Indo-Portuguese sculpture "Lady Conception" 17th century, H 147cm

JESUS GOOD SHEPHERD Indo-Portuguese Sculpture, 17th Century in iv... partially painted and gilded. The baby Jesus, asleep, is depicted sitting cross-legged. Posterior dobby. Dim.: ...

Indo-Portuguese sculpture Saint Ana teaching our lady to read 17th century Indo-Portuguese sculpture, from the 17th century. polychrome wood. The figure is represented sitting ...

Amazing Portuguese sculpture "OUR LADY WITH CHILD JESUS " 17th century Renaissance, in polychrome "Ançã Stone ". The figure is represented standing...

OUR LADY OF CONCEPTION Indo-Portuguese Sculpture 18th Century in polychrome wood with the head and hands in iv... Our Lady is represented standing with hands folded in prayer, on a ...

Important Portuguese Sacred Art Sculpture from the 17th century, "Our Lady and Child Jesus" in polychromatic and gilded wood, It was never restored - m...

COUNTER CASH Indo-Portuguese from the 17th century in ebony rosewood and ivory. Top, sides and front decorated with ivory inlay. Folding top showing factory with six drawers and ...

Almost life-size Christ sculpture of the 17th century. Wood carved and set.

Amazing Baroque sculpture of a woman wearing a crown in original paint. Her hands are missing. Colors are untouched, recently cleaned off from a thick dark coating, I have images fro...

A pair of late 17th Century Italian Baroque carved wood, gold gilded and polychromed Archangel sculptures mounted on Lucite bases.

2 Cariatides sculptures, France 17th century Oak wood. Very good condition.

A fine Indo-Portuguese inlaid teak wood figure of Nagini India, Goa, 17th century Measure: H. 55 cm (with stand, and with ring for wall hanging) The sculpture can be perceived as such but probably is one of four legs of an Indo-Portuguese contador...

Cerberus Black painted stone Italy, 17th century Measures: 80 x 69 x 36cm (one head missing) Cerberus, cruel monster, fierce and strange, Through his wide threefold throat barks as a dog Over the multitude immers'd beneath. His eyes glare crimson, black his unctuous beard, His belly large, and claw'd the hands, with which He tears the spirits, flays them, and their limbs Piecemeal disparts (Dante, Inferno, Canto VI). Cerberus figure seated, in his role of ferocious guardian of the underworld; he shows a nervous musculature, an adherent skin which reveals the ribs, long and robust limbs; his heads are broad and the eyes set well apart. Painted in black to amplify his menacing look, the infernal guardian is depicted with his famous attributes, writhing his heads, growling and barking furiously. Cerberus, in Greek mythology, was the monstrous watchdog of the underworld – also known as the “hound of Hades” – preventing the dead from leaving, and making sure that those who entered never left. A child of Typhon and Echidna, he was part of a monstrous family, which included Orthus, the Lernaean Hydra, and the Chimaera as well. Only on three occasions Cerberus was tricked by visitors of Hades: Heracles did it with his strength, Orpheus with his music. In "The Inferno", Dante places Cerberus as the guardian of the third circle of Hell. With his three mouths, Dante saw Cerberus as a beast that was synonymous with the sin of Gluttony. Virgil gets past the monster by throwing mud in his three mouths, temporarily choking him. Very rare are the representations of Cerberus in ancient statuary...