Memento Mori Sculpture

Unique sculptured wooden Skull from Innsbruck, Austria, from around the 1920 ties, extremely fine sculptured piece of Artisanal work, looks like a real skull, beautiful old patin...

"Art has been an obsession of mine since I was a little girl. It allows me an outlet to represent a part of me that I have a hard time putting into words – therefore, I create. Makin...

Possibly Germany, circa mid-19th century, a greenish sandstone like the “Anröchter Stein” found in Westfalen, Germany. Chiselling marks from a stonemason with a rusty nails head on t...

This silver metal Memento Mori pin features a large (1.0" long X 0.5" wide) grinning skull exquisitely carved in angel skin coral. In order to keep the skull in position when it is b...

"Memento Mori Vanitas" Hard stone sculpture depicting a skull.

The apparent organic quail forms a contrast which represents the transience of life like a ‚memento mori‘. This sculpture is made of a monkey porcelaine figurine from the famous V...

An important and rare Italian Wunderkammer Memento Mori sculpture, depicting a wooden skull.

A pair of decorative faux steer horn memento mori sculptures mounted on brass bases.

A vintage memento mori sculpture depicting an ibex skull in black fiberglass with large horns and a malachite roundel.

'Memento Mori - Latin: "Remember that you will die". A part skeleton, comprising skull, hand, foot, part pelvis, rib cage ad other bones in a velvet lined and mahogany domed case. ...

Casted high impact resin with hand laid metallic paint. Hand signed and numbered COA issued by the artist. From the edition of 150. Includes original box. Artwork is in excellent ...

A vintage authentic antelope skull and horns mounted on a German silver pedestal base. Good vintage condition with age appropriate wear

A vintage metal sculptural replica of a human skull. The cranium rests upon the separately cast mandible. There is a long tradition of the memento mori (latin "Remember Death") used ...

Painted plaster memento mori skull over a painted wooden base.? Italy 1880 ca.

The object has a wonderful patina and dates from the first half of the 20th century-probably South-East Asia.

A macabre 17th century Italian Memento Mori carved wood and painted skull mounted on its original wood stepped stand. Translating to, "Remember, you must die," memento mori figures w...

Prisoner of War Memento Mori This unusual object is made from cow bone. Likely to have been produced in the 19th Century by a prisoner of war. this object includes a fully articu...

Italian Memento Mori skull Marble North of Italy, 17th century H 9 x L 7 x P 14 cm At the turn of the 16th century, they were the height of fashion: palm-sized carvings of skulls,...

Limited edition of 12, these 5 mounted geometric sculptures are by Memento-Mori in Paris, France. They can be sold separately or together.

Bleached steer skull and polished, black tipped horns.

A good example of a 19th century plaster death mask on socle base. The subject has deep, plunging eye sockets and gaunt appearance. Some elderly damage to the back left secti...

Painted plaster skull over a wooden painted base emulating marble. The skull is surrounded by a bronze snake. Excellent Memento Mori, Italy, circa 1880.

A beautifully crafted pine 18th century Memento Mori depicting a Skull set upon a book, probably German, circa 1780. Width 18cm, Depth 9.5cm, Height 9.5cm

A Memento Mori from Wunderkammer on column with clock.

A Memento Mori is an object, often a skull, that serves as a reminder of death and the fleeting nature of life, rooted in the medieval Latin Christian practice of contemplating morta...

Memento Mori for Wunderkammer, depicting a skull and a tulip, oil paintings on hard stone. A large specimen of oval-shaped natural agate, with a black wooden frame, is mounted on a b...

An early 19th century Italian gilt wood Memento Mori skull & crossbones. Likely to of been part of much larger interior architectural piece, or a decorative element on a frame hou...

A finely carved Memento Mori base to hold the holy cross, now hangs to make for a decorative wee shelf. Original oil gilt and green ground, European in origins, age related wear knoc...

Rare pair of funerary sculptures of a male and female likely husband and wife, carved in marble and housed in substantial cherry wood frames with ebonised slips. Each portrait has a...

An unusual composite stone open book and hands, this would off likely been a grave marker or part of a larger more elaborate memorial. Mid-20th century in age, well weathered. The...

Bronze sculpture on a black marble base, depicting a Vanitas Memento-mori, a seated skeleton holding a scythe.

A finely carved Memento Mori base to hold the holy cross, now hangs to make for a decorative wee shelf. Original polychromed painted decoration, European in origins, age related wear...

A wonderful pair of pine skull plaques, nievely carved from pine with their original painted finish. Likely too of been part of larger sculpture, frame or religious icon. 19t...

A wonderful tobacco jar, made from a human skull. The skull has had its cranium removed and a tin container inlaid within a turned bone handle has been applied to the cranium. A rhym...

