Artemis Fine Arts presents Connoisseur’s Delight | Antiquities, Fine Art on November 6, 2025, in Louisville, Colorado—a premier sale uniting centuries of global artistry. Featuring legally acquired treasures from Egypt, Rome, Asia, the Americas, and beyond, the auction offers everything from fossils and ancient relics to fine and ethnographic art. With trusted in-house worldwide shipping,
Connoisseur’s Delight
invites collectors to discover timeless masterpieces that celebrate humanity’s creative legacy. In this image:
19th C. Nepal / Tibet Jeweled Copper Repousse Bhairava Mask
. Estimate $14,000-$21,000.
Monumental 1729 Venetian Roman Choir Antiphonary (printed by Nicolaus Pezzana)
. Western Europe, northeastern Italy, Venice, ca. 1729 CE. A monumental Roman choir antiphonary, printed in Venice in 1729 by Nicolaus Pezzana, one of the foremost Venetian publishers of liturgical works. Estimate $10,000-$15,000.
Superb Colima Redware Dog Effigy Vessel - 18"L!
Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. An exemplary pottery dog (possibly the finest of this pose we have ever offered), enveloped in a vibrant, red slip with a high burnish! First off, its scale is impressive - quite sizeable and corpulent with a very full - possibly pregnant - belly! Estimate $8,000-$15,000.
Huge Mammoth Ivory Carving - Dragons Pursuing Flaming Pearls
. East Asia, China, ca. late 20th to 21st century CE. A monumental mammoth ivory carving, intricately worked into a breathtaking scene of dragons contesting for flaming pearls amidst swirling clouds. Estimate $8,500-$12,500.
Rare Taino Limestone Ritual Bowl w/ Dual Heads
. Pre-Columbian, Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Taino (Arawak) peoples, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A carved calcitic limestone ritual bowl featuring two opposing anthropomorphic heads in high relief, each with deeply recessed eyes, open mouths, and incised linear detailing. Estimate $8,000-$12,000.
Ghanaian Benezate Mixed Media Stool with Dolphin Motif. Benezate (Ghana, XX)
. Mixed Media Sculpture (oil paint, wood, an glass), ca. 1990. A dynamic fusion of sculptural invention and cultural metaphor, this whimsical yet architectonic mixed media work was created by Ghanaian artist Benezate (also known as Bene Zate or Gaponu) around 1990. Estimate $6,000-$9,000.
Roman / Early Byzantine Gold Medallion Sol Invictus w/ Carnelian Inlays
. Late Roman to early Byzantine period, ca. 3rd to 4th century CE. A magnificent repousse gold pendant depicting the radiant face of Sol Invictus, the "Unconquered Sun," haloed in divine splendor. The god's visage, framed by curling locks of hair, is set within a circular medallion, his features finely detailed in high relief. Estimate $5,000-$8,000.
Australian Aboriginal Painting attr. Wenja Napaltjarri
. Australia, Aboriginal, ca. late 20th century CE. A monumental acrylic-on-canvas Aboriginal painting depicting a Dreaming narrative rendered in the intricate dot-painting tradition of the Western Desert. Estimate $4,000-$6,000.
Pleistocene Mammoth Ivory Tusk Fragment
. North America, Pleistocene Epoch, ca. 1 million to 10,000 years ago. A substantial fossilized tusk fragment, from a mammoth. This impressive relic, once part of the towering proboscideans that roamed Ice Age landscapes, displays a warm earthen tone with a network of surface fissures formed through millennia of mineralization. Estimate $3,500-$5,500.
18th C. British Portraits ( possibly Godfrey Kneller)
. European, British, 18th century. A fabulous pair of 18th century British pendant portraits probably painted by a follower of Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723). Both sitters are depicted bust-length and in an oval format with matching gold-tone frames. Estimate $3,000-$6,000.
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