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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Natural Golden Barite Mineral with Marcasite Crystals From Guangxi, China
Located in New York, NY
Golden Barite with Marcasite Crystals from Nandan County, Hechi, Guangxi, China. Complex intersecting formation of lustrous gem translucent golden bar...
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Chinese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Crystal, Other

Unusual Painted and Carved Wood Dog
Located in Essex, MA
Dog with a red collar seated with mouth open. I believe this is very similar to Chinese Export dogs and a period copy done in wood. Possibly made as a model for a Chinese export porcelain figure.
Category

European Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Other

Dutch Delft Polychrome Model of a Cow
Located in Downingtown, PA
Dutch Delft Polychrome Model of a Cow, Circa 1760 The Dutch Delft pottery figure depicts a standing cow on a hollow rectangular green base with canted corners, the top in green to d...
Category

Dutch Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Delft, Faience, Pottery

Pair of 18th Century Carved Fragment on Stands
Located in Vista, CA
Pair of 18th century carved fragment on stands Wood Carved Gilt scroll acanthus leaf architectural ornamentation mounted on wood and granite stone stands.
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French French Provincial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Giltwood

Quartz Var. Grape Agate from Indonesia
Located in New York, NY
From near Pantai Manakarra, Mamuju, Sulawesi, Indonesia Double-sided cluster of translucent grape purple quartz agate in spherical formations with a radial internal structure and are found in cavities in pillow basalt. Also known as Grape Agate...
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Indonesian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Agate, Quartz, Other

Set of 9 Antique Delft Tiles depicting Biblical Scenes
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A set of 9 antique Delft tiles depicting biblical scenes. Dating to the 18th century, each tile is painted in manganese and white with varying scen...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Clay

James Nani Madonna 80 Mid-Century Modern Wood Sculpture
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
For your consideration is a sensuous wood carved sculpture titled "Madonna 80" signed Nani (29x6). James Nani (1926-2016) was a Detroit artist for over 50 years and is known internat...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Wood

Early 18th Century Meissen Oval Wall Beveled Mirror Pair of Cherubs, Germany
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Fine German Meissen porcelain beveled wall mirror with a pair of figural cherubs. Finely modelled as an elegant 18th century piece of art, hand painted white porcelain china with cob...
Category

German Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Porcelain

French Bronze Baroque Bust “Boy”, patinated bronze, François‏ Duquesnoy school
By François Duquesnoy
Located in Valladolid, ES
One of a kind patinated bronze bust of a child on a stepped ebonized wood pedestal,François Duquesnoy school, decorated with tortoiseshell look alike inlays. The bust shows a clea...
Category

French Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Pair of 18th Century French Architectural Carvings, ca. 1780
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair of 18th century French Architectural carvings, ca. 1780.
Category

French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Wood

Small 17th Century Oak Carved Bust from France
Located in Dallas, TX
A small oak bust, dating to the 1600s, this well-carved wooden statue hails from France. Depicting an unknown religious figure, the sculpture has a deep rich brown patina, enhancing ...
Category

French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Oak

Pair of Italian Renaissance Carved Walnut Musician Statues
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Italian Renaissance style (17/18th Century) walnut and gilt trimmed large crouching figures with musical instruments on pedestal bases (PRICED AS PAIR).  
Category

Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Walnut

Genuine Asaphus intermedius Trilobite in Matrix from Morocco (341 grams)
Located in New York, NY
Large, natural trilobite in its original fossil matrix. The Asaphid trilobites include some of the most extreme trilobite adaptations known, and the group produced some of the larges...
Category

Moroccan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Cement, Other

A 17th Century Mounted French Limestone Carving of a Winged Angel
Located in Dallas, TX
Originally part of a larger architectural from a French building in the 1600s, this hand-carved limestone fragment of a winged angel has been mounted more recently to a painted black...
Category

French Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Stone, Limestone, Metal

Antique Carved Limestone Keystone of a Queen
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
An antique carved limestone keystones of a Queen, salvaged from a period building in East Anglia. Displayed on a modern steel stand in a sleek black finish, this keystone is an impr...
Category

English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Stone, Limestone, Steel

Thai Gilt Bronze Seated Buddha, Lan Na Kingdom, Chiang Mai, Late 15th Century
Located in Austin, TX
A rare and beautiful Thai cast and gilt bronze seated Buddha with shell inlaid eyes, style of Wat Chedi Luang, Lan Na Kingdom, Northern Thailand, region of Chiang Mai, late 15th cent...
Category

Thai Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Genuine Spinosaurus Dinosaur Tooth in Display Box (115 grams)
Located in New York, NY
Genuine Spinosaurus (Dinosaur) tooth. Spinosaurus (meaning "spine lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what now is North Africa, during the upper Albian to upper T...
Category

Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Other

Large Bactrian Bronze Age Alabaster Chalice
Located in Vosselaar, BE
Bactrian alabaster chalice, circa 3000-2000 BC. It has an elegant tapering formed base with a undeep rimmed cup. The alabaster is strikingly vained. ...
Category

Afghan Archaistic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Alabaster

massive rare south German lion bronze Door Knocker, 17th Century
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
very big and massive bronze door knocker, German or maybe Italian in origin, 16-17th century, amazing green original patina to the face, some scares and dings to the face which gives...
Category

German Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

392.15 Gram Beautiful Aquamarine Crystal Bunch From Skardu District, Pakistan
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
392.15 Gram Beautiful Aquamarine Crystal Bunch From Skardu District, Pakistan Weight: 392.15 Gram Dimension: 8.5 x 5.5 x 4.2 Cm Origin: Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit Balti...
Category

Pakistani Adam Style Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Rock Crystal

15th Virgin and Child in Polychrome and Gilt Wood. On a pedestal. Mechelen.
Located in Marbella, ES
The poupées de Malines —Mechelen dolls— are small sculptures, generally of medium bulk (with minimally worked backs), produced in the small Belgian city, situated north of Flanders b...
Category

Belgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Gold

Antique Wooden Statue of Wenchang Wang, God of Literature and Culture
Located in Dallas, TX
This fascinating antique wooden statue depicts the Taoist God of Literature and Culture, Wenchang Wang. The statue was likely hand-carved in China in the 1700’s, but it is quite possible that it predates the 18th century. An iron stand has been added to the back more recently, although a portion of the back is excavated, indicating that the statue was once part of a larger installation. Wenchang has been posed in a seated position with his hands clasped in front of his body, which is a common representation of the god in artwork. The hands have a shallow incised section, indicating that Wenchang once held an object. Based on other statues and drawings of Wenchang from this time, it was most likely a hu scepter that once accompanied the statue. Wenchang is clad in an ankle-length robe and a ridged headdress. Although the statue’s color is predominantly natural wood, very old traces of polychrome can be seen throughout the piece indicating that it was once vividly painted. In China, those who study hard, and test well are often rewarded with high-ranking civil service jobs. The common belief is that Wenchang guides these scholars, leading many to seek his assistance. A statue of this size indicates it could have once been commissioned for a Chinese temple. Today, our wooden statue of Wenchang Wang would make a perfect piece of art in a study or library. It would work well with any contemporary interior, or with an interior displaying other very old Chinese artifacts...
Category

Chinese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Iron

Early Japanese Hinoki Wood Sculpture of Bishamon
Located in Hudson, NY
Early Japanese Hinoki wood sculpture of Bishamon. Kamakura period (1185 - 1333) sculpture made from hinoki wood. Bishamon is also known as Tamonten, meanin...
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Japanese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Wood

Beautiful German Pieta known as "Vesperbild"
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
BEAUTIFUL GERMAN PIETA KNOWN AS “VESPERBILD” ORIGIN : GERMANY PERIOD : 15th CENTURUY Height : 74 cm Width : 43 cm Depth : 22,5 cm Good condition Oak wood This beautiful 15th-c...
Category

German Gothic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Oak

Ceratarges armatus Trilobite from Morocco (186 grams)
Located in New York, NY
Trilobites, an early arthropod relative of spiders, horseshoe crabs, and scorpions, preserved in this level of detail only occurred as a result of very sudden underwater landslides called turbidite sequences, which ravaged the early earth when the continents were still very much on the move. The contorted body positions of the trilobites demonstrate a final fight against being buried alive. This is an extremely ornamented member of the trilobites' extremely well-known and globally distributed Lichid family. These trilobites have adapted for extreme defensiveness. Their long genal appendages afford them controlled escape from the water column...
Category

Moroccan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Cement, Other

Collection of 7 Natural Mineral Specimens
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A striking collection of 7 natural mineral specimens sourced from an ex. private British collection. Each presented on exclusive custom display plinths, this set of minerals include...
Category

Malagasy Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Natural Fiber

true pair of Flemish late 17th century Terra Cotta statues of Leda and Ganymede
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A charming and most decorative true pair of Flemish late 17th century Neo-Classical st. Terra Cotta statues of Leda and Ganymede. Each statue is raised on a square Terra Cotta base w...
Category

Dutch Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Terracotta

Portuguese Baroque Madonna and Child Sculpture, 17th Century
Located in Lisbon, PT
This late 17th-century Portuguese Baroque sculpture in polychromed wood depicts the Madonna holding the Christ Child, carved with exquisite detail and spiritual grace. The Virgin is...
Category

