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Religious Items For Sale
Virgin with Child. Carved and polychrome wood. Spanish school, 13th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Virgin with Child. Carved and polychrome wood. Spanish school, 13th century.
It has faults.
Polychrome wood carving that shows the Virgin sitting on a throne, with her right hand r...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Spanish Gothic Antique Religious Items
Materials
Other
JESUS CHRIST CRUCIFIED 18th Century Italian Sculpture
Located in Madrid, ES
JESUS CHRIST CRUCIFIED 18th Century
Italian Sculpture
in ivor.... The figure is represented dead, wearing a cendal point at the waist. Cross in carved rosewood wood. Silver termin...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Religious Items
Materials
Wood
Exceptional 18th Century French Stone Baptismal Font
Located in Round Top, TX
An exceptional 18th century stone Baptismal font from the South of France. Beautifully hand-sculpted with a sensational patina. Perfect as a water...
Category
18th Century French Antique Religious Items
Materials
Stone
Large Holy Land Mother-of-pearl, Abalone Shell and Olive Wood Icon
Located in London, GB
A large Holy Land mother-of-pearl, abalone shell and olive wood icon
Jerusalem, early 20th century
Icon: height 55.5cm, width 52cm, depth 18cm
Case: height 15.5cm, width 61.5cm, depth 57.5cm
In fitted case, presented by the President of the Senate...
Category
Early 20th Century Israeli Modern Religious Items
Materials
Abalone, Mother-of-Pearl, Olive
Early 20Th C Hand Written Quran Surah Manuscript
Located in Long Island City, NY
A museum quality hand written Quran Surah manuscript in Kufic script. Circa the first half of the 20th century. Religious Books And Home Library Specimen For Collectors.
Dimensions: ...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Religious Items
Materials
Paper
JESUS CHRIST CRUCIFIED Indo-Portuguese sculpture from the 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
JESUS CHRIST CRUCIFIED
Indo-Portuguese sculpture from the 17th century
in ivor... The figure is represented dead, wearing a cendal point at the waist. Cross in carved rosewood wood....
Category
17th Century Portuguese Baroque Antique Religious Items
Materials
Wood
18th Century French Oil on Canvas Painting "Seventh Station of the Cross"
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a wall with this colorful religious antique painting. Created in France, circa 1780, the artwork is set in the original frame and depicts the "seventh station of the cross "...
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Religious Items
Materials
Canvas
Antique Religious Print 'No. 14' The Prodigal Son, circa 1840
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled ‘Histoire Sainte, Nouveau Testament, L'Enfant Prodigue.’ This plate shows a scene from the New Testament; The Prodigal Son.’
This print originates from a rare...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Religious Items
Materials
Paper
$188 Sale Price
27% Off
Antique Religious Print 'No. 31' the Despair of Judas, circa 1840
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled ‘Histoire Sainte, Nouveau Testament, Désespoir de Judas.’ This plate shows a scene from the New Testament; The Despair of Judas.’
This print originates from a...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Religious Items
Materials
Paper
Religious Print "No.26" Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple, circa 1840
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled ‘Histoire Sainte, AncienTestament, Éliodore chassé du Temple.’ This plate shows a scene from the Old Testament; Expulsion of Heliodorus from the temple.’
This...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Religious Items
Materials
Paper
$188 Sale Price
20% Off
Unique and Large Crucifix with a Rare Size Hand Crafted Ceramic Corpus of Christ
Located in Lisse, NL
Unique and artistic crucifix from the European Midcentury Modern era.
Over the centuries the life and teachings of Christ have inspired many an artist to create His image in just as many ways as there were artist. In more recent decades the way in which Christ on the cross has been portrayed has changed significantly from how He was portrayed in previous centuries. Just like Christ was portrayed very differently in the early 20th century as opposed to how He was seen and portrayed in, for example, the Baroque era. And this way will keep changing as evolve. Just like with the other Styles, this modernist version of Christ either speaks to you or it does not and the way in which different people will see and experience this Christ will be very different too. That ofcourse also is the job of every artist, to make you think about an artwork and make you feel something at the same time. Not only is this unique modernist sculpture different in design from most Christ sculptures you will have ever seen, it also is all hand-crafted in a very rare material. This ceramic work of religious art also comes with a mild glazing and the unique elongated design makes it even more modern and 'experimental'. Thanks to the perfect metal hook on the back, safely mounting this piece is much easier than one would expect. If you already have a place and space in mind for Him then maybe you should be this sculpture's next custodian.
Mind you, our fair price for this unique and very large, Midcentury crucifix...
