Ancient / Ethnographic Art Around The World

Two Egyptian Faience Amulets - Eye of Horus & Sekhmet

Ancient Egyptian Gesso / Painted Linen Horus Section

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Ancient / Ethnographic Art Around The World

Artemis Gallery

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Plenty of options in this auction that will cater to all tastes and budgets. Classical antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy, the Near East. Asian art from China, Japan, Thailand, more! Pre-Columbian. Native American. African / Tribal / Oceanic. Spanish Colonial. Fossils. Jewelry. So much more!

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Roman Glass Twin-Handled Vessel - Gorgeous Blue!: Roman Empire, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 4th century CE. A brilliant translucent blue glass vase with a concave bottom, a rolled base to rest upon, short side walls with eight dissimilar

0034A: Roman Glass Twin-Handled Vessel - Gorgeous Blue!Est. $1,000-$1,500Lot Passed

Tall Roman Glass Candlestick Unguentarium: Roman Empire, Imperial period, ca. 2nd to 4th century CE. A tall glass unguent, free-blown from light yellow glass, with a bell-shaped base tapering to a very long neck, and a wide flat rim with

0034B: Tall Roman Glass Candlestick UnguentariumEst. $400-$600Lot Passed

Roman Glass Vessel - Ribbed Body, Rainbow Iridescence: Rome, ca. 1st to 4th century CE. A stunning glass vase of an elegant form with a cylindrical body detailed with evenly spaced ribs, a slender tubular neck, and a flared spout with a folded rim - all

0035: Roman Glass Vessel - Ribbed Body, Rainbow IridescenceEst. $500-$750Lot Passed

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Roman Lead Panel of Bearded God - Bacchus or Silenus: Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century BCE. A molded lead panel with a high relief face of the bearded god Bacchus (Dionysus to the Greeks) or his follower, Silenus. Early portrayals of

0035A: Roman Lead Panel of Bearded God - Bacchus or SilenusEst. $900-$1,500

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Roman Twin-Handled Green Glass Jarlet: Roman Empire, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd to 4th century CE. A delicate, free-blown, pale-green glass vessel with a concave bottom and a rough broken pontil, a rounded base, a wide body with eleven

0036: Roman Twin-Handled Green Glass JarletEst. $800-$1,000

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Roman Glass Tear Vial - Vibrant Iridescence!: Rome, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 4th century CE. A glass tear drop vial of a very unusual form - tubular with a faceted lower end and somewhat flat base. Even more striking than this shape is the

0036A: Roman Glass Tear Vial - Vibrant Iridescence!Est. $500-$750Lot Passed

Roman Gilded Bronze Military Fibula: Rome, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A finely-wrought, gilded bronze fibula in the crossbow style. The cast bronze has fine details, including horizontal ridges on the shaft of the

0036B: Roman Gilded Bronze Military FibulaEst. $400-$600Lot Passed

Roman Bronze Stamp Seal: Rome, Imperial Period, ca. 3rd to 4th century CE. A very heavy bronze seal of a rounded rectangular form with an inscription that presumably identifies an owner of whatever property would have been

0036C: Roman Bronze Stamp SealEst. $500-$750Lot Passed

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Roman Glass Sprinkler Vessel - Swirled Ribbing: Roman Empire, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd to 4th century CE. This globular, near-opaque yellow-green glass vessel has a rounded base with a thin incised ring and a smooth pontil, a spherical body with

0036D: Roman Glass Sprinkler Vessel - Swirled RibbingEst. $1,000-$1,500

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Tall Roman Glass Flask - Indented Sides: Rome, ca. 2nd to 4th century CE. A translucent free-blown glass vessel supported on a circular concave base with a piriform body that tapers inward, nicely articulated with four vertical indentations

0037: Tall Roman Glass Flask - Indented SidesEst. $700-$900Lot Passed

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Roman Redware Pottery Plate - Curved Walls: Roman Empire, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd to 4th century CE. A well-thrown, redware bowl with a broad shallow receptacle showing some nice wheel marks from the process and elegantly curved walls, all on

0037A: Roman Redware Pottery Plate - Curved WallsEst. $400-$600

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15th C. Medieval Iron Roundel Dagger: Western Europe, Germany or France, ca. 1400 CE. Wonderful iron dagger of a type known as a "Roundel Dagger." Called such because of the circular roundel that forms the guard. Short blade with

