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The temptation of St Anthony. Oil on canvas. 17th c., after David Teniers II
By David Teniers the Younger
Located in Madrid, ES
painting appears an elderly, bearded man, leaning on a table on which there is a ceramic jug and a skull
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17th Century European Baroque Antique Skull

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Other

‘Les Peintures des Taxidermistes’ No.5, Art Print Photo by Sinke Van Tongeren
By Sinke Van Tongeren
Located in Haarlem, NL
a Dutch antique bible that is almost hidden under the powerful presence of the Nile Crocodile skull
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Early 17th Century Dutch Renaissance Antique Skull

Materials

Paper

Panoramic View of Isfahan in 17th Century Persia by J.C. Haffner, ca.1690
Located in Langweer, NL
high tower, from top to bottom filled with nothing but bones and other skulls, and there are many
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1690s Antique Skull

Materials

Paper

Pair of French 19th Century Renaissance St. Columns, Signed Barbedienne
By Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
superb bison skulls connected by swaging berried laurel garlands below most decorative mottled designs
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19th Century French Renaissance Antique Skull

Materials

Bronze, Ormolu

Rare 19th Century Italian Memento Mori Bust / Sculpture Carrara Marble Vanitas
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
. White Carrara marble skull combined with masterfully carved hood & robes all from one piece of solid
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Late 19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Antique Skull

Materials

Carrara Marble

Cross-Shaped Chest Clock, Silver, 17th Century, it Presents Restorations
Located in Madrid, ES
skull in the Metropolitan Museum (Isaac Penard's movement from around 1650, box from around 1810-1820
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17th Century European Baroque Antique Skull

Materials

Metal, Silver, Other

Antique Print of a Cap and Glove by Gibb, 1890
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Skull Cap of King Charles I - Glove of King Charles I'. Chromolithographic
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19th Century Antique Skull

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Paper

Antique Print of a Cap and Lace Collar by Gibb, 1890
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Skull-Cap of King Charles I - Lace Collar'. Chromolithographic plate
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19th Century Antique Skull

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Paper

A 19th Century German K.P.M Plaque Depicting Reclining Magdalene
Located in Tarzana, CA
a skull
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19th Century German Antique Skull

Devotional Pendant, Gold, Enamel, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
shows Mary Magdalene, as a hermit, with a skull, a cross and a book; the other presents the image of San
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18th Century European Neoclassical Antique Skull

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Gold, Enamel, Other

Bronze Tibetan Couple Statue Vajrasattva Yab Yum
Located in Somis, CA
back, wearing a crown with horns and three tiers of deities and skulls. In addition to the 2 main arms
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19th Century Tibetan Antique Skull

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Bronze

19th Century Italian Milanese Neoclassical Silver Oil and Vinegar Cruet Set
Located in Milano, MI
interspersed with the symbol of death a skull with crossbones, identified by the G. Sambonet, (Milan 1987, page
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Mid-19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Skull

Materials

Silver

17th Century Italian Massive Silver Crucifix with Golden Wood Frame, circa 1900s
Located in Vigonza, Padua
skull with two crossed crossbones appears very often under the cross (or at its feet). The symbolism
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Early 17th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Skull

Materials

Silver

Jale with the Sisera s Head - Original Etching by M. Greuter
By Matthaeus Greuter
Located in Roma, IT
Israel, into his tent, he kills him in his sleep by sticking a tent in his skull. This moment is
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16th Century Northern Renaissance Antique Skull

Materials

Etching

Portrait of Hans Bol, the Painter, at the age of 58
By Hendrik Goltzius
Located in New York, NY
Bol. The skull with the upside-down torches indicates that this engraving was made by Goltzius after
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16th Century Old Masters Antique Skull

Materials

Engraving

19th Century Italian Roman Vanitas Bust Renaissance Revival Memento Mori Marble
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
. White Carrara marble skull combined with a Belgian Black marble Roman toga (robe). The roman toga
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Late 19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Antique Skull

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Marble, Belgian Black Marble, Carrara Marble

Italian Marble Bust Vanitas / Memento Mori 19th Century Carved Sculpture Italy
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
marble skull combined with a red Rosso Imperiale marble Roman toga (robe). The roman toga shows
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Late 19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Antique Skull

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Marble, Carrara Marble

The Monumental Tablet
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
technique, while the combination of skulls, vegetation, and crumbling ruins, as well as the ambiguity of the
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1740s Old Masters Antique Skull

