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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Ancient Greek Terracotta Antefix in Form of the Head of Artemis Bendis, Taranto
Located in Antwerp, BE
Ancient Greek mould-made terracotta antefix decorated with the female head of the Goddess Artemis Bendis. Western Greek, Italy, Taranto, early 4th century BC. Two small feathered win...
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Italian Classical Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Stone

A Rare Standing Stone / Slab / Marker with ‘Triskele’ Low Relief Design
Located in London, GB
A Rare Standing Stone / Slab / Marker with ‘Triskele’ Low Relief Design Sandstone Late Celtic - Early Christian 7th – 8th Century AD
 Size: 62cm high, 28cm wide, 19cm deep - 24½ i...
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British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Sandstone

Ancient Roman Marble Inscribed Panel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A beautiful and masterfully carved dedicatory plaque, this marble panel features an inscription executed on a piece of warm brown marble with touches of creme, tan, and caramel highl...
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Italian Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Marble

Antique 1600s Bridal Bench, Scandinavian Wabi Sabi
Located in Hønefoss, 30
Antique Norwegian bridal bench, circa 1600s. Later legs, with some age. Wear consistent with age and use showing beautiful patina.
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Norwegian Romantic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Pine

Exceptional Lancaster County Sack Back Windsor Chair
Located in Lancaster, PA
This is an exceptionally fine Lancaster, Pennsylvania Sack Back Windsor Armchair, circa 1780. It has a bowed crest rail mortised into a continuous rear rail with eleven spindles, se...
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American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Hardwood

Arabic-Inscribed Archaistic Vase
Located in London, GB
An elegantly cast bronze vessel from Qing Dynasty China. The pear-shaped body sits atop a splayed foot, and rises to a waisted neck and flared rim. A broad band of gold and silver in...
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Chinese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Bronze

Pre-Columbian Gold Quimbaya Necklace with Six Frogs
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Gold Quimbaya necklace with beads in the shape of six frogs of delicate and slender shape with a beautiful gold color and patina, very nice expression with two narrow lines on the ba...
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Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Dated 1798 Important Norwegian Folk Art Tine Box, Primitive, Pine Bentwood
Located in Skien, NO
A museum-quality primitive antique tine of exceptional rarity, handcrafted in Norway's Trøndelag region in 1798. Representing the pinnacle of Scandinavian folk art, this pine box was...
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Norwegian Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Bentwood, Pine

Corsican Bronze Hoard
Located in London, GB
Dagger L: 27.8 cm, Luniform bronze, possibly a belt buckle L: 10.8 cm, Shield-shaped bronze with a point Diam: 6.5 cm, Pommel Diam: 3.7 cm, Violin-bow brooch L: 17.5 cm, P-Shape...
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European Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Bronze

Antique New England Sack Back Chair
Located in Lancaster, PA
A very fine sack back armchair, circa 1780-90. This armchair has a bowed crest rail mortised into a continuous rear rail with eleven spindles, seven of which are full height. The con...
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North American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Hickory, Maple, Pine

Pre-Columbian Nazca Unku with Stepped “V” Design, Peru, 200-300 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Complete Nazca Unku in vibrant red with blue, green, yellow and white squares forming V design around the brown neck opening. The multicolor squares in stepped design make a diamond ...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Textile

Pre-Columbian Inca Mantle with 16 Figures, Peru, 1476-1534 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Inca Mantle with 16 figures in cubist form with multi-color fringes. This pieces with a Certificat de Bien Culturel from France. For the Incas finely worked and highly decorativ...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Textile

Framed Pre-Colombian Peruvian Textile, 900 to 1470 AD
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Peruvian Pre-Colombian (Chancay) textile panel of camelid wool embroidered on cotton with three birds, each holding a lizard in its beak.
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Peruvian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Wool, Cotton

Pair of 18th Century Italian Rococo Gold Leaf Tassel Ornaments
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Pair of 18th century Italian hand-carved gold leaf tassel ornaments. They are two of the same shape of tassel but in two different sizes ...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Metal, Gold Leaf

Magnificent Chimu Precolumbian Tapestry with 21 Multicolor Royal Attendants
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Complete and magnificent Chimu Pre-Columbian Tapestry with 21 multicolor Royal attendants and fringe. No restoration, professionally cleaned. Overal...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

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Tapestry

Set of Four 18th Century Blue and White Delft Tiles, 1780s
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Set of Four 18th Century Blue and White Delft Tiles Framed in Custom Iron Frame. Wonderful piece to display.
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Dutch Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Iron