An extraordinary and finely carved black lip pearl oyster, portraying a bas-relief skull. 21st century in age, attributed to or in the manner of the artist Gregory Halili. Meas...

The skull is composed out of light brown wood, with a metallic beetle holding a smaller replica of the wooden skull between its two front legs. On the top op de bigger skull a red co...

A oversized carved oak manically grinning skull, with original paint. Late 19th century in age, likely to of been carved in the Guerrero district of Mexico and connected to the d...

For centuries, the skull has been used as a reminder of one’s mortality and the fragility of human life. Memento mori is a latin term meaning: “remember, you must die.” Keeping remin...

Vanitas or Memento Mori skull. Carved bone. 17th century. Small human skull made of bone carved in its color with a clear naturalistic intention (visible in details such as the nose...

By the 15th century it could be extremely morbid and explicit, reflecting an increased obsession with death and decay also seen in the Ars moriendi, the Danse Macabre, and the overla...

Its raven-like appearance serves as a powerful symbol of mortality and the fleeting nature of life, embodying the memento mori theme—a reminder that death is an inescapable aspect of...

S16 Home San Francisco. Exceptional large Memento Mori sculpture in polychrome depicting a half flayed Monk.

Casted high impact resin with hand laid metallic paint. Hand signed and numbered COA issued by the artist. From the edition of 150. Includes original box. Artwork is in excellent ...

Italian Wunderkammer Memento Mori plaster sculpture, depicting a skull covered with natural specimen of butterflies wings.

Mid Century lifelike brass hanging sculpture of a longhorn steer skull. 4081

Terracotta sculpture - Memento mori. Italy, 18th-19th century. 16 x 25 x h 18 cm.

Painted plaster memento mori skull over a painted wooden base. Italy circa 1880.

Antique 18th century fruitwood carved Memento Mori Skull. The skull of petrified display powerfully carved in the form of a human skull consisting of the cranium, upper and lower jaw...

19th C European Bronze 'Memento Mori' /Analogical Mechanical Skeleton Sculpture Probably of French or Italian origin, Mid to late 19th Century, Unmarked.

19th century, a depiction of Vanitas, skull in white marble. A vanitas is a symbolic work of art showing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death,...

A striking and thought-provoking 19th century French cast bronze Memento Mori figure depicting a dead finch resting on an onyx pedestal. Memento Mori appear morbid but, in fact, were...

Memento mori is Latin for “Remember death.” The expression originates from a specific custom of ancient Rome; when a victorious general was back from war and was brought in triumphal...

A rare example of Memento Mori from Wunderkammer depicting a skull caged in a forged iron structure, with a chain for hanging.

A large and impressive pair of late 19th early 20th century Entomology specimen cases, containing a varied collection of over one hundred insects from around the world pinned to an e...

An extremely rare ring that commemorates the naval hero, Horatio Nelson, who died in 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar, fighting against the Napoleonic forces. Dr William Nelson, the a...

A very large, one of a kind epimorph amethyst. This piece is a visual spectacle with the natural sculptural formations of amethyst in a different variety of purple tones. Also disp...

This wonderful 17th-century French School vanitas painting is a meditation on mortality and the transience of earthly pleasures. The composition centers on a finely rendered human sk...

Jacques-Francois Delyen (1684-1761), Court Painter of King Louis XV. A Magnificent Pair of Palatial "French Royal" Allegorical Paintings "Aurora and Diana" "Night and Day" A truly ...

An exceptional large specimen of vanadinite from Morocco, covered entirely with brilliant, deep red crystals of varying sizes. The crystals are densely packed together, forming a con...

De Doorluchtige Weereld – S. de Vries, François Halma, Amsterdam, 1700 Magnificent and complete three-volume set of De Doorluchtige Weereld (The Illustrious World), written by S. de...

Large impressive British colonial style sailors valentine handcrafted in exotic seashells ambitiously arranged around a heart with an anchor and a message of hope. Presented under gl...

We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare one of a kind Pauly CIE Et stamped hand carved walnut armoire made by the genius that was Moses Michelangelo Guggenheim 1837-1910 W...

Jan van Gelder, Italianised as Giovanni Vangheldri (Antwerp 1621 – Modena 1685) Portrait of the Duchess Vittoria Farnese d'Este (Parma, 1618 – Modena, 1649) wife of Francesco I d'E...

This large branch of Mediterranean coral, 'Corallium Rubrum' is mounted on a gilt bronze base. The creation of the vase-shaped base involves various techniques: lost wax casting, mol...

Magnificent historic Tiffany Studios framed window, "Crusader", a Warrior Knight, after the 1460 work by Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506). Incorporating a harm...