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Egyptian Wood Mummy Mask
Egyptian Wood Mummy Mask

Egyptian Wood Mummy Mask

Located in Beverly Hills, CA

Notes In ancient Egypt, masks were primarily used for funerary purposes as death masks. Ancient Egyptians believed that it was extremely important to preserve the body of a dead per...

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15th Century and Earlier Egyptian Egyptian Antique Death

Materials

Wood

15th Century Italian Renaissance Carved Devotional Religious Relief Panel
15th Century Italian Renaissance Carved Devotional Religious Relief Panel

15th Century Italian Renaissance Carved Devotional Religious Relief Panel

Located in Nottingham, GB

The composition portrays three anguished figures emerging from stylised flames, their expressive gestures and sorrowful faces conveying the suffering and hope associated with the doc...

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15th Century and Earlier Antique Death

Materials

Wood

A Set Of Antique Carved Wooden Floral Moulds Ex. Tucker Collection
A Set Of Antique Carved Wooden Floral Moulds Ex. Tucker Collection

A Set Of Antique Carved Wooden Floral Moulds Ex. Tucker Collection

Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire

Over his vast career, Tucker worked on a number of famous film and theatrical sets, creating prosthetics for the likes of The Phantom of the Opera, Star Wars and The Company of Wolve...

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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Death

Materials

Wood, Hardwood, Boxwood, Fruitwood

A Set Of Antique Carved Wooden Floral Moulds Ex. Tucker Collection
A Set Of Antique Carved Wooden Floral Moulds Ex. Tucker Collection

A Set Of Antique Carved Wooden Floral Moulds Ex. Tucker Collection

Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire

Over his vast career, Tucker worked on a number of famous film and theatrical sets, creating prosthetics for the likes of The Phantom of the Opera, Star Wars and The Company of Wolve...

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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Death

Materials

Wood, Hardwood, Boxwood, Fruitwood

Rare 19th Century Carrara Marble Tabernacle Agnus Dei (Lamb Of God)
Rare 19th Century Carrara Marble Tabernacle Agnus Dei (Lamb Of God)

Rare 19th Century Carrara Marble Tabernacle Agnus Dei (Lamb Of God)

Located in Chonburi, TH

The façade is framed by elegant clustered columns supporting a pointed Gothic arch, beneath which a beautifully engraved gilt bronze door depicts the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) carrying...

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19th Century Italian Antique Death

Materials

Carrara Marble

Ancient Egypt, Nubia, Statue of Osiris in Granite
Ancient Egypt, Nubia, Statue of Osiris in Granite

Ancient Egypt, Nubia, Statue of Osiris in Granite

Located in BARCELONA, ES

Isis, aided by Anubis and Nephthys, reconstructed Osiris's corpse, magically brought him back to life temporarily, and conceived Horus with him, who would later avenge his father's d...

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15th Century and Earlier Egyptian Egyptian Antique Death

Materials

Granite

MARCUS AURELIUS AND FAUSTINA Authentic Roman Coins Silver Earrings
MARCUS AURELIUS AND FAUSTINA Authentic Roman Coins Silver Earrings

MARCUS AURELIUS AND FAUSTINA Authentic Roman Coins Silver Earrings

Located in Roma, IT

Upon his ascension, Marcus Aurelius initially co-ruled with his adopted brother, Lucius Verus, before assuming sole control after Verus’s death. His reign was marked by major militar...

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15th Century and Earlier Italian Classical Roman Antique Death

Materials

Silver, Sterling Silver

Ancient Roman Head of Serapis in Alabaster
Ancient Roman Head of Serapis in Alabaster

Ancient Roman Head of Serapis in Alabaster

Located in BARCELONA, ES

He combined attributes of both Greek and Egyptian gods, particularly Zeus and Osiris, embodying concepts of fertility, power, and life after death. His cult spread widely across the ...

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15th Century and Earlier Classical Roman Antique Death

Materials

Alabaster

Ancient Roman Head of the god Serapis in alabaster
Ancient Roman Head of the god Serapis in alabaster

Ancient Roman Head of the god Serapis in alabaster

Located in BARCELONA, ES

In it the concepts of agricultural fertility, life, and death are united; It was used in the art of Ancient Egypt and the Greco-Roman world.

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15th Century and Earlier Greco Roman Antique Death

Materials

Stone, Alabaster

Georgian Gold and Enamel Urn Band Ring A Soulful Memory c. 1803
Georgian Gold and Enamel Urn Band Ring A Soulful Memory c. 1803

Georgian Gold and Enamel Urn Band Ring A Soulful Memory c. 1803

Located in Stamford, CT

It is touching having belonged to a family that had a loved one who passed, and it connects us to a human who lived in times before. Death was not hidden in this era rather the pers...