Antique Painting on Copper, "The Mockery of Christ”
Located in Milano, IT
Painting on copper. Italian school of the late 17th century. The scene, which recounts a moment in the Passion of Christ, is filled with the charac...
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Italian Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Copper

Pennsylvania Dower Chest with drawers and tombstone panels
Located in Lancaster, PA
This dower chest is made of pine and poplar with the original painted finish. The pine case is sponge decorated in salmon with three blue sponged tombstone panels across the front a...
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American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Pine, Poplar

Very Rare and Early Carved Vessel in the Form of a Hedgehog
Located in London, GB
A Very Rare and Early Carved Vessel in the Form of a Hedgehog Alabaster Near Eastern 3rd Millenium BC SIZE: 9.5cm high, 9.5cm wide, 15.5cm deep - 3¾ ins high, 3¾ ins wide, 6 ins ...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Alabaster

Walrus ivory handle walking stick depicting a figurehead, France 1780.
Located in Milan, IT
Walking stick: carved walrus ivory knob, depicting a figurehead with leaves. Rosewood barrel. Carved walrus ivory ferrule. Dieppe, France circa 1780. (SHIP TO EU ONLY)
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Ivory, Rosewood

Swedish Stump Chair late 1700 century
Located in Farsta, SE
Exceptional Swedish Stump Chair ca 1650–1700 Crafted from driftwood sourced in Dalarna, Northern Sweden, this remarkable chair is made from a sing...
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Swedish Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Pine

Antique Victorian Carved Walnut Marble-Top Dresser with Mirror, circa 1890
Located in Birmingham, AL
A stunning Victorian rosewood three-drawer dresser with oval swivel mirror. The mirror has an ornate scalloped frame and sits on a turned wood base and features cutouts to the mirror...
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American Classical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Wood

18th Century Italian Rococo Gold Leaf Tassel Ornaments Group of 5
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian hand carved gold leaf tassel ornaments. The tassels originally came from an Italian church in Tuscany and were used d...
Category

Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Metal, Gold Leaf

Renaissance Altar Frame, probably Italy, late 16th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Large and architecturally structured frame from an altar retable, likely originating in 16th-century Italy made from pine and linden tree. The composition features a tripartite layou...
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Italian Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Pine

Antique Bridal Bench, Scandinavian Wabi Sabi, c 1600s
Located in Hønefoss, 30
Antique Norwegian bridal bench made from rare black alder, this bridal bench approximately dates back to the 17th century. Wear consistent with age and use adds character, with a b...
Category

Norwegian Romantic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Wood

Antique South American Spanish Colonial Folk Art Madonna Santos Figure
Located in London, GB
Spanish Colonial Madonna and Child Peru or Bolivia, late 18th – early 19th century A finely carved Andean polychrome wood figure of the Virgin and Child, the Virgin shown in a chara...
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Peruvian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Gesso, Wood

18th Century Italian Small Speckled Silver Leaf Tassel Ornaments Set of 5
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th Century Italian hand-carved speckled silver leaf tassel ornaments. The tassels originally came from an Italian church in Tuscany and were used during feast days. These tassels were commonly used to adorn 18th and 19th century French and Italian chandeliers...
Category

Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Metal, Silver Leaf

16/1700s Antique Tankard, Scandinavian folk art, Museum Quality. Norway/Iceland
Located in Skien, NO
Norwegian / Icelandic Baroque-Style Tankard / "Askur"- 17th/18th Century Folk Art Piece This stunning butter bucket/tankard from Norway or Iceland showcases exceptional Baroque-era ...
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Icelandic Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Wood, Pine

Roman Carved Marble Torso in Military Dress, circa 2nd-3rd Century
Located in Austin, TX
A well carved Roman marble figure of a male in military dress, late Roman Period, circa 2nd-3rd century. The figure portrayed dressed in military att...
Category

Italian Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Marble

1642 Dated Charles I / Jacobean Hand Carved English Oak Coffer Linen Chest Trunk
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this sympathetically restored, 1642 Charles I / Jacobean, hand carved English oak coffer, trunk or chest This piece is stunning, its hand carved t...
Category

British Jacobean Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Oak

Elegant Terracotta Standing Court Dignitary, Tang Dynasty, EU Passport
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Elegant Standing Court Dignitary with joined hands in blue robes and a bird headdress. Polychrome Traces. When China was unified again, first briefly ...
Category

