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Artemis Gallery will hold its End-of-Year Clearance Ancient / Ethnographic Auction on Dec 29, 2021 9:00 AM GMT-6. Time to clear out the warehouse! Features discounted pricing on authentic antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, plus Viking, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Tribal, Russian Icons, Spanish Colonial, Fine Art, Fossils, jewelry, more. In this image: Massive Chinese Han Dynasty Clay Panels, TL Tested. Estimate $7,000 - $10,500.
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Massive Etruscan Bucchero Ware Kyathos w/ TL. Classical World, Etruria, ca. early 6th century BCE. A massive, perfectly formed ceramic kyathos, a bowl-like vessel with a distinctive high strap handle. Estimate $13,000 - $19,500.
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Roman Marble Statue - Woman in Stola. Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 4th century CE. Carved from a large, solid piece of beautiful, creamy marble, this is a tomb attendant figure, depicting a woman's body dressed in a stola. Estimate $11,000 - $16,500.
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14th C. Indian Tamil Nadu Temple Figure Bhairava + Dog. Central Asia, South India, Tamil Nadu, Vijayanagar Period, ca. 14th to 16th century CE. A mesmerizing, enormous dark gray granite temple figure, unusually carved in the round, depicting Bhairava, the Hindu deity who destroys fear. Estimate $10,000 - $15,000.
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Huge Costa Rican Stone Head Hunter w/ Trophy Head. Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed region, ca. 1000 to 1400 CE. Almost 6 feet tall, a very large and adeptly carved volcanic stone figure of a headhunter warrior proudly holding a trophy head before his chest in his right hand and a weapon in his raised left hand. Estimate $10,000 - $15,000.
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Egypt Late Dynastic Wood Throne Legs w/ Lions. Ancient Egypt, Late Dynastic period, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. Carved wooden legs, perhaps from a throne, an auxiliary royal seat, or a stool intended for a statue of a divinity. Estimate $6,500 - $9,750.
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Superb Colima Redware Dog Vessel Wrinkled Body. Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An endearing Colima dog vessel, finely mold-made in lustrous redware, seated upon all four legs, and particularly precious for those countless wrinkles.Estimate $6,500 - $9,750.
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Chinese Tang Dynasty Sandstone Buddha in Lotus Pose. East Asia, China, Tang Dynasty, T'ien Lung Shan type, ca. 8th century CE. An elegant and attractive sculpture, of a sizable form carved from pale-gray sandstone, depicting the Buddha seated in a lotus pose atop a wide, multi-petaled lotus flower base with a hollow center core along the underside. Estimate $6,000 - $9,000.
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Colima Coahuayana Valley Terracotta Seated Warrior. Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Coahuayana Valley type, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A magnificent warrior figure of a sizable form that is hand-built from pottery and exhibits highly burnished surfaces accentuated with orange-red pigment. Estimate $5,500 - $8,250.
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19th C. Polynesian Samoan Fiber Tapa Eventail. Polynesia, Samoa Islands, ca. 19th century CE. A remarkably well-preserved fan, also sometimes known as an eventail, the French word for fan (due to French colonial ventures in Polynesia). Estimate $3,400 - $5,100.