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Greek Mythology
By John Flaxman
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
promoted his influence all over Europe, leading Goethe to describe him as "the idol of all dilettanti". His
Category
1780s Old Masters Antique Idols
Materials
Ink, Pen
Greek Mythology
By John Flaxman
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Goethe to describe him as "the idol of all dilettanti". His designs for the works of Homer (published in
Category
1780s Old Masters Antique Idols
Materials
Ink, Pen
17th century - plateau with two breasts, attribute of Saint Agatha
Located in Bruxelles, BE
idols, affirming humbly that, despite her noble lineage, she was but a servant of the Lord.
Enraged
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17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Idols
Materials
Wood
Beautiful Sculpture Depicting Saint George Slaying the Dragon
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
the passion of the saint. Indeed, Saint George was martyred for refusing to sacrifice to pagan idols
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Idols
Materials
Wood
17th Century Spanish School, "San Bartolome"
Located in Madrid, ES
him to worship his idols, just as he had done with his brother. . Faced with the saint's refusal, the
Category
17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Idols
Materials
Paint
Grand Tour Italian Alabaster Antique Sculpture of “Aeneas Carrying His Father"
Located in Shippensburg, PA
we have seen one other example with very similar losses. These losses include the head of the idol
Category
19th Century Italian Grand Tour Antique Idols
Materials
Alabaster
Bactrian Marble Idol
Located in Vosselaar, BE
A Bactrian marble idol circa late 2nd to 1st millenium BCE. The Bactrian culture was discovered by
Category
15th Century and Earlier Afghan Antique Idols
Materials
Marble
$3,034
Stone Idol Bactrian Artefact
Located in Vosselaar, BE
A Bactrian stone 'bag' idol. Alongside column and staff idols these intriguing objects belong to
Category
15th Century and Earlier Afghan Antique Idols
Materials
Sandstone
Biconvex Bronze Age Bactrian Idol
Located in Vosselaar, BE
A Bactrian biconvex stone idol. Alongside column and staff idols these intriguing objects belong to
Category
15th Century and Earlier Afghan Antique Idols
Materials
Sandstone
Standing Diquis Costa Rican Idol
Located in Greenwich, CT
Diquis Idol , Costa Rica , carved volcanic stone
Anthropomorphic figure
Provenance : Private
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Idols
Materials
Sandstone
Western Asiatic Bactrian Stone Idol
Located in Vosselaar, BE
are idols of worship. In this case this stone is reminiscent of smaller stone oil lamps but perhaps
Category
15th Century and Earlier Afghan Antique Idols
Materials
Sandstone
A Fine Mesopotamian ‘Eye Idol’
Located in London, GB
A Fine Mesopotamian ‘Eye Idol’
Red Quartzite
Northern Mesopotamia
Circa 3200 BC
Size: 3.5cm high
Category
15th Century and Earlier Iraqi Antique Idols
Materials
Quartz
Large Bactrian Marble Column Idol
Located in Vosselaar, BE
Bactrian marble column idol, circa 3000-2000 BC. It has a elegant tapering form with a undeep
Category
15th Century and Earlier Afghan Archaistic Antique Idols
Materials
Marble
The Idol, Fu Dog Portrait
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressionist painting of a Fu Dog sculpture and adoring puppies. Oil on canvas, circa 1911. Signed illegibly lower right. Displayed in a giltwood frame. Image size, 20"L x ...
Category
1910s Realist Antique Idols
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bactrian Bronze Age Stone Column Idol
Located in Vosselaar, BE
Bactrian sandstone column idol, circa 3000-2000 BC. It has an elegant tapering form with a undeep
Category
15th Century and Earlier Afghan Archaistic Antique Idols
Materials
Marble
Bactrian Marble Disc Idol on Custom Mount
Located in Chicago, IL
A stunning hand-carved marble Bactrian Disc idol with linear grooves on both sides, mounted on a
Category
15th Century and Earlier Afghan Antique Idols
Materials
Marble
Antique Terracotta Idol Head on Perspex Base
Located in Roma, IT
Idol head is an original decorative terracotta object.