Portuguese Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Gold Leaf

Hemimorphite on Quartz, Malipo Mine, Wenshan Co., Yunnan Prov, China
Located in New York, NY
Hemimorphite on Quartz, Malipo Mine, Wenshan Co., Yunnan Prov., China Measures: 12 cm tall x 10 cm wide Hemimorphite from China has taken on entirely new qualities that barely ex...
Category

Chinese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Other

Decorative Basket, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pierced basket standing on a well-formed rococo base. Perhaps for potpourri, although the internal decoration suggests another use. We think probably oranges, chestnuts, etc. Pr...
Category

English Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Porcelain

17th Century Marble Bust of Man
Located in New Orleans, LA
Beautiful, albeit heavily distressed stone bust depicting an authoritarian man on a pedestal. Softly colored grey stone with many details intact including draping on tunic, eyes, be...
Category

French Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Stone

Collection of 3 Large Natural Cabinet Minerals
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A collection of 3 large natural mineral specimens, each presented on an exclusive medium neoclassical style plaster plinth. Each impressive cabinet specimen, including a Chalcedony,...
Category

Malagasy Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Natural Fiber

18th Century Spanish Wooden Sculpture with Original Clothing
Located in Marbella, ES
18th Century Spanish highly realistic wooden polychrome sculpture of a woman dressed with clothes.
Category

Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Wood

18th Century Baroque Wood Carved Angel Head
Located in Kiel, SH
A wood carved baroque angel in old paint with wings 18th century There is a part missing, see pictures, and some wear due to age and use to the paint.
Category

European Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Paint

an Barasaurus Fossile
Located in Schellebelle, BE
An exceptional Fossil of an extinct reptile Barausaurus from Madagascar, from the late Permian and early Triassic, good patina and shine of the stone, nice detailing of the animal
Category

Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Stone

A Pair of 18th C. Italian Grand Tour Busts of Emperors Domitian and Nerva
Located in New York, NY
A Pair of Grand Tour Period 18th C. Italian Roman Busts of Emperors Domitian and Nerva. These busts depict the Roman Emperors Domitian and Nerva, and demonstrate finely cast and han...
Category

Italian Grand Tour Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Architectural Wooden Sculpture original Green-Turquoise Paint India 18th Century
Located in Salzburg, AT
Architectural portal sculpture made of solid teak with original green-turquoise coloring, India, last third of the 18th century. As the name suggests, the object originates from an ...
Category

Indian Anglo-Indian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Paint

Prehistoric Artefact Palaeolithic Acheulean Surmounted Hand Axe
Located in Scorton, GB
Palaeolithic Acheulean hand axe measuring thirty centimetres in stand overall. With an accomplished working form, executed by the hands of Homo Ergaster ancestor, contemporaneous to European Homo erectus. Now set into a bespoke bronze cradle mount enabling removal and study of this pristine prehistoric axe...
Category

Algerian Prehistoric Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Stone

Genuine Spinosaurus Dinosaur Tooth (56.2 grams)
Located in New York, NY
Genuine Spinosaurus (Dinosaur) tooth. Spinosaurus (meaning "spine lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what now is North Africa, during the upper Albian to upper T...
Category

Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Other

Collection of Museum Minerals in Display Case
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A collection of museum minerals in a display case. Presented in a sleek glazed case, the collection includes 38 European minerals, including amethyst and pyrite, all with their own s...
Category

European Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Natural Fiber

Louis XVI Gilt and Patinated Bronze Bust of Ajax
Located in Kittery Point, ME
After the antique, his helmet decorated with centaurs and panthers. In Homer’s Illiad, he is described as a hero of colossal frame who was trained by the...
Category

French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Pair of Brown Stoneware Cats
Located in Essex, MA
Each with cute expressions seated on a plinth base. Provenance, Manheim Antiques. Drue Heinz.
Category

European Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Pottery

Crucifix on Calvary, Called Plague of Christ, France, Early 18th Century
Located in Milan, IT
Crucifix on Calvary, called 'Pestis Christi' or Crucifiix Pestis 'Plague of Christ' or Plague Crucifix). The sculpture is composite, made with heterogeneous materials: wax, wood, papier-mâché. The octagonal base is slightly raised and supports the calvary, symbolized by rocks, from which the crucifix rises, made with intentionally unfinished boards and with marked veins. The depicted Christ is peculiar: he shows scarified skin all over his body. Masterfully crafted in wax. They are the plagues of the plague that Christ, 'Agnus Dei' takes charge of with salvific value, for the salvation of the world. At his feet the ordeal full of symbols: evil (snake) with the apple, the 'Memento mori' of human bones...
Category

French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Paper

Asaphus intermedius Trilobite on Matrix from Morocco (1.7 lbs)
Located in New York, NY
Trilobites, an early arthropod relative of spiders, horseshoe crabs, and scorpions, preserved in this level of detail only occurred as a result of very sudden underwater landslides c...
Category

