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Exceptional Ancient and Ethnographic Art

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Join us for an important one-day auction on Thursday, June 11th featuring museum-worthy examples of classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Included are an incredible ancient Egyptian wooden box with translated panels and an exceedingly rare 12th century 22+ karat pure gold Burmese Buddha. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, Spanish Colonial, Russian, even a 17th century Spanish Oil Painting! Don't miss these truly important examples of the best of the best unlikely to come to market again!
Greek Pottery Protome - Acheloos: Western Greece, ca. 5th century BCE. Bust of the river god Acheloos, with prominent ears and broad beard. An spout-like opening between the pointed horns. The reverse slightly hollowed out. Size:
0021: Greek Pottery Protome - AcheloosEst. $8,400-$12,600Lot Passed
Greek Attic Trefoil Oinochoe, ex-Royal Athena: Magna Graecia, Province of Rome, Cerveteri, ca. 515 to 500 BCE. A black-figure trefoil oinochoe, Class of London B495, of a fine form depicting Herakles fighting the Nemean lion. Size: 7-7/8" (20
0022: Greek Attic Trefoil Oinochoe, ex-Royal AthenaEst. $12,000-$15,000Lot Passed
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Greek Attic Black Figure Lekythos: Greece, Athens, ca. 540 BCE. A stunning black figure lekythos painted by a follower of the Taleides Painter with an ensemble of figures, the star of which is a robust boxer. From the Phanyllis
0023: Greek Attic Black Figure LekythosEst. $9,000-$12,000
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Greek Illyrian Bronze Helmet - Intact!: Northwestern Greece, ca. late 6th to 5th centuries BCE. Of hammered bronze sheet, rounded in form with a flaring neck-guard, each cheek-guard perforated at the forward tip, with a perforation at the
0024: Greek Illyrian Bronze Helmet - Intact!Est. $20,000-$30,000
Greek Skyphos - Haimon Group: Greece, Attic, ca. 480 BCE. This lipless skyphos with narrow base and mastoid body ("footed mastos") belongs to Ure's Pistias Class N. The scene on both the obverse and reverse, executed in
0025: Greek Skyphos - Haimon GroupEst. $10,800-$16,200Lot Passed
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Greek Bronze Handle Attachment of Situla: Greek, ca. 480 to 450 BCE. Situla in the shape of a lion's head with paws hanging downward. The head is depicted in powerful relief with triangular ears, bulging eyes, pronounced brows and a large
0026: Greek Bronze Handle Attachment of SitulaEst. $2,400-$3,600
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Greek Terracotta Polychrome Votive, Ex-Bonham's: Greek, Boeotian, ca. 5th to 4th century BCE. Buff terracotta statuette of a woman, probably a goddess, shown standing and wearing a peplos with overfall. She stands on an integral raised base
0027: Greek Terracotta Polychrome Votive, Ex-Bonham'sEst. $3,000-$3,500
Greek Clay Head of a Youth: Greek, ca. 4th century BCE. Figure depicted with his head slightly to the right with powerfully modelled face and thick, curly hair. He wears a wide diadem with traces of a wreath of leaves. Part
0028: Greek Clay Head of a YouthEst. $3,600-$5,400Lot Passed
Greek Core-Formed Glass Alabastron: Greek Empire, ca. 5th to 4th century BCE. Beautiful glass perfume vial or alabastron, so named because many vessels in this form were made of alabaster, in deep blue glass with yellow trailing
0028A: Greek Core-Formed Glass AlabastronEst. $4,000-$6,000Lot Passed
Greek Bronze Applique of a Woman: Greece, ca. 4th century BCE. The forehead is framed by long, wavy tresses centrally parted. Almond shaped eyes with pronounced lids. Ears pierced for attachment. Reverse side unworked. Loop for
0029: Greek Bronze Applique of a WomanEst. $2,400-$3,600Lot Passed
Greek Attic Red-Figure Lekythos - Group of Palermo 16: Greece, Athens, Attic, ca. 430 to 420 BCE. A fine red-figure lekythos attributed to the Group of Palermo 16, depicting a running male wrapped in a himation, his hair bound with a fillet. His right
0030: Greek Attic Red-Figure Lekythos - Group of Palermo 16Est. $10,000-$13,000Lot Passed
