Antique Snake

The solid Brèche Violette marble body is encased with luxuriant palmettes at the base and exceptional most impressive richly chased intertwined snakes leading up each side with intri...

The square top is cut in curves at the corners and rests on a tripod pedestal whose column ends in a vase turning with cabriole legs on snake head feet. North Shore, Massachusetts, c...

The reverse cover is also niello enamelled with a snake in jungle surroundings of palms ferns foliage and flowers and a birds nest with five eggs in it.

Territories such as Morocco, Algeria, Senegambia, and Dahomey are marked, and major rivers like the Niger and Volta are shown snaking through the terrain. An important historical fe...

Cylindrical vessel on three animal-shaped feet (dragon or snake), wall with profile grooves, roof. pottery with green lead glaze.

Roman numerals are applied directly to the marble face in lieu of a dial, using hour and minute hands of snakes to indicate the time. A porthole window on the back allows access to t...

A pair of English Chippendale mahogany shield back with original needlepoint work pole screens with a urn finial , telescopic turned bulbous shaft, and terminating on tripod snake fe...

Parrotfish (Scaridae species) 14. Snake eel (Ophichthidae species) 15. Seahorse (Hippocampus species) 16.

Featuring a realistically carved bird holding a snake in its beak, giving the impression that its about to take flight from its perch.

Handle is in the form of a snake. Central portion of ewer is hand-hammered on both sides; each hammered part frames a scene.

The sculptor James Pradier (1790-1852), who commenced his career with works in the Neoclassical style, but then transitioned to more Romantic mien, here synthesizes the two styles in...

At its heart sits a functioning antique clock with brass, snake-shaped hands, each inlaid with small red stones for eyes — a detail both eerie and exquisite.

Geographic features are well represented, with the Bitterroot Range, Sawtooth Mountains, Salmon River, and Snake River all prominently drawn. The Great Lava Bed and the vast “Sage Br...

Featuring a realistically carved bird holding a snake in its beak, giving the impression that its about to take flight from its perch.

Dating: 19th Century Material: Silver 13 Lot ('812.5') Total weight: ca 260 grams / 9.15 oz / 8.36 troy oz Measures: Height: 7,8 - 9,3 cm / 2.78 - 3.54 in Mar...

19th century Antique Middle Eastern Islamic Copper Vase with Snake Handles. Large Islamic Asian copper vase with traditional Islamic Moorish embossed floral and Arabic writing desig...

At the Salon of 1847, he caused a scandal by presenting his "Woman bitten by a snake". This romantic sculpture was made from a cast of Apollonie Sabatier, Charles Baudelaire's muse.

These pipefish are commonly found in seagrass beds and coastal waters, where their elongated form helps them blend seamlessly into vegetation. Directly below, the Snake Pipefish (...

A beautiful hand carved double headed dragon tray with curved edges and two raised handles in the form of a dragon tail, the tail detailed with carved scales and fins snakes around t...

She is frequently portrayed wearing a headdress resembling a crown, cow horns, and a solar disk, often with a snake emerging from it. This imagery symbolizes her protective and heali...

The cameo is signed by Giorgio Girardet itself at the right border and carved in black and white sardonyx, depicting the personification of Venus with long hair facing to the left, r...

A good set of motifs, including Adam & Eve standing either side of the tree of life with a snake coiled around its trunk, birds, fruit baskets, potted flowering plants, acorns, crown...

Excellent Piece of Viennese Bronze Art: Elaborately detailed bronze sculpture of a slave trader with a girl under palm trees: Old oriental man in a long coat and turban in a stooped ...

Both of them are adorned with a pair of gilt snakes crisscrossed at the top. Their lids are shaped as doctoral tams with flatted orbs finials.

Christ is shown seated in a desert landscape, surrounded by lions, a bear, snakes, and other wild beasts. To the left, a horned figure representing Satan gestures toward him, while a...

A Very Rare Pair of English 19th Century Cobalt Blue Ground Jeweled and Gilt Double snake Handle Ewers by Copeland. Each ewer consists of a cobalt blue ground, featuring a bulbous b...

The snake motif is also visible on Melpomene’s arm as a cuff bracelet.

The central bronze mount depicting the helmeted god Mercury and his symbol the caduceus, his staff with snakes entwined surmounted by wings, shown on both sides.

In this specific print, Émile Ollivier is depicted with his head attached to the body of a snake. The snake is coiled around a scroll, symbolizing cunning and deceit.

