- PAIR OF PATINATED BRONZE-MOUNTED BLUE
JOHN AND MARBLE COLUMNSEach fitted with a winged sphinx finial.
16 x 2 3/4 x 2 7/8 in.
Note: According to Greek Mythology, the winged sphinx was a female monster with the...
[more like this] - 54 BRITISH CERAMIC ITEMS, INCL. TASSIES,
VESSELSFifty-four (54) 19th century ceramic decorative items. 1st-49th items: Forty-nine (49) Manner of James Tassie (Scottish, 1735-1799) white plaster cameo molds depicting...
[more like this] - ANCIENT MAYAN CARVED ZOOMORPHIC IGUANA
SERPENTFeatured in this lot are fragments of an Ancient Mayan Carved Zoomorphic Iguana Serpent Sculpture similar to the Mayan deity Kukulkan. K’uk’ulkan, also spelled...
[more like this] - CLOISONNé ENAMEL CANE-Ca 1890 -Large
Shippo enamel handle with a flattened ball knob on its integral long and tapering stem profusely decorated on the top with four stylized chrysanthemums blooms and floral elements...
[more like this] - FINE CHAVIN POTTERY VESSEL W/ SNAKES,
EX ARTE PRIMITIVO...Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin culture, ca. 1200 to 600 BCE. This is an incredible hand-built pottery vessel that is molded with raised serpents...
[more like this] - ROMAN MARBLE RELIEF TROPAEUM FRAGMENT,
CUIRASS & SHIELD...Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 2ndto 3rd century CE. An exceptional marble relief fragment of a tropaeum or trophy monument depicting the spoils of war with...
[more like this] - INCREDIBLE AZTEC STONE EFFIGY FIRE SERPENT
XIUHCOATLPre-Columbian, Central Mexico, Aztec, ca. 1325 to 1475 CE. A large and fantastical carving made from basalt stone in the form of Xiuhcoatl, a mythical fire serpent....
[more like this] - PUBLISHED CHAVIN STIRRUP VESSEL EAGLE
& JAGUAR**First Time At Auction**
Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Chavin culture, Jequetepeque-Templadera type, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. One of the more striking examples of ancient...
[more like this] - ROMAN LIMESTONE CIPPUS W/ MEDICAL GODS
& INSCRIPTION**First Time At Auction**
Roman, Republican period, ca. 2nd to 1st century BCE. An important travertine limestone relief cippus or marker featuring the 3 gods...
[more like this] - VINTAGE CHINESE CARVED AMETHYST DRAGON
FISHAsian carved purple quartz crystal figurine statue in the form of a mythological sea monster, water serpent or dragon fish. Carving measures 3 3/4" long. There are some...
[more like this] - WENDY WILSON, MYTHOLOGICAL SERPENT AND
HUNTER, ETCHING, 1972, 1/1, FRAMED: 23 X 23-1/2 INWendy Wilson, Mythological Serpent and Hunter, Etching, 1972, 1/1, Framed: 23 x 23-1/2 in...
[more like this] - EIGHTEEN KARAT YELLOW GOLD MYTHOLOGICAL
RING. THE RING. The heavy 18k gold Orthros ring with moon and stars in blue and green enamel. Orthros, meaning "twilight" is the two-headed, serpent tailed dog in Greek mythology....
[more like this] - LARGE PATINATED BRONZE DRAGON FLOOR
SCULPTURE, A S SCULPTURE, a snake-like serpent dragon of Chinese mythology and folklore, holding a large pearl in one claw, anonymous artist, 69.5"H....
[more like this] - PAIR OF CHINESE IRON FIGURAL CENSERS,
EACH DEPICTI each depicting a Qilin, a mythological beast having one horn on the articulated head and standing on a serpent with head and tail wrapped on each side of the...
[more like this] - TAINO FIGURAL ANTHROPIC AX. CIRCA 800–1500
AD. AXfeatures embossed body identified as Boinael the son of the gray serpent. He is identified by the crying eyes indicated by the vertical lines running from the eyes....
[more like this] - PARIAN WARE MYTHOLOGICAL GROUP, 19TH
C Parian Ware mythological figural group, possibly Worcester, apparently unmarked, depicting a maiden with a dove and a palm seated on a recumbent lion against whom the infant...
[more like this] - THREE FRENCH FAIENCE HAND PAINTED CABINET
VASES, SARREGUEMINES AND GIEN FACTORY, CA. 1875 Consisting of: the first of compressed rounded bun shape raised on narrow circular foot ascending into long cylindrical neck...
[more like this] - A PRE-COLUMBIAN VERAGUAS GOLD-COPPER
PENDANTThe ancient Panamanian Veraguas Gold-Copper Zoomorphic Pendant circa A. D. 1000-1500 representing a highly stylized frog is depicted with spiral sprays emanating from...
[more like this] - Silk panels; depicting pairs of mythological
beasts/serpents. Overall: 117" x 88". Good condition....
[more like this] - LARGE CHINESE FIGURAL HANDLE CHAMPLEVE
VASE: Floral serpent and bird motifs. Horned mythological creature figural handles. 18 5/8'' h. x 12 1/2''....
[more like this] - Fine Early Allegorical Embroidery English
or French, late 16th/early 17th century, canvas work panel, nine women representing Christian and mythological figures standing over a fallen male figure holding a sphere,...
[more like this] - Large Capo di Monte lidded casket with
classical scenes; Venus, a siren, and a cherub are carried by mythological serpents on the oval hinged lid; satyrs and putti surround the body, all mounted in embossed brass...
[more like this] - 2 PIECE BARBARITA SANTA CLARA POTTERY:
Both pieces signed Barbarita Santa Clara Pueblo to include 1) Twist handle basket with carved figural mythological serpent. 7 3/4'' x 6''. 2) Wedding Vase with carved geometric...
[more like this] - Monumental Pair of Italian Majolica
Double Serpent-Handled Garniture Vases, fourth quarter 19th century, in the 16th-century style, each facade with large mythological figural reserves, h. 29-1/2", w. 12-1/2",...
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