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Artemis Fine Arts and Arte Primitivo have joined forces for a major two-day auction, curated by gallery principals Bob Dodge and Howard Rose. Following a first session focused on Pre-Columbian, Native American, and fossil works, Day 2 features Classical, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern antiquities alongside Tribal, African, and Asian art. The event offers vetted artifacts spanning millennia of global cultural history. Ancient Near Eastern Basalt Bull Altar, Teshub. Estimate: $27,500 - $35,000.

Important Hellenistic Glass Vessel, Skyphos Form, Ring Handled Cup. Greek, Roman. Glass skyphos of pale olive-green color, cast and cut, with a deep conical body rising from a splayed ring foot to a wide plain rim. Two ring handles are applied to the sides of the body, carved from blanks surrounded by raised squared-off areas, with flat thumb-rests above the rings and projecting wings above and below, designed to be held with thumb, forefinger, and middle finger. Estimate: $20,000 - $25,000.

Lifesize+ Roman Imperial Marble Head, Caracalla Type. Roman, Imperial period, Eastern Mediterranean. A over-life-size head carved in white marble, the sitter presented as a commander: brow furrowed, gaze lifted and turned to his left, mouth set. Estimate: $30,000 - $35,000.

Maori Tekoteko Figure, Tupuna Ancestor, Red Pigment. Oceania, New Zealand, Maori. A tekoteko ancestral guardian figure carved from a single length of wood, finished in red pigment, a color traditionally associated with tapu and chiefly power. The figure represents a tupuna (ancestor). The stance is crouched, with the tongue thrust outward in the gesture of challenge known as whakapohane, along with prominent eyes and a topknot. Estimate: $22,500 - $35,000.

Roman Bronze Legionary Helmet - Weisenau Type. Roman. A legionary helmet of the Weisenau family, classified in the Anglophone literature as Imperial Italic following Robinson's typology. The bowl is raised in a single piece to a hemisphere and surmounted at the apex by an integral crest knob, its baluster profile turned to a small finial, the mount for a transverse or fore-and-aft crest worn on parade. Estimate: $22,500 - $35,000.

Huge Chinese Xindian Culture Painted Jar, Gansu. China, Gansu region, Xindian culture, Late Neolithic to Bronze Age, ca. 2000–1000 BCE. Large hand-built pottery storage jar, the broad ovoid body rising to a flared rim, with a pair of lug handles at the shoulder. Estimate: $24,000 - $26,000.

Marlik Silver Beaker | Repousse Parade Horses, ex-Bonham's. Near East, Northern Persia, Caspian region, Marlik culture. A waisted cylindrical beaker raised in sheet silver and worked in repousse, its walls framed above and below by guilloche borders and split by a central corded band into two registers. Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000.

Tang Dynasty Gilded Repousse Crown | Phoenixes, Pagoda and Flames. East Asia, China, Tang Dynasty. A tall gilded crown assembled from sheet copper alloy, its domed inner cap built of three plates with a lower rim band and incised with a pair of peacocks amid leafy scrollwork. Over this rise eight openwork repousse panels: four long-tailed birds in flight across the front, two more behind, three flame elements at the center, flowering vines coiling over both sides, and a tiled temple pavilion set among blossoming branches on the reverse. Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000.

Qing Dynasty Daoist Figure, Oxblood Lacquer, ca. 1700-1799 CE. East Asia, China, Qing Dynasty. A carved wood figure of a seated Daoist deity, finished in oxblood lacquer across the folds of a high-collared robe. The figure is seated in a formal posture atop a plain plinth, feet resting on a low footrest, with the face inclined slightly beneath a carved, lotus-crowned high hat. Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000.

Nicobar Islands Kareau Figure, Seated Woman, ex-Sotheby's. Nicobar Islands, Bay of Bengal. A seated woman carved from a single block of wood, legs folded and back straight, her separately fitted arms pegged at the shoulders and the left raised outward in a halting, commanding gesture. Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000.