Ritual and Culture

An Aztec carved basalt figure of the goddess Chicomecoatl 15th/16th centuryH: 8 1/4, W: 4, D: 4 in.PROVENANCE:By repute, acquired from the Washing...

An Egyptian faience Bes figure Late Dynastic to Ptolemaic Period, circa 664 to 30 B.C.E.Mounted on ebonized wood stand.H: 7 1/4, W: 3, D: 1 3/4 in...

An Egyptian bronze figure of a seated cat Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C.E.Hollow cast bronze.H: 17, W: 4, D: 13 3/4 in. (overall); H: 14 1/2, W: ...

A Limoges gilt-copper and champlevé enamel crucifix 13th century With applied gilt-copper Christ affixed with dark blue glass eyes, mounted to a c...

A French Gothic carved limestone portal figure fragment of a head of a queen Possibly from the Portal of Sainte-Anne, Notre-Dame de Paris, second ...

A French Gothic carved alabaster funerary portal or arch voussoirAttributed to Jean de Cambrai (French, 1375-1438), possibly from Sainte-Chapelle ...

A Burgundian carved limestone portal or funerary figure, likely Catherine of AlexandriaFirst quarter 15th centuryH: 39, W: 13 1/2, D: 10 in. (appr...

A French late Gothic clay head of a saint, probably Mary Region of Autun, late 15th/early 16th century Mounted on a wooden stand.H: 9 3/4, W: 5 1/...

A French late Gothic carved walnut figure of Saint Thomas the Apostle16th centuryH: 41 1/2, W: 11 1/2, D: 7 in. (approx.)PROVENANCE:Private Collec...

A Rhenish late Gothic carved limestone bust of a kneeling man, possibly Nicodemus or Joseph of ArimatheaWestern Rhine Valley, late 15th/early 16th...

Two French late Gothic polychrome walnut figures of the Virgin Mary and Saint Anne16th centuryEach mounted to wood base. (2).H: 11 1/2 in. (figure...

A French polychromed figure of Saint Eligius (Eloi) depicted as a farrierprobably 17th centuryThe hammer and base later replaced.H: 21 1/2 in. (ap...

A pair of Italian Baroque gilt and polychrome decorated figural torchères Early 18th century On later siena marble bases. (2).H: 24, W: 11, D: 7 i...

A French quill work reliquary cross 17th/18th century Framed reliquary in the shape of a cross with miniature statuette of Virgin and Child surrou...

A large Italian quill work reliquary depicting Saint Anne and the Virgin 19th century Framed reliquary with central miniature painting of Saint An...

A collection of German blown glass and wax saints Most 19th/early 20th century Comprising three depictions of Virgin and Child, two of the Virgin,...

Two santibelli depicting the Holy Family and God the Father French or Italian, 19th centuryH: 16 in. (tallest dome)PROVENANCE:Private Collection, ...

Three santibelli depicting the Virgin and ChildFrench or Italian, late 19th centuryH: 21 1/2 in. (tallest dome)PROVENANCE:Private Collection, New ...

Three santibelli depicting saints French or Italian, 19th century Comprising a figure of St. John the Baptist, St. Francis and St. Peter, and St. ...

A Greek Icon of the Annunciation 19th century Mounted in shadowbox frame.H: 17, W: 11 3/4 in. (icon, approx.); H: 27 3/4, W: 21 1/2 in. (frame, ov...

The Lactation of the Cistercian St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)Spanish Colonial School, probably 18th century Oil on canvas, framed.H: 33 1/4...

A retablo depicting the martyrdom of San Lorenzo Mexican School, 19th century Oil on tin, framed.H: 13 5/8, W: 9 1/2 in. (sight); H: 19 1/4, W: 15...

A large Mexican figural reliquary of the Madonna of the Veil Late 19th/early 20th centuryH: 33, W: 17 1/2 in.PROVENANCE:Private Collection, New Yo...

A Spanish Colonial carved and polychromed wood and pressed metal crucifixPhilippines, 18th/19th centuryH: 25 in.PROVENANCE:A. R. Broomer, New York...

[Incunabula] Gutenberg, Johann (printer)Leaf From the Gutenberg Bible(Mainz: Johann Gutenberg, 1450-55). Folio (388 x 287 mm). Leaf 156 from the s...

[Incunabula] Cornazzano, AntonioLa vita di Cristo...Venice: (Printed for Antonio Cornazzano), 1472. 4to (203 x 152 mm). 48 (of 71) leaves, lacking...

[Incunabula] HieronymusAureola ex floribus S. Hieronymi contexta...(Milan: Philippus de Lavagnia, 28 Nov. 1475). 8vo (185 x 130 mm). 173 leaves, l...

[Incunabula] Plynii Secundi, Caii (Pliny the Elder)Naturalis historiaeParma: Stephanus Corallus, 1476. Edited by Philippus Beroaldus. Folio (422 x...

[Incunabula] Leonardus de UtinoSermones quadragesimales de legibus dictiUlm: Johann Zainer, 9 Mar. 1478. Folio (352 x 254 mm). 380 leaves, plus ad...

