Exceptional Ancient, Asian, Ethnographic Art

Greek Attic Black-Figure Neck Amphora, ex-Museum

Important Egyptian Limestone Relief - Goddess Hathor

Mayan Polychrome Cylinder - Companion Spirits

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Exceptional Ancient, Asian, Ethnographic Art

Artemis Fine Arts

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Join us for an important one-day auction on Thursday, October 22nd featuring museum-worthy examples of classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Included are a Greek Attic White Lekythos attributed to the Reed Painter, ex-Museum of Fina Arts, Boston, exceptionally large/fine Roman Glass vessels, a Late Roman to Early Medieval Simple Bipartite Helmet, multiple lots of Asian Art with prime Sotheby's provenance, two incredibly decorated Pre-Columbian Mayan Cylinders. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, Spanish Colonial Art, even fossils and minerals! Don't miss these truly important examples of the best of the best unlikely to come to market again!

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Egyptian Predynastic Bi-Chrome Ovoid Vessel, Naqada II: Egypt, Pre-Dynastic) (also known as Naqada), ca. 3500-3200 BCE. This painted pot, made of Nile siltware, has the characteristic zigzag pattern of the pre-Dynastic Nagada II period in a dark red. This

0001: Egyptian Predynastic Bi-Chrome Ovoid Vessel, Naqada IIEst. $5,000-$7,000Lot Passed

Published Egyptian Limestone Figure - Brewer: Egypt, 5th to 6th Dynasty, ca. 2498 to 2181 BCE. The brewer is depicted tilted forward over her vat and wearing a long dress and typical wig of the period with a stripe in the middle, letting her

0002: Published Egyptian Limestone Figure - BrewerEst. $15,000-$20,000Lot Passed

0002A: Egyptian Limestone Stele - Osiris with SupplicantsEst. $20,000-$25,000Lot Passed

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Fine Egyptian Middle Kingdom Wood Boatman: Egypt, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 11 or 12, ca 2060 to 1890 BCE. Large and very fine wooden polychrome boat man. Shown in kneeling position, with articulated arms and probably one of the many rowers

0002B: Fine Egyptian Middle Kingdom Wood BoatmanEst. $2,000-$3,000

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Ancient Egyptian Polychrome Wood Boat Figure: Egypt, Middle Kingdom, 11th to 12th Dynasty, ca. 2040 to 1802 BCE. Attractive polychrome wooden figure of a boatman. Shown kneeling he would have served as one of the rowers. Arms pegged into

0002C: Ancient Egyptian Polychrome Wood Boat FigureEst. $1,200-$1,800

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Important Egyptian Limestone Relief - Goddess Hathor: Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18 to 20, ca. 1570 to 1069 BCE. One of the finest pieces offered in this auction! Very large and wonderfully rendered high relief sculpture of the Goddess Hathor.

0003: Important Egyptian Limestone Relief - Goddess HathorEst. $30,000-$40,000

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Rare Egyptian Faience Wall Vase: Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, ca. 1567-1085 BCE. Rare to find, an attractive wall vase comprised of light blue faience of a lovely luster with a branch and leaf design in the center and a scrolling

0004: Rare Egyptian Faience Wall VaseEst. $2,000-$4,000Lot Passed

Egyptian Wood Polychrome Mummy Mask: Egypt, Third Intermediate Period to Saite Period, ca. 1070 to 525 BCE. This is a wooden, painted mask, probably used for the mummy of a poorer person. The face probably reflects the true features of

0004A: Egyptian Wood Polychrome Mummy MaskEst. $3,000-$4,500Lot Passed

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Gorgeous Egyptian Banded Alabaster Mortar: Egypt, Late Period, ca. 700 to 330 BCE. This is a small banded alabaster mortar that may contain some percentage of calcite to give it hardness -- pure alabaster, fine-grained cohesive variety of

0004B: Gorgeous Egyptian Banded Alabaster MortarEst. $900-$1,200

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Rare Large Egyptian Red Faience Pectoral Scarab: Egypt, Late Period, ca. 715 to 330 BCE. This scarab pectoral has a very dense, glassy, red faience. It has eight drill holes so that it could be sewn onto the bandages of a mummy; it would have been

0004C: Rare Large Egyptian Red Faience Pectoral ScarabEst. $1,200-$1,800Lot Passed

Egyptian Polychrome Wood Frames / Lion Legs: Egypt, Ptolemaic-Roman, ca. 1st BCE - 1st CE . This is the front and back portion of a wooden frame which could have possibly been part of a stand to hold a sarcophagus in ancient times. The legs are

0004D: Egyptian Polychrome Wood Frames / Lion LegsEst. $6,000-$8,000Lot Passed

Egyptian Alabaster Ear Plug: Egypt, probable New Kingdom, ca. 16th to 11th century BCE. This small alabaster ear plug is one of those pieces that reminds us that some fashions can be timeless! Perhaps the most famous celebrity

