RARE / HUGE NAZCA POLYCHROME SITTINGVENUS FIGURE**Originally Listed At $2000**
Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 200 to 600 CE. A stunning ceramic female Venus figure of an exceedingly rare...
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19TH C. CHINESE WOOD ACUPUNCTURE TEACHINGMODEL**Originally Listed At $2500**
East Asia, China, ca. 1860 to 1880 CE. A sizeable, carved wooden male model with black-painted inscriptions used to teach acupuncture...
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16TH C. INDIAN BRONZE STATUETTE DANCINGKRISHNA**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...
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INDIAN PETRIFIED BONE MIRROR HANDLE- DANCERS, DWARF**Originally Listed At $700**
Ancient South Asia, eastern India, Bengal, Chandraketugarh, ca. 200 BCE to 100 BCE. A lovely intricately hand-carved mirror...
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8TH C. INDIAN PALA DYNASTY STONE RELIEFOF SURYA**Originally Listed At $6000**
South Asia, India, Pala Dynasty, ca. 8th to 10th century. This stone stele depicts the deity Surya (the supreme light), the principle...
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ASSYRIAN POTTERY FIGURE - STANDING APKALLU,TL TESTEDAncient Near East, Mesopotamia, Old Assyrian Empire, ca. 2025 to 1378 BCE. An impressive, mold-made pottery relief of a standing male genius or apkallu - an ancient...
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PUBLISHED MESOPOTAMIAN GLAZED HEAD -GYPSUM & BITUMENAncient Near East, Mesopotamia, Kassite period, ca. 14th to 13th century BCE. Staring past the confine of time, a head depicting a haunting guise carved in...
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3 LURISTAN BRONZE IBEX PENDANTS, 1 W/DOUBLE HEADAncient Near East, northwestern Iran and Turkey, Luristan, ca. 1000 to 600 BCE. A handsome trio of Near Eastern cast bronze ibexes, each stylized with high horns...
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19TH C. AMERICAN FOLK ART WOOD WALKINGSTICK WITH FACES...United States, Southern states, 19th century. An American folk art wooden walking stick, signed "JMS" at the upper end, that was hand-carved from a single...
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COLIMA POTTERY FIGURE W/ DOG & MAYAPOTTERY FLAT FIGURE...Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE; southern Mexico to Guatemala, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A nice gathering...
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MAYA JAINA POTTERY STANDING DIGNITARYFIGURE W/ TLPre-Columbian, Gulf Coast of Mexico, Western Yucatan Peninsula, Jaina/Campeche, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A gorgeous and hand-built pottery...
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INSCRIBED PALMYRAN MARBLE RELIEF W/BANQUETERNear East / Holy Land, Palmyra, Roman Period, ca. 2nd to 4th century CE. An impressive Palmyran funerary relief, hand-carved from creamy white marble to depict a...
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LOVELY & IMPORTANT ROMAN SILVER STATUETTEOF VENUSRoman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to early 3rd century CE. An exquisite statuette cast from 70% to 75% silver depicting Venus (Greek Aphrodite), the goddess of love,...
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SICAN LAMBAYEQUE SILVER VOTIVE PLAQUEFLORA & FAUNAPre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Sican / Lambayeque culture, ca. 750 to 1370 CE. A stunning sheet plaque formed from hammered high-grade (98%) silver of a rectangular...
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18TH C. INDIAN SILVER ELEPHANT HEADFINIALSouth Asia, India, ca. 18th to 19th century CE. This is a charming sterling silver elephant head finial with a curved trunk that is hollow with an opening on the tip....
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FINE 19TH C. MAORI WOOD BUST CARVINGOF MAN W/ MOKOOceania, New Zealand, Maori culture, ca. late 19th century to early 20th century CE. This is a fine hand carved portrait style bust of a Maori warrior or chieftain....
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TLATILCO POTTERY STANDING PRETTY LADYFIGUREPre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Tlatilco culture, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. A hand-built pottery female figure known as a pretty lady standing atop a pair of delineated...
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LURISTAN BRONZE MASTER OF ANIMALS STANDARDFINIALAncient Near East, northwestern Iran and Turkey, Luristan, ca. 1000 to 600 BCE. An intriguing cast-bronze standard finial in the form known as the "master of animals."...
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ANCIENT IBERIAN BRONZE FIGURE - STANDINGMALEAncient Europe, Iberian Peninsula, Iberian culture, ca. 6th to 2nd century BCE. A fascinating bronze sculpture of a male figure depicted standing nude with legs together...