It represents a portrait of divinity
Category
15th Century and Earlier Central American Antique Idols
Materials
Terracotta
Bactrian Alabaster Disc Idol, 2nd Millennium B.C.
Located in Vosselaar, BE
remains which still is being researched today. Apart from beautiful metal objects a lot of stone idols
Category
15th Century and Earlier Afghan Antique Idols
Materials
Marble
Antique Stone Ceremonial Mapuche Idol Figure from Old Chile
Located in South Burlington, VT
A rare hand carved stone "Mapauche" ceremonial idol figure dating to the 19th century
Used by a
Category
19th Century Chilean Antique Idols
Materials
Stone
Original Alla Kvinnors Avgud (the idol of all women) vintage silent movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Swedish poster: Alla Kvinnors Avgue" lithograph. Translated it means: "the idol of
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1920s Art Deco Antique Idols
Materials
Lithograph
Original Antique Print of The Chinese Emperor Kangxi C.1780
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Wonderful print of the Chinese Emperor and Idol
Copper-plate engraving
Published C.1780
Category
1780s English Georgian Antique Idols
Materials
Paper
Ancient Collection of Five Roman Artefacts Glass, Ceramic, Carthage, 2nd Century
Located in Sofia, BG
by these great civilisations. From Cypriot idols to Greek red-figure pottery, Etruscan gold to Roman
Category
15th Century and Earlier Sicilian Classical Roman Antique Idols
Materials
Ceramic, Glass
Bethlehem Steel
By Earl Marshawn Washington
Located in New York, NY
creates a technically astute image. In it, the viewer is exposed to three idol-like figures in action
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Modern Antique Idols
Materials
Ink
Pre Columbian Figure Volcanic Stone Trophy Head Hunter Statue, Costa Rica 800 AD
Located in Portland, OR
tribal banded tattoo. The statue is most likely a shamanistic idol to protect the indigenous community
Category
15th Century and Earlier Costa Rican Pre-Columbian Antique Idols
Materials
Stone
Indian Terracotta Figure : Krishnanagar Clay Doll.
Located in Leuven , BE
create religious idols. While clay figurines were traditionally limited to figures of deities from the
Category
19th Century Indian Antique Idols
Materials
Clay
Indian Terracotta Figure, Krishnanagar Clay Doll
Located in Leuven , BE
create religious idols. While clay figurines were traditionally limited to figures of deities from the
Category
19th Century Indian Antique Idols
Materials
Clay
Klauber, Books Of Samuel/ Books Of Kings, 6 Framed Engravings, 18th/19th Century
By Katharina Klauber
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
David and Ishbaal
*Ahab consecrates by fire the second idol of his son
*Maccabee
Each engraving
Category
Late 18th Century German Other Antique Idols
Materials
Paper
18th Century Hand-Painted
Iron Mounted Hardwood Jewelry Casket "Nettur Petti"
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
the royal and aristocratic families as well as in temples to store the ornaments of the idol. The
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18th Century Indian Anglo Raj Antique Idols
Natural ‘Gogotte’ Sculpture from Oligocene
Located in London, GB
familiarity; here a globe-like shape, a fertility idol or Henry Moore sculpture.
Blurring the line between
Category
15th Century and Earlier French Antique Idols
Materials
Sandstone
Oriental Symphony
By Hovsep Pushman
Located in New York, NY
oriental idols, pottery and glassware, all glowing duskily as if illuminated by candlelight. They were
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Idols
Materials
Board, Canvas, Oil
Two Pre Colombian Aztec Carved Volcanic Stone Figures with Headdress
Located in Dallas, TX
Spaniards, who considered them to be heathen idols.
