Plaster Skulls

Painted plaster skull over a wooden painted base emulating marble.

This example is hinged and the sides fold up next to the top bow. The plaster skull is also included to display the device.

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

Wonderful curiosity item. Suggests a sense of epiphany or metamorphosis. A very clever and arresting combination of macabre and whimsy.

This is an original 1920s display from the “American Museum of Natural History”. The display was modeled under the direction of Professor William King Gregory. He was a Professor at ...

A wonderful panel (not complete) bas relief sculpture depicting a fascinating combination of imagery including putti and skull.

Anatomical cut of a human skull composed in natural painted papier-maché, with numbered labels on the different elements

A Plaster sculpture depicting a phrenological skull according to the theory of Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828).

A Plaster sculpture depicting a phrenological skull according to the theory of Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828).

A plaster sculpture depicting a skull is placed above the base of a plinth in the shape of a column, made of fir wood and finished with pastiglia (refined plaster) and gilded gold.

A modern approach to taxidermy with this plastered skull covered with shells of green beetles. The helmet-like covering is made from the Blue Morpho butterfly, and they are known to ...

A modern approach to taxidermy with this plastered skull covered with shells of green beetles. The helmet-like covering is made from the Blue Morpho butterfly; they are known to be o...

This example is hinged and the sides fold up next to the top bow. The plaster skull is also included to display the device.

Australopithecus Skull Stiff Replica KNM _ ER406 Cast plaster Measures: W 20 x H 38 x D 17 cm.   

The short sculpture is skull shaped, though the layer of sand and plaster has altered the original shape somewhat, rendering it somewhat unrecognizable.

Painted plaster memento mori skull over a painted wooden base.

A Memento Mori from Wunderkammer, depicting a skull, plaster cast covered with butterfly wings, applied to the crown-shaped skull and to the mosaic-type wooden base.

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

We are offering a unique opportunity to own 2 sculptures that came from the University of Philadelphia Museum. The anthropologic study of man sculpture is artist signed Elizabeth Jan...

The sculpture is made of scagliola plaster with a high artistic and executive level.

Anatomical model of the base of the head with decomposable encephalon made of rubber and plaster by Paravia, circa 1950.  

Above the gilded wooden base is a Vanitas, a painted plaster sculpture depicting a human skull. Italy early 19th century.

The probably unique pair of ochre painted plaster human skulls, each primitively sculpted with accentuated features and with flat backs and integral hanging hooks, the wholes with a ...

Custom Huichol plaster skull with feather designs. The designs are done with thread over bees wax to create a beautiful and unique art piece.

A Large Plaster Panel with Ox Skull and Mask Detail

With a beautiful patina, the model human skull cast in plaster and hand painted in good detail with the suture lines showing, the whole possibly used for phrenological and medical st...

Skull used for educational purposes. You can open it and write on it.

Decorative mold of a skull with semi precious stones applied to the surface.

A wonderfully detailed and well cast Bucranium plaster frieze featuring Ox skulls and garlands.

One of a kind Huichol abstract design skull. The skull is plaster with thread design over beeswax.

Very special creation made of a plaster molded skull, decorated with beetles wings, and morpho butterflies.

A rare and highly detailed late 19th century anatomical wax model of a dissected human head, mounted on a wooden display board designed for wall presentation. Probably German in orig...

A 1:1 cast model of a human skull in green verdigris bronze (artificial patina). It's made from a cast of a real human skull, probably female, and is complete with teeth, lower- and ...

This striking plaster anatomical models is a half and half in the style of Jean Antoine Houdon. It shows the skeleton on one side and muscular layer on the other. The bust is full si...

18th Century Hand Carved Life Size Corpus Christi Skull A rare Lifesize religious artifact of which we have never seen the like. Carved from pine wood with hand painted detail. This...

This is an early and high quality hand-painted plaster antique anatomical model of an adult human head. I would date this to 1900. The details are well-done and the brain is removabl...

African Antelope hunting Trophy Mounted on a Zinc stand.

The word tzompantli or tzompantle comes from the Náhuatl (Aztec) language and means skull rack or scaffold of skulls. In different Mesoamerican cultures, skulls from the sacrificed w...

VINTAGE CERAMIC SCULPTURE Depicting a human skull on a plinth with an iguana climbing out of a hole in its head. Extremely well modelled and skilfully made, partly lifelike with a...

Upper Cretaceous, about 70-65 million years ago (Maastrichtian) Morocco The skull is reconstructed in good proportions with fossil pieces found in a phosphate mine in Morocco. I att...

A rustically produced 19th century glazed specimen box containing wheat and grain hybrids. The pine hinged box opens to reveal two glazed and segmented sections, with a painted blue...

Masterfully carved Italian Vanitas / Memento Mori bust in solid marble from late 19th century. White Carrara marble skull combined with masterfully carved hood & robes all from...

Masterfully carved & most impressive Italian Vanitas bust in solid marble from late 19th century. White Carrara marble skull combined with a Belgian Black marble Roman toga (ro...

Bohemian Czech Malachite Art Glass Perfume Bottle with winged Cherubs plucking Grapes by Schlevogt Hoffman x Ingrid circa 1935.

Unique and very cool British Pop Art floor lamp by Peter Bliss. For the collectors, design lovers and enthousiasts of pop art, we are offering this very rare and stylized tulip floo...

A vintage king size oak tester or four poster bed in the Renaissance style. Hand carved with Adam & Eve carvings in the headboard, figurative sculptures in the bedposts, three carve...

A fantastic emerald green sputnik, with a surprising design and for its very low height, which allows it to fit in both high and low ceilings. Very elegant, it will furnish and decor...

An exceptional large vanity with six drawers, two cabinets and triple dressing mirrors. Circa 1900's. Made in England to the highest quality with fully panelled wooden back mirrors, ...

An Imperial Japanese Meiji Shibayama Tea Ceremony Cabinet by The Tokugawa Samurai Clan. This extraordinary Meiji-period shibayama cabinet, attributed to the Tokugawa samurai clan, s...

Circa early to mid-20th century Japanese porcelain tea set - a mixed lot of various makes in the same style. Three-dimensional blue and white moriage dragons on storm cloud gray back...

American Mid-Century large round sofa with a low curved partial backrest and emerald green velvet upholstery with a button tufted removable seat cushion, resting on five short brass ...