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Updated August 17, 2026
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| Date | August 13, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT |
| Type | Online only |
| Auction house | Artemis Fine Arts |
| Location | Louisville, Colorado, 80027 · more auctions in Louisville |
| Lots | 390 |
| Estimates | $100 – $1,650 |
What's in this auction
390 lots, mostly pottery, china & glass (58), jewelry & watches (33), fine art & prints (31), stamps & philately (12). 390 lots have photos and 390 have full descriptions. Pre-sale estimates $100–$1,650 across 390 priced lots. Bidding is online through the auction house's catalog.
Highest-estimated lots
- 15th C. Indian Bronze Lingam With Naga — est. $1,100–$1,650
- William Draper Painted Sculpture, Seated Boy, 1949 — est. $1,000–$1,500
- Chinese Nephrite Jade Huang Pendant, Dragon Head Terminals — est. $900–$1,350
- Colima & Costa Rica Redware | Dog Effigy, Squash Jar, Snuff Pipe & Frog Vessel — est. $700–$1,200
- 6 Costa Rican Greenstone Beads + 1 Greenstone Celt — est. $800–$1,200
From the auction house
Featuring Pre-Columbian, Native American, Tribal, Fossils, plus Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, Asian, Fine / Visual Art, more! All ancient items have been legally acquired, and are legal to sell. Satisfaction guaranteed. Convenient in-house shipping. Full catalog and bidding: view on liveauctioneers .
In this auction (390 lots)
Categories: Pottery, China & Glass (58) · Jewelry & Watches (33) · Fine Art & Prints (31) · Stamps & Philately (12) · Antiques & Furniture (9) · Firearms & Militaria (7)
- Lot 0001 — Panamanian Coclé Polychrome Frutera, Boa and Jaguar/Saurian Motifs
- Lot 0002 — Chancay Wood Burial Doll - Striped Cotton Tunic
- Lot 0003 — Michoacan Pottery Figure - Seated Dignitary in Headdress
- Lot 0004 — Pre-Columbian Nayarit Figural Vessels (pr)
- Lot 0005 — Jalisco Standing Pregnant Female Figure, Painted Skirt
- Lot 0006 — Tlatilco Terracotta Nude Female Figure - Fertility Idol
- Lot 0007 — Lot of 3 Colima, Michoacan, & Tlatilco Pottery Figures
- Lot 0008 — Ancient Mexican Pottery, Stone Beads & Bird Points
- Lot 0009 — Guerrero Mezcala Greenstone Head
- Lot 0010 — Colima Pottery Hunchback Jar & Zapotec Cocijo Urn
- Lot 0011 — Large Mezcala Jade Maskette Pendant
- Lot 0012 — Pre-Columbian Mezcala Stone Axe God Figures, Pair
- Lot 0013 — 6 Nicoya, Narino, Colima, Maya & Tiahuanaco Vessels
- Lot 0014 — Chupicuaro Bichrome Pottery Bowl with Diamond Band
- Lot 0015 — Two Chupicuaro / Michoacan Burnished Redware Bowls
- Lot 0016 — Veracruz & Michoacan Pottery Heads with Colima Stone Effigy Pendant
- Lot 0017 — Four Pre-Columbian Pottery Figures - Jalisco, Costa Rican & Bahia Figures
- Lot 0018 — Pre-Columbian Pottery Heads & Figural Fragments - Lot of 10
