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Important and Rare Italian Memento Mori

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  • A big diorama with butterflies and flowers with a Memento Mori Italy 1850.
    Located in Milan, IT
    A Memento Mori from Wunderkammer, depicting a painted skull, leaning on a book with a scroll reading: pray to God for the soul, in devotion to the Archangel Gabriel. The painting is ...
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    Antique Mid-19th Century Italian Natural Specimens

    Materials

    Glass, Wood

  • Memento mori, skull with butterfly wings, Germany 1874.
    Located in Milan, IT
    A Memento Mori from Wunderkammer, depicting a skull, plaster cast covered with butterfly wings, applied to the crown-shaped skull and to the mosaic-type wooden base. The year 1874 is...
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    Antique 1870s German Figurative Sculptures

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    Plaster, Wood

  • Memento mori ivory handle walking stick, Germany 1860.
    Located in Milan, IT
    Walking stick: ivory carved handle, depicting a Memento Mori, a hand holding a skull. Malacca wood shaft. Silver ring. Horne ferrule. Germany circa 1860. (SHIP TO EU ONLY)
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    Antique Mid-19th Century German Figurative Sculptures

    Materials

    Ivory, Wood

  • Memento Mori, Oil on Agate, Germany Beginning XVIII Century
    Located in Milan, IT
    Memento Mori for Wunderkammer, depicting a skull and a tulip, oil paintings on hard stone. A large specimen of oval-shaped natural agate, with a black wooden frame, is mounted on a b...
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    Antique Mid-17th Century Italian Natural Specimens

    Materials

    Agate, Brass

  • Memento mori. A caged and suspended skull sculpture, Germany, late 17th century.
    Located in Milan, IT
    A rare example of Memento Mori from Wunderkammer depicting a skull caged in a forged iron structure, with a chain for hanging. The sculpture is made of scagliola plaster with a high ...
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    Antique Late 17th Century German Figurative Sculptures

    Materials

    Iron

  • Memento Mori in Wood with Chrismon, Monogram of Christ, Italy End of 17th Cent
    Located in Milan, IT
    A Memento Mori in wood with Chrismon, monogram of Christ. Valuable sculpture in fruit wood in almost true-to-life measurements, sculpted with art and finished with a wealth of details. The wood was covered with a thin layer of pellet and finished in color. Immediately above the forehead, in correspondence with the anterior neonatal fontanel, the CHRISMON is painted in purple red. The monogram of Christ or Chi Rho (or CHRISMON) is a combination of letters from the Greek alphabet, which form an abbreviation of the name of Christ. Solar in nature, often inscribed in a circle with multiple rays reminiscent of the cosmic wheel deriving from the ancient solar emblems of Egypt. The symbol consists of two large overlapping letters, the 'X' and the 'P'. They correspond, respectively, to the Greek letter '?' ('chi', which reads kh, aspirated) and '?' ('rho', which reads r). These two letters are the initials of the word '???st??' (Khristòs ), the name of Jesus, which in Greek means "anointed" and translates the Hebrew "messiah". On the sides of these two letters, there are very often two others: one 'a' and one '?', alpha and omega...
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    Antique Late 17th Century Italian Figurative Sculptures

    Materials

    Wood

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    Located in Bruxelles, BE
    Italian Memento Mori skull Marble North of Italy, 17th century H 9 x L 7 x P 14 cm At the turn of the 16th century, they were the height of fashi...
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  • Rare 19th Century Italian Memento Mori Bust / Sculpture Carrara Marble Vanitas
    Located in Ijzendijke, NL
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  • German Memento Mori Carved Skull
    Located in Newark, England
    Antique 18th century fruitwood carved Memento Mori Skull. The skull of petrified display powerfully carved in the form of a human skull consisting of the cranium, upper and lower jaws, the cadaverous face with deliberate missing tooth in brown wash patination throughout. Stood upon a small marble base with the skull attaching via a dowel fitting. The Skull probably from German origin. Notes  From approximately the sixteenth century, skulls were commonly used to remember death as they symbolise the transience of human life. Memento Mori literal Latin translation means remember that you [have to] die. The concept has its roots in the philosophers of classical antiquity, and appeared in funeral art and architecture of the medieval period. Memento Mori jewellery...
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    Antique 18th Century German Gothic Mounted Objects

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  • An Unusual and Rare English ‘Memento Mori’ Carved Shrine with Two Human Skulls
    Located in London, GB
    An Unusual and Rare English ‘Memento Mori’ Carved Shrine with Two Human Skulls to the underside, a carved ‘Dragonfly’ Marble 16th / 17th Century England Size: 36cm high, 28cm w...
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  • Italian Marble Bust Vanitas / Memento Mori 19th Century Carved Sculpture Italy
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  • Rare Regency Memento Mori Box
    Located in Kittery Point, ME
    Decorated with four skulls to top with titles of a Witch, King, Beauty and Beggar to each Skull underneath. Lidded.
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    Antique 19th Century English Regency Decorative Boxes

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