0038: 15th C. Medieval Iron Roundel DaggerEst. $2,000-$3,000Lot Passed

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British Late Medieval / Early Renaissance Stone Head: Europe, England, ca. 12th to 14th century CE. A carved white stone section of a head with a sensitively carved visage crowned by a wavy coiffure, perhaps depicting a patron memorialized in a church

0038A: British Late Medieval / Early Renaissance Stone HeadEst. $800-$1,200

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Very Fine Viking Twisted Silver Bracelet: Northern Europe, Viking or Norse culture, ca. 800 to 1000 CE. A heavy, wearable (for a larger wrist) silver bracelet. It was made by its Viking artisan by twisting a cylinder of silver, widened it at

0039: Very Fine Viking Twisted Silver BraceletEst. $2,000-$3,000

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Stunning 9th C. Viking Twisted Silver Neck Torc: Northern Europe, Viking or Norse culture, ca. 800 to 1000 CE. A beautiful and wearable silver torc (also torque or torq) for someone with a thin neck composed of a single piece of thin rectangular

0040: Stunning 9th C. Viking Twisted Silver Neck TorcEst. $3,000-$4,500Lot Passed

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Incredible Viking Silver Pendant - Mask of Gotland: Northern Europe, possibly Gotland, Sweden, Viking, ca. 9th to 12th century CE. A hollow-formed silver inverted teardrop shaped pendant adorned with a male mask-like visage, its features formed by

0040A: Incredible Viking Silver Pendant - Mask of GotlandEst. $1,500-$2,000

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Viking Twisted Silver Bracelet: Northern Europe, Viking / Norse culture, ca. 1000 CE. A bracelet made of twisted silver wire loosely braided, with the terminals pressed together to form flat ends. This piece could have been worn by

0041: Viking Twisted Silver BraceletEst. $1,500-$2,000

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Group of 22 Viking Buttons - Bronze, Silver, Enamel: Northern Europe, Viking / Norse culture, ca. 9th to 11th century CE. A collection of gorgeous bronze buttons. Twelve are solid cast bronze; one is comprised of twisted bronze wire with a red, blue,

0041A: Group of 22 Viking Buttons - Bronze, Silver, EnamelEst. $500-$750Lot Passed

European Medieval Iron Door Knocker - Lamb Form: Europe, probably Western Europe, ca. 10th to 14th century CE. A cast iron door knocker in the form of a lamb. Twin pins extend from one end, made to be placed into a wooden door. They join together

0041B: European Medieval Iron Door Knocker - Lamb FormEst. $1,300-$1,950Lot Passed

Pair Authentic Viking Silver Ornaments - 161.5 gr.: Northern Europe, Viking, ca. 12th to 14th century CE. An unusual pair of solid silver ornaments of an attractive sinuous design that resembles a serpentine form. The craftsman who created this

0042: Pair Authentic Viking Silver Ornaments - 161.5 gr.Est. $3,000-$5,000Lot Passed

Mesopotamian Tell Brak Alabaster Eye Idol - Rare Form: Near East, Tel Brak, modern day Syria, Middle Uruk Period, ca. 3700 to 3500 BCE. A petite yet striking figural carving on a thin, flat plank of white alabaster with large circular eyes, a lively

0043: Mesopotamian Tell Brak Alabaster Eye Idol - Rare FormEst. $1,800-$2,500Lot Passed

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Anatolian Yortan Culture Blackware Bowl: Asia Minor, Yortan Culture or related in Western Anatolia, Early Bronze Age, ca. 2700 to 2300 BCE. A pretty black ware vessel with upturned, lugged handles, a bulbous body, and a flared, unpronounced

0043A: Anatolian Yortan Culture Blackware BowlEst. $600-$900

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Indus Valley Terracotta Fertility Figure: Near East, Pakistan/ Afghanistan, Megharth period, ca. 2800 to 2600 BCE. A fabulously abstract, bird-faced Indus Valley pottery fertility goddess figurine, standing with arms extended outward at her

0043B: Indus Valley Terracotta Fertility FigureEst. $800-$1,200

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Mesopotamian Tel Brak Rare & Fine Alabaster "Eye" Idol: Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Tel Brak, modern day Syria, ca. 4th century BCE. An interesting example of an idol whose defining feature are three wide "eyes" composed of two concentric circles. The

0043C: Mesopotamian Tel Brak Rare & Fine Alabaster "Eye" IdolEst. $500-$750

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