Tortoise Antique

His great success, however, dates back to 1833, when he received the Legion of Honor for his statue of the Neapolitan Fisher Boy Playing with a Tortoise (today in the Louvre), which ...

There was also an 'enormous tortoise'." The showpiece of his collection, however, was the female Nubian giraffe, also called 'Camelopard' by the English.

With incised decorative patterns and polychromed to look like tortoise shell, the interior was a showpiece when opened for viewing by guests and visitors.

In the same year he took part in the Turin exhibition presenting modernist furniture in predominantly dark wood decorated with "embedding" of metal, ivory, tortoise and mother of pea...

This beautiful box has a cedar interior which is separated into two compartments for jewelry. It also has sterling escutcheon for a key.

Moore’s Japanese subjects have been described as being characterized by “strong and vivid color,” and Japanese Children with Tortoise is no exception, the rich palette, as well as th...

Faux tortoise shell British cigar or trinket box w/ivory framing & original key.

An elegant bowl with a scalloped rim, its brown and gold molded glass appears almost tortoise shell-like. Stamped: Muller Frères, Luneville.

Matsya (the fish) 2. Koorma (the tortoise) 3. Varaha (the boar) 4. Narasimha (the human-lion – shown on this bowl as a lion-man figure about to devour a human victim.) 5.