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Fossil Leaves Natural Specimen from Succor Creek Formation, Owyhee Mountains
Located in Warrenton, OR
Fossil Leaves Natural Specimen from Succor Creek Formation, Owyhee Mountains. Since this is a prehistoric fossil it will show its age (of course!) potentially such as cracks, pits, e...
Category
American Prehistoric Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Organic Material
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
Ammonite Fossil Specimen Mortoniceras (Angolaites) Drakei 110 Million Yrs Old
Located in Warrenton, OR
Ammonite Fossil Specimen Mortoniceras (Angolaites) Drakei 110 Million Yrs Old (apx)
We are wild about these knobby ammonite fossils, especially those with both sides are exposed rath...
Category
American Prehistoric Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Shell, Organic Material
$392 Sale Price
20% Off
Fern Fossil Specimen, Extinct Neuropteris species likely, 300 million years old
Located in Warrenton, OR
Fern Fossil Specimen, Extinct Neuropteris species likely, 300 million years old. Discovered in PA.
Colors occur naturally over time through the mineralization process. The intensity ...
Category
American Prehistoric Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Organic Material
$360 Sale Price
20% Off
Gothic Oak Chest – Northern France, Circa 1320–1360
Located in Bilzen, BE
Rare medieval oak coffer carved with Gothic tracery, featuring lancets and quatrefoils characteristic of Northern French Gothic architecture (Picardy / Artois) in the 14th century.
...
Category
French Gothic Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Iron
Ammonite Fossils, Xipheroceras
Promicroceras, Dorset England Jurassic Coast
Located in Warrenton, OR
Ammonite Fossils, Xipheroceras
Promicroceras, Dorset England Jurassic Coast. About 200 Million Years Old.
This beautiful natural specimen stands on its own, though we will al...
Category
English Prehistoric Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Organic Material, Shell
$500 Sale Price
20% Off
Alethopteris Species Fern Fossil Natural Specimen, 305+ Million Years Old
Located in Warrenton, OR
Alethopteris Species Fern Fossil Natural Specimen, 305+ Million Years Old. This is such a stunning piece that it simply must have a stand. If you like, this stand will be included a...
Category
American Prehistoric Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Organic Material
Polished Ammonite Fossil with Red Flashes, Around 110 Million Years Old
Located in Warrenton, OR
Polished Ammonite Fossil with Red Flashes, Around 110 Million Years Old, with Beautiful Glowing / Iridescent Flashes of Color and some leafy patterns peaking out. A stand like the on...
Category
Unknown Prehistoric Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Shell, Organic Material
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
Magnificent Large Vanadinite
Located in London, GB
An exceptional large specimen of vanadinite from Morocco, covered entirely with brilliant, deep red crystals of varying sizes. The crystals are densely packed together, forming a con...
Category
Moroccan Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal, Rock Crystal, Quartz
$15,000
Native Copper Slice
Located in London, GB
This remarkable sheet of native copper from Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula displays beautiful natural metallic patterns and a rich bronze lustre. Its sculptural form captures both str...
Category
American Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal, Rock Crystal, Copper
$5,500
Golden Pyrite Sculpture Decorative object Organic Crystal Rock
Located in London, GB
An extraordinary sculptural formation of golden pyrite from the famous Huanzala Mine in Ancash, Peru, composed of perfect interlocking cubes of varying sizes that appear almost hand-...
Category
Peruvian Organic Modern Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal, Quartz, Rock Crystal, Pyrite
Japanese antique Shigaraki ware vase / 13th century / Wabi-sabi flower vase
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This Echizen ware jar was produced during the Kamakura period, around the 13th century. Even among the few remaining examples of medieval Echizen ware, this is an especially valuable...
Category
Japanese Other Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Pottery
Antique Turkish Ceramic Bowl with Fish Design / Excavated Item/Late 12th century
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This ceramic bowl dates back to the late 12th century, during the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire). The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire, established in 330 AD by...
Category
Turkish Other Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Pottery
Iron Meteorite Sphere with Crystalline Structure
Located in London, GB
This polished extraterrestrial iron sphere is a fascinating display piece, dating back to the formation of the Solar System and from the core of a large asteroid. Carved from the fa...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Iron
Pre-Columbian Earthenware Dog Vessel, Colima, Western Mexico
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Pre-Columbian Earthenware Dog Vessel, Colima, Western Mexico
A lively pre-Columbian Colima dog vessel sitting back on its haunches, with one foot slightly lifted off the ground as i...
