Artemis Gallery will hold its
End-of-Summer Clearance sale
featuring discounted pricing on antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy, and the Near East...plus Viking, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Tribal, Russian Icons, Spanish Colonial, Fine Art, more! In this image:
Egyptian Painted Cedar / Gesso'd Coffin Panel
. Estimate $5,000 - $7,500.
Published 1919 Tlingit Wood Frog Bowl - Augustus Bean
. Augustus Bean (Tlingit, 1850-1926), inscribed "Sitka (Alaska) 1919" on bottom. An exceptional oval feast dish carved from wood and skillfully decorated with low relief carvings of two frogs on the interior, a zoomorphic face at each short end of the exterior, and larger-scaled abstract visages on each exterior side wall. Estimate $6,000 - $8,000.
Superb Maya Polychrome Bowl / Glyph on Base, TL Tested
. Pre-Columbian, Mexico and northern Central America, Mayan Territories, Late Classic, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A beautifully-proportioned bowl with a rich painted iconography. The bowl has steep edges that flare outward at the unpronounced, thick rim, and a flat base. Estimate $6,500 - $9,750.
Huge Costa Rican Stone Flying Panel Metate w/ Snake
. Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed region, ca. 1st to 5th century CE. An enormous flying panel ceremonial metate, expertly carved from a single piece of volcanic stone with refined dimensions and intricately shaped zoomorphic embellishments. Estimate $6,000 - $8,000.
19th C. British Dueling Pistols + Accessories, Case. Western Europe, England, London, ca. first half of the 19th century CE
. A wonderful matched set of British steel dueling percussion pistols, each with a hand-carved wooden handle with an incised, textured grip, an articulated hammer and trigger, a nubbin-shaped percussion cap head, and an octagonal barrel with no interior rifling grooves. Estimate $10,000 - $15,000.
Native American Bead, Leather & Wood Saddle
. Native American, Central Plains, probably Sioux, ca. late 20th century CE. An exceptional Sioux beaded wood and leather horse saddle, featuring patriotic representations of the American flag, with intersecting pairs of Old Glory on the horns and forks, as well as repeated smaller flags throughout. Estimate $5,500 - $8,250.
Ancient Steatite Zoomorphic Vessel, ex-Christie's
. Ancient Near East, Syria, ca. 8th to 7th century BCE. A fascinating, rare steatite vessel in beautiful condition. The vessel is conical, with a very narrow mouth that widens into a round base. Estimate $5,500 - $8,250.
18th C. Spanish Forged-Steel Cavalry Sword
. Western Europe, Spain, ca. late 18th to early 19th century CE. A forged-steel cavalry sword with an ovoid handle wrapped in steel wire, a knob-form pommel beneath a brass spacer ring, and a curved vertical handle guard. Estimate $5,000 - $7,500.
Veracruz Stone Ballgame Yoke
. Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Vera Cruz culture, ca. 6th to 8th century CE. An undecorated, sanded grey-green basalt U-shaped yoke from the Mesoamerican ballgame. Estimate $5,600 - $8,400.
Pair of Chinese Han Dynasty Olive Green Glazed Hu Vases
. East Asia, China, Han Dynasty, ca. 206 BCE to 220 CE. A rare matched pair of Eastern Han Dynasty classical ceramic Hu vessels - their elegant forms of a baluster shape with slightly flaring necks and wide mouths, the shoulders with a continuous relief frieze of hunting scenes with mythical or wild creatures chasing each other in a never-ending circle as well as a pair of taotie masks holding rings that suggest handles incorporated into the frieze. Estimate $4,000 - $6,000.
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