AN ANTIQUE MAP, "PLAN OF THE CITY OFGALVESTON TEXAS," ...AN ANTIQUE MAP, "Plan of the City of Galveston Texas," CIRCA 1845, hand colored lithograph on paper, with pencil inscriptions and filled in beachfront...
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AN ANTIQUE MAP, "PLAN OF THE CITY OFGALVESTON TEXAS," ...AN ANTIQUE MAP, "Plan of the City of Galveston Texas," CIRCA 1845, hand colored lithograph on paper, with pencil inscriptions and filled in beachfront...
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18TH C. PERSIAN QAJAR PAINTING OF GARDENW/ COURTIERSNear East / Central Asia, Persia or Iran, Qajar dynasty, ca. 18th century CE. A beautiful painting on paper of opaque pigments of three figures amongst a lush...
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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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EGYPTIAN NEW KINGDOM FAIENCE ROSETTETILEAncient Egypt, New Kingdom, 20th Dynasty, ca. 1189 to 1077 BCE. A fine faience tile of a discoid form exhibiting a delicate rosette flower that was perhaps an inlaid ornament...
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14TH C. CHINESE MING STONE WANGZHU MONKEYEATING PEACHEast Asia, China, Ming dynasty, ca. 1368 to 1644 CE. A large stone baluster or pillar, known in Chinese as "wangzhu," featuring a monkey and two offspring eating...
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VERACRUZ POTTERY ARTICULATED MALE SONRIENTEPre-Columbian,Mexico, Gulf Coast, Veracruz, Classic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 900 CE. An outstanding terracotta figure known as a sonriente - meaning "smiling face" - depicted standing with...
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TALL GREEK GNATHIAN POTTERY TREFOILOINOCHOEMagna Graecia, southern Italy, near present day Ignazia, Gnathian, ca. 340 to 320 BCE. An attractive blackware pottery pitcher with a trefoil spout decorated via the...
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1900S NATIVE AMERICAN TLINGIT MAMMOTHIVORY TOTEM POLENative American, Northwestern United States, Tlingit, ca. 1900s to 1920s CE. An impressive hand-carved miniature totem pole made from fossilized mammoth ivory....
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MASSIVE GNATHIAN POLYCHROME SKYPHOS,TL TESTED**First Time At Auction**
Magna Graecia, southern Italy, Apulia, ca. 360 to 325 BCE. A magnificent pottery skyphos finely hand-painted in intricate decoration of...
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APULIAN RED-FIGURE CHOUS - NUDE YOUTH,DRAPED FEMALE**First Time At Auction**
Magna Graecia, South Italy, Apulian, ca. 4th century BCE. An opulent terracotta chous or oinochoe boasting a trefoil spout and red-figure...
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MAGNA GRAECIA GNATHIAN LIDDED LEKANIS,TL TESTEDMagna Graecia, southern Italy, Apulia, ca. 340 to 325 BCE. A charming terracotta vessel used to store soaps and scented perfumes, with a thin-walled body, twin handles,...
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HUGE JAMACOAQUE VESSEL PRIEST EFFIGY,EX-SOTHEBY'S / BO...Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Manabi Province, Jamacoaque (Jama-Coaque) culture, ca. 500 BCE to 500 CE. An hand-built pottery vessel of incredible size with...
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SEPIK RIVER MASK WITH RATTANSepik RiverMask pointed nose with slits, some original yellow pigment, original woven rattan decor on one side
Similar mask was given as a gift by Louis Pierre Ledoux to the American...
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LOWER SEPIK RIVER MASKCarved WoodenMask with Small Ears and Yellow Pigment
Locale: Lower Sepik River
Country: Papua New Guinea
Date: 1936 or earlier
Material: Wood, Pigment
Dimensions: H 15"/ 38 cm x W 6"/...
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LOWER SEPIK RIVER MASK, MURIKCarvedWooden Mask with shell ornament around eyes, red and yellow pigments and design, fibrous tufts in eyes.
One identifying feature of Murik masks is their long trunk-like nose...
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OPENWORK FIGURE, KOPAR / ANGORAMOpenworkcarved figure, Kopar / Angoram style, with white stripes, red and yellow pigment, shell and rope ornamentation. Anthropomorphic.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art describes...
