Exceptional Antiquities Ethnographic Fine Art

Greek Attic Red-Figure Kylix, Hoplite w/ Scorpion Shield

Signed Qi Baishi Handscroll Painting w/ Shrimp, Crabs, Frogs, Aquatic Plants

Spectacular Sican Lambayeque Gilt Copper Mask

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Exceptional Antiquities Ethnographic Fine Art

By Artemis Fine Arts

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Louisville, CO, United States

Museum-worthy examples of classical antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Viking, Far East / Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Native American, Spanish Colonial, Fossils, Ancient Jewelry, Fine / Visual Arts, so much more! All ancient items legally acquired, legal to sell. Convenient in-house shipping.

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Romano-Egyptian Limestone Stela Boy Holding Dove: Romano-Egyptian, Late Imperial to Coptic Period, possibly Antinoe, ca. 4th century CE. A magnificent limestone funerary stela of a boy seated in a niche grasping a dove in his left hand and a bunch

0001: Romano-Egyptian Limestone Stela Boy Holding Dove

Est.

$7,500

$9,000

Lot Passed

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Egyptian Ptolemaic Sarcophagus Helmet Mask (for a child): Egypt, Ptolemaic period, ca. 332 to 30 BCE. Beautifully crafted from imported wood layered with gesso and linen, a stunning mummy mask meant for a male child with a stylized, theatrical countenance.

0001A: Egyptian Ptolemaic Sarcophagus Helmet Mask (for a child)

Est.

$9,000

$13,000

Lot Passed

SOLD

Egyptian Dark Glazed Faience Ushabti: Egypt, Late Dynastic to Ptolemaic Period, ca. 4th to 3rd century BCE. A fine ushabti figure formed from faience that stands in mummiform atop an integral rectangular plinth with a T-shaped

0001B: Egyptian Dark Glazed Faience Ushabti

Est.

$3,000

$4,500

Egyptian Predynastic Naqada Blacktop Jar: Ancient Egypt, Predynastic period, late Naqada I to early Naqada II, ca. 3600 to 3300 BCE. A superb coil-formed Nile silt pottery vessel with a highly-burnished, russet-hued surface made with a thin

0002: Egyptian Predynastic Naqada Blacktop Jar

Est.

$2,400

$3,600

Lot Passed

Egyptian Predynastic Naqada II Marl Pottery Jar: Ancient Egypt, Predynastic Period, Naqada II, ca. 3500 to 3200 BCE. A beautiful, hand-built marl pottery jar of compressed spherical form with a round but stable base, a broad body with a bulging

0003: Egyptian Predynastic Naqada II Marl Pottery Jar

Est.

$5,000

$7,500

Lot Passed

Egyptian Late Dynastic Painted Wood Companion Figure: Ancient Egypt, Late Dynastic to Greco-Roman periods, ca. 712 to 30 BCE. A remarkable wood companion statue standing in mummiform position on an integral plinth and finely gessoed and painted in hues

0004: Egyptian Late Dynastic Painted Wood Companion Figure

Est.

$3,500

$5,000

Lot Passed

Egyptian Predynastic Breccia Jar, ex-Royal Athena: Ancient Egypt, Predynastic Period, late Naqada II to early Naqada III, ca. 3500 to 3200 BCE. An elegant jar, hand-sculpted from a single piece of truly stunning breccia stone with a variegated

0005: Egyptian Predynastic Breccia Jar, ex-Royal Athena

Est.

$6,000

$9,000

Lot Passed

Egyptian New Kingdom Gilded Stone Scarab: Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, 18th to 20th Dynasty, ca. 1550 to 1070 BCE. A hand-carved stone scarab of veristic form with a petite head, a pronounced clypeus, a broad thorax, and finely striated

0005A: Egyptian New Kingdom Gilded Stone Scarab

Est.

$3,000

$4,000

Lot Passed

Translated Egyptian Paste Glass Scarab Amenhotep III: Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1388 to 1351 BCE. A lovely scarab formed from sodalite-based paste glass of ovoid form exhibiting a fragmentary clypeus, a

0005B: Translated Egyptian Paste Glass Scarab Amenhotep III

Est.

$14,000

$20,000

Lot Passed

18K Gold Swivel Ring w/ Egyptian Carnelian Scarab: Egypt, Late Dynastic to Ptolemaic Period, ca. 664 to 30 BCE. A beautiful scarab pendant that is hand-carved from warm citrine-hued carnelian and set into a modern 18K gold swivel ring setting. The

0005C: 18K Gold Swivel Ring w/ Egyptian Carnelian Scarab

Est.

$3,000

$4,000

Lot Passed

SOLD

Rare Egyptian Ptolemaic Gold Ring Stylized Pyramid: Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, ca. 332 to 30 BCE. A hand-built 22K gold ring of wearable form with a circular face incised with a stylized pyramid surrounded by radiating lines and petite dots. The

0005D: Rare Egyptian Ptolemaic Gold Ring Stylized Pyramid

Est.

$3,500

$4,000

Egyptian Wood Ptah Sokar Osiris w/ Sokar in Hawk Form: Ancient Egypt, Late Dynastic to Greco-Roman periods, ca. 712 to 30 BCE. An amazing, rare artifact from a culture whose enigmatic funerary rituals hint at a truly lost way of life, this piece is a

0006: Egyptian Wood Ptah Sokar Osiris w/ Sokar in Hawk Form

Est.

