Antique Beast

Unlike many contemporaneous designs featuring single centralized medallions, this piece utilizes five large, repeated cartouches containing highly stylized mythical beasts. While the...

The central design is characterized by four powerful, stylized dragons rendered in deep indigo and sapphire blue, anchoring the corners of the field. These mythical beasts are comple...

The narrow sides are carved with prominent beast-mask and mock-ring handles, incorporating the naturally occurring darker inclusions of the agate into the facial details.

The figures have a mythical look with human torsos and beast-like legs. Likely once forming part of a panelled room or furniture piece, this old antique decorative panel has been re...

Each stroke tells a story, inviting you to step into a world where nature reigns supreme and the bond between man and beast is celebrated. This artwork is a perfect centerpiece for a...

While this design utilizes corner spandrels and a border typical of classical structure, the composition focuses on the mythological beasts filling the space, creating a powerful eff...

Yet when viewed in a darker space, its face takes on a quiet, powerful presence befitting a sacred guardian beast. This contrast suggests the thoughtful intention of the maker.

At right, a many-horned beast rises from the sea, while an imaginative view of Rome fills the distance.

A magnificent pair of Chinese Choazhou (Teochew) carved wood and gilt lacquered mythical guardian beasts known as qilin, late Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911), circa 1900, southern China.

Amazing full beast model displaying a Stag, Boar, Fox & Hound.

To the right, a winged beast is curled above an urn. The pot appears to emit flames over the top of branches with pine cones.

Amazing full beast model displaying a Stag, Boar, Fox & Hound.

The pierced fret with mythical beasts and scrollwork throughout with bowed front bars above.

A large antique Chinese ruby-red overlay glass snuff bottle dating to the Qing dynasty, second half of the 19th century Of substantial flattened ovoid form, the bottle is formed fro...

It was none other than the ‘soldier of Christ’ who slew the dangerous beast and saved the sovereign’s daughter from the monster’s jaws.”

Major Viennese manufactories (such as Bergmann and his contemporaries) carried thousands of different models in their catalogs: cats, dogs, birds, Orientalist scenes, and, of course,...

A straight gravel drive leads directly to a castellated entrance front whose central gabled porch carries a carved heraldic beast at its apex. Corner towers with battlemented tops f...

In this series of paintings, we see a specific type of performance where the trainer is seemingly putting himself "at the mercy of the beast" – exaggerating the implied danger to th...

SYMBOLISM: In Symbolism, the lion represents raw animal passion or the "primal beast" within the civilized human. Pairing a classical academic male figure study with an animal mask a...

The pierced, beaded fret engraved with mythical beasts and urns. The burning area with bowed steel front bars, flanked by engraved sidewings.

The urn-shaped body is flanked by finely modelled dragon-form handles, while the domed cover is surmounted by a mythical beast finial, adding both symbolism and sculptural interest.

The front supports are noteworthy, being conceived as mythical beasts and guardian figures, with the feet terminating in powerful animal forms.

Known as shizi or shishi, the mythical beast is a benevolent and playful guardian of the home.

The stepped rectangular lid is arranged in successive carved registers, the principal panels containing numerous animals within circular medallions, including elephants, deer or ante...

The arrangement of these mythical beasts around the central archway creates a highly focused visual narrative, a structure that echoes the composition found in many central medallion...

. 🔎 Design & Features Monumental paneled back with deeply carved scrollwork and central shield motifs Flanked by dramatic dragon/winged beast carvings, symbolizing protecti...

Each console is supported by a hybrid creature combining the features of a winged beast, with a powerful muscular torso, expressive animal head, elegantly folded wings, scrolling vol...

It was none other than the ‘soldier of Christ’ who slew the dangerous beast and saved the sovereign’s daughter from the monster’s jaws; and as a reward, he asked for neither honors n...

The surfaces display genuine historic woodworm perforations, chisel facets, and weather-worn growth channels that give the mythical beast an ancient, fossilized presence. Structurall...

The frieze with carved foliage and swirling paterae throughout, with winged beasts and urn to centre. The jambs with shaped panel surmounted by end blocking with carved oak leaves.