Moroccan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Cement, Other

Natural Rough Zeolite Specimen
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A striking natural rough zeolite specimen with elements of mica, presented on one of our museum-quality painted plaster bases. Zeolite can be found in various shapes, sizes and colou...
Category

Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Natural Fiber

Large Natural Amethyst Plate Specimen
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A large scale natural amethyst specimen originating from Brazil. Crystals from Brazil are most often found as radiating masses, with individual crystals appearing as pyramids. This e...
Category

Brazilian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Amethyst

Neanderthal Flint Core from Prehistoric Northern France
Located in London, GB
A Levallois Flint Core, from Fransu, Somme, Northern France Middle Palaeolithic, Mousterian, circa 100,000–40,000 years ago A wonderfully tactile artefact, offering a glimpse into t...
Category

French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Stone

Bacchus - Southern Italy, late 17th century
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Bacchus 
Southern Italy, late 17th century
 Alabaster Sculpture
 H: 20 cm A finely carved 17th-century alabaster sculpture of a naked Bacchus. This Italian alabaster figure depicts ...
Category

Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Alabaster

Giant Selenite Crystal Cluster, China
Located in London, GB
Giant Gypsum Crystal Cluster, China. The geologic mechanism that creates Lead and Silver provide the raw materials for crystals to form when oceans, rich in Calcium and Sulphate, go...
Category

Chinese Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Other

Pre Colombian Choker Necklace with Mother of Pearl and Beads
Located in Dallas, TX
Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 100 to 500 CE. A choker necklace comprised of seven strands strung with hundreds of black and white hand-carved shell beads. The strands...
Category

Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Coral

Late 18th Century carved statue of a saint, French
Located in Charlottesville, VA
Late 18th Century carved, off-white polychrome French statue of St. Barbara, the inspiration for Rapunzel.
Category

French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Wood

17th-century Dutch Bust of Mercury in White Carrara Marble
Located in Baambrugge, NL
This refined 17th-century bust of Mercury, masterfully sculpted from white Carrara marble, depicts the Roman god of commerce, travelers, and eloquence in timeless simplicity. His cha...
Category

Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Carrara Marble

Antique Carved and Painted Statue of St. Florian, Austria, circa 1700
Located in Dallas, TX
St. Florian (250 A.D. – 304 A.D.), was a the patron saint of firefighters, brewers, chimney sweeps, and the town of Linz, Austria. He served in the Roman army and part of his duties included organizing fire fighting brigades. He was secretly a Christian and became famous for miraculously saving a town from being destroyed by fire; after he prayed and threw a single bucket of water on the blaze, it was extinguished. This beautifully carved and painted statue dates to approximately the end of the 1600s or early 1700s. It clearly depicts St. Florian with a bucket in hand and a flag in the other. At his feet, is a miniature building...
Category

Austrian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Gesso, Giltwood, Wood

Collection of 7 Small Cabinet Mineral Specimens
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A varied and colourful collection of 7 natural mineral specimens, each presented on an exclusive small wooden display base. Ex. private British co...
Category

Norwegian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Natural Fiber

Large Natural Native Pyrite Specimen
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A large natural pyrite of an unusual form sourced from the ex UK private collection. This native British mineral has a lustrous exterior that catches the light beautifully. Natural...
Category

English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Natural Fiber

18th Century Italian Carved Polychrome Life Size Putti on Stand with Glass Eyes
Located in Dallas, TX
Hand crafted in Italy circa 1780, the antique cherub stands on a square base decorated with shell and foliage motifs. The hand carved sculpture depicts a life size young boy wearing ...
Category

Italian Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Wood

French Gothic Stone Sculpture of a Bishop – 15th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Striking Gothic stone sculpture from 15th-century France, depicting a bishop adorned with remnants of original polychromy in shades of blue and green. A highly decorative piece, show...
Category

Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Limestone

Christ Crucified Tuscany c. 1470-1480.
By Non-Standard Furniture and Lighting
Located in Milano, IT
Polychrome wooden sculpture depicting Christ Crucified, with emaciated limbs and head reclining on the chest; the body is painted with an earthy hue, around the hips a loincloth that...
Category

Italian Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Wood

Wood base or pedestal. Spanish school, 17th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Base. Carved and gilded wood. Spanish school, 17th century. Base for sculpture made of carved and gilded wood with a rectangular and flat shape, slightly raised on circular legs and...
Category

Spanish Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Other

Edmontosaurus Cervical Rib
Located in New York, NY
This authentic approximately 67 million year old Edmontosaurus cervical rib dates back to the Late Cretaceous period, offering a rare and tangible connection to one of North America'...
Category

American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Sculptures

Materials

Other

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