Category
Mexican Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
Golden Pyrite on Matrix
Located in London, GB
A striking specimen of golden pyrite from the renowned Navajún Mine, La Rioja, Spain, featuring perfectly formed cubes of varying sizes beautifully embedded in their natural limeston...
Category
Spanish Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal, Quartz, Rock Crystal, Pyrite
$4,500
Unique Free-standing Ammonite Fossil
Located in Nijlen, BE
Ammonites from Madagascar are the fossilized shells of extinct squid that lived 65 to 110 million years ago. These fossils are found worldwide, but Madagascar is a well-known source ...
Category
Malagasy Primitive Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Stone
Spectacular amazonite and smoky quartz crystals
Located in London, GB
This stunning specimen from Colorado beautifully combines smoky quartz crystals with striking turquoise-green amazonite and soft white feldspar. The contrast of colors—rich browns, v...
Category
American Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal, Rock Crystal
Attic Black-Figured Neck Amphora
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This small but superbly painted Neck Amphora is attributed to the Light-Make Class. It's central scene is decorated with an armored hoplite wearing greaves and a Corinthian helmet. H...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
Labradorite lightscape
Located in London, GB
This exceptional polished labradorite from Madagascar reveals a vibrant
play of color, with radiant turquoise, green, and golden flashes dancing
across its surface.
The internal irid...
Category
Malagasy Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal, Rock Crystal
$6,100
Corinthian Black-Figured Alabastron
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This exceptional and elegantly composed tear shaped Corinthian Alabastron is a standout for the type. The complex decorative scheme is centered around a standing figure of the winge...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
Puddingstone Mill from Roman France
Located in London, GB
Carved from a mosaic-like rock, this striking sculpture is the lower grinding stone from a Gallo-Roman millstone - a powerful and aesthetic symbol of life two millennia ago. It is ma...
Category
French Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Stone
Roman Marble Foot with Sandal
Located in London, GB
This evocative Roman marble foot fragment is a timeless remnant of the overlifesized sculpture it was once part of. Sensitively carved and polished, the outer sole of the sandal rema...
Category
Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble
Reflective Meteorite Slice with Peridot Crystals
Located in London, GB
This remarkable object, displaying a mesmerising honeycomb structure of shimmering peridot crystals suspended in an iron-nickel matrix, is a complete cross-section of the famous pall...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Iron
Pair of Antique Chinese Han Dynasty Pottery Red Horse Head Funerary Tomb Figures
Located in Forney, TX
A 2000 year old pair of similarly styled antique Chinese pottery horse heads dating to the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220)
Large authentic painted grey clay terracotta sculptural tomb objects, one with red pigment, one with red over white slip decoration, both crisply molded, carved and detailed.
These finely carved horse head funerary figures feature excellent attention to detail and realistic characteristics, moldeled with an upright mane, the wooden ears missing, likely long deteriorated, a normal and expected feature considering the age.
The Han Dynasty horse head...
Category
Chinese Han Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Clay, Earthenware
Apulian Red-Figured Nestoris
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This somewhat rare South Italian ceramic vessel is called a nestoris, or two handled wine jar. The obverse is decorated with a seated youth wearing a tunic, pilos helmet and high lac...
Category
Italian Classical Greek Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
BrittleStar Fossil Specimen, 443 to 485 Million Years Old, Ordovician Period
Located in Warrenton, OR
BrittleStar Fossil Specimen, 443 to 485 Million Years Old, Ordovician Period
This is a stunning starfish fossil specimen that will make a very nice display. The brittlestar is clearl...
Category
Moroccan Prehistoric Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Shell, Organic Material
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
Black-Green Spotted Martian Meteorite
Located in London, GB
This striking meteorite slice is perfectly polished to reveal the mesmerising green-black crystalline interior unique to the Martian surface. This specimen belongs to the rare class ...
Category
North African Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Stone
Antique Korean Celadon Ceramic Meiping Vase with Slip Inlay Goryeo Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Korean ceramic celadon vase with inlay design from Goryeo Dynasty (918 to 1392AD) circa 11th century. Crafted in celadon-glazed ceramic with an olive-green tone, the vase features ...
Category
Korean Archaistic Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Fossilised Skull of Prehistoric Marine Reptile the Mosasaur, 70Million Years Ago
Located in Puglia, Puglia
Upper Cretaceous, about 70-65 million years ago (Maastrichtian)
Morocco
The skull is reconstructed in good proportions with fossil pieces found in a phosphate mine in Morocco.