- Lot 0019 — Colima Pottery Flutes - Perched Birds & Owl, Pair of Playable Aerophones
- Lot 0020 — Pre-Columbian Pottery Female Figures - West Mexican Group of Four
- Lot 0021 — Colima Redware Jar - Globular Olla with Mineral Encrustation
- Lot 0022 — Pre-Columbian San Jeronimo Terracotta Female Figure - Biconical Headdress
- Lot 0023 — West Mexican Pottery Vessels - Jalisco Olla & Zoomorphic Effigy
- Lot 0024 — Chupicuaro Bowl, Casas Grandes Jar & 2 Colima Whistles
- Lot 0025 — Two Colima Pottery Figures & One Figural Rattle
- Lot 0026 — Narino & Colima Pottery Shell-Form Pendants - Ocarina
- Lot 0027 — Colima Pottery Censer Lids House-Form Covers, Animal Protomes
- Lot 0028 — 2 West Mexican Semi-Nude Male Figures, Colima & Nayarit
- Lot 0029 — Mesoamerican Pottery Figures - 8 Piece Lot
- Lot 0030 — Colima Pottery Standing Figure
- Lot 0031 — Colima Pottery Male Figures - Trio of Standing Forms
- Lot 0032 — Pre-Columbian Bead Necklace, Spondylus Shells & Nacre
- Lot 0033 — Four Spanish Colonial Copper Bola Sling Weights
- Lot 0034 — Colima & Costa Rica Redware | Dog Effigy, Squash Jar, Snuff Pipe & Frog Vessel
- Lot 0035 — Costa Rican Greenstone Frog Amulet with Shell Inlays
- Lot 0036 — Five Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Redware Miniature Vessels
- Lot 0037 — Lot of Eight Pre-Columbian Pottery Heads
- Lot 0038 — Veracruz Pottery Figure w/ Bitumen, TL Tested
- Lot 0039 — Two Pre-Columbian Polychrome Pottery Bowls
- Lot 0040 — Nicoya Ceramic Zoomorphic Rattle Figure
- Lot 0041 — 6 Costa Rican Greenstone Beads + 1 Greenstone Celt
- Lot 0042 — Pair of Narino Resist-Painted Pedestal Bowls
- Lot 0043 — Narino Pottery Pedestal Vessel w/ Negative Resist Motif
- Lot 0044 — Huastec Polychrome Effigy Pouring Vessel w/ Face
- Lot 0045 — Mixtec Greenstone Tripod Molcajete Mortar
- Lot 0046 — Obsidian Cores - Two Glassy Black Volcanic Stone Nodules with Worked Edges
- Lot 0047 — Pre-Columbian Chancay Bichrome Pottery Bottle with Geometric Motifs
- Lot 0048 — Taino Stone Petaloid Celt - Greenstone Axe Head
- Lot 0049 — North Chile Diaguita Slipper Vessel w/ Applied Face
- Lot 0050 — 12th-14th C. Arica San Miguel Polychrome Jar with Zoomorphic Lugs
- Lot 0051 — Three Pre-Columbian West Mexico Pottery Figures
- Lot 0052 — Woodland Period Steatite Platform Pipe - Eastern North America
- Lot 0053 — Late Archaic Hardstone 3/4 Grooved Axe Head
- Lot 0054 — Woodland to Mississippian Stone & Pottery Mortars and Pestles - 22 Miniatures
- Lot 0055 — Woodland Period Stone Celt Adze Heads, Group of Four
- Lot 0056 — Pair of Southwest Native American Manos Grinding Stones
- Lot 0057 — Woodland Period Stone Grinding Slab - Kentucky Cave Find
- Lot 0058 — Two Native American Hopewell Chert Cache Blades, Illinois
- Lot 0059 — Woodland Period Grooved Stone Club Head
- Lot 0060 — Anasazi Grayware Bowl - Geometric Triangle Motif
