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This Spring Clearance auction, hosted by Artemis Gallery in Boulder, Colorado, is a significant Timed Marketplace Auction featuring 641 lots across ancient, ethnographic, and fine art categories. Closing on March 28, 2026, at 10:00 AM MDT, the sale offers an expansive range of accessible artifacts and artworks, including Egyptian, Greek, and Roman antiquities, alongside Pre-Columbian, Asian, and Native American ethnographic pieces. Mid-19th C. Swiss Tabletop 8-Airs Music Box. Estimate: $450 - $675.

Signed "RW" Whimsical Art Dolls, Ceramic & Velvet (4). United States / Europe, ca. late 20th century CE. A whimsical collection of hand-made figural dolls combining pottery heads and limbs with tailored textile bodies, each signed "RW" on the verso of the neck. Designed without rigid torsos so the forms relax, drape, and settle with a soft, sculptural weight that recalls articulated puppets. Estimate: $45 - $525.

2 Outsider Art Portrait Drawings by James Purdy (1992). James Purdy (American, 1914-2009). Two untitled drawings. Pen and ink on paper, 1992. Both signed and dated at lower right. A fascinating pair of abstract portraits by American writer and artist James Purdy, whose haunting literary voice extended into the visual realm with equal originality. Executed in free-flowing, continuous ink lines, each drawing reveals a spare yet emotionally resonant human presence - one with a solitary, front-facing figure, the other presenting a double portrait, one figure in profile, the other frontal. Estimate: $450 - $675.

Late Roman / Byzantine Glass Bangles (5 Varied Sizes). Eastern Mediterranean, Late Roman to Byzantine Period, ca. 3rd to 7th century CE. A luminous set of five ancient glass bracelets, each shaped in the furnaces of late Roman or early Byzantine workshops, likely in Syro-Palestinian or Egyptian regions known for their bold palette and inventive techniques. Estimate: $450 - $675.

Five Rose Walton Angel Paintings on Wood & Canvas. Rose Walton (American, XX-XXI). Five Angel Compositions. Two acrylic paint on wood board; three acrylic paint on canvas board, n.d. All initialed. Radiant with tenderness and childlike wonder, these five intimate paintings by Rose Walton offer a glimpse into a world of reverence, play, and heartfelt simplicity. Estimate: $450 - $675.

8 Indonesian Dayak Wood Hampatongs (Guardian Figures). Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Borneo, Dayak peoples, ca. mid to late 20th century CE. A collection of 8 and-carved wooden figures that represent guardians, known as Hampatong. One figure is standing with the characteristic oversized tongue, a snake in his hands, and a mammal on his head, possibly a long-tailed porcupine. Estimate: $450 - $675.

Three Chinese Snuff Bottles, Bone, Stone & Pottery. East Asia, China, Late Qing Dynasty to Republic era, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE. A charming trio of Chinese snuff bottles, including a carved bone example with ink-style landscape decoration, a celadon-toned greenstone bottle with softly veined translucency and faceted sides, and a petite mold-made pottery bottle glazed in warm yellow with raised dragon and phoenix in green relief. Size of largest: 1.5" W x 2.75" H (3.8 cm x 7 cm) Estimate: $400 - $600.

Egyptian Faience Scarab, Glass Beads & Amulet Mold. Egypt, New Kingdom to Late Dynastic periods, ca. 1500 to 300 BCE. A group of charms, beads, and amulet molds - five pieces total - made of glass, faience, and pottery. Included is a faience scarab with delineated legs and a suspension loop on the underside, and a blue faience charm of a seated deity is pierced for hanging. Estimate: $400 - $600.

Five West African Trade Bead Strands. West Africa, ca. late 19th to 20th century CE. A vibrant collection of glass trade beads in hues of cobalt, sky blue, turquoise, and black, strung on cotton and raffia strands. The red and blue chevron and black beads likely date to mid to late 20th century manufacture, while the blue and turquoise examples display earlier-style wear and patina, possibly from the early 1900s or late 1800s. Estimate: $400 - $600.

Russian Orthodox Brass Pendant - Virgin Mary. Eastern Europe, Russia, Russian Orthodox, ca. 18th to 19th century CE. A cast brass Russian Orthodox pendant icon depicting the bust of the Virgin Mary in low relief, shown frontally with a solemn, contemplative expression and enveloped in a hooded maphorion rendered with deeply incised, linear folds. The compact arched form is surmounted by an integral suspension loop, indicating its intended use as a wearable devotional object. Estimate: $400 - $600.