The Art of the Ancient World at auction in Moscow
20 May in Moscow Central House of Artists will host an auction «The Art of the Ancient World»
20 May in Moscow Central House of Artists will host an auction «The Art of the Ancient World». Organizers auction - auction house «Kabinet» and gallery «Arhayos».
At the auction will be presented to approximately 120 lots in the categories of «East and Ancient Egypt», «Ancient Greece and Rome», «pre-Columbian civilizations of Latin America», «The African Art», «The Islamic World», «South East Asia »,« Byzantine »and« Medieval Europe ».
auction participants will be offered a unique monument to the era of Ptolemaic rule (III - II century BC. e.) - made of sandstone sided stele depicting the king, coming before God Neferhotepom. This lot is evaluated by experts in 1-1,4 million rubles.
One of the most unexpected of auction lots, according to experts, is a figure-fetish Nkisi African tribe Bakongo (Congo - Angola). Preliminary assessment of the African fetish - 60-80 thousand rubles.
According to organizers, the auction of its kind held in Moscow, only the second time. The first auction «The Art of the Ancient World» was held in Moscow in December 2006.
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