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What does a sphinx represent?
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The sphinx represents the strength of a lion with great intelligence. Mythology believes that the sphinx was a cruel creature and was often seen as a guardian for royal tombs and high temples. Browse a large assortment of sphinx statues and decor on 1stDibs.
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Antique Grand Tour Style Patinated Sphinx Statues, 44 Inches Wide
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pair of grand tour style large patinated figures of seated sphinxes. Each noble figure with serpent diadem headdress, lying with front paws postured.
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Statues
Materials
Metal
Pair of 18th Century Georgian Stone Sphinxes by James Gibbs
By James Gibbs
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A unique opportunity to purchase a pair of 18th century Georgian sandstone sphinx statues or gate pier ornaments, originally from High Head Castle, Cumbria.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Georgian Garden Ornaments
Materials
Sandstone, Stone
Pair of Large Scale Marble Sphinx Garden Statues Sculptures
Located in West Hartford, CT
Stunning pair of early 20th century Egyptian Revival marble garden sphinxes. Each have female heads and drapery on lion bodies. From one of the finest homes on Long Island. They each...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Statues
Materials
Marble
Garden sculpture, contemporary. Nordic Sphinx, The Rhubarb Sphinx
By Dana Nicholson
Located in New York, NY
Our Sphinx is Persephone, and she started as an old kingdom Egyptian relic.
I then turned her musculature into mechanical appendages like she was an icon or idol off
the set of th...
Category
2010s American Egyptian Statues
Materials
Cast Stone
Coade Stone Sphinx
Located in Tetbury, England
A Coade stone sphinx. Stamped “Croggan late COADE 1823”.
Recently cleaned and conserved by Coade, Wiltshire.
Provenance:
Sold at Sotherbys 14 November 1980, lot no 1100, then dis...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Statues
Materials
Coade Stone
$29,632
Pair of Italian Sphinxes from the 20s Art Deco
Located in Madrid, ES
Pair Of Italian Sphinxes From The 20s art deco
Pair of very decorative Italian sphinxes from the early 1920s. In stone or similar. In good general condition. With signs of the pasin...
Category
Vintage 1920s Statues
Materials
Sandstone