The most accomplished sculptors in the Aztec Empire
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18th Century and Earlier Mexican Pre-Columbian Antique Idols
Materials
Stone
Chattie Wake (1876-1971) - Early 20th Century Oil, Seated Gentleman
Located in Corsham, GB
stopped from painting at an early age by her husband, who thought that she was not as ‘good’ as his idol
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Antique Idols
Materials
Oil
“Placidas and the Stag”
Located in Southampton, NY
worship idols and remain ignorant of the truth. It was to save mankind that I came into the world
Category
Early 1900s Academic Antique Idols
Materials
Archival Paper, Photogravure
Jeune femme à l’éventail (Young Girl with a Fan)
By James Tissot
Located in New Orleans, LA
paisley cashmere shawl, a favorite prop of Tissot’s artistic idol Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, made
Category
19th Century Realist Antique Idols
Materials
Oil, Panel
Pair Of Sculptured Vase In Specimen Marble 18th by GrandJaquet Guillaume-Antoine
Located in Roma, IT
Borghese, who entrusted him with the execution of three idols for the Egyptian room of his villa, renovated
Category
18th Century Baroque Antique Idols
Materials
Marble
A French 19th Century Pair of Louis XVI Style Large Curule Stools
By Georges Jacob, Maison Jansen
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
, a carefree crowd of movie stars, public figures, literary idols and crowned heads, we love the
Category
1890s French Louis XVI Antique Idols
Materials
Tapestry, Wood, Giltwood
Three Proto-Bactrian Column Idol
Located in London, GB
Pink veined marble, flaring out towards the base with longitudinal grooves along the top and the base.
Dimensions:
33cm x 13cm
32cm x 16cm
26cm x ...
Dimensions:
33cm x 13cm
32cm x 16cm
26cm x ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Afghan Antique Idols
Materials
Marble
Collection of Bactrian Marble
Column Idols
3000 BC
Located in London, GB
Collection of six ancient Bactrian 'column idols'.
Tapering cylindrical forms of varying
Category
18th Century and Earlier Antique Idols
French 1911s Slot Machine
La Roulette Bussoz
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
winning tokens provided
The character that stops the disc was the time sporting idol: Johnson, world
Category
Early 20th Century French Antique Idols
French Aubusson Tapestry, "A Harvest Celebration"
Located in Sausalito, CA
French Aubusson tapestry panel entitled "A Harvest Celebration." Three young ladies carry an idol
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Antique Idols
Materials
Wool, Silk
Pre Columbian Stunning Large Chimú Wood Marker Figure Ex Sothebys
Located in London, GB
burial goods, originally thought to have been worshiped as deities or idols, more recent research
Category
16th Century Peruvian Antique Idols
Materials
Pottery
Frederick Verner, "Sioux Indian on Horseback"
Located in Montecito, CA
of his long-time idol Paul Kane. Verner's work is, like Kane's, also focused on scenes from the
Category
19th Century Antique Idols
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Antique Indian Kerala Dowry Box, Malabar, Northern Kerala
Located in New York, NY
aristocratic women to keep jewelry or temples for idol accessories. This example is handcrafted in a house
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Idols
Materials
Brass
Reclining Nude with Green Stockings From Zeichnungen By Egon Schiele
By Egon Schiele
Located in New York, NY
oil paintings, a step towards achieving the success embodied by his idol, Gustav Klimt. Zeichnungen
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Early 20th Century American Expressionist Antique Idols
18th Century View of Eton from Fellows
Eyot
By JAMES STARK (1794-1859)
Located in London, GB
presented as a rural idol, with dew ponds and trees surrounding the school setting.
James Stark was a
Category
Late 18th Century English Romantic Antique Idols
18th Century Terra Cotta Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Nini, circa 1777
By Jean-Baptiste Nini 1
Located in London, GB
learned etymologists, that the name doll, for the images children play with, is derived from the word IDOL
Category
1770s French Antique Idols
Materials
Terracotta
Mr. Pibb and Friend
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Minneapolis, MN
the artist whom Norman Rockwell called "my idol".
Housed behind glass and professionally matted and
Category
1890s American Impressionist Antique Idols
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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Antique Idols For Sale on 1stDibs
There is a range of antique idols for sale on 1stDibs. Frequently made of paper, metal and stone, all antique idols available were constructed with great care. There are all kinds of antique idols available, from those produced as long ago as the 18th Century to those made as recently as the 21st Century. Antique idols have been a part of the life’s work for many furniture makers, but those produced by Bernard Picart and Tad Hershorn are consistently popular.
How Much are Antique Idols?
Antique idols can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price at 1stDibs is $1,365, while the lowest priced sells for $109 and the highest can go for as much as $38,900.