Antique Altar

Dreamily beautiful and elegant antique Chinese altar table made of solid elm wood, sealed with

candlestick base with polished agate slices. The Italian 18th century gilded base is originally from an altar

candlestick base with polished agate slices. The Italian 18th century gilded base is originally from an altar

Central Italian "Cosmati"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in

increasingly used for the production of funerary vessels as well as statuary and altars. The artists obviously

of funerary vessels as well as statuary and altars. The artists obviously chose and carefully shaped

these still stand in Catholic churches, often at the altar or in small niches or alcoves around the

, doorway, or altar. Full of charm, motion, and sculptural presence, this Italian pair brings an elegant

, allows them to right themselves when tipped over. Even today, in merchants’ homes, altars are often

monarch. The view captures the altar, theatre, thrones, pulpit, and seating galleries arranged before the

table features small altars upon which semi-nude female figures stand, adorned with flowers and other

Crucifix on pedestal for altar French late 19th century. Silver-plated brass. The whiteness of the

cite: -           1852 : Notre Dame de Fourvière in Lyon -            1852 : altar of the apse of

composition presents a sweeping view down the nave toward the high altar and Bernini’s famed baldachin, framed

foliate decoration, originally intended for devotional or altar use. The shrine elements are detachable

French provincial Baroque religious carving, circa 1680, and was likely created for a chapel niche, altar

enshrined in a Buddhist altar room of a private home, time itself manifesting as color. Regarding its

devotional book resting on a draped altar. The composition unfolds against a dark, atmospheric ground

in home altars to venerate the almost infinite number of Catholic saints. The literal translation for

in home altars to venerate the almost infinite number of Catholic saints. The literal translation for

main altar for approximately 500 years. The Virgin is placed on a wall bracket that has been made of

, drawing the viewer toward the central altar beneath the vast timbered ceiling. Benoist carefully renders

bedside altar, they invited the viewer into private meditation. The copper’s reflective sheen heightened

sculpture, part furniture. Place it beneath a gilded mirror, and it becomes an altar to symmetry. Set it in

"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra dura, for

reinforcing doctrine. Such images were used in chapels, confraternity altars, and private devotional settings

nook, meditation space, or personal altar. Measures: 34" H x 20" W x 21" D.

altar, while refined ornamental details—stucco work, sculptural reliefs, and decorative moldings—are

-circles around an altar, frozen in time as if in prayer. The present is a female votive, with a striated

A pair of 16th Century Spanish altar panels of Cherubs Representing the Omnipresence of God mounted

for both temple and domestic altars. Condition: Good overall with expected surface wear, small

dark hair. Such devotional figures were central to household and church altars, often dressed in

a ceremonial or decorative purpose — likely used as a dowry chest, altar box, or offering container

altar to beauty, worn by time, steady as stone, still holding its crown of marble as though it always

roses that surround a circular altar plaque to the centre. The plague features a painted monogram with

spread Buddhist teachings, could be placed on home altars or in monastic shrines, and functioned as

for an altar of public use, This aspect helped to ensure that the work had an immediate and wide

Central Italian "Cosmati"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in

Bronze church altar candelabra with angel and floral motif.

A Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Giltwood Candlestick A magnificent and tall Italian altar

or silver alloy—crafted using repoussé techniques. Such figures were central to domestic altars and

A graceful 19th century Chinese hardwood altar table, with a carved apron. The table features for

part of a bigger scene or an altar and actually stand in an integrated base from the same period

private altar. The surface has developed a gentle, time-worn patina that enhances its authenticity and

distant altar, while visitors move quietly through the sacred space. Philippe Benoist conveys both

Other Tales Volume XVII: The Altar of the Dead, The Beast in the Jungle, The Birthplace and Other Tales

bobeches are shaped with scalloped edges and retain their original metal prickets for securing large altar

models, and ‘as payment for the papier-mâché angels of said Altar’. Of the four angels, therefore, two

on a library table, writing desk, or devotional altar. Measures: 10.5" W x 3.5" D x 13.25" H.

altar painting for St. Mary's Chapel, Aberdeen, and interiors for Haddow House, and Kelly Castle.

priest in a cowled robe holding the Christ Child, who sits on a cloth-draped altar. To the left, a male

devotional work, intended for an altar, which retains its original polychromy and brocade in good condition

Antique Japanese Lacquer And Giltwood Zushi Shrine, or traveling altar, with hand-carved wooden

presenting food offerings on a home altar. Shaped like an eight-petal flower, the dish features scalloped

—qualities ascribed to both ancestors and descendants. Between the figures stands an altar table with a

classical female figure after a Greek vase engraving, a vestal virgin at an altar, monkeys in a landscape, a

, likely flanking an altar or devotional ensemble. The original angled backs and old iron mounts remain