Important and Rare Italian Memento Mori Plaster Sculpture

Walking stick: ivory carved handle, depicting a Memento Mori, a hand holding a skull. Malacca wood shaft. Silver ring. Horne ferrule. Germany circa 1860. (SHIP TO EU ONLY)

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...

A Memento Mori in wood with Chrismon, monogram of Christ. Valuable sculpture in fruit wood in almost true-to-life measurements, sculpted with art and finished with a wealth of details. The wood was covered with a thin layer of pellet and finished in color. Immediately above the forehead, in correspondence with the anterior neonatal fontanel, the CHRISMON is painted in purple red. The monogram of Christ or Chi Rho (or CHRISMON) is a combination of letters from the Greek alphabet, which form an abbreviation of the name of Christ. Solar in nature, often inscribed in a circle with multiple rays reminiscent of the cosmic wheel deriving from the ancient solar emblems of Egypt. The symbol consists of two large overlapping letters, the 'X' and the 'P'. They correspond, respectively, to the Greek letter '?' ('chi', which reads kh, aspirated) and '?' ('rho', which reads r). These two letters are the initials of the word '???st??' (Khristòs ), the name of Jesus, which in Greek means "anointed" and translates the Hebrew "messiah". On the sides of these two letters, there are very often two others: one 'a' and one '?', alpha and omega...

Chain seal in silver and jet. The seal features a rectangular silver plate with a carved noble coat of arms representing a two-headed eagle. The matrix is crowned by a frame with a w...

Antique bubble glass paperweight or paper press. Decorated with a base depicting a vanitas Memento-mori, painted in oil, fixed to the back of the ...

Over the wooden black painted base is set the plaster cast of the head of Paride, da Antonio Canova. Cast for drawing teaching in Academy. Italy circa 1890.

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

Masterfully carved Italian Vanitas bust in solid marble from late 19th century. White Carrara marble skull combined with a red Rosso Imperiale marble Ro...

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 fashi...

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 jaws, the cadaverous face with deliberate missing tooth in brown wash patination throughout. Stood upon a small marble base with the skull attaching via a dowel fitting. The Skull probably from German origin. Notes  From approximately the sixteenth century, skulls were commonly used to remember death as they symbolise the transience of human life. Memento Mori literal Latin translation means remember that you [have to] die. The concept has its roots in the philosophers of classical antiquity, and appeared in funeral art and architecture of the medieval period. Memento Mori jewellery...

"E.M's Enamelled Cast Metal Skull: A Lapis-Like Reverie" Crafted in 2012, this cast metal skull sculpture by artist E.M marries the existential allure of memento mori with the seren...

Decorated with four skulls to top with titles of a Witch, King, Beauty and Beggar to each Skull underneath. Lidded.