$6,000

$8,000

Lot Passed

Egyptian 26th Dynasty Painted Gesso / Wood Coffin Model: Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th Dynasty, ca. 664 to 525 BCE. A wonderful example of a petite coffin model, made from two pieces of wood, adorned with gesso over linens, and then decorated with

0006A: Egyptian 26th Dynasty Painted Gesso / Wood Coffin Model

Est.

$5,000

$7,500

Lot Passed

Egyptian Pottery Ithyphallic Osiris Corn Mummy, TL'd: Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, ca. 332 to 30 BCE. An exceptional pottery sculpture of an ithyphallic Osiris figure known as a "corn" or pseudo-mummy with impressive remains of cartonnage or mummy wrappings

0006B: Egyptian Pottery Ithyphallic Osiris Corn Mummy, TL'd

Est.

$8,000

$12,000

Lot Passed

Egyptian Bone Amulet - Double Headed Apis Bulls: Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A petite pendant intricately carved from bull bone that depicts a pair of mirrored Apis bulls with distinct bovine heads

0006C: Egyptian Bone Amulet - Double Headed Apis Bulls

Est.

$700

$1,050

Lot Passed

Egyptian Middle Kingdom Banded Alabaster Kohl Jar: Ancient Egypt, Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, ca. 1991 to 1802 BCE. A beautiful example of a hand-carved banded alabaster kohl jar. Boasting attractive honey-yellow hues interspersed with opaque white

0006D: Egyptian Middle Kingdom Banded Alabaster Kohl Jar

Est.

$3,000

$4,500

Lot Passed

SOLD

Egyptian Sandstone Relief of God / King, ex-Ede: Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, ca. 332 to 30 BCE. A gorgeous, hand-carved sandstone relief of rough trapezoidal form depicting the left-facing visage of a god or king. The masculine countenance exhibits a

0007: Egyptian Sandstone Relief of God / King, ex-Ede

Est.

$5,000

$7,500

Egyptian Brilliant Blue Faience Ushabti for An-mose: Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, ca. 1070 to 943 BCE. A breathtaking example of a hand-built faience ushabti, standing in a dignified pose, that is enrobed in layers of

0008: Egyptian Brilliant Blue Faience Ushabti for An-mose

Est.

$9,000

$15,000

Lot Passed

Egyptian Glazed Faience Pendant - Seated Bastet: Ancient Egypt, Late Dynastic to Ptolemaic Period, ca. 664 to 30 BCE. A mold-formed faience pendant of petite form depicting a majestic feline (Bastet?) seated upon thick haunches atop an integral

0008B: Egyptian Glazed Faience Pendant - Seated Bastet

Est.

$1,500

$2,000

Lot Passed

SOLD

Rare Egyptian Faience Seal Ring Inscribed Hieroglyphs: Egypt, Late Dynastic to Ptolemaic Period, ca. 664 to 30 BCE. A hand-built faience seal ring exhibiting a rectangular face with 2 columns of inscribed hieroglyphs, all covered in attractive blue-green

0008C: Rare Egyptian Faience Seal Ring Inscribed Hieroglyphs

Est.

$3,200

$4,800

Egyptian Faience Vessel Demotic Symbols, ex-Christie's: Egypt, Late Dynastic to Ptolemaic Period, ca. 664 to 30 BCE. A beautiful mold-formed faience offering cup covered with glaze of a vivid sky-blue hue. The cup has a flared foot, a tapered pedestal

0009: Egyptian Faience Vessel Demotic Symbols, ex-Christie's

Est.

$2,200

$3,000

Lot Passed

Egyptian New Kingdom Polychrome Ushabti: Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, 18th to 20th Dynasty, ca. 1550 to 1077 BCE. A wonderful, mold-made pottery ushabti standing mummiform with fused legs and arms crossed at chest, all adorned in traces of

0010: Egyptian New Kingdom Polychrome Ushabti

Est.

$2,800

$4,200

Lot Passed

SOLD

6th C. Egyptian Coptic Pottery Ampulla of Saint Menas: Egypt, Abu Mina, Coptic Culture, ca. 6th to 8th century CE. A delightful pottery pilgrim flask or ampulla presenting a flattened, discoid body adorned on each side with a decorative relief tondo of

0010A: 6th C. Egyptian Coptic Pottery Ampulla of Saint Menas

Est.

$800

$1,200

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Greek Attic Red-Figure Kylix, Hoplite w/ Scorpion Shield: Ancient Greece, Athens, ca. 500 to 480 BCE. Simply breathtaking! A sensational pottery kylix of an imposing scale boasting a classical form with impressively thin walls that dramatically flare

0011: Greek Attic Red-Figure Kylix, Hoplite w/ Scorpion Shield

Est.

$25,000

$30,000

Lot Passed

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Please read the following "Terms of Sale" carefully. Your submission of bids in this auction constitutes your acceptance. 1. All items in this auction have been legally acquired, are legal to sell, and guaranteed to be as described or your money back. 2. By bidding in this auction, you (the bidder) personally guarantee payment. Lots will be sold in their numerical sequence unless the auctioneer directs otherwise. In case of dispute, the lot(s) in question may be re-opened if bidding activity warrants. The auctioneer has final discretion in all matters. 3. All lots will sell to the highest bidder without hidden/confidential reserves. HIGH and LOW ESTIMATES are provided for each lot for reference only. The actual selling / hammer price may be higher or lower based on bidder demand. 4. No lots will be released / shipped until payment has been made in full. 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