A 30 Million-Year-Old Natural Sculpture & More Astonishing Rarities

A 30 Million-Year-Old Natural Sculpture & More Astonishing Rarities

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  A gilt-bronze Buddhist halo, Japan, Kamakura period, 12th century. Estimate HK$100,000–150,000 ($12,800–19,200).
  
  A superbly carved wood figure of Amida Nyorai, Japan, late Heian period, 12th century. Estimate HK$1,200,000–1,500,000 ($154,000–192,000).
  
  
  
   
  

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  A gilt-bronze Buddhist halo, Japan, Kamakura period, 12th century. Estimate HK$100,000–150,000 ($12,800–19,200).
  
  
  
   
  

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  A carved walnut wood figure of crucified Christ, Northern Spain, 13th century. Estimate HK$350,000–450,000 ($45,000–58,000).
  
  
  
   
  

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  A marble mask with the face of Silenus, Italy, 19th–early 20th-century. Estimate HK$140,000–160,000 ($18,000–20,500).
  
  A Yaozhou black-glazed bowl, Northern Song–Jin dynasty. Estimate HK$30,000-50,000($3,850–6,400).
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
   
  

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  A gogotte, Oligocene (30 million years old), Fontainebleau, France. Estimate HK$180,000–220,000 ($23,000–28,000).
  
  
  
   
  

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  A carved wood figure of Fudo Myo-O, Japan, late Heian period, 12th-century. Estimate HK$600,000–800,000 ($77,000–103,000).
  
   
  

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  A massive giraffe skull (Giraffa camelopardalis), South Africa. Estimate HK$45,000–55,000 ($5,800–7,100).
  

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  An extremely rare and superb jade ceremonial blade (detail), Yazhang, Shimao culture, Shaanxi, Neolithic period. Estimate HK$1,600,000–2,000,000 ($ 205,000–256,000).
  
  

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  An extremely rare and superb jade ceremonial blade, Yazhang, Shimao culture, Shaanxi, Neolithic period. Estimate HK$1,600,000–2,000,000 ($205,000–256,000).
  

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  An olmec stone dwarf, Mexico, Middle pre-Classic period (circa 900–600 BC). Estimate HK$140,000–200,000 ($18,000–26,000).
  

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  An olmec stone dwarf, Mexico, Middle pre-Classic period (circa 900–600 BC). Estimate HK$140,000–200,000 ($18,000–26,000).
  

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  A black lacquerediron Zunari Ushirodate Kabuto, mid-Edo period, 17th–18th century. Estimate HK$40,000–60,000 ($5,200–7,700).
  
  A carved wood memento mori skull, Germany, 16th century. Estimate HK$120,000–180,000 ($15,400–23,100).
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
   
  

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  A rare hexagonal goldpainted bronze vase, Ming dynasty, Wanli period. Estimate HK$150,000–200,000 ($19,200–25,600).
  

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  An Egyptian limestone fragmentary head of a man, New Kingdom, late 18th dynasty (circa 1350 BC). Estimate HK$55,000–75,000 ($7,100–9,600).
  

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  A fragmentary Roman marble portrait head of a youth Severan, circa late 2nd–3rd century AD. Estimate HK$160,000–200,000 ($20,500–25,600).
  

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  A carved wood Inupiaq mask, Ancient Eskimo, Alaska, 15th century. Estimate HK$350,000–550,000 (US$45,000–71,000).
  

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