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Powder flask in wood inlaid with bone, German, Nuremberg.
Located in Leuven , BE
Wooden powder flask with bone inlay, the surface richly decorated with geometric and foliate motifs. The flat, tapering body is fitted with a narrow spout and iron mounts, likely int...
Category
Antique 16th Century German Arms, Armor and Weapons
Materials
Fruitwood
Fidji Mermaid, freshly caught in Atlantis.
Located in Leuven , BE
Fidji “mermaid” figure, early modern tradition
Mixed media on wooden base
This object is a fabricated curiosity combining a small mammalian torso with a fish tail, made to simulate ...
Category
2010s Belgian Natural Specimens
Materials
Organic Material
Wooden folk-art figure, depicting a stylized feminine Soul burning in Purgatory.
Located in Leuven , BE
Wooden folk-art figure, 19th century. A stylized female soul in Purgatory, shown seated with folded hands and surrounded by carved flame motifs. Dark-patinated wood with simple, expr...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Religious Items
Materials
Fruitwood
Luba, Hemba People, DRC, Helmet Mask, Provenance Collection Sulsenti, 1930s
Located in Leuven , BE
This unusual mask reproduces the feature of the sculpture of the north-eastern Hemba. The mask was collected at Karambare in the 1930s by Dr. R. Sulsenti, at the time practicing in t...
Category
Vintage 1920s Congolese Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Carved Wooden Relief Depicting an Anthropomorphic Monkey, France
Located in Leuven , BE
Carved Wooden Relief Depicting an Anthropomorphic Monkey, France
A carved wooden relief depicting an anthropomorphic monkey shown frontally, seated in a hieratic posture. The smilin...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Animal Sculptures
Materials
Fruitwood
A cased taxidermy display of Toad and Frog orchestra playing stringed instrument
Located in Leuven , BE
A cased taxidermy display of the Toad and Frog orchestra both playing stringed instruments, the Frog seated on a Terrapin turtle
Category
20th Century British Taxidermy
Materials
Organic Material
Anatomical Cut of Human Skull Papier-maché, Didactical Collectables, Dr.Auzoux
By Dr. Louis Auzoux
Located in Leuven , BE
Anatomical cut of a human skull composed in natural painted papier-maché, with numbered labels on the different elements
Category
Antique 19th Century French Scientific Instruments
Materials
Plaster, Paper
Golden-bellied Mangabey Monkey mounted with a broken down ice cream trike.
Located in Leuven , BE
A taxidermy Golden-bellied Mangabey Monkey mounted on a wooden plinth with a broken down ice cream trike, mounted in the manner of Walter Potter.
Category
Mid-20th Century British Taxidermy
Materials
Organic Material
Lightwood Male Statue Snake Vertebrae Belt and Necklace, Mangbetu People, DRC
Located in Leuven , BE
The Mangbetu people once reigned over a flourishing kingdom in northeastern Congo. Hence their traditional art flourished around the court. Their very rare figural sculptures are rem...
Category
Early 20th Century Congolese Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Softwood
Wooden sculpture of a Dancing Tengu, Late Edo–Meiji Period, Japan
Located in Leuven , BE
Wooden sculpture of a Dancing Tengu, Late Edo–Meiji Period, Japan
An animated and finely sculptured wooden figure of a Tengu, captured mid-step in a vigorous dance. The supernatural ...
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fruitwood
Pipe smoking Monkeys in the tavern, oil on panel, attr. to Zacharie Noterman
By Zacharias Noterman
Located in Leuven , BE
Zacharie Noterman or Zacharie Notermann or Zacharias Noterman, Ghent 1820 and Paris 1890, is a Belgian painter and engraver, specializing in the painting of antics, scenes of monkeys...
Category
Antique 1860s Belgian Romantic Paintings
Materials
Hardwood, Paint
Wooden Corpus Christi with honey-brown patina, Flanders, mid-18th C
Located in Leuven , BE
Wooden Corpus Christi with honey-brown patina, Flanders, mid-18th C
A finely carved wooden figure of Christ on the Cross, depicted with his head inclined gently to the right and eyes...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Belgian Religious Items
Materials
Hardwood
