Bronze Pax or Pax Board, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Paper holder bronze, 16th century. Bronze paper holder with flat handle on the back that features a light relief decoration on the front. Under an auction of openwork elements of cle...
Bronze
Bronze Pax or Pax Board, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Peacekeeper. Bronze. Century XVI. Bronze purse with a handle on the back in the shape of an esse in the same material and a decoration in light relief on the front that shows, unde...
Bronze
Pax or Pax Board, Bronze, Spain, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Paper holder bronze, 16th century. Portapaz made of bronze with an "asymmetric" handle on the back, which presents a decoration in light relief framed in an architectural compositio...
Bronze
Silver Pax Board, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Portapaz silver in color with a handle in the shape of "that" on the back, topped by a hoof below, and a figurative composition to the front, framed by two columns on pedestals and a...
Silver
Silver Pax Board, 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Rectangular in shape, it presents the main motif of the work (a Latin cross) framed by plant elements and flanked by two vases. This type of liturgical objects were used in the mass ...
Silver
Silver Pax Board, 18th-19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
With a burr mark. Portapaz silver in its color topped by a cross decorated with a symmetrical composition based on architectural and plant elements inspired by Rococo models of the e...
Silver
Bronze Pax or Pax Board, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Paper holder bronze, 16th century. Bronze paper holder with handle in the shape of a torsa column on the back (area decorated with a work of rhombuses and flowers). The front presen...
Bronze
Bronze Pax or Pax Board, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Portapaz. Bronze, 16th century. Bronze paper holder with a flat curved handle on the back that features a relief decoration organized in the front by an architectural composition wi...
Bronze
Pax or Pax Board, Bronze, Spain, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Paper holder bronze, 16th century. Bronze paper holder with a half-rectangle shaped handle on the back, which features an embossed composition on its forehead. The upper part of the ...
Bronze
Bronze pax or pax board. Spain, 16th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Peace holder in gilded and polychrome bronze. Spain, 16th century. Peace holder with the image of a bust of Christ in bas-relief, in profile to the left, in a tondo framed by border...
Bronze, Other
Bronze Pax Board or Pax, Spain, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Bronze peace holder, 16th century. Base with two ecclesiastical shields on the sides and a Latin cross in the center; two columns flank the main iconographic theme in relief on th...
Bronze
Pax or Pax Board, Bronze, Spain, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Paper holder bronze, 16th century. Portapaz made of bronze with rectangular handle (which presents a piece to support this object diagonally) on the back that presents a decoration ...
Bronze
Pax or Pax Board, Bronze, Spain, 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Paper holder bronze, 19th century. Portapaz made of bronze with handle in "ce" decorated with spirals in the shaft and vegetable finishes at the ends that presents a decoration in r...
Bronze
Bronze Pax or Pax Board with Ecce Homo, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Portapaz, Ecce Homo. Bronze, 16th century. Brass portapaz with handle located on the back (flat, asymmetrical “ese” shape with a lower cap and ends finished with a volute) and relie...
Bronze
$49,733 / set
H 38.98 in W 28.35 in D 1.58 in
Saints John and Matthew, Polychrome Wood, Possibly, Burgos School, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Pair of reliefs, San Juan and San Mateo. Polychrome wood. Possibly, Burgos school, 16th century. Pair of carved and polychrome wood reliefs that each show a seated human figure wri...
Other
$7,061Sale Price|20% Off
H 38.98 in W 32.29 in
Holy Family Piola Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Maria Religious
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Genoese school of the second half of the seventeenth century Circle of Domenico Piola (Genoa 1627-1703) The Holy Family Oil painting on canvas 83 x 68 cm. - in an antique frame 99 x...
Oil
$19,850Sale Price|39% Off
H 44.25 in W 51.38 in D 3 in
Italian 18th Century Oil on Canvas "Madonna and Child" after Giovanni Lanfranco
By Giovanni Lanfranco
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine Italian 18th century oil on canvas "Madonna and Child" after Giovanni Lanfranco (Italian, 1582-1647). The young Virgin Mary attending to a joyful baby Jesus laying down i...