0004E: Egyptian Alabaster Ear PlugEst. $700-$900Lot Passed

Superb Egyptian Cartonnage Section, ex-Arte Primitivo: Egypt - Late Period, Ptolemaic period, ca. 300-30 B.C. Openwork cartonnage aegis collar breast plate and vertical column register. Painted gesso surface in blue and red on a white ground with some

0004G: Superb Egyptian Cartonnage Section, ex-Arte PrimitivoEst. $7,000-$9,000Lot Passed

Egyptian Limestone Sculptor's Model: Egyptian, probably late Dynastic to Ptolemaic Periods, ca. 1290 to 30 BCE. This is a model of a generic royal bust depicting a simple nemes with no uraeus. There is a blank space to add a face,

0004I: Egyptian Limestone Sculptor's ModelEst. $2,000-$3,000Lot Passed

Translated Egyptian Bronze Personal Stamp Seal: Egypt, Late Period, ca. 343 to 332 BCE. Large bronze stamp seal of ovoid form topped with two maat feathers, oval cartouche with hieroglyphic inscription translated as -- Perfect is Horus-Onnophris,

0006: Translated Egyptian Bronze Personal Stamp SealEst. $3,500-$4,000Lot Passed

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Egyptian Saite Period Bronze Seated Horus: Egypt, Kwams Provence, Cairo, Saite Period / 26th Dynasty, ca. 664 to 525 BCE. Fine bronze cast figure of a seated Horus, wearing skull cap with uraeus and side lock, hands at rest at side of legs.

0006A: Egyptian Saite Period Bronze Seated HorusEst. $900-$1,200

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Egyptian Bronze Cat - Sacred Bastet w/ Gold Inlaid Eyes: Egypt, Late Period, ca. 661 to 332 BCE. One of the finest Egyptian bronze cats we have had the pleasure of handling! The goddess Bastet in her animal form, seated in a sophisticated and elegant

0007: Egyptian Bronze Cat - Sacred Bastet w/ Gold Inlaid EyesEst. $7,000-$9,000

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Egyptian Wood Ushabti Box - Embalming Scene Depicted: Egypt, Late Ptolemaic Period, 1st BCE - 1st CE. An unusual ushabti box depicting an embalming scene, with references to a procession of two gods, Dendur, Uraeus the Serpent, in the great shrine,

0007A: Egyptian Wood Ushabti Box - Embalming Scene DepictedEst. $8,000-$9,000Lot Passed

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Rare Romano Egyptian Textile Panel - Gladiator: Romano-Egyptian, ca. 300 CE. This textile panel depicts a gladiator wearing a yellow and orange cloak but otherwise naked, holding things in both his hands. His hair is dark and curly. Many of the

0007B: Rare Romano Egyptian Textile Panel - GladiatorEst. $1,500-$2,250

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Coptic Painted Pottery Vessel - Fish, Bird, & Christ: Byzantine Egypt, Coptic, ca. 4th to 8th century CE. A beautiful and iconographically rich terracotta vessel with a depressed globular body, short neck, and flattened rim, hand painted in hues of red

0007C: Coptic Painted Pottery Vessel - Fish, Bird, & ChristEst. $2,000-$4,000Lot Passed

Mycenaean Pottery Stirrup Jar - Unusually Large: Classical Greece, Mycenae, ca. 14th century BCE. This jar is an unusually large and rare example of a Mycenaen stirrup jar. It is made from terracotta and decorated with classic Mycenaean banded

0008: Mycenaean Pottery Stirrup Jar - Unusually LargeEst. $8,000-$12,000Lot Passed

Greek Cypriot Lentoid Flask: Ancient Greece, Cyprus, Late Bronze Age, ca. 1550 to 1200 BCE. A near pristine pottery lentoid flask with a circular flattened body, cylindrical neck, loop handle joined to a narrow ring applied to

0008A: Greek Cypriot Lentoid FlaskEst. $1,800-$3,500Lot Passed

Cypriot Pottery Platter, Early Iron Age, ex-Guttman: Ancient Iron Age, Greece/ Cyprus, ca. 1100 to 75 BCE. The pottery created on the island of Cyprus in the prehistoric era was in a word imaginative. The ancients created lively forms and refined

0008B: Cypriot Pottery Platter, Early Iron Age, ex-GuttmanEst. $2,000-$4,000Lot Passed

Greek Archaic Period Terracotta Bust of Goddess: Southern Italy, Magna Graecia region, ca. 500 BCE. This is the reddish pottery bust of a woman with her hair worn long ove her shoulders and styled in waves. She wears disk earrings. Her face is

0009: Greek Archaic Period Terracotta Bust of GoddessEst. $2,500-$3,000Lot Passed

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