late Qing Dynasty to Republic Period, late 19th to early 20th century. A wonderful ensemble of sizeable brass figures representing the "Three Star Deities" including Good Fortune (Fu), Prosperity (Lu), and Longevity (Shou) - all dressed in "embroidered silk" robes. Estimate $1,300 - $1,950.