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Early 1800s English George III Antique Death

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10k Gold

A Set Of Antique Carved Wooden Cartouche Moulds Ex. Tucker Collection
A Set Of Antique Carved Wooden Cartouche Moulds Ex. Tucker Collection

A Set Of Antique Carved Wooden Cartouche Moulds Ex. Tucker Collection

Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire

Over his vast career, Tucker worked on a number of famous film and theatrical sets, creating prosthetics for the likes of The Phantom of the Opera, Star Wars and The Company of Wolve...

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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Death

Materials

Wood, Hardwood, Boxwood, Fruitwood

Kings Bench Walk, Temple Gardens, London
Kings Bench Walk, Temple Gardens, London

Kings Bench Walk, Temple Gardens, London

Located in Stratford-Upon-Avon, GB

Following his father’s death in 1893, Louis continued the Grimshaw artistic legacy, producing atmospheric views of Leeds, London, Edinburgh, Hull, Durham and Westminster.

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Early 1900s Victorian Antique Death

Materials

Oil, Panel

W. Woollett and W. Ellis after R. Wilson - 1778 Engraving, Solitude
W. Woollett and W. Ellis after R. Wilson - 1778 Engraving, Solitude

W. Woollett and W. Ellis after R. Wilson - 1778 Engraving, Solitude

By William Woollett

Located in Corsham, GB

Their church appears almost to glow between the dark tree trunks in the distance, whilst a broken statue of a lion stands to one side, symbolising the inevitability of death and deca...

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Early 18th Century Antique Death

Materials

Engraving

Allegory Sleep Diziani Paint 18th Century Oil on canvas Old master Mythological
Allegory Sleep Diziani Paint 18th Century Oil on canvas Old master Mythological

Allegory Sleep Diziani Paint 18th Century Oil on canvas Old master Mythological

Located in Riva del Garda, IT

These are the children of Night, the twins Hypnos and Thanatos, who, according to classical mythology, are the divine personifications of Sleep and peaceful Death (hence the famous L...

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18th Century Old Masters Antique Death

Materials

Oil

1880s Victorian Whitby Jet Gothic Carved Brooch
1880s Victorian Whitby Jet Gothic Carved Brooch

1880s Victorian Whitby Jet Gothic Carved Brooch

Located in London, GB

Its rise to fame, however, came through one of the most defining moments of the Victorian era. Following the death of Prince Albert in 1861, Queen Victoria entered a prolonged perio...

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1880s British Antique Death

Antique Bronze Skull Bust Sculpture, Italian Vanitas & Memento Mori
Antique Bronze Skull Bust Sculpture, Italian Vanitas & Memento Mori

Antique Bronze Skull Bust Sculpture, Italian Vanitas & Memento Mori

Located in Nottingham, GB

Vanitas artworks served as reminders of life's brevity, the futility of worldly pleasures, and the certainty of death. From the Renaissance onwards, the skull became one of the most ...

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Early 20th Century Antique Death

Materials

Bronze

"Portrait of Young Woman with Bonnet, " Watercolor

"Portrait of Young Woman with Bonnet, " Watercolor

By Hannah de Rothschild

Located in Milwaukee, WI

Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery (27 July 1851 – 19 November 1890) was the daughter of Mayer de Rothschild and his wife Juliana, née Cohen. Upon the death of her father in 1874 ...

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1860s Academic Antique Death

Materials

Watercolor, Graphite

Antique Carved Wooden Cartouche Mould Ex. Tucker Collection
Antique Carved Wooden Cartouche Mould Ex. Tucker Collection

Antique Carved Wooden Cartouche Mould Ex. Tucker Collection

Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire

Over his vast career, Tucker worked on a number of famous film and theatrical sets, creating prosthetics for the likes of The Phantom of the Opera, Star Wars and The Company of Wolve...

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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Death

Materials

Wood, Hardwood, Boxwood, Fruitwood

German School Miniature - 19th Century Oil, Marie de' Medici
German School Miniature - 19th Century Oil, Marie de' Medici

German School Miniature - 19th Century Oil, Marie de' Medici

Located in Corsham, GB

Marie de' Medici (1575-1642) was Queen of France as the second wife of King Henry IV and served as regent for her son Louis XIII following her husband's death in 1610. Even after Lou...

