Antique Temple

The bank fills most of the plate, a temple front of eight fluted Doric columns under a wide pediment, raised on a high podium with a broad flight of steps on which two men stand talk...

One side displays an energetic shishi (temple lion) modelled in heavy gilt relief with a textured mane and extended claws.

His raised hand, resting against his temple, lends the composition a thoughtful character.

The mirror is designed with an elaborate temple-inspired crest rising above a small central mirror plate.

The walled city is drawn as a plan at the left, its streets and blocks washed in pink, with the Temple and its courts on Mount Moriah on the east side of the city and the gates named...

Which contains its origin, location, and antiquities: The magnificence of its temples, monasteries, hospitals, streets, squares, buildings, and fountains: The number of its inhabitan...

Which contains its origin, location, and antiquities: The magnificence of its temples, monasteries, hospitals, streets, squares, buildings, and fountains: The number of its inhabitan...

Fluted legs recalled the columns of ancient temples, acanthus scrolls echoed the friezes of Roman architecture, and gilt bronze ornament was applied with the delicacy of fine jewelry.

Below the pediment, two prominent turned and fluted columns with carved volute capitals frame the vertical thermometer housing, giving the upper portion of the case the structured ap...

While the original Roman antiquities (dating from the 1st Century BC to the 2nd Century AD) were terracotta tiles molded in series to decorate temples and villas, this exceptional pi...

This antique wooden statue of a peacock, originating from a temple in Rajasthan, India, stands at 26.8 cm tall.

Sprays of roses and acanthus leaves bloom across each crest, framed by inverted finials and Greek key corners like the pediment of a classical temple. Egg and dart molding and gadroo...

The ground is sandy desert; four pyramids rise on the horizon at the left, and at the right stand an obelisk and the ruined columns of a temple. No engraver's or artist's name is le...

The theater cut into the rock lies at the left, a line of standing columns and temple fronts runs along the valley floor at the center, and tall cliffs with rock-cut facades close th...

The theater cut into the rock lies at the left, a line of standing columns and temple fronts runs along the valley floor at the center, and tall cliffs with rock-cut facades close th...

Both wear deep bonnets over lace veils, with gold head ornaments showing at the temples, and coral necklaces. The left wears a blue bonnet, a slate lilac high waisted gown and a cora...

The panoramic scenes incorporate Mount Fuji, temple and pagoda architecture, a torii gate, stone lanterns, wooded landscapes, water and deer.

Such ornaments belong to the neoclassical architecture that flourished in Greece from the mid-19th century, inspired by the ancient Greek temple, and were made in many variations unt...

Made in France in the nineteenth century, this decorative birdcage is built as an architectural model and finished in paint, part of a tradition in which cages were fashioned to rese...

Pierced floral latticework, scalloped arch motifs, hand-carved details and decorative metal panels give the piece the feeling of an old doorway or temple facade. The beautifully age...

Across the top: the Nativity of the Mother of God, the Entrance of the Mother of God into the Temple, the Annunciation, and the Nativity of Christ.

Often reliquaries such as this are devotional objects given to local temples to enshrine or held in or displayed in a home altar.

Often reliquaries such as this are devotional objects given to local temples to enshrine or held in or displayed in a home altar.

Often reliquaries such as this are devotional objects given to local temples to enshrine or held in or displayed in a home altar.

A craftsman drawing on a tablet rests over an Ionic capital. A classical temple, resembling the Parthenon, rests on a hill in the background.

The figures are set within a landscape of distant temple buildings, mountains and a mature pine tree.

At the right, riders sit in canopied howdahs on the backs of elephants, beside a mounted figure. A tapering temple tower and a domed building rise among the trees on the left, and a ...

Long lines of standing columns stretch across a flat plain toward distant hills, broken by a temple front with columns in the middle distance and by tall single columns and fragments...

She wears a red brown jacket embroidered with colored flowers, a black apron over a green skirt, and a lace cap with a gold band at the temple and a long white lace veil falling behi...

Both wear close fitting caps with gold ornaments at the temples, long white lace veils, gold earrings and coral necklaces.

She is shown in full profile facing right, in a white cap with gold ornaments at the temple and gold drop earrings. Her white jacket is worn with a blue kerchief edged with fringe an...

Beyond the square stand the twin colonnaded palaces on the north side, with the temple front of the Madeleine closing the Rue Royale between them.

Viennese cold-painted bronze Egyptian monument letterbox by Bergman Austrian, circa 1900 Measures: Height 46cm, width 39cm, depth 28cm Demonstrating the very best of Bergman, th...

The plate has no title caption; the lettering engraved below the image is a dedication in script, with Middle spelled as engraved: "To Edward Jackson of the Midle Temple Esq.r This P...

The plate has no title caption; the lettering engraved below the image is a dedication in script: "To Arthur Weavor of the Middle Temple Esq.r This Plate is humbly dedicated by Eleaz...

The plate has no title caption; the lettering engraved below the image is a dedication in script: "To William Cholwich of the Middle Temple Esq.r This Plate is humbly dedicated by El...

The rim of the cloisonné is adorned with a repeating Far Eastern motif reminiscent of the decoration found on Buddhist temple cornices. Very good condition. The cloisonné is slightl...

Balinese figurative sculpture of this type is closely connected with the island’s long tradition of temple, ceremonial and decorative wood carving, where human figures, ritual attrib...

En 1789, la manufacture déménage rue du Temple. Cette année-là, Gouverneur Morris, représentant des Etats-Unis à Paris, acheta des porcelaines pour George Washington.

Alexandrie and Canope stand on the coast, Cyrene and Barce in the Cyrenaica, and the Temple de Jupiter Hammon in the desert. Dotted tracks cross the eastern desert to Berenice on the...

The two detailed prints portray monumental classical columns, temples, architectural fragments, and figures among atmospheric ancient ruins.

The upper surface presents an expansive landscape of mountains, temple architecture, pagodas, drifting clouds, pine trees and birds, rendered in gold against a deep black lacquer gro...

He is closely identified with Horyuji Temple, outside of Nara, which he founded in 607.

A square stone hall with a pedimented front, round arched lower windows and a domed cupola stands at the center behind a long white fence. To the left are a temple fronted building a...

She wears a pale gray high waisted gown with puffed sleeves, a deep lace collar and a long lace veil over a close cap with gold ornaments at the temples, with a coral necklace, yello...

It may have likely come from a temple grounds or shrine at one time. A heavy, solid, very engaging piece with a beautiful, aged patina.

This large (46 inches tall) and handsome temple bronze statue is raised on a later black stand, the statue displays beautifully.

The large relief at the lower left shows a bearded figure in a chariot decorated with reliefs, crowned with a wreath by a winged Victory holding a palm, before a temple front; a trum...

A ruled key at upper left lists 22 numbered places, from Temple de Minerve to Murs de Neapolis, among them Rue des Tombeaux où Cicéron trouva celui d'Archimède.

Symbolizing enlightenment, The Stupa shape represents one of the most ancient and sacred Buddhist architectural traditions, commonly seen in temples and homes across Thailand, Cambod...

References: Peter Walton, Creamware and Other English Pottery at Temple Newsam House, Leeds, Bradford and London: Manningham Press, 1976, p. 246, pls. 1071–1072.

Woven in the age of the third Qing Emperor Yongzheng (1722-35), this exquisitely designed mat was part of the long runners commissioned for the Tibetan Buddhist temples, intended as ...

At right a large columned building with a temple front faces the green beside a tall elm, with a second steeple behind it.

Pyramid, Ru. Ruins, T. Temple) and a scale of British Miles. A note explains that a name written across the Nile marks a place on both banks, and a glossary at right translates Arabi...

Original antique Asia cruise travel poster promoting ocean liner voyages to the Far East - L'Extreme Orient par les Messageries Maritimes - designed by the French painter and illustr...

Südfeld & Co), Trade licence in 1883, Died in 1916 Production: Artistic items in gold and silver, table decorations, girandoles, tea and coffee services, toiletries, church and t...

Standing at 16.8 cm tall and crafted from bronze, this piece reflects the rich cultural heritage of Myanmar, particularly from the ancient city of Bagan, known for its thousands of t...

History: Research reveals that this work of art was a gilded Seishi Kanon Bodhisattva and was created with old traditional techniques, following the original model in Horyuji temple....

Antique wooden panel of the goddess Lakshmi Material : wood 45,3 cm high 24,8 cm wide and 12,2 cm deep Originating from an antique Temple Chariot 18th century See the last two photos...

Tivoli, east of Rome in the hills of Lazio, was celebrated from antiquity for its waterfalls on the river Aniene, its villas and the circular temple above the gorge. By the eighteent...