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19TH C. INDONESIAN BONE & WOOD KRISHANDLES (3)Southeast Asia, Indonesia, ca. late 19th to mid-20th century CE. A fine collection of 3 handles from ceremonial kris (keris) swords; 2 made of wood, and one made...
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8 EGYPTIAN PTOLEMAIC & ROMANO POTTERYHEAD FRAGMENTSEgypt, Late Dynastic and Ptolemaic to early Romano-Egyptian period, ca. 5th to 1st century BCE; Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. 3rd to 2nd century BCE. This...
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EGYPTIAN MIDDLE KINGDOM WOOD STRIDINGMALE FIGUREAncient Egypt, Middle Kingdom, 11th to 13th Dynasty, ca. 2130 to 1649 BCE. A wonderful example of a hand-carved wooden male figure, perhaps a servant in a tomb...
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SYRO-HITTITE TERRACOTTA EQUESTRIAN FIGURE**OriginallyListed At $250**
Ancient Near East, Syro-Hittite, ca. 1180 to 700 BCE. A hand-built terracotta equestrian figure riding on a horse. The figure, while fragmentary, has a flat...
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ANCIENT SOUTH ARABIAN LEADED COPPERCAMEL**Originally Listed At $400**
Ancient South Arabia, Yemen, ca. early first millennium BCE. A cast leaded-copper statuette of a camel with an erect head and neck, a slight...
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HUGE 20TH C. MELANESIAN VANUATU SLITDRUM / TAMTAMOceania, Melanesia, Vanuatu, ca. early 20th century CE. A splendid and sizeable slit drum or tamtam, skillfully hand-carved from butterscotch-hued wood in the...
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TEOTIHUACAN POTTERY FIGURAL LEG OF VESSEL,TL TESTEDPre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Teotihuacan, ca. 150 to 650 CE. A stunning openwork pottery leg of a vessel of rectangular form featuring a central figure, perhaps...
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FINE OLMEC STONE STANDING WERE-JAGUARFIGUREPre-Columbian, Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. A magnificent Olmec figurine expertly carved from beautiful deep black stone that demonstrates superb...
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GREEK HELLENISTIC BRONZE HERAKLES W/NEMEAN LION PELTAncient Greece, late Hellenistic Period, ca. 2nd to 1st century BCE. A lovely cast-bronze figure of Herakles (Roman Hercules) standing nude atop an integral...
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CHINESE ZHOU BRONZE STANDING MALE FIGUREATOP TIGEREast Asia, China, Early Zhou dynasty, ca. 1046 to 400 BCE. An early and rare example of Chinese male figure standing atop a tiger's head, hammered from a thick leaded-bronze...
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19TH C. TIBETAN BRASS VARAPANI HANDW/ MUDRA GESTUREEast Asia, Tibet or China, Qing Dynasty, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE. A larger-than-life brass hand from Varapani, the bodhisattva whose name literally...
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RARE ETRUSCAN BRONZE FIGURE NUDE MALEATHLETEItaly, Etruscan, ca. 4th to 3rd century BCE. A solid bronze statue of a nude male athlete created via the lost wax (cire perdue) technique. The figure stands in contrapposto...
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PUBLISHED EGYPTIAN NEW KINGDOM LIMESTONEUSHABTIAncient Egypt, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1292 to 1189 BCE. A gorgeous ushabti figure carved by hand from gray-white limestone exhibiting a slender form. The figure...
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SIGNED 20TH C. NORTHWEST COAST PAINTEDWOOD WHALENative American, Pacific Northwest, British Columbia, Canada, ca. 20th century CE. Signed "MARK" on underside. A beautiful wood sculpture of a whale, skillfully...
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EXHIBITED ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF VENUS,EX-SOTHEBY'SRoman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 2nd century CE. A stunning leaded bronze figure of Venus (Greek Aphrodite), the goddess of love and beauty, resembling Praxiteles...
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PUBLISHED THRACIAN SILVER DIADEM, EX-ROYALATHENAEastern Greek / Thracian, ca. 4th century BCE. Finely hammered and modeled in repousse, a beautiful diadem or plaquette comprised of a copper silver alloy and presenting...
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NEAR-MINIATURE OLMEC STANDING FIGUREPre-Columbian,Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. An exquisite, finely carved, near-miniature, blue-green mottled stone figure, standing in a characteristically stiff...
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