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19th Century Antique Death

Materials

Oil

Mid 19th Century French Animalier Bronze "Greyhound" by P J Mêne
Mid 19th Century French Animalier Bronze "Greyhound" by P J Mêne

Mid 19th Century French Animalier Bronze "Greyhound" by P J Mêne

By Pierre Jules Mêne

Located in London, GB

As a further point of reference Mêne produced a catalogue of all his works and each of his models has an identifiable catalogue number. After Mêne’s death in 1879 the Barbedienne an...

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Mid-19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Death

Materials

Bronze

Irish Painting Michael Healy Original Watercolour Dubliners from Dawson Gallery
Irish Painting Michael Healy Original Watercolour Dubliners from Dawson Gallery

Irish Painting Michael Healy Original Watercolour Dubliners from Dawson Gallery

By Michael Healy

Located in Kingsbridge, GB

Michael never painted this to sell, rather they were made for his enjoyment and provide an historical account of an Ireland undergoing massive change. After his death in 1941, these...

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1910s Irish British Colonial Antique Death

Materials

Paper

George Price Boyce - Invernesshire - Pre-Raphaelite watercolour
George Price Boyce - Invernesshire - Pre-Raphaelite watercolour

George Price Boyce - Invernesshire - Pre-Raphaelite watercolour

By George Price Boyce

Located in London, GB

He diaries of this time give a fascinating insight into the early life the group and especially the troubled relationship between Rossetti and Lizzie Siddal and her tragic death. Bo...

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1860s Pre-Raphaelite Antique Death

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Watercolor

18th Century Spanish Religious Old Master Oil Painting of the Virgin of Sorrows
18th Century Spanish Religious Old Master Oil Painting of the Virgin of Sorrows

18th Century Spanish Religious Old Master Oil Painting of the Virgin of Sorrows

Located in Nottingham, GB

Likely originating from the Spanish Colonial world, possibly Mexico, this devotional image portrays the Virgin Mary in profound contemplation and sorrow following the death of Christ...

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Late 18th Century Antique Death

Materials

Paint

Ancient Roman Fragment with Damnatio ad Bestias
Ancient Roman Fragment with Damnatio ad Bestias

Ancient Roman Fragment with Damnatio ad Bestias

Located in BARCELONA, ES

Regarding the theme represented, it is a scene from what is known as damnatio ad bestias, a type of death penalty that consisted of throwing the condemned man to wild beasts.

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15th Century and Earlier Greco Roman Antique Death

Materials

Marble

18th C Vanitas (Memento Mori) Bust carved in marble, Italy
18th C Vanitas (Memento Mori) Bust carved in marble, Italy

18th C Vanitas (Memento Mori) Bust carved in marble, Italy

Located in brussel, BE

This marble bust unites worldly refinement and death in a single figure. The carefully carved costume and jewelry suggest social status and personal identity, while the skull replace...

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18th Century Antique Death

Materials

Marble

Antique Baroque Devotional “Last Judgment” Book with Engravings 1705 Nürnberg
Antique Baroque Devotional “Last Judgment” Book with Engravings 1705 Nürnberg

Antique Baroque Devotional “Last Judgment” Book with Engravings 1705 Nürnberg

Located in Doha, QA

A rare and visually striking early 18th-century German Baroque devotional work printed in Nuremberg in 1705, richly illustrated with dramatic allegorical engravings depicting the “Vi...

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Early 18th Century German Antique Death

Materials

Leather, Paper

Famous Japanese woodcut artist Kitagawa Utamaro festival in the Yoshiwara
Famous Japanese woodcut artist Kitagawa Utamaro festival in the Yoshiwara

Famous Japanese woodcut artist Kitagawa Utamaro festival in the Yoshiwara

By Kitagawa Utamaro 1

Located in Fairlawn, OH

But in spite of his disease, Utamaro continued to produce prints until his death. After his death, his pupil, Koikawa Shuncho, married Utamaro's widow, took his master's name and co...

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Early 1800s Other Art Style Antique Death

Materials

Woodcut

Ancient Roman Relief with a Satyr in marble
Ancient Roman Relief with a Satyr in marble

Ancient Roman Relief with a Satyr in marble

Located in BARCELONA, ES

Life and death come into tension in his personality, and it is he who provides his followers with the lysis, relaxation and dissolution of the psyche that frees the soul and function...

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15th Century and Earlier Greco Roman Antique Death

Materials

Marble

Cain & Abel, 19th Century
Cain & Abel, 19th Century

Cain & Abel, 19th Century

Located in Liphook, GB

Excellent quality and condition biblical scene of the death of Cain by his brother. Painted with the same agitated and proto-Impressionist brushwork of Delacroix from the period, pos...

