- MOCHE BI-CHROME VESSEL W/ AI APEC, FIGURAL
HANDLE**Originally Listed At $850**
Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Moche V, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A fascinating vessel of unusual form, hand-sculpted from ceramic with...
[more like this] - MOCHE BICHROME MASK- PORTRAIT OF A MALE**Originally
Listed At $900**
Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 400 to 600 CE. A mesmerizing portrait mask in terracotta with an attractive bi-chrome finish. The visage is skillfully...
[more like this] - STUNNING MAYA GREENSTONE MASK W/ EARSPOOLS**Originally
Listed At $22000**
Pre-Columbian, Mexico and northern Central America, Maya Territories, Late Classic, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A stunning mottled greenstone mask, made to be worn...
[more like this] - 16TH C. INDIAN BRONZE STATUETTE DANCING
KRISHNA**Originally Listed At $600**
Central Asia, India, ca. 16th century CE. A cast-bronze statuette depicting Krishna in a dancing pose. The deity stands with one foot...
[more like this] - EXEMPLARY OLMEC RIO PESQUERO GREENSTONE
MASKETTEPre-Columbian, Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec, ca. 900 to 600 BCE. In a word, wow! Finely carved and string-cut from a sage-hued greenstone with natural swirls of butterscotch...
[more like this] - 3 VALDIVIAN POTTERY VENUS FIGURES -
TL TESTEDPre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 2500 to 1500 BCE. A charming trio of female or Venus figures, all skillfully hand-built from pottery to present stylized...
[more like this] - INDUS VALLEY MEHRGARH POTTERY FERTILITY
IDOL, TL TESTED...Ancient Central Asia, Indus Valley, Mehrgarh culture, ca. 3500 to 2800 BCE. A lovely, hand-built pottery fertility idol exhibiting characteristically feminine...
[more like this] - 2 POTTERY FIGURES OF DEITIES - MESOPOTAMIAN
& EGYPTIANAncient Near East, Mesopotamia, ca. late 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE; Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A wonderful pair of pottery...
[more like this] - 19TH C. MEXICAN TIN RETABLOS REFUGE
OF SINNERS, CHRISTLatin America, Mexico, Spanish Colonial Period, ca. 19th century CE. This is a finely painted pair of Spanish Colonial style retablos on heavy gauge tin...
[more like this] - MISSISSIPPIAN BELL PLAIN POTTERY JAR
W/ TL TESTNative American, Southeast or Midwest, Mississippian, ca. 900 to 1300 CE. A gorgeous coil-formed Bell Plain pottery jar boasting a tiered and rounded base, a globular...
[more like this] - NATIVE AMERICAN WOODLANDS STONE AXE
HEAD - FULL GROOVENative American, Midwestern United States, Michigan, Farwell, Eastern Woodland, Archaic Period, ca. 5000 BCE (7000 BP). A hefty stone axe head that is hand-pecked...
[more like this] - FINE TAINO CARVED STONE ZEMI FIGUREPre-Columbian,
Caribbean, Arawak People, Taino, ca. 15th century CE. A remarkable, hand-carved stone figure known as a zemi, presenting in an abstract, ovoid form. Gazing forward from bulging...
[more like this] - LOT OF 8 ANCIENT MEXICAN POTTERY & STONE
OBJECTSPre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Tlatilco culture, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE; West Mexico, Jalisco and Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE; Valley of Mexico, Teotihuacan, ca. 3rd...
[more like this] - LARGE GUERRERO MEZCALA GREENSTONE MASKETTE
PENDANTPre-Columbian, Southern Mexico, Guerrero region, Mezcala culture, ca. 500 to 200 BCE. A large face maskette of a solid composition, hand-carved from a mottled light...
[more like this] - KUSHAN SCHIST RELIEF FRIEZE OF MAN W/
LION HEADCentral Asia, Pakistan & Northwestern India, Kushan Empire, ca. 1st to 4th century CE. A hand-carved gray schist frieze depicting an elite man dressed in a tunic...
[more like this] - SIGNED BETTY GOLD IRON ARTIST PROOF,
CA. 1980Betty Gold (American, b. 1935). Iron artist's proof, inscribed "A.P. B.G" (Artist's Proof / Betty Gold) at base of one side, ca. 1980. A special work by American artist...
[more like this] - 21 BAROQUE ENGRAVINGS OF ARMOR (CUSTODIS-FONTANA)David
Custodis (German, active early 17th century) after Giovanni Battista Fontana (Italian, 1524-1587), ca. early 17th century CE. Twenty one early Baroque engravings, broadsheets...
