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Exceptional Antiquities, Asian, Ethnographic

Artemis Gallery

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An important one-day auction featuring museum-worthy examples of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Far East / Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Native American, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fossils, Ancient Jewelry, Fine Art, so much more! All items offered for sale have been legally acquired, are legal to sell and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. All shipping is handled in-house for your convenience.

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Hellenistic Greek Silver Phiale w/ Gold Omphalos: Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. late 4th to 3rd century BCE. A charming silver basin or phiale, a special libation bowl used for holding wine, with a hollow, rounded, raised boss, known as an

0030E: Hellenistic Greek Silver Phiale w/ Gold OmphalosEst. $8,000-$12,000Lot Passed

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Attic Black-Figure Lekythos - Class of Athens 581 w/ TL: Ancient Greece, Athens, attributed to Class of Athens 581, ca. early 5th century BCE. A beautiful black-figure cylindrical lekythos, the central register featuring a seated Apollo playing a lyre and

0031: Attic Black-Figure Lekythos - Class of Athens 581 w/ TLEst. $12,500-$16,000

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Wearable Eastern Mediterranean Glass Eye-Bead Necklace: Eastern Mediterranean/Greek, ca. 4th century BCE to 2nd century CE. A striking necklace composed of fifty ancient glass beads, most of them of the style known as eye beads or evil eye beads, on a

0031A: Wearable Eastern Mediterranean Glass Eye-Bead NecklaceEst. $3,000-$4,500

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Greek Attic Red-Figure Lekythos w/ Eros - Ex-Christie's: Ancient Greece, Athens (Attic), Group of Palermo 16, ca. 430 to 420 BCE. A very special red-figured lekythos depicting a winged Eros, the god of love, alighting toward a beautiful floral tendril -

0031B: Greek Attic Red-Figure Lekythos w/ Eros - Ex-Christie'sEst. $7,000-$10,000

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Tall Greek Attic White Ground Lekythos: Ancient Greece, Athens (Attic), Classical Period, ca. late 6th to early 5th century BCE. A very large white ground lekythos with a classic form and liberal mineral deposits across the surface. The

0031C: Tall Greek Attic White Ground LekythosEst. $4,000-$6,000

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Greek Attic White Ground Lekythos - Haimon Painter: Greece, Attica, attributed to the workshop of the Haimon Painter, ca. early 5th century BCE. A lovely Attic white ground black-figure lekythos presenting a lovely composition of a charioteer holding

0031D: Greek Attic White Ground Lekythos - Haimon PainterEst. $3,000-$4,500Lot Passed

Attic Black Figure White Ground Lekythos - Dionysos: Ancient Greece, Athens, ca. early 5th century BCE. A beautiful black-figure, white ground lekythos - a vessel used to hold perfumes or other scented oils - depicting a bearded Dionysos (Dionysus -

0031E: Attic Black Figure White Ground Lekythos - DionysosEst. $9,000-$12,000Lot Passed

Greek Lucanian Silver Distater Coin - 15.47 g: Greece, Lucania, Thurium (Thurioi), ca. 400 to 350 BCE. Silver distater. Obverse: Helmeted head of Athena right, the helmet decorated with Skylla shown with hand raised and moving forward, her fish

0031F: Greek Lucanian Silver Distater Coin - 15.47 gEst. $3,500-$4,500Lot Passed

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Beautiful Greek Messapian Pottery Lidded Lebes Gamikos: Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Messapia, ca. 4th century CE. A gorgeous wheel-thrown pottery lebes gamikos with an inverted bell-shaped body, a planar shoulder, a raised rim meant to fit a discoid

0032: Beautiful Greek Messapian Pottery Lidded Lebes GamikosEst. $1,500-$2,000

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Very Large Greek Apulian Bell Krater - Satyr & Maenad: Magna Graecia, South Italy, Apulian, ca. 325 to 300 BCE. A sizeable bell krater painted with a rich red-figure iconographic program. Side A depicts a muscular satyr, nude with a flowing tail and

0032A: Very Large Greek Apulian Bell Krater - Satyr & MaenadEst. $10,000-$12,000Lot Passed

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Hellenistic Greek Terracotta Standing Female Figure: Greece, Hellenistic period, ca. 3rd century BCE. A beautiful, mold-formed, hollow terracotta standing votive figure depicting a young woman standing in contrapposto with her weight shifted to her

0032B: Hellenistic Greek Terracotta Standing Female FigureEst. $2,500-$3,500

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Attic Red-Figure Calyx Krater Aphrodite & Eros, TL'd: Greece, Athens, Late Attic, ca. 350 BCE. A lovely calyx krater depicting intriguing figural scenes and wonderful decorative motifs in the field. Side A presents a seated female - perhaps Aphrodite,