I att...
Category
African Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Bone
Neuropteris Ovata Species, Natural Tree Fern Fossil Specimen apx 305 million yrs
Located in Warrenton, OR
Neuropteris Ovata Species, Natural Tree Fern Fossil Specimen apx 305 million yrs old.
Discovered in Pennsylvania, this is a beautiful plant fossil natural specimen. Colors occurred n...
Category
American Prehistoric Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Organic Material
Attic Black-Figured Hydria
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An imposing vessel, this hydria is designed around a central panel depicting the wedding procession of Peleus and Thetis. The couple stands together in a quadriga, the groom controll...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
$90,000
Egyptian Stone Relief of Man and Wife
Located in London, GB
This painted limestone relief is an exquisite example of New Kingdom relief carving from the apogee of Egyptian artistic production. Carved in raised relief - a labour-intensive tech...
Category
Egyptian Egyptian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Limestone
90+ Million Years Old Conlinoceras Tarrantense Ammonite Fossil
Located in Warrenton, OR
90+ Million Years Old Conlinoceras Tarrantense Ammonite Fossil
The Conlinoceras Tarrantense Ammonite is considered rare and is highly sought after as a collector's item.
Since this...
Category
American Prehistoric Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Shell, Organic Material
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Prehistoric Natural Piece of Petrified Wood
Located in Meer, VAN
Large Prehistoric Natural Piece of Petrified Wood
A large and very decorative piece of prehistoric petrified wood in its natural form.
Truly a gem on you console table, cabinet or...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
A Stunning Knobby Ammonite Fossil Specimen, About 93 Million Years Old
Located in Warrenton, OR
A Stunning Knobby Ammonite Fossil Specimen, About 93 Million Years Old.
This is a very beautiful, multicolored (to our eye, taupe-brown, peach, white, tan) ammonite with leafy patter...
Category
American Prehistoric Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Shell, Organic Material
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
Roman Marble Head Fragment
Located in London, GB
This fine Roman marble head fragment, with broad nose, soft lips, and bearded chin, captures the likeness of one of the most important playwrights of...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble
$46,000
Mosaic-like Lunar Meteorite Cross Section
Located in London, GB
This spectacular polished slice of the Lunar meteorite Gadamis 004, reveals a mosaic-like interior, evoking the surface of the Moon as seen by the eye on a clear night. Weighing 149 ...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Stone
T. Rex Tooth in Fossil Matrix
Located in London, GB
This exceptional Tyrannosaurus Rex tooth, embedded in a sedimentary matrix and surrounded by the jumbled remains of other dinosaurs, is a strik...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Other
$120,000
Blue Fluorite on White Quartz
Located in London, GB
This striking specimen from La Viesca mine, La Collada, Huergo, Siero, Asturias, Spain features a magnificent deep blue fluorite cube beautifully accented by a delicate layer of whit...
Category
Spanish Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal, Quartz, Rock Crystal
Large Plant Fossil/Fern Fossil Specimen, Multiple Species, Carboniferous Period
Located in Warrenton, OR
Large Plant Fossil/Fern Fossil Specimen, Multiple Species, Carboniferous Period. Discovered in PA.
This is another large, substantial and colorful fossil plate specimen. The largest ...
Category
American Prehistoric Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Organic Material
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
Purple Amethyst “Harp" phantom White calcites Decorative object Sculpture
Located in London, GB
This museum-quality Amethyst “harp” from Artigas, Uruguay, is a natural sculpture of exceptional beauty and rarity. The piece features a harmonious arrangement of high-quality Amethy...
Category
Uruguayan Organic Modern Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Amethyst, Quartz
12th Century Rare Romanesque Wood Sculpture of the Virgin Mary
Located in Vero Beach, FL
12th century extremely rare romanesque wood sculpture of the Virgin Mary.
Magnificent wood hand carved sculpture of the Virgin Mary holding a book to her chest.
It is an extremely rare survivor of the 12th century. The style is European, possibly French or English. This statue is a testimony to beautiful religious art from about 1150. A truly rare Romanesque sculpture...
Category
English Medieval Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Stone
$11,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Ancient Greek Attic Black-Figured Neck Amphora
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Attributed to the Manner of The Antimenes Painter.
Side A features bearded Dionysos at the centre, with his head turned back, clad in a himation with a patterned border over an ankl...