[Incunabula] Quentell, Heinrich (printer)Biblia (in West Low German, With Glosses According to Nicolaus de Lyra's Postils)(Cologne: Heinrich Quent...

[Incunabula] Amerbach, Johann (printer)Biblia LatinaBasel: Johann Amerbach, 1479. Folio (279 x 203 mm). 538 leaves. Collation: a-y10, A-T10, U12, ...

[Incunabula] (Ripelin, Hugo)(Compendium theologicae veritatis [with table by Thomas Dorniberg])(Ulm: Johann Zainer, ca. 1478-80). Folio (260 x 190...

[Incunabula] Amerbach, Johann (printer)Biblia LatinaBasel: Johann Amerbach, 1481. In two volumes. Folio (288 x 200 mm). 564 (of 572) leaves, lacki...

[Incunabula] Florentinus, AntoninusPrima pars totius summe AntoniniBasel: Michael Wenssler, 1485. Part one only. Index of Johannes Molitoris at fr...

[Incunabula] Gerson, JohannesOperaBasel: Nicolaus Kesler, March 12-21, 1489. Edited by Peter Schott and Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg. Three parts...

[Incunabula] William of Ockham(Quodlibeta septem una cum tractatu de sacramento altaris...)(Strasbourg: Georg Husner), 1491. Folio (282 x 209 mm)....

[Incunabula] Hieronymi (St. Jerome)Epistolarum beati Hieronymi presbyteri omnes partes uno volumine contenteNuremberg, Anton Koberger, 12 Nov. 149...

[Incunabula] Paganinis, Hieronymus de (printer)Biblia LatinaVenice: Hieronymus de Paganinis, 7 Sept. 1497. Edited by Petrus Angelus de Monte Ulmi....

[Incunabula] Manutius, Aldus (printer)Epistolae diversorum philosophorum oratorum. Rhetorum sex & uiginti. Quorum nomina in sequenti in uenies pag...

[Early Printing] (Claravellensis, Bernardus, Saint)Fragment of Homilies From "Opuscula divi Bernardi abbatis Clarevallensis..."(Speyer, Germany: P...

[Early Printing] (Morgenstern, Georg)Fragment from "Sermones contra omnem mundi perversum statum"(Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, ca. 1502). Small 4to....

[Religion] Nicholls, WilliamA Comment on the Book of Common-Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, &c. Together with the Psalter or Psalms ...

[Religion]The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church...Oxford: Printed by W. Ja...

[Religion]The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of t...

A Great Plains pictographic War Record on muslin Lakota or Kiowa, circa 1880 Ink, graphite and paint on muslin, mounted to a pigmented canvas, fra...

A Plains pictographic beaded hide jacket Probably Cheyenne, circa 1890 With polychrome beaded horses and buffalo heads to front an back of jacket,...

A Southern Plains beaded hide dress with tinklers 20th centuryL: 52 in. (incl. fringe)PROVENANCE:A Private Family Collection.

Three pairs of beaded hide moccasins Eastern Woodland, Lakota and Sioux, 19th and 20th centuryL: 6 1/2 in., 9 in., and 10 1/4 in.PROVENANCE:A Priv...

A pair of Plains beaded hide pictorial wrist bands Late 19th/early 20th centuryL: 7 1/2, W: 4 5/8 in.PROVENANCE:A Private Family Collection.

A Plains beaded trade cloth double-sided “Octopus” bag Upper Missouri or Metis, last quarter 19th centuryL: 19 in. (incl. fringe)PROVENANCE:A Priv...

A Central Plains beaded and quilled hide pipe bag Late 19th centuryL: 34 in. (incl. fringe)PROVENANCE:Alan Kessler Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, ...

Five Hopi carved and painted cottonwood root Katsina Dolls Early 20th century In the form of various spirit messangers. (5).H: 8 1/2 in. to 9 3/4 ...

A Pueblo painted and decorated gourd rattleWith a wooden handle.L: 13 in.PROVENANCE:A Private Family Collection.

Two Plateau double-sided twined cornhusk bagsNez Perce, late 19th/early 20th centuryOne with holes for drawstring, another with replaced leather h...

A Plateau painted parfleche bonnet casePossibly Crow, 20th centuryL: 18 1/2 in.PROVENANCE:A Private Family Collection.

A fine Northwest Coast carved, polychrome and abalone-inlaid totem pole modelHaida or Tsimshian, circa 1880 Depicting bear, beaver, raven, owl and...

A rare pair of Modoc beaded hide and basketry dolls Late 19th century With red ochre pigment heightened faces, beaded eardops, inlaid mouths, with...

A Plains double-sided painted hide pictorial hand drum Late 19th century Decorated on both sides with two teepee and sun.Dia: 14 1/2, D: 1 1/2 in....

A Plains painted hide pictorial hand drum Late 19th century With beater. (2).Dia: 11, D: 3 5/8 in.PROVENANCE:A Private Family Collection.

A Plains painted hide hand drum Late 19th centuryDia: 16, D: 2 7/8 in.PROVENANCE:Toby Herbst Antiques, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 23, 2006.A Pri...