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LOWER SEPIK RIVER FLUTE MASKMask (FluteMask) with original red, black, yellow pigment; original fiber plugs in septum
Locale: Lower Sepik River
Country: Papua New Guinea
Date: 1936 or earlier
Material: Wood,...
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Kiowa Beaded Hide Moccasins
fourth quarter19th century
thread and sinew-sewn softly tanned hide coated with yellow pigment; beaded using colors of light blue, cobalt, red white-heart, pink, and white; fringe on cuffs...
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Blackfeet Beaded and Painted Hide Leggings
19thand 20th century
thread and sinew-sewn; each with a panel beaded in colors of red white-heart, greasy yellow, dark blue, light blue, and white; hide coated in yellow pigment...
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Southern Plains Painted Shield Cover,with Shield
third quarter 19th century
cover made of thin hide and painted with imagery of the sun, crescent moon, a series of six crossed spheres, and dragonfly; two triangular...
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Apache Buffalo Hide Parfleche Container
thirdquarter 19th century
sinew-sewn thick-walled cylindrical case; exterior coated in yellow pigment; circular lid with green pigment
overall length 22 inches; diameter 4 inches...
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Sioux Beaded Hide Moccasins, with MatchingLeggings
fourth quarter 19th century
thread and sinew-sewn; having beadwork in colors of red white-heart, pea green, greasy yellow, cut brass, cobalt, and white; remnants...
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Sioux Beaded Hide Moccasins
fourth quarter19th century
thread and sinew-sewn; having beadwork in colors of dark blue, red white-heart, greasy yellow, and white; hide with remnants of yellow pigment; cuffs edged in...
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Southern Plains Stone Club
fourth quarter19th century
granite head with remnants of red pigment on one side, point on opposite has been ground; wood haft bends around head and is wrapped with hide coated in yellow...
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Northern Plains Beaded Hide TobaccoBag, with Tabs
fourth quarter 19th century
sinew-sewn and beaded with an outlining single lane in colors of white, cobalt, and greasy yellow; hide coated with yellow pigment
length...
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A Unique Northeastern Embroidered andPainted Deerhide
19th century
softly tanned hide, with silk and finely wrapped leather embroidery creating an intricate floral design; further embellished with red, blue,...
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MINIATURE HAND WOVEN YELLOW PIGMENTBUTTOCK BASKET United States,19th CenturyMiniature tightly woven buttocks basket with remnants of original yellow pigment....
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Two Chinese carved wood horses: Tangstyle, surface with crackled red, blue, green and yellow pigment, 19th or 20th century, 28 x 30 x 9-1/2 in. Losses to pigment, chips, separations....
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Sioux Beaded Hide Pouch and QuilledArmband Deaccessioned from the Henry County Historical Society Indiana lot of 2 including a quilled armband made of rawhide slats and finished with tin cones filled with red-dyed...
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Apache Beaded Hide Tobacco Pouch thread-sewnand beaded on thick hide using large beads in colors of greasy yellow red white-heart translucent green and dark blue; bag finished with beaded fringe and tin cones; reverse...
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Apache Beaded Hide Strike-a-Light thread-sewnand beaded using colors of dark blue pea green cobalt white and greasy yellow; with tin cones hanging from lower seem; copper button; hide coated with yellow pigment; reverse...
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An Italian 14k Gold Portrait SwivelBrooch 14k yellow gold swivel brooch in antique style features on one side with an oval miniature portrait of a boy signed in white pigment "Di March" the other side with...
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Crow Beaded Hide Scout Jacket threadand sinew-sewn using bead colors of white light blue red white-heart pink dark blue greasy yellow; and pumpkin; hide covered in yellow pigment; with fur and red wool trim;...
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Central Plains Beaded and Quilled HideTobacco Bag thread and sinew-sewn with rose beadwork framing elongated throat; thin fringe decorates opening; hide coated with yellow pigment; lower panel of bag quilled in...
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Cheyenne Beaded Hide Moccasins sinew-sewnon thick possibly buffalo hide; beadwork executed in colors of white red white-heart greasy yellow pink and light and dark blue; yellow pigment on hide length 9.25 in.late...
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