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THBRare Native American Fort Ancient Incised Stone Spool
Lot 110
About Seller
Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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By Artemis Gallery
Oct 28, 2021
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2021-10-28 12:00:00
2021-10-28 12:00:00
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Join us for a very special early Fall auction featuring fabulous fossils, rocks, and minerals, plus art depicting flora and fauna from antiquity to present day. This is one sale you won't want to miss! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
Join us for a very special early Fall auction featuring fabulous fossils, rocks, and minerals, plus art depicting flora and fauna from antiquity to present day. This is one sale you won't want to miss! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Native American, Eastern United States, Southern Ohio, Scioto County, Fort Ancient culture, ca. 1000 to 1700 CE. This is a superb and rare spool hand-carved from sandstone, with fine and very attractive patterns carefully incised onto all sides. The spool has a lengthy hourglass shape, tapering inward at the center. The circular end faces are completely drilled through the center, which is quite rare for the type. The body is decorated with incised diamond shaped patterns and the faces with curved linear radiating from the drill hole, or the peripheries. These enigmatic spool shaped objects are not well understood, and many theories of usage have been proposed that range from ear spools to a necklace assemblage - only a small percentage of them are ever completely drilled, however, as this example is. The designs on these spools are always geometric and probably pertain to various cosmological patterns or other natural events. Size: 2" L x 2.35" W (5.1 cm x 6 cm)
Provenance: ex-old private New England, USA collection, acquired in the 1970s; ex-old private Ohio, USA collection, acquired in the 1950s
All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.
A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to recent increases of shipments being seized by Australian & German customs (even for items with pre-UNESCO provenance), we will no longer ship most antiquities and ancient Chinese art to Australia & Germany. For categories of items that are acceptable to ship to Australia or Germany, please contact us directly or work with your local customs brokerage firm.
Display stands not described as included/custom in the item description are for photography purposes only and will not be included with the item upon shipping.
#161687Minor chips and surface abrasions, otherwise intact. Rare example!Condition
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