Ancient / Ethnographic Art Through The Ages

Corinthian Aryballos Shielded Warriors, 1948 Provenance

Viking Silver Necklace with Thor's Hammer

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Louisville, CO, United States

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Ancient / Ethnographic Art Through The Ages

Artemis Fine Arts

Ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Fine art, and much more! All categories, all price ranges... all legally acquired and guaranteed to be as described or your money back. Convenient / affordable in-house shipping!

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Egyptian Faience Ushabtis - Husband & Wife: Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, 21st to 22nd Dynasty, ca. 1069 to 720 BCE. A wonderful set of matching mold-formed faience ushabti figures for a husband and wife named Pa-Di-Khons and

0001: Egyptian Faience Ushabtis - Husband & Wife

Est.

$2,000

$3,000

0001A: Lot of 2 Egyptian Stone Mace Heads, ex-Sotheby's

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$2,000

$3,000

Lot Passed

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Egyptian Faience Bead Necklace w/ Lapis Djed Pillar: Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate to Late Dynastic Period, 21st to 31st Dynasty, ca. 1070 to 332 BCE. A gorgeous necklace of a wearable form with two conjoined strands displaying dozens of petite

0002: Egyptian Faience Bead Necklace w/ Lapis Djed Pillar

Est.

$1,800

$2,500

Egyptian Glazed Scarab w/ Scorpions,ex-Mitry: Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A petite scarab amulet that was hand carved and enveloped with lustrous, turquoise-hued glaze. The beetle-form topside exhibits

0003: Egyptian Glazed Scarab w/ Scorpions,ex-Mitry

Est.

$700

$900

Lot Passed

Romano-Egyptian Painted Mummy Mask of Crocodile: Egypt, Romano-Egyptian period, ca. 1st to 2nd century CE. A wonderful hollow-molded plaster mummy mask for a crocodile, perhaps meant as an offering to Sobek, the crocodile-headed god of fertility

0003A: Romano-Egyptian Painted Mummy Mask of Crocodile

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$4,000

$6,000

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Lot of 27 Egyptian Coptic Bone Beads: Egypt, Coptic culture, ca. 4th to 7th century CE. A remarkable set of 27 beads skillfully carved from the bone of a bovine or ungulate and incised with anthropomorphic designs. All covered in a

0003B: Lot of 27 Egyptian Coptic Bone Beads

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$1,500

$2,000

Lot Passed

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Egyptian Early Dynastic Glazed Stone Frog: Ancient Egypt, Early Dynastic Period, 1st to 2nd Dynasty, ca. 3100 to 2686 BCE. A petite frog figurine carved from porous stone with faint traces of turquoise-hued glaze. The charming amphibian sits

0004: Egyptian Early Dynastic Glazed Stone Frog

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$800

$1,200

Egyptian Canopic Jar Lid - Face of Imsety: Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate to Late Dynastic Period, 21st to 31st Dynasty, ca. 1070 to 332 BCE. A hand-built pottery lid for a canopic jar containing the face of Imsety, the human-headed son of

0005: Egyptian Canopic Jar Lid - Face of Imsety

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$2,000

$3,000

Lot Passed

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Ancient Egyptian Alabaster Jar: Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A stunning carved alabaster jar, naturally adorned in a pearlescent shade of cream with white striations and accented with hues

0007: Ancient Egyptian Alabaster Jar

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$600

$900

Egyptian Faience Steatite Scarab Amulet w/ Feline: Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate to Late Dynastic Period, 21st to 31st Dynasty, ca. 1070 to 332 BCE. A hand-carved steatite scarab amulet of a petite size with the topside exhibiting slender legs

0008: Egyptian Faience Steatite Scarab Amulet w/ Feline

Est.

$700

$900

Lot Passed

Lot of 12 Miniature Egyptian Faience Amulets: Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. An interesting ensemble of mold-formed faience amulets depicted in a myriad of shapes. First are a trio of hemispherical scarabs

0008A: Lot of 12 Miniature Egyptian Faience Amulets

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$1,800

$2,500

Lot Passed

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Egyptian Steatite Scarab Amulet: Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th Dynasty, ca. 664 to 525 BCE. A hand-carved gray steatite scarab of a petite size. The topside displays insectile features like a folded wing carapace, retracted

0008B: Egyptian Steatite Scarab Amulet

Est.

