Antique Altar

These items are commonly referred to now as having been made for the Chinese Export market and the most prolifically found of these items tend to be coffee tables, opium tables, nest...

The artist pays close attention to clerical gestures, altar furnishings, and architectural settings, making this a valuable historical document as well as a piece of devotional art.

This work, called opere di commessi, has medieval parallels in Central Italian "Cosmati"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra...

This type of reliefs were very common in the Spanish school since the Renaissance to decorate altarpieces, altars, etc. Weight: 600 grams. · Size: 32x6x11 cm International Buyers – ...

A large elm-wood altar or console table with everted flanges or 'qiaotou' (commonly called "birds wings"), supported on recessed trestle legs with multiple carved, stylized ruyi in s...

This colorful porcelain bowls dates to the mid-19th century and was originally used as a serving dish for ritual offerings, placed before a home altar and piled high with fruit, bake...

This Madonna is stylistically related to the famous Tramin Altar (1485-90) in the Bavarian National Museum and has an exceedingly similar quality of carving.

Late 19th / early 20th century three drawer Elm wood Mongolian Altar or butterfly table. This table is late Qing Dynasty and has a great old crazed painted finish and a nice patina t...

Skilled in the art of pietra dura (Florentine mosaic), their work is present to this very day in regions throughout Italy, the Corbarelli’s signature inlays decorating sacred archite...

Panels of this type were commonly used as antependia—altar frontals—designed to mimic richly embroidered silk textiles.

He received his formal training at the Academy in Carrare under the direction of Giuseppe Diotti (1779 – 1846) - an artist who specialized in religious and historical scenes as well ...

More than a rug, this is a storied corridor of color and form, a symbol of enduring beauty from a time when the loom served as both altar and canvas. Its regal proportions and glowin...

These hand-carved wooden pillars were once used to elevate burning incense in a shrine or altar display. An essential element of ritual prayer, incense is burned as a form of offerin...

More recently, the name “cuckoo in the house” has been used to describe a different porcelain decoration featuring two birds sitting on an altar or assemblage of poles and pyramids s...

Such figures would often be placed on family altars either to bring about the healthy birth of many sons or to ensure good business dealings.

Okimono (置物, oki-mono) is a Japanese term meaning "ornament for display; objet d'art; decorative object", typically displayed in a tokonoma alcove or butsudan altar. Rats symbolizes...

The perspective draws the viewer's eye towards the magnificent stained glass at the altar, which serves as the focal point of the composition.

This Italian 18th century Louis XVI period hand carved and gilt wood architectural fragment probably was the central section of a bigger altar tabernacle that can now be used as a de...

More recently, the name "cuckoo in the house" has been used to describe a different porcelain decoration featuring two birds sitting on an altar or assemblage of poles and pyramids s...

More recently, the name "cuckoo in the house" has been used to describe a different porcelain decoration featuring two birds sitting on an altar or assemblage of poles and pyramids s...

Dated to the mid-19th century, the coffer was likely used as both an altar for ancestor worship and as a storage cabinet for clothes, textiles, and other household items.

A well cast and powerful Chinese dragon bronze altar vase with arrow handles, Qing Dynasty, 18th century or earlier, China.

The monumental carved stone Buddhist sculptural five layered tower Goju-no-to fashioned in thirteen parts with a tall incised ringed finial Hoju representative of five elements known...

They were originally placed on an church altar, with one facing left and the other facing right.

A Very Rare and Important Marble Relief of the ‘Resurrection of Christ’ Attributed to the Master of the Mascoli Altar Marble Venice, Italy Second half of the 15th Century SIZE: ...

This work, called opere di commessi, has medieval parallels in Central Italian "Cosmati"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra...

These items are commonly referred to now as having been made for the Chinese Export market and the most prolifically found of these items tend to be coffee tables, opium tables, nest...

The clock shows a a gilt bronze winged figure of Apollo leaning against a griotte marble altar pedestal decorated with gilt bronze garlands.

Known as Soban (small plate), this type of light weight table was used primarily as individual dining table to present and serve foods, but also as small desk, incense burner holder ...

A fine quality Arts and Crafts Gothic Revival style oak Altar, serving or buffet table with a finely carved center panel of fruiting vines, flanked by fielded panels with subtly arch...