Materials

Etching

Original Antique Movie Poster Der Geheimnisvolle Club Delmont R L Stevenson Book
Located in London, GB
card in front of a shadow in red with a skull faced figure of Death handing him a gun and hiding the
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1910s German Antique Skull

Materials

Paper

Indian Brass Plaque of Shiva as 4-Armed Virabhadra, 18th-19th Century
Located in Miami Beach, FL
, arrows and a bow. A garland of skulls wraps around his legs. At his lower left stands Daksha, who had
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19th Century Indian Tribal Antique Skull

Materials

Brass

Fine 19th Century French Neo-Gothic Gilt Metal Cathedral Church Reliquary Pair
Located in Forney, TX
the shape of the relics they housed also became popular; hence, for instance, the skull of Pope
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Mid-19th Century French Gothic Revival Antique Skull

Materials

Brass, Bronze

Il Kaiser - Original Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - 1915
By Gabriele Galantara
Located in Roma, IT
notes in pencil. This artwork represents the head of a skull with a crown. "L'asino" magazine
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1910s Modern Antique Skull

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Ink, Watercolor

Thomas Willis, MD, 17th C. Pioneer of Neurology Psychiatry: 18th C. Portrait
By George Vertue
Located in Alamo, CA
around it. Flanking the lower portion of the oval are a skull, spine and ribs, bottles containing liquids
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1740s Antique Skull

Materials

Engraving

Large Bronze Dancing Shiva, Nataraja, 19th/20th Century, South India
Located in Austin, TX
goddess Ganga, personification of the Ganges river. Other elements in his hair include a cobra, a skull
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Early 1900s Indian Antique Skull

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Bronze

Vanitas, Oil on Panel, Circle of Vincent Sellaer c. 1500-Mechelen, before 1589
Located in Madrid, ES
hourglass, a skull under one foot and a palm. Note both the symbolism of these elements and the one that the
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16th Century European Renaissance Antique Skull

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Other

Santa Rita Retablo
Located in Santa Monica, CA
at age 36. St. Rita is often depicted holding a skull, with a wound in her forehead and with
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19th Century Mexican Spanish Colonial Antique Skull

Materials

Tin

Royal Naval Surgeon Robert Prideaux and His Wife Mary Ann
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
skull at his elbow and his wife with an open writing box. Oil on canvas within a gilded frame and
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1810s English Antique Skull

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Canvas, Paint

What a Life
Located in Los Angeles, CA
. And, in the middle of the composition is a crowned human skull sitting above an overturned paying card
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1920s American Modern Antique Skull

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Mixed Media

18th/19th Century Italian Baroque Silvered Metal Altar Monstrance Reliquary
Located in Forney, TX
relics they housed also became popular; hence, for instance, the skull of Pope Alexander I was housed in
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Early 19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Skull

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Metal

Procession Four girls with flowers - English Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Burchett, whom Elizabeth Thompson described as a "bearded, velvet-skull-capped and cold-searching-eyed man
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1890s Academic Antique Skull

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Paper, Watercolor

Japanese Screen Pair, Tigers by Kishi Renzan, Late Edo Period
Located in Kyoto, JP
live tiger and worked from a preserved skin and skull in his personal collection. This led directly to
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Mid-19th Century Asian Edo Antique Skull

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Gold Leaf

Very Fine and Large Orientalist Oil on Canvas Titled "Ashura Rituals, Tangier"
By Gordon B. Coutts 1
Located in Los Angeles, CA
their own skulls, backs and shoulders, the blood streaming down their faces until they eventually drop
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Early 20th Century Moroccan Other Antique Skull

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Canvas

Antique Cameo Brooch, Yellow Gold
Located in Marcianise, Marcianise (CE)
sleep: Marzio broke his legs with a rolling pin, Olimpio finished him hitting him in the skull and
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19th Century Italian Retro Antique Skull

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Gold, Yellow Gold

Theodoor Galle Martin de Vos 17th Century Engraving Jesus Carries his Cross
Located in London, GB
out to a place called the Place of a Skull." Theodoor Galle was the son of Philip Galle, a Dutch
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17th Century Realist Antique Skull

Materials

Engraving

Theodoor Galle Martin de Vos 17th Century Engraving Jesus Nailed to the Cross
Located in London, GB
) 17.5x22cm From the Gospel of Luke, chapter 3 "When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified
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17th Century Realist Antique Skull

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Engraving

Red blooming war landscape with dead soldier - Bleeding flowers -
Located in Berlin, DE
paraphrases the calotte of the skull and, like the funnel, thematizes the empty darkness of death. The
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1910s Realist Antique Skull