Chinese Tang Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Terracotta

18th Century Italian Speckled Gold and Silver Leaf Tassel Ornaments Set of 5
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th Century Italian hand-carved speckled gold and silver leaf tassel ornaments. The tassels originally came from an Italian church in Tuscany and were used during feast days. These tassels were commonly used to adorn 18th and 19th century French and Italian chandeliers...
Category

Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Metal, Gold Leaf

Important Lock in Sheet Steel from the 17th or 18th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Very large lock mechanism in forged iron and handcut, formerly painted black. All the elements are riveted, some rivets are extensions of the cups This lock most likely comes from a church or castle door...
Category

French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Iron

Rare silver Tantur or Druze head ornament, hand made, Lebanon 18th century
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
up for sale is This rare and important item known as a Tantur, made from silver in the 18th century. This conical headdress was worn by Druze and some Maronite women in the mountain ...
Category

Lebanese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Silver

Edward III 1361-1369 Gold Noble Treaty Period 1361 - 1369, London
Located in Braintree, GB
Edward III 1361-1369 Gold Noble Treaty Period 1361 - 1369, London. Country: England England Period: House of Plantagenet Ruler: Edward III Phase: treaty period (1361-1369) Producti...
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British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Gold

18th Century Italian Rococo Mecca Tassel Ornaments Group of 5
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian hand-carved mecca tassel ornaments. The tassels originally came from an Italian church in Tuscany and were used during feast days. These tassels were commonly used to adorn 18th and 19th century French and Italian chandeliers...
Category

Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Metal, Silver Leaf

Rare Pre-Columbian Inca Silver Mask with Gold Sequins
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
A rare, sheet silver human face mask with simple relief facial features including large, almond shaped eyes and downturned mouth. Classic stepped pyramid headdress with round, very t...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Silver

Pre-Columbian Rare Gold Veraguas/Diquis Supernatural Drummer Pink Tourmaline
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Natural pink tourmaline necklace (167 gms) with rare gold Veraguas/Diquis supernatural drummer. Very fine example of ancient, Precolumbian goldwork form Central America, either Costa Rica or Panama. 111 grams of blush pink gold made with “lost wax” technique. The music he plays is not for entertainment, but rather to create magic, casting a spell or summoning other supernatural beings. Healing was the most important function of shamans, both the mortal and the immortal kind. Such a magical pendant...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Gold

Antique Bridal Bench, Scandinavian Wabi Sabi, c 1600s
Located in Hønefoss, 30
Antique Norwegian bridal bench made from rare black alder, this bridal bench approximately dates back to the 17th century. Wear consistent with age and use adds character, with a b...
Category

Norwegian Romantic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Wood

Ancient Egyptian Wall-Painting Fragment
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This beautifully preserved fragment of a wall painting is executed on plaster with an ochre and blue ground, depicting an agricultural scene with a man in profile to the right. He w...
Category

Egyptian Egyptian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Plaster

A Finely Carved Gandhara Head of ‘Atlas’
Located in London, GB
A Finely Carved Gandhara Head of ‘Atlas’ Grey schist India 3rd - 4th Centuries AD SIZE: 19cm high, 11cm wide, 12.5cm deep - 7½ ins high, 4¼ ins wide, 5 ...
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Indian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Schist

Antique South American Spanish Colonial Folk Art Santos Figural Group
Located in London, GB
Antique South American Spanish Colonial Poly chrome Folk Art Santos figure The finely sculptured hard wood figure standing with a cross and bible on a pedestal base, painted in p...
Category

Peruvian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Gesso, Wood

Box with a corrugated, embossed, polychrome wooden core Colonial work Perú
Located in Madrid, España
Box with a corrugated, embossed, polychrome wooden core and leaf decoration. Iron lock and hinges with key, the interior lined with a marbled effect. Colonial work from the Viceroyal...
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Peruvian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Leather, Wood

Pre-Columbian Chimu Gold Mask With Scar
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
A large sheet gold mask depicting a stylized human face having an individually fashioned and applied nose. Large low relief repousse eyes and rectangular mou...
Category

Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Gold

Pair of Ancient Egyptian Gesso-Painted Wood Panels
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This exquisite and fascinating pair of gesso-painted wooden panels comes mounted within custom wooden frames. Both panels are of roughly similar sizes, horizontal in nature, and lik...
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Egyptian Egyptian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Wood

18th Century Italian Rococo Tassel Ornaments with Gold Trim Group of 5
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian hand carved gold leaf tassel ornaments with gold trim. The tassels originally came from an Italian church in Tuscany ...
Category

Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Metal, Gold Leaf

18th Century Italian Rococo Silver Leaf Tassel Ornaments Group of 5
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th Century Italian hand-carved silver leaf tassel ornaments. The tassels originally came from an Italian church in Tuscany and were used during feast days. These tassels were commonly used to adorn 18th and 19th century French and Italian chandeliers...
Category

Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Metal, Silver Plate

Spotted Horses Pattern Blue and White Saucer c1725, Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng
Located in seoul, KR
The interior painted with two spotted horses at play beneath a willow tree, the exterior with a cafe-au-lait glaze Period : Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng Period Production Date : C 1725 M...
Category

Vietnamese Chinoiserie Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Ceramic

Antique Dance Chain, Europe, 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Antique dance chain is a precious decorative object realized in the 18th century. Precious antique dance chain with decorations. Includes original gre...
Category

European Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Silver

Antique African Neolithic Era Marble Bracelet
Located in Katonah, NY
:: Antique handmade African Neolithic era marble bracelet. These marble bracelets were hand carved in North Africa and likely used for currency. This piece is a unique collectible, w...
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North African Prehistoric Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Marble

Kid Size Antique Danish Wooden Mangle Board a Wedding Love Gift with Horse
Located in Silkeborg, Silkeborg
Small size version of a Danish mangle board (clothing and bedding press) dated from ca. 1750-1800. Made of wood richly decorated with hand-carved geometric patterns and a horse as ...
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Scandinavian Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Wood

Pre-Columbian Lambayeque Textile Ceremonial Panel
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Impressive pre-columbian Lambayeque textile ceremonial panel. Lambayeque, Peru. Mint condition. Museum piece. Ex. Sotheby’s, New York. The Lambayeque civilization (aka Sicán) flou...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Textile

Indian Sandstone Nandi Sculptures, Pair
Located in Astoria, NY
Indian stone carvings depicting reclining a cow / bull / ox, Nandi, or Vrishabha, the bull vahana or vehicle of the god Shiva, outfitted with saddles, bridles, and headpieces upon th...
Category

Indian Archaistic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Sandstone

Indian Sandstone Nandi Sculptures, Pair
Indian Sandstone Nandi Sculptures, Pair
$5,500 Sale Price / set
57% Off
Pre-Columbian Chancay Canteen Vessel South American Antiques
Located in London, GB
Rare Pre-Columbian Chancay Vessel – Peru, C 1000-1450 AD A Rare Pre-Columbian Chancay canteen type vessel, ovoid with a slim flat bottom, pottery with cream slip painted with re...
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Peruvian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Wool

Pre Columbian Head Veracruz pottery Mexico Circa 600-900 A.D
Located in London, GB
Pre Columbian Veracruz Head A Large pre columbian pottery head of a priest or warrior with delineated teeth and large earrings, modeled in buff clay with applied bitumen decoration o...
Category

Mexican Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Pottery

18th Century Spanish Colonial Archangel in carved sabino wood.
By NONO
Located in Guadalajra, Jal
A lovely and rare Spanish Colonial Statue of an Archangel in carved sabino wood, XVIII Century Origin: Central Mexico Period: XVIII Century Height: 33cm Length: 12cm Width: 8cm
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Mexican Spanish Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Wood

Interesting pre-Columbian terracotta frog transformed into a piggy bank
Located in Leuven , BE
Interesting pre-Columbian terracotta frog that appears to have undergone a curious transformation into a piggy bank at some point in its history. Elega...
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Colombian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Terracotta

Antique Wooden Santos With real Human Hear
Located in Schellebelle, BE
Exceptional Santos ' Jesus Christ' From The Philippines, Late 18 th Century, beautifuly sculpted with a fantastic old patina and shine of the Polychromed Wood,great articulation of...
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Philippine Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Fruitwood

Late-Period to Ptolemaic Period Egyptian Wooden Mummy Mask Ear on Custom Mount
Located in Chicago, IL
This Late Period to Ptolemaic Period Egyptian carved wood ear, once part of a mummy mask, stands as a poignant testament to ancient Egyptian customs and beliefs. Dating back over 250...
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Egyptian Egyptian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Wood

Pre-Columbian Chancay textile mask South American Art Antiques
Located in London, GB
Pre-Columbian Chancay textile mask South American Art Antiques A Pre-Columbian Chancay textile mask, originating from the central coast of Peru and dating to approximately 1000–1450...
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Peruvian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Antiquities

Materials

Wool

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