Antique Beast

. - Certificate of Authenticity Burial figurines of graceful dancers, mystical beasts, and everyday objects reveal both how people in early China approached death and how they lived.

Burial figurines of graceful dancers, mystical beasts, and everyday objects reveal both how people in early China approached death and how they lived.

The front is decorated with pierced, silhouettes of beasts, trees and figures. The sides are plain with iron carrying handles.

Burial figurines of graceful dancers, mystical beasts, and everyday objects reveal both how people in early China approached death and how they lived.

Dimensions: Average 54 H cms Burial figurines of graceful dancers, mystical beasts, and everyday objects reveal both how people in early China approached death and how they lived.

Burial figurines of graceful dancers, mystical beasts, and everyday objects reveal both how people in early China approached death and how they lived.

Danish Collection Burial figurines of graceful dancers, mystical beasts, and everyday objects reveal both how people in early China approached death and how they lived.

Burial figurines of graceful dancers, mystical beasts, and everyday objects reveal both how people in early China approached death and how they lived.

The celestial border is adorned with emblems of protection, strength, and good fortune—bats for happiness, shou medallions for longevity, and mythical beasts for guardianship. Render...

The Quran itself explicitly endorses hunting and the use of animals to aid in capturing prey: "Lawful to you are foodstuffs that are good to eat and any game that, at your wish, is c...

Burial figurines of graceful dancers, mystical beasts, and everyday objects reveal both how people in early China approached death and how they lived.

Rather than representing a naturalistic lion, the sculpture presents a symbolic or mythical beast. Across many African artistic traditions, powerful animals such as lions and leopard...

Round frame for engraving the monogram of the sweetest beast of all. Fully marked including maker’s stamp and no. 5243.

German silver cow creamer, ca 1920. A shaggy, stocky beast on spindly legs and big hooves. Upturned horns, flexed ears, and smiley mouth spout.

Curlicue tail adds touch of sweetness to sturdy beast on firmly planted hooves. Head detachable and pierced.

Snug-fitting collar suggests a prized beast. Unmarked. Weight: 3.2 troy ounces.

Acid-etched ornament: Square frames inset with animals domestic and wild alternating with vacant rectangular frames for engraving the vital stats of the sweetest beast of all. Fully ...

This elaborate Belle Époque urn stands atop the mythological beast, a winged griffin. Glazed in marbled browns it embodies both fierceness and grandeur, power and luxury.

On front, in black enamel is a drooping dromedary. On back, the beast is revived, standing tall with head raised.

Iconography typically includes stylized ships, the tree of life form, human figures and mythical beasts. Mounted on wood stretcher frame with acid-free substrate.  

Over a 50-year career, he wrote poetry, novels and plays; created illustrations, paintings and other art objects; and directed influential films, including The Beauty and the Beast a...