[more like this] - INDUS VALLEY MEHRGARH POTTERY FERTILITY
IDOL, TL TESTED...**First Time At Auction**
Ancient Central Asia, Indus Valley, Mehrgarh culture, ca. 3500 to 2800 BCE. A hand-built pottery female fertility idol of a characteristically...
[more like this] - ROMANO-EGYPTIAN CARTONNAGE MUMMY MASK,
EX-CHRISTIE'SIt's not often we start a listing by stating the provenance, but in this case the pedigree is almost as impressive as the piece. Sold - Christies, December 1996;...
[more like this] - EGYPTIAN PAINTED / GESSO CEDAR SARCOPHAGUS
MASKEgypt, Late Dynastic to Ptolemaic Period, ca. 664 to 30 BCE. A gorgeous and endearing example of a mask that is hand-carved from finely grained cedar that would have attached...
[more like this] - MASSIVE ARCHAIC EASTERN WOODLAND STONE
FULL GROOVE AXENative American, southeastern United States, western North Carolina, Caney Fork Township, Eastern Woodland, Late Archaic period, ca. 2000 to 1000 BCE. An impressive...
[more like this] - JAMACOAQUE POLYCHROME MYTHICAL BEAST
VESSEL, TL TESTEDPre-Columbian, Ecuador, Jamacoaque culture, ca. 500 CE. A large ceramic vessel in the form of a transformational beast - probably representing a shaman in...
[more like this] - 19TH C. BURMESE MANDALAY MARBLE SEATED
BUDDHASoutheast Asia, Burma (modern-day Myanmar), Mandalay period, ca. 19th century CE. A sizable and splendid statue of a seated Buddha, expertly hand-carved from creamy...
[more like this] - ROMAN MARBLE RELIEF FRAGMENT - HEAD
OF A BEARDED MANRoman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 4th century CE. A marvelous marble head, expertly hand-carved in high relief to display a veristic presentation of a man,...
[more like this] - GREEK ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE AMPHORA, DIONYSIAN
& BATTLEGreek, Attic (Athens), ca. 480 BCE. A splendid pottery amphora adorned with black-figure decoration of a Dionysian scene on 1 side and 2 warriors on the other, both...
[more like this] - CHINESE MING DYNASTY STONE BUST OF BUDDHAEast
Asia, China, Ming Dynasty, ca. 1368 to 1644 CE. A superb stone bust of Buddha draped in a robe with a skillfully-incised, spiral motif hem that folds at his chest, all adorned...
[more like this] - PUBLISHED CHAVIN STIRRUP VESSEL EAGLE
& JAGUAR**First Time At Auction**
Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Chavin culture, Jequetepeque-Templadera type, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. One of the more striking examples of ancient...
[more like this] - VINTAGE OPAL, DIAMOND, AND FOURTEEN
KARAT GOLD BANGLE KARAT GOLD BANGLE, one half faced with four heart-shaped and one marquise-shaped Australian opal, along with 18 round single-cut and 12 round full-cut diamonds....
[more like this] - OPAL, DIAMOND AND FOURTEEN KARAT GOLD
RING, SET WI RING, set with three oval Australian opals and four round full-cut diamonds. Ring size: 5-1/2....
[more like this] - 18 KT. YELLOW & WHITE GOLD, OPAL, DIAMOND
BROOCHFine 18 kt. Yellow and White Gold, Opal and Diamond Brooch , signed "KW" (Kurt Wayne), set with 2 fine Australian opals and 13 full cut diamonds, totaling approx. 1...
[more like this] - Antique Australian full cedar four drawer
chest of drawers, Cross banded top edge, over two drawers and two long drawers. Standing on later shaped bracket feet, approx 95cm H x 125cm W x 54cm D...
[more like this] - SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TOOTH DEPICTING "LUCY
PURDON" CIRCA 1850 LENGTH 4.75". WITH WOODEN STAND. TOTAL HEIGHT 6". PURDON", Circa 1850, Obverse depicts a fine three-quarter-length portrait of a woman in fashionable...
[more like this] - 1884 Australian Gold Full Sovereign
Coin 8 g...
[more like this] - 1899 Australian Gold Full Sovereign
Coin 7.9 g...
[more like this] - 1907 Australian Gold Full Sovereign
Coin 8 g...
[more like this] - 1930 Australian Gold Full Sovereign
Coin 8 g...
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