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19th Century Antique Death

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

19th Century Roman School Marble Bust of Antinous
19th Century Roman School Marble Bust of Antinous

19th Century Roman School Marble Bust of Antinous

Located in Madrid, ES

Antinous occupies a unique place in Roman history. Following his death in the Nile in 130 AD, he was deified by Hadrian, leading to the creation of countless statues and portraits th...

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1890s Antique Death

Materials

Marble

Antique oil painting 18th Century large upright Flowers, Tulips, Lilies and Rose
Antique oil painting 18th Century large upright Flowers, Tulips, Lilies and Rose

Antique oil painting 18th Century large upright Flowers, Tulips, Lilies and Rose

By Willem van Leen

Located in St. Albans, GB

In 1811 he was appointed councillor in Delfshaven and he led this post until his death in 1825. Van Leen's paintings are in the collections of the Dordrechts Museum, the Metropolitan...

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Late 18th Century Old Masters Antique Death

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Russian Imperial Gold-Mounted White Jade Egg Pendant by Michael Perkhin
Russian Imperial Gold-Mounted White Jade Egg Pendant by Michael Perkhin

Russian Imperial Gold-Mounted White Jade Egg Pendant by Michael Perkhin

By Fabergé

Located in Chesterland, OH

About the Master: Michael Evlampievich Perkhin (1860–1903) was the leading workmaster of the House of Fabergé from 1886 until his death. His workshop was responsible for creating som...

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Late 19th Century Russian Empire Antique Death

Materials

Jade, Gold, 14k Gold, Rose Gold

Daum Nancy France Croix de Lorraine, Art Deco Glass Vase with Inclusions, c.1925
Daum Nancy France Croix de Lorraine, Art Deco Glass Vase with Inclusions, c.1925

Daum Nancy France Croix de Lorraine, Art Deco Glass Vase with Inclusions, c.1925

By Daum

Located in Saint-Ouen, FR

The Daum brothers quickly became big names in Art Nouveau, rivaling the famous designer Émile Gallé, and established themselves as leaders in the field of decorative glass after his ...

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1920s French Art Deco Antique Death

Materials

Art Glass

Ancient Egypt, Parietal relief with the enthroned figure of the god Harpocrates
Ancient Egypt, Parietal relief with the enthroned figure of the god Harpocrates

Ancient Egypt, Parietal relief with the enthroned figure of the god Harpocrates

Located in BARCELONA, ES

He was born after the death of his father Osiris. He is thus represented as a weak child, whom his mother, the goddess Isis, had to hide in the swamps of the Nile Delta, to protect h...

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15th Century and Earlier Egyptian Antique Death

Materials

Limestone

"Woman Carrying Purse, " Watercolor & Graphite on Paper by Hannah de Rothschild
"Woman Carrying Purse, " Watercolor & Graphite on Paper by Hannah de Rothschild

"Woman Carrying Purse, " Watercolor & Graphite on Paper by Hannah de Rothschild

By Hannah de Rothschild

Located in Milwaukee, WI

Artist Bio: Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery (27 July 1851 – 19 November 1890) was the daughter of Mayer de Rothschild and his wife Juliana, née Cohen. Upon the death of her fa...

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1860s Academic Antique Death

Materials

Watercolor, Graphite

Le Cochon dans un Verger (The Pig in an Orchard)
Le Cochon dans un Verger (The Pig in an Orchard)

Le Cochon dans un Verger (The Pig in an Orchard)

By Charles François Daubigny

Located in Middletown, NY

Bearing a wry handwritten inscription in the lower margin plate that reads: "un Cochon de propriétaire qui ne fera de bien qu'après sa mort" (A pig of a landlord who will do no good ...

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Mid-19th Century French School Antique Death

Materials

Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint

Louis Comfort Tiffany Scarab Ring
Louis Comfort Tiffany Scarab Ring

Louis Comfort Tiffany Scarab Ring

By Louis Comfort Tiffany

Located in New Orleans, LA

Louis Comfort Tiffany became art director of Tiffany & Co. following his father’s death in 1902, where he established the Artistic Jewelry department and introduced a distinctly ...

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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Antique Death

Materials

Yellow Gold

Still Life With Orchids, Early 20th-Century Scottish Oil Painting
Still Life With Orchids, Early 20th-Century Scottish Oil Painting

Still Life With Orchids, Early 20th-Century Scottish Oil Painting

By John Henderson

Located in Cheltenham, GB

Alongside a successful exhibiting career, he became an influential educator, eventually serving as Director of the Glasgow School of Art from 1918 until his death in 1924. This char...