$700

$1,000

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Egyptian Glazed Faience Crocodile Pendant: Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A petite, mold-formed faience pendant depicting a recumbent crocodile atop an integral plinth covered with sage green glaze. The

0008C: Egyptian Glazed Faience Crocodile Pendant

Est.

$900

$1,500

Greek Cypriot Stone Cylinder Seal - Eyes / Zoomorphs: Ancient Greece, Cyprus, Cypriot culture, Common Simplified type, ca. 14th to 13th century BCE. A lovely cylinder seal carved from dark gray stone with a centrally drilled suspension hole. The

0009: Greek Cypriot Stone Cylinder Seal - Eyes / Zoomorphs

Est.

$1,000

$1,500

Lot Passed

Greek Cypriot Stone Cylinder Seal - Abstract Figures: Ancient Greece, Cyprus, Cypriot culture, Common Simplified type, ca. 14th to 13th century BCE. A hand-carved hardstone cylinder seal of green and dark gray colors with a central suspension hole

0010: Greek Cypriot Stone Cylinder Seal - Abstract Figures

Est.

$1,500

$2,500

Lot Passed

Corinthian Aryballos Shielded Warriors, 1948 Provenance: Ancient Greece, Corinthian, ca. 575 to 550 BCE. A very attractive aryballos (a vessel used to hold scented oils and perfumes in the bath) of a classic globular form with a circular flat rim and a

0011: Corinthian Aryballos Shielded Warriors, 1948 Provenance

Est.

$4,000

$6,000

Lot Passed

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Greek Geometric Pottery Kalathos Linear Motifs: Ancient Greece, Boeotia, Geometric Period, ca. late 8th to 7th century BCE. A petite wheel-thrown pottery basket known as a kalathos with a flat base, gradually expanding walls, and a thin, gently

0011A: Greek Geometric Pottery Kalathos Linear Motifs

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$600

$900

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Greek Corinthian Piriform Aryballos Sea Creature w/ TL: Greece, Corinth, Archaic Period, ca. 550 BCE. A petite piriform aryballos presenting a magical figural program on the ovoid belly of the vessel. The figural/decorative program is delineated via the

0011B: Greek Corinthian Piriform Aryballos Sea Creature w/ TL

Est.

$900

$1,200

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Greek Attic Black-Figure Lip Cup w/ Siren: Greece, Athens, ca. 540 to 530 BCE. An elegant Attic lip cup or kylix, a vessel that resembles a Gordion cup - only its lip is more defined from the rest of the body, standing on a hollow conical

0011C: Greek Attic Black-Figure Lip Cup w/ Siren

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$2,500

$3,000

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Apulian Gnathian Pottery Oinochoe - Man w/ Cup & Krater: Magna Graecia, Apulian Gnathian, ca. late 4th century BCE. A wonderful trefoil-lipped oinochoe depicting an unusual scene on the shoulder - a man holding a cup over a krater with rosettes and fillets

0012: Apulian Gnathian Pottery Oinochoe - Man w/ Cup & Krater

Est.

$1,200

$1,500

Greek Pottery Squat Lekythos - Net Motif & Female Bust: Ancient Greece, South Italic, Apulian, ca. 4th century BCE. A gorgeous lekythos created in a pottery workshop in the Apulian region of southern Italy where potters were known for introducing

0012A: Greek Pottery Squat Lekythos - Net Motif & Female Bust

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$1,500

$2,000

Lot Passed

Greek Attic Pottery Plemochoe w/ Apulian Lid: Greece, Athens (Attic), ca. late 6th to 5th century BCE; Magna Graecia, South Italic Colonies, Apulia, ca. 340 to 325 BCE. A beautiful Attic perfume vessel called a plemochoe with a compressed

0013: Greek Attic Pottery Plemochoe w/ Apulian Lid

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$4,000

$6,000

Lot Passed

0013A: Etruscan Terracotta Votive Half Head, ex-Charles Ede

Est.

$2,500

$3,500

Lot Passed

SOLD

Wearable Roman Glass Bead Earrings: Rome, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A lovely and wearable pair of earrings, each comprised of five ancient glass beads on modern findings. The lower end of the pin head finding is

0014: Wearable Roman Glass Bead Earrings

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$1,000

$1,500

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