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Greek Paestan Red Figure Bell Krater: Magna Graecia, Sicily, Paestum (in Greek Poseidonia), ca. late 5th to early 4th century BCE. A large two-sided red-figure bell krater vessel for mixing wine and water, in the style of the Python
0031: Greek Paestan Red Figure Bell KraterEst. $5,000-$7,000
Apulian Red-Figure Lekythos by the Lampas Painter: Greek, South Italic, Apulia, ca. 370 to 360 BCE. An impressive Apulian red-figure lekythos by the Lampas Painter! The composition includes a helmeted and cuirassed warrior holding a spear and shield
0032: Apulian Red-Figure Lekythos by the Lampas PainterEst. $11,000-$15,000Lot Passed
Huge Greek Apulian Skyphos - Eros & Female: Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Apulia, ca. 5th to 4th centuries BCE. A red-figure Apulian skyphos of an enormous scale, quite rare to find an example this large! The iconographic program on Side A
0033: Huge Greek Apulian Skyphos - Eros & FemaleEst. $8,000-$12,000Lot Passed
Greek Apulian Red Figure Ceramic Olpe - Eros: Greek, Apulian, ca. 340 to 325 BCE. A striking ancient Greek Apulian red-figure olpe (wine jug), delicately potted and finely painted, of typical Apulian form; with a ringed base, globular body,
0034: Greek Apulian Red Figure Ceramic Olpe - ErosEst. $3,500-$5,000Lot Passed
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Greek Apulian Red-Figure Bell Krater - Varrese Painter: Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Apulia, ca. mid-4th century BCE. A very fine and large example of a Greek bell krater (mixing bowl) vessel, attributed to the Varrese Painter, one of the more
0035: Greek Apulian Red-Figure Bell Krater - Varrese PainterEst. $5,000-$7,000
Greek Campanian Red-Figure Beaked Oichonoe: Southwestern Italy, Campania, ca. 360 to 340 BCE. Stunning pottery pouring vessel, the the very rare VI shape and from the White-Face Group. Reclining female - possibly an Amazon - rests against
0036: Greek Campanian Red-Figure Beaked OichonoeEst. $9,000-$12,000Lot Passed
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Tall Greek Apulian Red Figure Hydria: Western Greece, Apulia, ca. 5th - 4th century BCE. A beautiful and large vessel, made in honor of a woman presented inside the central Naiskos on the face of the vessel. The woman is depicted seated
0037: Tall Greek Apulian Red Figure HydriaEst. $10,000-$15,000
Greek Marble Relief of Funerary Banquet: Greece, ca. late 3rd to early 2nd century BCE. A cloaked man lies with his bare chest turned towards the beholder. He holds a drinking vessel in his left hand. With his right hand he gestures
0038: Greek Marble Relief of Funerary BanquetEst. $24,000-$36,000Lot Passed
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Greek Campanian Black Glazed Boar Askos: Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. 320 to 290 BCE. A black glazed ceramic boar effigy with well-molded piglet details; handle and spout. Added foliate white painting remains to body. Askos is the name
0039: Greek Campanian Black Glazed Boar AskosEst. $4,500-$5,000
Greek Paestan Red-Figure Lekythos, ex-Royal Athena: Magna Graecia, South Italy, ca. 340 to 330 BCE. An impressive red-figure lekythos in the Paestan style, attributed to the Asteas-Python workshop. Iconographic program in applied red depicting a
0040: Greek Paestan Red-Figure Lekythos, ex-Royal AthenaEst. $8,000-$10,000Lot Passed
Greek Paestan Red-Figure Bell Krater, ex-Royal Athena: Magna Graecia, South Italy, Paestan, ca. 340 to 330 BCE. A two-sided red-figure bell krater vessel for mixing wine and water. Attributed to the Asteas/Python workshop and adorned with rich
0041: Greek Paestan Red-Figure Bell Krater, ex-Royal AthenaEst. $6,000-$8,000Lot Passed
Greek Terracotta Bust of a Female: Greek, Tarentum, ca. later 4th century BCE. Protome with rendering of female visage, veiled and holding a fan in her upraised right hand; some original paint remaining. Two holes above visage for
0042: Greek Terracotta Bust of a FemaleEst. $5,750-$8,500Lot Passed
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Hellenistic Figure of Zeus and Ganymede, ex-Christie's: Greece, Hellenistic, ca. 3rd to 1st century BCE. Pottery depicting Zeus in the form of an eagle atop the back of the youthful Ganymede, the eagle grasping the boy's back, with outstretched wings.
0043: Hellenistic Figure of Zeus and Ganymede, ex-Christie'sEst. $4,000-$6,000