This is for a Bonhams auction catalog for sales of Oriental Ceramics and Works of Art..
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This is a cane arrow container or quiver of the Ashanti of West Africa.
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This is a sword of a type called a briquet. The French used them first in the Napoleonic period and after Waterloo, many countries updated their weapons to deal with changing military tactics.
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This is a bronze figure for a Hindu home shrine dating to about 1800. It is South Indian and 2? high. It represents a seated deity holding a bowl. It would have been used along with others in a group which represented both deities and worshipers.
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Roman legionaries were required to command a broad variety of skills. One of the most important was archery.
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This is a fine pair of Roman casket hasps dating about 100 BC-100 AD.
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This is a finely made Egyptian buff terra cotta figure of a woman dating to about 300 BC.
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Three Edo period Japanese Arrowheads mounted on an old antique oak stand. Makes a fine display.
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This is a continental European, probably German powder flask dating c.1660-1700. That was a time of great conflict on the heels of the English Civil War and leading to the War of Spanish Succession.
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This is an engraved brass signature seal from the Ottoman Empire, dating to about 1700.
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Chinese archers used a long heavy bow with long arrows which required great strength and skill.
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Chinese archers used a long heavy bow with long arrows which required great strength and skill.
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Chinese archers used a long heavy bow with long arrows which required great strength and skill.
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This is a genuine antiquity, a figure of the goddess Astarte made and used in the Syro-Hittite kingdom about 1950 B.C.
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This is a carved wood ancestor figure from West Africa, of the Ashante.
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This figure dates to about 1920 and is an ancestor who would be asked to intervene with the gods on behalf of the living.
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Late 19th century when the slave trade thrived including the market for human consumption. African made white glass, about 1/3” diameter and quite irregular.
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For sale is for a Amoskeag auction catalog that covers the sales of Antique and Modern Guns and Arms.
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The Mezcala culture evolved, from the Olmec, in central Guerrero state of Mexico and perpetuated human sacrifice.
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This is a finely made Egyptian buff terra cotta figure of a rotund male with pompous attitude dating to about 300 BC.
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This is a German sword for non commissioned officer dating t about 1880-90. It has a 33 1/4” curved single edged blade which is quite long for these.
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The Yucatán Peninsula was developed for tourism in the 1960s. Prior to that, it was isolated and underdeveloped, largely dedicated to sisal farms.
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Much of the tribal art on the market is not traditional, but made for the trade, whether tourist or export. Of these, a great deal has been artificially “aged” to emulate traditional items.
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This is a carved ancestor figure of the Senufo of west Africa who, like many other African cultures, worshiped ancestors for their ability to communicate with the spirit world.
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Like many African cultures, the Senufo are divided according to matrilinage and invoke the favor of gods through ancestors.
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This is a Bantu slaver’s battle axe dating to about 1850. It is 20 1/4" long with a 7 1/4" blade.
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The Aladdin Company of Bay City, Michigan was one of America's most long lived manufacturers of mail-order, "kit homes." Begun in 1906 by two brothers,
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For sale are 3 Old Prehistoric and Historic Artifact Catalogs(Findlay,OH)
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For sale are 3 Old Prehistoric and Historic Artifact Catalogs(Findlay,OH).
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