0033: Attic Red-Figure Calyx Krater Aphrodite & Eros, TL'dEst. $6,500-$8,500

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Greek Hellenistic Glass Flask w/ White Banding: Ancient Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. 1st century BCE. A stunning mosaic glass flask of a classic piriform body rising to a tubular neck and a flattened disk rim, all on a flat base - the surface

0034: Greek Hellenistic Glass Flask w/ White BandingEst. $5,000-$7,000Lot Passed

Tall Hellenistic Greek Marble Statue of Woman: Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. late 4th to 1st century BCE. A marble sculpture of a thoughtful, standing woman carved in the round, perhaps made to be displayed in a home or sanctuary. This figure

0034A: Tall Hellenistic Greek Marble Statue of WomanEst. $20,000-$30,000Lot Passed

Hellenistic Period Tarentum Limestone Warrior: Greco-Roman, Hellenistic Period, Tarentum, ca. 3rd to 2nd century BCE. An evocative limestone carving of a warrior who seems to have fallen to his knees or back leg, a long shield raised to protect

0034B: Hellenistic Period Tarentum Limestone WarriorEst. $4,000-$6,000Lot Passed

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Rare Greek Core Formed Glass Alabastron: Ancient Greece, Classical Period, ca. late 6th to early 5th century BCE. A striking core-formed glass alabastron, so named because many vessels that assumed this form were made of alabaster. The

0035: Rare Greek Core Formed Glass AlabastronEst. $4,000-$6,000

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Tall Greek Terracotta Standing Harmonia: Greek, Hellenistic, ca. 3rd to 2nd century BCE. A statuesque mold-made terracotta female - perhaps Harmonia given her serpentine necklace - standing upon an integral rectangular pedestal with her

0036: Tall Greek Terracotta Standing HarmoniaEst. $4,000-$6,000Lot Passed

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Large Greek Core Formed Amphora: Ancient Greece, Classical Period, ca. 2nd to 1st century BCE. Comprised of a deep forest green glass body with opaque yellow and white trailing wrapped around the neck and shoulder, a feathered

0036A: Large Greek Core Formed AmphoraEst. $10,000-$15,000

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Eukratides Tetradrachm in 22K Gold Pendant + Wood Box: Kings of Bactria. Eukratides I. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (approx 17.0 gm; 34 mm). Attic standard. Helmeted, draped and diademed bust right / BASI?EOS MEGALOU EUKRATIDOU, the Dioskouroi on

0037: Eukratides Tetradrachm in 22K Gold Pendant + Wood BoxEst. $2,500-$3,500Lot Passed

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Greek Silver Mastoid Bowl w/ Inscription - 408.2 grams: Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. late 4th to 1st century BCE. A massive, heavy, 99% silver bowl, in the form of a mastos or mastoid, a drinking vessel shaped like a breast. This example is very

0038: Greek Silver Mastoid Bowl w/ Inscription - 408.2 gramsEst. $8,000-$12,000

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Incredibly Beautiful Roman Marbled Glass Bottle: Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st century CE. Truly breathtaking - a cast and blown mosaic vessel comprised of canes of cobalt blue and white glass with striking iridescence in fiery hues of violet,

0038A: Incredibly Beautiful Roman Marbled Glass BottleEst. $4,000-$6,000

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Desirable Hellenistic Silver Mastoid Bowl - 235.3 g: Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. late 4th to 1st century BCE. An elegant 96% silver bowl, in the form of a mastos or mastoid, a drinking vessel shaped like a breast. This example sits on a rounded

0039: Desirable Hellenistic Silver Mastoid Bowl - 235.3 gEst. $4,000-$6,000Lot Passed

Bithynia Silver Tetradrachm Coin - 16.87 g: Greece, Bithynia, Calchedon, ca. 250 to 200 BCE. Silver tetradrachm, types of Lysimachus. Obverse: Alexander III bust right. Reverse: Athena. Size: 1.1" W (2.8 cm); 16.87 grams Provenance: private

0039A: Bithynia Silver Tetradrachm Coin - 16.87 gEst. $1,600-$2,200Lot Passed

Framed Lot of 27 Greek Archaic Gold Appliques: Ancient Greece, Archaic Period, ca. 5th century BCE. A stunning collection of 27 die-formed appliques in circular, ovoid, rectangular, and star forms shaped from 79% gold (equivalent to 18K+ gold).

0040: Framed Lot of 27 Greek Archaic Gold AppliquesEst. $10,000-$15,000Lot Passed

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