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1910s Antique Death

Materials

Canvas, Oil

17th Century, Italian Painting Saint Jerome Hears the Trumpet of Judgment
17th Century, Italian Painting Saint Jerome Hears the Trumpet of Judgment

17th Century, Italian Painting Saint Jerome Hears the Trumpet of Judgment

Located in IT

His work became known as the Vulgate, the canonical text of the Latin Church, recognized by the Council of Trent. After the death of Pope Damasus, Jerome left Rome in 385 and underto...

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17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Death

Materials

Canvas

"Sacred to the Memory of...General George Washington" Engraving by John Donlevy
"Sacred to the Memory of...General George Washington" Engraving by John Donlevy

"Sacred to the Memory of...General George Washington" Engraving by John Donlevy

Located in Colorado Springs, CO

The engraving was first published in 1838; this is the second state published in 1870.  After Washington’s death in 1799, many engravers and publishers rushed to create prints of Wa...

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1870s American Victorian Antique Death

Materials

Paper

Carved boxwood Crucifixion Stand with Skull - Southern Germany - 17th century
Carved boxwood Crucifixion Stand with Skull - Southern Germany - 17th century

Carved boxwood Crucifixion Stand with Skull - Southern Germany - 17th century

Located in Lommel, BE

The juxtaposition of the skull, serpent, and fruit forms a powerful visual theology: death enters the world through sin, yet is overcome through the Crucifixion above.

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17th Century Antique Death

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Boxwood, Fruitwood

Sea coast
Sea coast

Sea coast

By Eugene Le Poittevin

Located in BELEYMAS, FR

His artistic talents allowed him to join the studio of Louis Hersent around 1823, then that of Xavier Leprince (following the latter's death at the end of 1826, Le Poittevin moved in...

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1840s French School Antique Death

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Large French Art Deco Terracotta Sculpture by Ugo Cipriani, 1920
Large French Art Deco Terracotta Sculpture by Ugo Cipriani, 1920

Large French Art Deco Terracotta Sculpture by Ugo Cipriani, 1920

By Ugo Cipriani

Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR

He continued his artistic career in France, where he remained active until his death in 1960. A rare and highly decorative example of French Art Deco sculpture, this authentic Ugo C...

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1920s French Art Deco Antique Death

Materials

Terracotta

Lower Paleolithic Flint Hand Axe from St. Acheul, France
Lower Paleolithic Flint Hand Axe from St. Acheul, France

Lower Paleolithic Flint Hand Axe from St. Acheul, France

Located in London, GB

His collection was dispersed after his death at an important Christie’s sale in 1924. Provenance St Acheul, France (according to inscription).

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15th Century and Earlier French Prehistoric Antique Death

Materials

Stone

Large Meissen Rococo Genre Group, The Approach, by J.C. Schoenheit, Circa 1850
Large Meissen Rococo Genre Group, The Approach, by J.C. Schoenheit, Circa 1850

Large Meissen Rococo Genre Group, The Approach, by J.C. Schoenheit, Circa 1850

By Meissen Porcelain, Johann Carl Schoenheit

Located in Vienna, AT

Acier, who entered the Meissen factory in 1762. After Kändler's death in 1775, Schönheit was head of the model department until 1794.

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Mid-19th Century German Rococo Antique Death

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Porcelain

1917 The Complete Writings of O. Henry [William Sydney Porter]
1917 The Complete Writings of O. Henry [William Sydney Porter]

1917 The Complete Writings of O. Henry [William Sydney Porter]

Located in Bath, GB

These volumes are limited editions de luxe or 'Memorial Editions' issued shortly after the author’s death, being number one hundred and fifty eight of one thousand and seventy five c...

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1910s American Antique Death

Materials

Paper

Rare Deeply Serene Solid Cast Java Buddha, 14th-17th Century or Earlier
Rare Deeply Serene Solid Cast Java Buddha, 14th-17th Century or Earlier

Rare Deeply Serene Solid Cast Java Buddha, 14th-17th Century or Earlier

Located in Ukiah, CA

Forthe first 500 years after his death, Buddhism and the Buddha himself were symbolized by things like empty footprint, or a wheel of the Dharma (Buddhist teaching), or even buy a pa...

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18th Century Sri Lankan Antique Death

Materials

Bronze

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At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal antique death for your home. An antique death — often made from paper, bronze and cotton — can elevate any home. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect antique death — we have versions that date back to the 19th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. Each antique death bearing Art Deco hallmarks is very popular.

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An antique death can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $618, while the lowest priced sells for $272 and the highest can go for as much as $5,500.