Category
Greek Greco Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
Korean antique pottery vase/rare design pottery/Joseon Dynasty/15th century
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
I would like to introduce Korean antique pottery with a very rare design.
This is a vase-shaped container made in the early Joseon Dynasty of Ko...
Category
South Korean Other Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Pottery
Genuine Sericho Pallasite Meteorite
Located in New York, NY
This luminous Sericho pallasite meteorite slice offers a captivating view into the early solar system. Dating back approximately 4.5 billion years, this stony-iron meteorite was discovered in Kenya and officially recognized in 2016, although the fall is believed to have occurred decades earlier.
This Sericho slice features a mosaic of orange and green Olivine – the gem variety of Peridot – suspended in a gleaming iron-nickel matrix. Especially when backlit, the Olivine crystals radiate with striking transparency and color.
Pallasites make up less than 1% of all known meteorites and are among the rarest and most beautiful of extraterrestrial materials. Thought to originate from disrupted asteroids in the early solar system, specimens like this one likely formed at the boundary between a molten metal core and a silicate-rich mantle – or through high-energy impacts between differentiated bodies. This meteorite slice offers a literal cross-section of planetary formation and destruction.
A true standout for any meteorite, mineral, or space memorabilia...
Category
Kenyan Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal, Other
Ancient Egyptian Middle Kingdom Alabaster Jar
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Of beautiful rich, translucent alabaster, banded with creamy hightlights, this sizeable vessel is of exceptional quality. The cylindrical squat piriform body tapers to a flat base, ...
Category
Egyptian Egyptian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Alabaster
Purple Pink Windowed Amethyst Grey Agatised Rare Calcite Decorative Object
Located in London, GB
The central element of this geode has been preserved with two windows
on each side, revealing gorgeous calcite formations sat on a blanket of
differentially tinted amethystine quar...
Category
Uruguayan Organic Modern Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Sculptural Meteorite Fragment from the Sikhote-Alin Meteorite
Located in London, GB
From the largest meteorite shower in recorded history, this impressive iron fragment is a beautiful natural sculpture from the Sikhote-Alin meteorite. Formed 4.5 billion years ago, i...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Iron
Ancient Daunian Pottery Strainer Askos
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A beautifully preserved example, this askos features a globular body defined by two vertical spouts and a conjoined ribbed handle in between. The whole of the body is decroated with ...
Category
Italian Greco Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
Authentic Megalodon Tooth
Located in New York, NY
This authentic Megalodon tooth fossil from South Carolina is an impressive collector’s piece measuring 5.13 inches tall and weighing 236 grams. With its broad triangular form, well-p...
Category
American Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Other
Large White Crystal Geode with a Natural Baroque Pearl
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Large white crystal quartz geode with a large naturally forming baroque pearl. 28lbs.
Geodes are formed as gas bubbles within volcanic lava. Over time, the lava flow weathers away to leave the quartz geode buried deep in the Moroccan desert. This was dug by hand and includes druzy white crystal formations.
This is a large geode specimen...
Category
Moroccan Prehistoric Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Rock Crystal
Conlinoceras Tarrantense Ammonite Fossil, 90-100 Million Years Old
Located in Warrenton, OR
Conlinoceras Tarrantense Ammonite Fossil, 90-100 Million Years Old.
The Conlinoceras Tarrantense Ammonite is considered rare and is highly sought after as a collector's item.
Thi...
Category
American Prehistoric Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Shell, Organic Material
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
A Seljuk Bronze Oil Lamp, 12th/13th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Seljuk Bronze Oil Lamp, 12th/13th Century
Provenance: Private Australian Collection.
Description:
A 12/13th-century Seljuk bronze oil lamp is an antique from the Seljuk Empire, k...
Category
Central Asian Medieval Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Fossilised Cedar Wood Cross-Section
Located in London, GB
This spectacular, almost heart-shaped cross-section of fossilised incense cedar wood is a beautifully aesthetic display piece, with vibrant hues of browns, oranges and creams, as wel...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Petrified Wood
Purple Museum Quality Amethyst Centerpiece Mineral Masterpiece Decorative Object
Located in London, GB
A very large, one of a kind epimorph amethyst. This piece is a visual
spectacle with the natural sculptural formations of amethyst in a different
...
Category
Uruguayan Organic Modern Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Korean antique pottery vase / Goryeo dynasty / 13th to 14th century
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
There is a long crack that has been repaired.
Detailed images 14th and 15th.
There is no water leakage, but please refrain from leaving water in it for more than two days.
Also, be s...
