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Midori Gallery, Miami, will show an Eighteenth Century netsuke of a seated hare munching leaves. Richly patinated, the tactile composition alludes to the popular Japanese mythology of the lunar hare. Wood with umimatsu eyes, signed Tomoshige.

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Ignacio A. Villarreal, New York City, will show a cotton strip weave, Gao, Mali, early Twentieth Century, 62 by 88 inches.

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A group of mask pendants carved from stone and necklace of sharks teeth and gold, including this example, will be on view at Sue Brown, London.

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‘TREASURES’ SHOW SALE RETURNS OCT. 26–28 TO BENEFIT UPENN w/3 cuts

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PHILADELPHIA, PENN. — Treasures…From the Silk Road to the Santa Fe Trail Show & Sale, Philadelphia’s shopping and collecting exposition of antiques, fine arts and textiles from world cultures, returns to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology for its third annual presentation October 26–28. Treasures 2007 opens with a “reservations suggested” preview party, Thursday evening, October 25.

More than 40 dealers from around the world will again transform the museum’s third floor galleries into a marketplace for art, antiques, jewelry, carpets, sculptural objects, furniture, ceramics, wearable and textiles — all carefully vetted, one-of-a-kind Eighteenth–Twenty-First Century pieces. The show highlights fine art works from Asia, Africa, Oceania and the Americas.

Presented by The Women’s Committee to benefit Penn Museum’s educational and outreach programs, Treasures is produced by Caskey-Lees. Treasures 2007 is chaired by Susan W. Catherwood, Helen Stephenson Weary and Nancy Freeman Tabas.

Treasures has been cited by the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation as one of Philadelphia’s top annual events and is a centerpiece of “Philadelphia Falls for the Arts,” a collaboration with USArtists: American Fine Art Show and The Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show.

Two “treasured” special exhibitions at Penn Museum coincide with the Treasures 2007 Show & Sale: “River of Gold, Precolumbian Treasures from Sitio Conte” presenting crafted gold work from the museum’s 1940 excavations at the ancient cemetery site of Sitio Conte in what is now central Panama; and selected highlights from “Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur,” including jewelry, gold and silver, and more — from the museum’s 1920–30s excavations at Ur, a key discovery in ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq).

The Treasures 2007 preview party for sponsors and benefactors is Thursday evening, October 25 from 5 to 9 pm. Treasures is open to the public Friday and Saturday, October 26–27, from 11 am to 8 pm; Sunday, October 28, from 11 am to 5 pm. The $15 admission includes unlimited reentry, show catalog and museum admission; $12 for Penn Museum members, Penn faculty, staff, alumni; and members of WHYY; $10 for students.

Treasures Show & Sale takes place at Penn’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on the University of Pennsylvania campus, 3260 South Street, across from Franklin Field.

Tickets can be purchased at the door and online at www.museum.upenn.edu. For information and reservations, 215-898-9213 or treasures@museum.upenn.edu or www.caskeylees.com.