- Lot 0061 — Woodland Period Shell-Tempered Globular Pot with Flared Rim
- Lot 0062 — Native American Archaic Stone Tools, Hammerstones & Axe
- Lot 0063 — Ancient Native American Stone Grinding Tools
- Lot 0064 — Large Unfinished Native American Archaic Bannerstone
- Lot 0065 — Large Native American Full Groove Stone Axe Head
- Lot 0066 — Two Archaic Native American Full Groove Axe Heads
- Lot 0067 — Woodland Stone Tool - Grooved Handle Form
- Lot 0068 — Two Woodlands Lanceolate Stone Spear Points
- Lot 0069 — Native American Arrow Shaft Straightener Stone Tools
- Lot 0070 — Ancient Caddo Mississippian Shell Bead Necklace
- Lot 0071 — Mississippian Caddo Blackware Water Bottle
- Lot 0072 — Ancient Mississippian Pottery Bottle Carinated Form
- Lot 0073 — Mississippian Pottery Jar - Incised Wave Motif
- Lot 0074 — Mississippian Grayware Bottle - Globular Form
- Lot 0075 — Mississippian Pedestal Bottle - Pierced Foot
- Lot 0076 — Caddo Pottery Bottle - Engraved Crosshatch Globular Vessel
- Lot 0077 — Mississippian Caddo Engraved Geometric Pottery Bowl
- Lot 0078 — Native American Full-Grooved Stone Axe Head - Hammer Maul
- Lot 0079 — Large Native American Carved Stone Implement
- Lot 0080 — Mississippian Stone Gorgets, Group of Four - Fish, Crescent, Celt, & Oval
- Lot 0081 — Mississippian Stone Implements - Drilling Capstone, Discoidal & Mano
- Lot 0082 — Mississippian Gray Ware Short-Neck Vessel
- Lot 0083 — Mississippian Effigy Smoking Pipe | Bird/Human Head Form
- Lot 0084 — Mississippian Blackware Effigy Pipe - Zoomorphic Figure
- Lot 0085 — Mississippian Pottery Effigy Pipes - Frog & Owl, Pair
- Lot 0086 — Pair of Native American Mississippian Plain Ware Pottery Bowls
- Lot 0087 — Mississippian Blackware Vessels - Tripod Jar & Burnished Bowl
- Lot 0088 — Native American Woodlands Quartz Human Effigy Abraders, Pair
- Lot 0089 — Native American Caddo Redware Pottery Bottle
- Lot 0090 — Mississippian Caddo Incised Bottle - Swirl Motif
- Lot 0091 — Mississippian Incised Zoomorphic Bowl
- Lot 0092 — Caddo Textured Pottery Jar - Incised & Punctated Body
- Lot 0093 — Caddo Pottery Jar - Everted Rim & Appliqued Neck Band
- Lot 0094 — Caddo Pottery Vessels - Two Jars w/ Applied Ridges
- Lot 0095 — Caddo Incised Pottery Bottle - Globular Body, Engraved Shoulder
- Lot 0096 — Caddo Incised Earthenware Jar with Vertical Striations
- Lot 0097 — Four Mississippian Pottery Head Effigy Rim Riders, Arkansas
- Lot 0098 — Mississippian Pottery Bowl - Etched Design
- Lot 0099 — Mississippian Caddo Blackware Bottle - Blakely Engraved Lines
- Lot 0100 — Apache Pinon-Pitched Tus Water Basket
- Lot 0101 — Athabascan Leather & Rabbit Fur Beaded Moccasins
- Lot 0102 — Zuni Antler Lizard Pendant & Navajo Stone Fetish Bundle
- Lot 0103 — Mata Ortiz Seed Jar w/ Bird-Headed Fisherman by Letty Rodriguez M.