Category
South Korean Other Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Pottery
Genuine Hollardops Mesacristata Trilobite on Matrix (1.15 lbs)
Located in New York, NY
Trilobites, an early arthropod relative of spiders, horseshoe crabs, and scorpions, preserved in this level of detail only occurred as a result of very sudden underwater landslides c...
Category
Moroccan Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Cement, Other
Important 14th Century Polychrome Limestone Virgin from Lorraine
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Provenance :
- Kunsthaus Heinrich Hahn, Frankfurt am Main, sale 16, June 17, 1930, lot 16.
- Sotheby's, Amsterdam, Feb. 26, 2006, lot 201.
HISTORIC
Located between Moselle valley and Meuse valley, framed by the Vosges Mountains on the south side and the duchy of Luxembourg on the north side, the duchy of Lorraine is the result of several partitions. It starts with the 9th century when the Carolingian empire is divided, with Lothar 1st inheriting Lotharingia. In 959 this territory was in turn divided in two; Lower and Upper Lotharingia, the latter being the forebear of the duchy of Lorraine. This duchy was under the rule of the Holy Roman Germanic Empire until 1736 when it was absorbed by the kingdom of France.
All along its history the duchy of Lorraine has found itself in the midst of many conflicts. Alliances and feuds marking European history were always particularly sensible in Lorraine where instability was frequent. Because of its geographic position the duchy of Lorraine was also an artistic crossroad.
Hence the duchy of Lorraine becomes from the 13th century onwards an important artistic centre where a particular type of Virgin and Child appears. According to professor J. A. Schmoll the characteristics of Lorraine sculpture burgeon around 1280-1300 in the Aube region. It presents “vigorous volumes, restrained movements, rare but solemn gestures and a strong interiorised and stern expression”. Those Virgins look similar with a wide forehead, a shield- or oval-shaped face, large neck, small lips and a cleft chin.
This model is particularly in favour during the 13th century because of the revival for Marial worship and for the theme of the Virgin and Child. It bears witness to a new religious sensibility with a more intimate vision of religious practice.
DESCRIPTION
The important 14th century Virgin we present to you is one of the most beautiful examples of sculptural art from Eastern France, with her fascinating distant gaze.
Her contrapposto posture is induced by the weight of the child she carries high on her left side. The child has a chubby face framed by blond hair with well defined curls and he wears a long red V-collared tunic from which emerge his feet. The fabric is animated by long folds. The position of the right foot turned to the back is a detail we can notice on several Virgins from Lorraine. He holds a bird that seems to be pecking his thumb.
“The bird /held by the child in his hands/ has been read as a reference to an episode from Christ’s childhood when he has moulded sparrows with clay before giving them life. It appears in the apocryphal gospel of Pseudo-Matthew (ch. 27) and later in the Quran (III, 43, v. 110). However the iconography seems to be more influenced by the concept of Redemption or of Eucharist, the bird symbolising the soul of the Christian about to be redeemed or revitalised.”
Mary wears a long dress with two rock crystal cabochons remaining from the original five. She is covered by a red cloak enriched with old-gold motifs draped as an apron falling in long pleats along her left hip. The relief treatment and the volume of the cloak developing a network of concentric pleats contrast with the the flat pleating of her dress. They nevertheless suggest the curve of her bent right leg.
She wears a floret crown securing a short thin veil carved in very low relief. From it emerges her blond curled hair characteristic of the 13th century. The large face with almond-shaped eyes, straight nose, small lips and cleft chin casts its gaze afar in a fashion typical of 13th century Virgins.
In her right hand she holds a lily flower. In a very refined manner the artist has carved a band on her right ring-finger.
In the back, carefully sculpted, spreads the minutely detailed short veil.
COMPARATIVE STUDIES
This sculpture of great quality presents obvious similarities with Virgins from Lorraine, designated by William Forsythe...
Category
French Gothic Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Limestone
Conch Shell with Coordinating Crystal Quartz Cluster
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Complete conch shell mounted on a large crystal quartz cluster and adorned with two crystal points, highlighting the neutral and warm hues of the shell.
The piece was collected and ...
Category
American Organic Modern Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal, Rock Crystal
Spinosaurus Toe Claw
Located in New York, NY
This authentic Spinosaurus vertebra fossil originates from the world-renowned Kem Kem Formation in the Sahara Desert of Morocco, a region celebrated for yielding some of the most ico...
Category
Moroccan Antique 15th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Other
$1,200
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