Materials

Watercolor

17th Century Penitent Magdalene Painting Tempera on Parchment by Genovese
By Giovanni Battista Castello
Located in Milan, IT
iconographic elements, such as the skull, alluding to the transience of earthly existence, the scourge and the
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17th Century Italian Antique Skull

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Parchment Paper

Superb George III Neoclassical Fireplace Mantel of the Roman Doric Order
By Sir William Chambers
Located in London, GB
sculpted with a Bucranium mask of an ox skull. This has horns and a jeweled decoration adorns the skull
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Mid-18th Century British Neoclassical Antique Skull

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Marble, Statuary Marble

Assassinat - Etching by James Ensor - 1888
By James Ensor
Located in Roma, IT
topic of Ensor artworks, he was fascinated by the dark and silenced skeleton and skulls and could
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1880s Surrealist Antique Skull

Materials

Etching

La Gourmandise - Etching by James Ensor - 1904
By James Ensor
Located in Roma, IT
topic of Ensor artworks,he was fascinated by the dark and silenced skeleton and skulls and could express
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Early 1900s Surrealist Antique Skull

Materials

Etching

Le Roi Peste (The Plague Kings) - Etching by James Ensor - 1895
By James Ensor
Located in Roma, IT
important topic of Ensor artworks,he was fascinated by the dark and silenced skeleton and skulls and could
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1890s Surrealist Antique Skull

Materials

Etching

Antique Print of Chinese Priests and Beggars, Engraved Circa 1728
By Bernard Picart
Located in Langweer, NL
in long robes, and at lower right a Chinese beggar depicted with an elongated, pointed skull—an image
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Early 18th Century Dutch Antique Skull

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Paper

Pair of Walnut Armchairs, Late 16th Century, French Renaissance, with Ram Mask C
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
features eight ram’s skulls, complete with horns, which the scholars believe are subversive representations
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16th Century French Renaissance Antique Skull

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Walnut

Pair of Louis XVI Style Vitrines with Wedgwood Plaques by Zwiener, circa 1880
By Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
' father Peleus kneels towards the urn with a torch over each shoulder. A ram's skull is hung on the trunk
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Skull

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Bronze

Raphael’s Skull
Located in New York, NY
. Minardi’s great skill as a draughtsman is evident in this meticulous rendering of Raphael’s skull, executed
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19th Century Old Masters Antique Skull

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Pencil, Paper

Whale Skull
Located in New York, NY
Incredible whale skull. Great conditions. On acrylic stand.
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Mid-18th Century American Antique Skull

Dolphin Skull
Located in Antwerp, BE
Dolphin skull with lots of teeth
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19th Century Unknown Antique Skull

Okimono Skull
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Superbly carved realistic bamboo skull distressed carving to give the impression of great age. It
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19th Century Japanese Antique Skull

Materials

Bamboo

Lion Skull
Located in New York, NY
Mounted on Bronze Base
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19th Century African Antique Skull

Materials

Metal

Artists plaster skull
Located in Cheltenham, GB
Hutton-Clarke Antiques is proud to present this extraordinary 19th-century Plaster of Paris skull
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1860s French Gothic Revival Antique Skull

Materials

Plaster

Polar Bear Skull
Located in London, GB
Antique Polar Bear Skull on metal stand.
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Early 20th Century Unknown Antique Skull

Black Buck skull
Located in San Francisco, CA
Amazing black buck skull shot by J.G.D. April 30th, 1898 in the Baoni State
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19th Century Indian Antique Skull

Materials

Horn, Wood

Ram Skull With Horns
Located in US
Natural Ram Skull With Horns
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19th Century American Antique Skull

Materials

Bone, Horn

INDONESIAN SALTWATER CROCODILE SKULL
Located in San Francisco, CA
nicely articulated skull
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19th Century Bruneian Antique Skull

Materials

Bone

Sequined Skull Cap, 1930s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gorgeous skull cap dates to the 1930's during the Art Deco period. It is made of black netting
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Early 20th Century Unknown Art Deco Antique Skull

Wooden Skull, 18th Century
Located in Brussels, BE
Extremely rare little skull of solid wood from the 18th century. Beautiful and realistic handmade
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Early 18th Century French Arts and Crafts Antique Skull

Materials

Wood

Skull Humidifier from Japan
Located in San Francisco, CA
Japanese wooden humidifier from late 19th century.
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Late 19th Century Japanese Aesthetic Movement Antique Skull

Materials

Wood

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