Each surmounted by a stork aloft a tortoise and feeding from a snake, the body elaborately decorated with masks, garlands, tassels, and fish against a lattice ground.

They bear a pair of candle-mounts which are inscribed with Arabic characters, and consist of snakes with long, twisting coils, that act as counterweights to the lighting mounts.

In front a small blue hand cart. Snaking past the chalet a road leads up to a church the tower of which is just visible in the distance.

The clock face has blue painted numerals on white enamel. “Snake” hands complete the presentation. 26.50” X 22.50” X 9.00"

A very interesting gnostic intaglio made on a dark grey mottled agate. The front shows two snakes whose tails seem to turn into rods(?) which are then held in the mouths of the oppos...

The decorative elements of this skimmer are interesting - a snake, the profile of a bird, etc. It would look very nice next to a fireplace or in the kitchen as a decorative piece.

Connecting the agate to the shepherds hook is a snake chain. Drop From Ear: 43mm Weight: 6g

Three striking and wonderfully executed snakes support the table with impressive richly carved fish scales, ferocious giltwood dolphin heads, and pointed tails.

The twin gilt handles modelled as snakes above acanthus leaf molding Height: (entire) 11” (27.5cm).

Beautiful winged maidens with mermaid tails sit to one side while impressive and richly chased handles lead up the sides from handsome rams heads to intertwined snakes. The slender b...

Bronze Buddha depicted in meditation pose sheltered by a Naga (a seven-headed snake). I two parts. Naga's body coiled up to serve as a cushion for the Buddha with 7 pronged head prov...

Antique Bing & Grøndahl porcelain vase with hand-painted butterflies and flowers. Handles modelled as snakes from Medusa's hair. 1870s. Measures: 24 x 15.5 cm.

Composed by Tito Francolini, the piece depicts a scene of a lion attacking a snake in the desert composed entirely of polished hardstone in place of paint.

This Indian Rug Pashmina measuring 47 × 58 cm showcases an extremely finely woven pictorial carpet, with c. 2,500,000 knots/sqm, depicts Vishnu under a lotus flower resting in cosmic...

The print is Plate 46 in the series, showcasing the deity Krishna in a powerful stance, subduing the multi-headed serpent Kaliya, a well-known episode from Hindu mythology where Kris...

A good set of motifs, including Adam & Eve standing either side of the tree of life with a snake coiled around its trunk, dogs, birds, flowers, potted flowering plants, fruit baskets...

The set consists of one pair snake hinges, three pairs of strap hinges, two cabinet locks, three keyhole covers, seven slide latches and a pair of chest handles.

Obv. is head of Medusa facing without snakes, L PLATIVS below. Rev. is Victory facing, holding palm-branch and leading four horses, PLANCVS below.

The composition framed in a border with caryatides, snakes, and other distinctive decorative elements, depicts "Alexander the Great Wounded in the Thigh at the Battle of Issus".

The center section has a eagle flying over snakes on one side and a warrior holding a sword on the other.

The interlace patterns are very interesting in that they are what 17th century people believed snakes looked like. The snakes have heads on them which look like birds.

Rene Lalique amber glass 'Serpent' brooch, inset into a brass mount. Features a coiled snake. The brass mount has a stamped makers mark, 'LALIQUE FRANCE'.

The cassina features floral and gemometric decorations that create boxes within which zoomorphic images are depicted such as two intertwining peacocks (on the front and back), a snak...

The two curvaceous handles are each comprised of a pair of snakes bound with a ribbon. Our blue and white lidded Savona vases would make wonderful decorative accessories for a mantel...

This fabulous large Art Deco 1925 circa brooch has been later modified on the back to be worn also as pendant by two back side hooks as shown through photos Wide oval with amazing wo...

**Le Boa** (The Boa) - A person with a long, snake-like neck and head, resembling a boa constrictor.

The Stand with thick dished top in aged Yew Wood with a deep Amber color and a well turned hardwood center column in Vase form and having sinuous oak cabriolet legs terminating in a ...

- Fig. 7: A cherubic figure entwined with symbolic elements like a snake and other animals, indicative of mythological themes

The vase is silvered metal with floral engravings and graceful handles depicting birds on snakes. The center in the Anglo-Indian manner is a polished coconut on a floral engraved sil...

The snake handles terminate at either end into acanthus leaves.

The side rails are richly decorated with zoomorphic dolphins expelling snakes, a dynamic and allegorical motif executed in the manner of Jean Joseph Chapuis, a celebrated cabinetmake...