- Lot 0104 — Apache Wicker & Pinon Pitch Water Baskets (Tus) - Pair, Southwest US
- Lot 0105 — 19th C. Papago (Tohono O'odham) Pottery Olla - Storage Jar
- Lot 0106 — Native American Porcupine & Dyed Deer Hair Roach
- Lot 0107 — Navajo Silver Souvenir Spoon ca. 1890s–1910s + Book "Navajo Spoons"
- Lot 0108 — Apache Twined Tus Water Basket - Pine Pitch Sealed
- Lot 0109 — Hopi Cottonwood & Leather Konin Kachina, Havasupai Maiden
- Lot 0110 — Native American Limestone Wolf Effigy Pipe
- Lot 0111 — Native American Zuni Animal Fetish Shell & Stone Carvings, 10 pcs
- Lot 0112 — 20th C. Acoma Black-on-White Pottery Jar - Tina Garcia
- Lot 0113 — Northwest Coast Salish Twined Cedar Bark Square Basket
- Lot 0114 — Inuit Walrus Ivory Carving & Fossilized Mammoth Molar
- Lot 0115 — Two Alaskan Bone Vertebrae w/ Drawn on Animal Faces
- Lot 0116 — Inuit Soapstone Sculpture Hunter w/ Seal
- Lot 0117 — Inuit Soapstone / Bone Figural Carving, Mother & Child
- Lot 0118 — Inuit Soapstone Kneeling Female Figure by Panniark Siusangnark
- Lot 0119 — Lot of 75 Moroccan Flint Uniface Tools
- Lot 0120 — Three African Neolithic Stone Choppers
- Lot 0121 — Saharan Aterian & Tilemsi Stone Point Group - Lot of 25
- Lot 0122 — Three Neolithic African Sahara Chert Stone Hand Axes
- Lot 0123 — Neolithic North African Circular Flint Blade Tool
- Lot 0124 — Neolithic African Saharan Chert Skinning Tool
- Lot 0125 — Prehistoric North Africa Neolithic Stone Scraper Tool
- Lot 0126 — Neolithic Saharan Stone Hand Tools - Group of Three Knapped Implements
- Lot 0127 — Tuareg Berber Leather Saddle Decoration - Green Dye Openwork & Yarn
- Lot 0128 — Sumatran Kroe Cotton Cloth with Supplementary Weft
- Lot 0129 — 19th C. Borneo Dayak Wood Hampatong Ancestor Figure
- Lot 0130 — Vibrant Borneo Dayak Tribal Wood Ritual Mask
- Lot 0131 — Borneo Dayak Wood Anthropomorphic Ritual Mask
- Lot 0132 — Large Borneo Iban Dayak Wooden Tribal Mask
- Lot 0133 — Melanesia Bone Nose Ornaments, Needles & Teeth
- Lot 0134 — Melanesia Conus Shell Disc Necklace - Tribal Currency Adornment
- Lot 0135 — Large Maori Stone Toki Adze Blade
- Lot 0136 — Early 20th C. Maori Carved Wood Inkwell with Paua Shell Eyes
- Lot 0137 — Papua New Guinea Palmwood Bow & Assorted Arrows
- Lot 0138 — Philippine Tribal Bow & Metal Tipped Arrows in Quiver
- Lot 0139 — Papua New Guinea Basketry Helmet Mask - Mosquito Spirit With Cassowary Crest
- Lot 0140 — 20th C. Papua New Guinea Cassowary Feather Headdress - Highlands Adornment
- Lot 0141 — Papua New Guinea Boar Tusk Pendant Necklace - Job's Tears Seed Beads
- Lot 0142 — Papua New Guinea Sepik River Dog-Tooth Necklace - Plaited Fiber Cord
- Lot 0143 — New Guinea Asmat Palmwood Bow & Six Cane Hunting Arrows
- Lot 0144 — Papua New Guinea Bamboo & Vegetal Fiber Implements
- Lot 0145 — Papua New Guinea Dance Axe - Stone Blade
- Lot 0146 — Early 20th C. SE Asian Palawan Island Bamboo Blowgun
- Lot 0147 — Balinese Lontar Palm Leaf Manuscript, Hindu Epic Scenes
- Lot 0148 — Mammoth Ivory, Fur, Woolly Rhino Tooth & Fern Fossil
- Lot 0149 — Prehistoric Complete Oreodont Femur Bone Fossil
- Lot 0150 — Natural History Group - Banded Agate, Petrified Wood & Plant Fossil
- … and 240 more lots
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