- EARLY PREENING GREEN-WINGED TEALChase
Littlejohn (1853-1943)
Redwood City, CA, c. 1885
10 in. long
“A more interesting fellow than Chase Littlejohn has probably never existed.” This is the opening line to...
[more like this] - 4 COCA LEAF BAGS (CHUSPA), BOLIVIA4
Bolivian coca leaf bags woven in camelid fiber including: chuspa with characteristic design (unchanged for 1000 years) with unusual trim feature, Southern Altiplano, 1000...
[more like this] - 4 EARLY AMERICAN MAPS: OVERTON, THIERRY,
CAPTAIN COOK, ...1st item: AN ACCURATE MAP OF THE ENGLISH COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA BORDERING ON THE RIVER OHIO. Printed map describing New England, New York, New Jersey,...
[more like this] - FIVE CENT ñBLOW-ME-DOWNî WOOD RAIL
COUNTERTOP PINBALL M...Five Cent ñBlow-Me-Downî Wood Rail Countertop Pinball Machine. Sea Grit, New Jersey: Coast Coin Machine Co., ca. 1933. This unusual machine does not...
[more like this] - AN ANTIQUE TEXAS RAILWAY MAP, "MAP SHOWING
HOUSTON & TE...AN ANTIQUE TEXAS RAILWAY MAP, "Map Showing Houston & Texas Central System of Railways," CHICAGO, MAY 1890, color wax engraving on paper, Rand McNally, Printers...
[more like this] - 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] - PUBLISHED ROMAN STONE MOSAIC HEAD OF
OCEANUSRoman, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. A very fine Roman stone mosaic comprised of thousands of stone tesserae, depicting the head of Oceanus - the personification...
[more like this] - GREEK GEOMETRIC BRONZE IMPLEMENT, ROOSTER
& BRACELETAncient Greece, Geometric period, ca. 8th century BCE. A fine gathering of bronze items from ancient Greece, cast into a bracelet, bird finial, and an unusual pendant-like...
[more like this] - SICAN-LAMBAYEQUE WOOD THRONE FOR AN
EMPERORPre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Sican-Lambayeque, ca. 750 to 1375 CE. A hand-carved wooden throne from the Sican-Lambayeque Empire which was known for creating the...
[more like this] - IMPORTANT MIMBRES POTTERY BOWL W/ WALKING
FISH - TL'DNative American, Southwestern US, Mimbres Valley, New Mexico, ca. 950 to 1150 CE. A smallish, deep bowl of classic form and decoration from an imaginative and unique...
[more like this] - HUGE ETRUSCAN BUCCHERO WARE KYATHOS
- TL TESTEDClassical World, Etruria, ca. early 6th century BCE. A massive, perfectly formed ceramic kyathos, a bowl-like vessel with a distinctive high, strap handle. It is...
[more like this] - GREEK BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS - HOUND
& HARE GROUP, TL'D**First Time At Auction**
Greece, Attic (Athens), attributed to the Hound and Hare Group, ca. 500 to 480 BCE. A splendid pottery lekythos attributed to...
[more like this] - ANTIQUE AFRICAN CARVED WOODEN LIDDED
MEDICINE BOWL: From the Senufo Tribe / Ivory Coast, this rare medicine pot was found in the Korhogo area in 1969. It was carved by Yeo Dramane - famous sculptor of the ''Poro''...
[more like this] - GROUP (3) AFRICAN METALWORK SCULPTURES
Including iron Lobi figure, Berkina Faso brass Senufo figure and unusual Ivory Coast copper alloy figure with leather wrap and fetish charge in belly, 14"h (largest), 6"h...
[more like this] - UNUSUAL PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST INDIAN
TOTEM POLEUnusual Pacific Northwest Coast Indian carved and painted cedar totem pole, likely carved by an artist at Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe in Seattle, early 20th c., exhibiting...
[more like this] - AN ITALIAN [GUBBIO] ISTORIATO MAIOLICA
LUSTRED DISH FROM THE WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO GIORGIO ANDREOLI, EARLY 1530S
AENEAS AND ACHATES LEAVING THEIR FRIENDS TO EXPLORE THE COAST OF LIBYA The scene is set within a landscape...
[more like this] - 2 SENUFO TRIBE HUT DOORS - IVORY COAST:
1) Unusual painted hut door has a traditional design of the Senufo cosmogony in Kapok wood. 59'' h x 28'' w; 2) Door features the traditional design of Senufo cosmogony. The...
[more like this] - Presentation US M1860 Naval Cutlass
by Ames 26" blade marked Ames and on the reverse an anchor and dated 1861.? Leather covered handle brass cupped guard with brass pommel.? Engraved on the cupped guard To Andrew...
[more like this] - Four-Piece Collection of 1960's New
York Designer Clothing, consisting of a "Ronald Amey" russet wool jacket and dress, the sleeveless sheath dress trimmed with copper satin with one-inch bands from shoulder...
[more like this] - Fine and Large Chinese Blanc-de-chine
figure of Quanyin 18/19th century Seated in rajalilsama, with one knee pendant and one knee raised supporting the right arm, well applied ruyi and lotus head crown,...
[more like this] - Unusual Ge-type ribbed vases Potters
mark to base, late qing dynasty Of foliate ribbed form raised on a tall tapering foot, crackle glaze to white slip over red buff base. H: 9 in. PROVENANCE: ...
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