Beyond this, the broad outer field is densely populated with mythical beast forms, scrolling vines, and floral elements set against a dark ground.

The front of the helmet is masterfully decorated with a fierce mythical horned beast or boar's head motif over the visor, paired with a sweeping classical plume (crest) that graceful...

The reverse reveals a fantastical creature—part dragon, part sea beast—surrounded by scrolling ornament. Its stylized, ambiguous form echoes the Renaissance fascination with grottesc...

Often, evil took the form of hybrid creatures, as in our case, where the devil appears as a ferocious beast, a winged monster with an animal-like face.

Depicting the mythical beast from medieval folklore, the cockatirce. A powerful creature, reputedly capable of turning its prey to stone.

This work depicts the climactic moment where the Athenian hero, Theseus, defeats the Minotaur, a beast with the head of a bull and the body of a man.

The base having a hall table top with a bowed drawer below with the original brass hardware, below is a storage cupboard with twin doors carved with mythical beasts, the doors enclos...

Throughout his life Barye endeavoured to capture the fundamental nature of the animal kingdom in all its diversity, wild or tame, exotic or familiar, cruel or gentle, bringing to lif...

The lion was a stock subject for Prattware plaques, at once the emblem of Britannia and an exotic beast familiar from traveling menageries and the Tower of London.

The lion is portrayed at rest, yet remains alert and powerful, reflecting the traditional symbolism of the king of beasts in European decorative arts. The sculptor has carefully rend...

Komainu are mythical guardian beasts that have long been believed in Japan to protect sacred spaces.

Each backplate is conceived as an armorial trophy, crowned by a coronet and centered with a shield carved with a heraldic beast—most plausibly a stag or hart shown in profile (passan...

The condemned could be placed in a cage full of beasts, or in the circus arena, tied up and defenseless.

At the heart of the design is a highly structured repeating lattice of diamond motifs, interspersed with stylized vegetal flourishes and guarded by mythical heraldic beasts-dragons o...

The lion doesn’t feel formal or overly symbolic the way some guardian beasts do. It almost feels caught mid-motion, alert and playful at the same time.

Each arm ends in the head of a mythical beast with an open mouth supporting its original hand-forged candle plate.

In Japanese art, the pairing of this Shishi (king of beasts) and the peony (king of flowers) is known as Karajishi Botan.

The sculptor successfully conveys both the power and serenity traditionally associated with the king of beasts, creating a work that is both decorative and expressive.

Depicting mythological beasts, Neo-Classical elements and shamrock. Newly upholstered in raw linen.

Water would have flowed from the beautifully sculpted outlet, terminating in a finely modelled stylised beast or dragon’s head- an enduring symbol in Gothic architecture representing...

The presence of the unicorn-rider and fantastic beasts next to figures from the Italian theatre exemplifies the era's mixing of mythology, satire, and daily life.

Great detail can be seen in the creature’s mane, head, and musculature, with exceptional patina enveloping the iron beast. We believe this item to be in good antique condition consid...

The baluster-form bodies are painted on a pale celadon-tinted ground and enveloped in a continuous landscape populated by immortals, celestial attendants, sacred beasts, cranes, deer...

The expressive mythical creature is rendered with exceptional detail, reflecting the late Victorian fascination with heraldic beasts, fantasy motifs, and symbolic jewelry. Dragons an...

Kannon is portrayed in contemplative repose, draped in flowing robes while gracefully holding a long ceremonial scarf that gently drapes across the guardian beast below. The powerful...

Barbedienne Signed Ormolu and Champleve Enamel Tri-Footed Vases, with Mythical Beast/Dragon Heads Each vase is formed with a flared trumpet body rising from a circular ormolu collar...

Japanese Bronze Two Handle Koro, early 20th century, with salamander form handles and exotic bird decorated body, on four mythical beast formed feet, the base drilled. 8" H x 12" W x...

On offer is a complete 1831, 5-volume American edition of "A Natural History of the Globe, of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants."

Interwoven with these are fantastical animals, some resembling horses or mythical beasts, serving as protective symbols in traditional cosmology.

He frequently employed grotesque beasts and gargoyles, ecclesiastic detailing and historic influences.