I referred to the REST API documentation here. It works for folders. However, it is not working for individual artifacts.
There is not REST API method for triggering replication for a specific artifacts.
You can use the event-based push replication instead or on top of the scheduled replication - artifact replication will occur in nearly in real-time since each create, copy, move or delete of an artifact is immediately propagated to the far end.
If you wish to limit the artifacts being replicated to a given path you can: