Cobra Antique

Unusual pair of polished steel Arts and Crafts andirons, the pointed finials over "cobra neck" bodies, standing on arched legs ending in penny feet.

The artwork represents a standing African warrior in traditional costume hunting a cobra snake, through soft strokes, depicted skillfully by harmonious and congruous colors and well-...

Other elements in his hair include a cobra, a skull, and a crescent moon, all symbols associated with Shiva.

He is holding his hand up and is wearing an impressive necklace with fine palmettes and handsome cobras. The statue to the left is of the scribe Pastophore who is holding a canopic j...

The clock having domed trapezoidal case, dome with bronze relief to front depicting a partial gilt Egyptian goddess, Isis, flanked by cobras and lotus scrolls, red marble ribbed colu...

Stoically standing on an column base, proudly displaying his nemes with uraeus, not a crown in itself, but worn to symbolizes the pharaoh's power, with a stylized, upright form of an...

After turning to geometric abstraction and associating briefly with the Cobra Group, an avant-garde movement that espoused the complete freedom of color and form, Bury discovered Ale...

N2 : 14 mm long, carved design of a hawk and two uraeii /cobras N3 : 13 mm long, two "ankh" hieroglyphics representing life and swirled decor in the center, very typical Hyksos desi...

The Thebes Scarab Pendant: an archaeological revival gold and enamel scarab brooch/pendant, by Robert Phillips, set to the centre with a raised scarab rendered in deep red guilloché ...

Krishna (the divine statesman – shown here as Krishna on a cobra throne.) 9. Balarama (elder brother of Krishna) 10.