Canvas, Giltwood
$4,095Sale Price|30% Off
H 35.63 in W 41.74 in
Italian Baroque painter - 18th century Allegorical painting - Cronus
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (18th century) - Cronus. 90.5 x 106 cm. Oil on canvas, unframed (not signed). The painting depicts Cronus, Greek deity of time and the harvest, in a composition of...
Canvas, Oil
Gorgeous 18th Century Baroque South American Floral Shrine
Located in Rio De Janeiro, BR
Lovely 18th Century shrine in polychrome cedar. Rectangular box, topped by a cut pediment carved with flowers, flanked by a pair of tips – like simplified obelisks. Sides and pair of...
Cedar
$5,500
H 22 in W 14.5 in D 3.25 in
18th Century Spanish Baroque Period Christ Crucified Altar Sculpture
By Juan De Mesa
Located in Forney, TX
A scarce Baroque Period Spanish altarpiece retablo / reredo, by (attributed) Luis Salvador Carmona (1708-1767), depicting thorn crowned Christ crucified / Cristo crucificado hand car...
Iron
$19,880Sale Price|20% Off
H 55.13 in W 46 in D 5.13 in
After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
By (after) Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted canvas depicting a seated Ma...
Canvas, Giltwood
The Resurrection of Christ
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: with “Mr. Scheer,” Vienna, by July 1918; where acquired by: Jindřich Waldes, Prague, 1918–1941; thence by descent to: Private Collection, New York Literature: Rudolf K...
Tempera, Panel
19th Century French Ormolu and Crystal Drinks Set
Located in London, GB
A drinks set of the Napoleon III Period The ormolu rectangular frame, rising from swept feet, with a running arcaded gallery, fitted with a mirror plate base houses a suite of fou...
Crystal, Ormolu
$161,984
H 90.95 in W 61.03 in D 77.56 in
IMPORTANT BISHOP JAMES STANLEY 1508 KING HENRY VII ENGLiSH OAK TUDOR TESTER BED
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very rare and highly important, Museum quality, English Tudor King Henry VII Oak tester bed made for an...
Oak
$19,940Sale Price|20% Off
H 53.54 in W 42.13 in
17th century Italian school, The Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist
Located in PARIS, FR
17th century Italian School The Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist Oil on canvas Dimensions: h. 106 cm, l. 77 cm Important 17th century Italian carved giltwood frame Fram...
Canvas, Oil
$18,950Sale Price|42% Off
H 50.5 in W 46.63 in D 4.75 in
After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna Della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
By (after) Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine Italian 19th century oil painting on canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted canvas depicting a seated Ma...
Canvas, Giltwood
18th Century Carved Wooden Representing Christ on the Cross
Located in Miami, FL
Carved wooden representing Christ on the cross.
Wood, Paint
$198,933
H 57.68 in W 85.44 in
Flemish 17th, Orpheus and Animals, Large Decorative Wall Old Master Painting
Located in Greven, DE
Flemish school, 17th century Orpheus and the animals Oil on canvas, 146,5 x 217 cm Provenance: South German private collection. On an impressive, room-filling format, this painting ...
Canvas, Oil
$28,084Sale Price|25% Off
H 12.21 in W 8.08 in
Fenzoni, Painting AND preparatorial Drawing, John the Baptist, Italy Renaissance
By Ferrau Fenzoni
Located in Greven, DE
The painting and the preparatory drawing are offered together. Provenance Private collection, Germany, Trier, c. 1980- 2013 Saint John the Baptist Brown ink and wash over red chalk...
Canvas, Oil, Handmade Paper
Sculpture of John The Baptist, 16th Century
Located in North Miami, FL
Early 16th Century Spanish gold gilded and polychromed carved wood sculpture of John The Baptist.
Gold Leaf
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