Antique Chimera

There are also well-known mystical creatures (dragons, chimeras, animal and hybrid creatures) and popular lustermaennchen.

There are also well-known mystical creatures (dragons, chimeras, animal and hybrid creatures) and popular lustermaennchen.

It rests on a square base decorated with a frieze representing chimeras. The vase rests on a golden pedestal. The dial is white enamel and the hours are inscribed in Roman numerals.

Renaissance style walnut sideboard finely carved with chimeras. This sideboard opens with 4 doors and a drawer.

Figurine carving in the form of chimera and satyr masks. Probably from a South German castle.

Double-ringed shaft surmounted by a Corinthian capital supporting a winged chimera, seated, wings outstretched. Tripod foot, zoomorphic, ending in three lion paws separated by styliz...

Surrounded by foliage, interlacing and chimeras. Pedestal decorated with garlands of fruit and flowers.

Bellerophon rode Pegasus to defeat the monstrous Chimera, leading to various other heroic exploits.

Alessandro Biancalana, “Chicchere e tazze della manifattura Ginori” (Cups and mugs from the Ginori factory), Chimera, 2021.

In porcelain in the spirit of the Compagnie des Indes, oval with two chimera-shaped handles, with polychrome and gold decoration of pomegranate branches, chrysanthemums and fruit, al...

The green-patina cast iron legs, adorned with intricate chimera and lion head motifs, exude a sense of grandeur, while the marble tops are supported by wooden planks, creating a uniq...

Napoleon III style violin shaped table mirror made of bronze with a silvered rocaille decor of scrolled acanthus leaves, small flowers and on the bottom left a Mythological animal ca...

It is topped with a large matching mirror bordered by grotesques on a gold background, surrounded by a fluted brass tube and adorned with carved wooden chimeras. The pediment with a ...

Amazing Italian Bowl Made of Agate and Gilded Silver With Stones 19th century Neo-Renaissance agate bowl with acanthus leaf rim rests on four legs depicting winged chimeras. Moun...

From the base rises and protrudes the sculpture of the chimera with spread wings and a long neck and griffin head, on whose head is a sphere, holding up the console top, together wit...

The small gargoyles or chimeras at the top of the suspension are kneeling or crouching.

The panel is centred with two winged chimeras with a foliated body framing a mask. On the lateral jambs leaves roll in volutes and are accompanied by flowers.

Each candelabra has a concave tripartite base with winged paw feet, supporting three gilt-bronze eagle headed chimera, below grape and vine leaf cast socles with twisted serpent arms...

With wonderfully naive ink decoration, including a Chimera being ridden by a sprite blowing an elaborate horn.

The pediment is adorned with a motif of a basket of overflowing flowers surrounded by two winged chimeras with open mouths. The central bevelled glass mirror has a double frame of ca...

The most likely candidates would be dragons, hippocampi, or chimeras. The beasts are unfinished to the back, indicating they were originally part of a relief decoration, possibly f...

Bellerophon is riding a Pegasus striking at a chimera. An Imp dances in the foreground. A ship rides on the sea in the background, likely a reference to Poseidon.

They admired Bellerophon’s bravery as he mounted Pegasus to conquer the fearsome Chimera. This bond between Pegasus and Bellerophon represented the Roman virtues of valor and perseve...

Topped by crown molding, the two doors are carved with the feminine allegory of the Americas flanked by breasted chimeras and intricate low-relief acanthus foliage.

Hand painted vignettes of classically inspired images decorate all parts of this console, including a pair of chimera on the base, decorative vines on the legs and sides, and a scene...

Each panel depicts a triangular broken pediment from where is raising a beautiful spreaded wings eagle, above a semicircular niche flanked by two winged chimeras resting on bunch of...

The elaborate foliate with chimera themes provide a background for each door panel, all surrounding a warrior with a dolphin helmet on the right, and another with a more traditional ...

The rock crystal engraved with chimeras among scrollwork, silver gilt mounts pierced and enamelled.

The main decoration develops inside the flounce of the basin, which sees alternating symmetrical figures of winged harpies and chimeras. The ornamentation, outlined in orange, green ...

They were awarded at the Exhibition of Industrial Products a bronze medal with their Renaissance style candelabra, a clock and a large chandelier with branches supported by children ...

The "D" shaped top console raised by a pair of seated winged sphinxes with notched corner frame over a conforming frieze, centred by a pierced carved Satyr mask with foliate swags, a...

The whole is surmounted by a large pediment adorned with chimera and a female head. The ornaments is inspired by the Renaissance and consists mostly in carved foliate, chimera, griff...

The base of each candelabra is decorated with chimeras and openwork foliage in gilt bronze, above three claw feet.

Decorative register inherited of the Renaissance, such as grotesques, swirls, acanthus leaves, cornucopia, chimeras, cherub and portraits in oval medals.

Meanwhile the plinth base is mounted with another cast frieze that shows Mercury flanked by Ceres in a chariot drawn by Chimera. The sculptural decoration is finely wrought and is i...

Contrary to Burgundian style dominated by Hugues Sambin designs including chimeras and fantastic zoomorphic creations, the furniture made in The Loire Valley has been made in more el...

The drawing of the central arcade confined with chimeras derives from models of Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, of which Hugues Sambin is largely inspired.

Greek mythology chronicled the Sphinx as being the daughter of Orthous and Chimera or Laius and attributed the riddles, which she proposed, as having been taught to her by the Muses.

Greek mythology chronicled the Sphinx as being the daughter of Orthous and Chimera or Laius and attributed the riddles, which she proposed, as having been taught to her by the Muses.

The mythical animal masterfully carved as a chimera, with a pair of stag antlers, the head of an eagle, the body of the lion, and seemingly throat scales of a dragon.

The latter are flanked by two winged chimeras whose faces, with hooked noses and open mouths, are extremely expressive.

Finally, the bedside bears a richly carved decoration in relief of various floral and plant motifs in garlands and scrolls, a lion's head, dolphins, masks, draperies and chimeras. D...

Chimera with Green Eyes is an original lithograph on Chine collé, realized by Odilon Redon in 1888, plate 7 from “Les tentations de St.Antoine” (1ère série), unique state, first e...

Chinthe, the Burmese word for lion, while leograph of Chinthe is an artistic highly stylized lion; the rare Southeast Asian Burmese equivalent to Foo Dogs, Japanese Komainu, Tibetan ...

You will rarely come across a Gothic work of religious art that is more elaborate and with as many Gothic details as this fit-for-a-castle pendant from the late 1800s. The chimeras, ...

The panel is adorned with two chimeras back to back with a foliated body topped by a flipped pediment.

Each wearing billowing robes and standing on a shell-form gilt-bronze base headed by a roaring chimera. Wired for electricity. Signed ‘BOUHON PARIS’.

Inside the central part of the pediment two corinthian columns framed by chimeraes support an entablature. In this little niche is depicted Minerva (Athena).