The figures stand raised on hollow rectangular pierced pedestal altar shaped bases with a draped cloth to the front and back.

This work, called opere di commessi, has medieval parallels in Central Italian "Cosmati"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra...

This scare religious folk art can be used many different ways, including as a decorative object, convert to a table lamp, use as a jardinière - planter, sculptural garden ornament, r...

The complexity, scale and overall quality of this altar is unsurpassed. The Coat of Arms, carved and painted on this piece suggest it was a generous gift from a noble and possible ro...

As a figurist painter, he worked on many building sites in the city: in the 1840s in the Church of the Capuchins, together with Gaetano Belvederi and Girolamo Dal Pane (1821-1856); ...

Abbot Henry, a reformed robber, was better known for his habit of crying at the altar than for his architectural ambitions. A simple stone church and cloisters came later.

A pair of Japanese Meiji Period (1852-1912) bronze altar candlesticks / incense holders with attractive warm brownish red bronze color and patina.

Chinese (18th Century) elmwood (yu-mu) narrow altar style console table with intrically carved geometric design end panels with fluted legs and cloud shaped scroll form spandrels on ...

Masks in Timor were also placed on the altar during sacrifices and in some parts of the island even put inside huts to protect the house from spirits.

Centuries ago, the jars were often placed on altars or in designated areas within a temple. Over time, temple jars became popular as decorative objects and were also used for practic...

Sculpture in carved wood worked, as was usual in that center, on the front because it was designed to be placed on an altar, which represents Saint Anthony of Padua with the Child Je...

This work, called opere di commessi, has medieval parallels in Central Italian "Cosmati"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra...

An integral part of traditional Chinese home life, ancestor worship before a domestic altar often featured painted ancestral portraits or tabletop ancestor figures.

By shape, this piece appears to be a ceremonial vessel that was used to make offerings on the altar. Although without inscription, we can't rule out that it could be a household item...

More recently, the name “cuckoo in the house” has been used to describe a different porcelain decoration featuring two birds sitting on an altar or assemblage of poles and pyramids s...

Travel altar with eight paintings depicting Saint Augustine, the Immaculate Virgin, Saint Anthony with a child, Saint Louis Gonzalez in Santo Domingo, the Virgin with a child, the ec...

Often one could even see an altar or banner dedicated to Sansin in a Buddhist temple.

We can see hanging on the opposites aisle different paintings. An altar is visible on the left side. This watercolor was created by the Reunionese artist Georges Roussin 1854-1941.

Most Benin bronze objects were commissioned specifically for the ancestral altars of past obas (rulers) and Iyobas (queen mothers), as well as for rituals to honor ancestors and to v...

Despite its vernacular appearance, incense burner like this has a strong religious significance and was believed to be used on the altar table in the Buddhist temple for worshiping.

Including canopies, chimneys, doors, sideboards, altars, several organ cases, pulpits, confessionals, and others; works of carpentry, as well as innovations in ironwork such as grill...

This work, called opere di commessi, has medieval parallels in Central Italian "Cosmati"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra...

The inclusion of Judaic symbols such as the menorah, Torah, and sacrificial altar highlights the cultural and spiritual importance of the region.

Antique print depicting the old house of the Governor of Ambon, the old Dutch Church, the new Dutch Church and an altar. This print originates from 'Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën' by F.

Dating to the 1700s, the central cartouche of this credenza buffet was originally from an altar, in Naples, Italy. The cartouche is a fantastic relief carving of a highly scrolled co...

Based on the research of art historians Marco Tanzi and Andrea de Marchi, it is believed that these represent the missing panels from the famed polyptych formerly displayed on the al...

The jug might have been part of a church altar service. Marked with: Makers mark TW – Thomas Weir, this mark has been used by Weir & Sons since 1872 Harp crowned – Purity mark f...

“Wooden shrine heads were permitted to sit on the altars of chiefs and important figures, in contrast to the copper alloy heads used exclusively by the kings of Benin.

At the center, a bishop elevates the host at the altar, surrounded by other clergy in ceremonial vestments.

Placed to the side of the altar, the chest may have held ancestral tablets and incense and provided an additional surface for offerings, censers and figures.