Category
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Religious Items
Materials
Metal
Antique Religious Print 'No. 17' Apostle Paul in Prison, circa 1840
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled ‘Histoire Sainte, Nouveau Testament, Jean-Baptiste en Prison.’ This plate shows a scene from the New Testament; Apostle Paul in Priso...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Religious Items
Materials
Paper
$188 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Religious Print 'No. 19' Hezekiah, circa 1840
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled ‘Histoire Sainte, Ancient Testament, Ézéchias.’ This plate shows a scene from the Old Testament; Hezekiah.’
This print originates from a rare set of plates sh...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Religious Items
Materials
Paper
$245 Sale Price
20% Off
18th/19th Century French Provincial Religious Oratory Sacristy Cabinet
Located in Forney, TX
A scarce French Provincial Louis XV (1715-1774) / Louis XVI (1774-1792) Period mixed wood religious oratory (prie-dieu / altar)
Hand-crafted in France in the 18th century, with later 19th century elements, likely originating in the south of France / Mediterranean region, featuring pegged solid wooden construction of warm, rich fruitwood, chesnut, oak, and maple.
Having a slant-front bureau with tall raised back decorated with three Renaissance Revival style high relief panels, the center depicting religious scene comprising Jesus and winged Saint, the side panels with foliate floral fruit pendant carvings, flanked by classical turned baluster-form columns, surmounted with highly stylized hand carved and turned finials. Over a slant-front with star parquetry, the hinged drop-front opens to reveal a distressed leather writing desk / lectern / pulpit on which the holy books can be laid open and allows to shelter the books, which were considered precious goods at that time. The lower sacristy cabinet has a pair of slide-out supports flanking a paneled cupboard door decorated with a large stepped base Christian cross parquetry inlay, affixed with later decorative forged iron faux escutcheon overtop. The door opening with key to a single fixed shelf on which holy items...
Category
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Religious Items
Materials
Iron
Antique German Wine Table or Stand with Hand-Carved Saying and Sculptural Legs
Located in Lisse, NL
Rare, meaningful, practical, handcrafted and highly decorative antique table.
This one of a kind table will appeal to spiritual people and collectors of stylish, rare and meaningful...
Category
Late 19th Century German Black Forest Antique Religious Items
Materials
Leather, Wood
17th Century Italian Rare Carved Walnut Antique Kneeler
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Rare antique Italian kneeler, Mid-17th Century Louis XIV. Made of solid walnut with relief decoration carved into the wood. In the part dedicated to the knees there is a compartment. Of great value all the hand forged iron part of the escutcheons and fantastic large antique keys...
Category
Mid-17th Century Italian Louis XIV Antique Religious Items
Materials
Walnut
$7,559 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Mexican Retablo "Exvotos" Oil on Tin
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
We offer this original Mexican ex voto, due to the effects of time, the writing has been erased.
Category
1930s Mexican Folk Art Vintage Religious Items
Materials
Metal
$1,050 Sale Price
30% Off
Wall Plaque Sculpture Medallion Woman Figure Signed B. Feinberg, Late 19th C
Located in Labrit, Landes
Terracotta woman figure medallion, wall plaque
Signed by Bernanowitch Hirsch Feinberg, Russian artist with an international carrier between
Good condition with good patina due to ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Religious Items
Materials
Terracotta
Antique Balinese Hand-Carved Wooden Temple Offering Ornament - Tapel Gebogan
Located in San Diego, CA
Antique Balinese hand-carved wooden temple offering ornament known as a Tapel Gebogan, circa 1930s. Carved in the shape of a crowned female and hand painted, the piece is in good vin...
Category
Early 20th Century Balinese Modern Religious Items
Materials
Wood
Pair Rock Crystal Gem Stone, Silver & Gilt 8 Bell Judaica Torah/ Rimonim Finials
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair Rock Crystal Gem Stone, Silver & Gilt 8 Bell Judaica Torah/ Rimonim Finials
European, 1900s
We are pleased to offer this stunning pair of European Judaica...
Category
Early 20th Century European Religious Items
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Rock Crystal, Metal
$3,116 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Engraved Silver Reliquary – 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Antique religious reliquary in engraved silver, dating from the 18th century. This devotional piece features engraved letters or inscriptions on one side and, on the other, a very de...
Category
18th Century European Baroque Antique Religious Items
Materials
Silver
18th/19th Century Carved Painted Limewood Christ Child Altar Figure Sculpture
Located in Forney, TX
A superb antique European hand-carved and painted limewood Santo altar figure.
Born in Europe in the late 18th / early 19th century, most likely Naples, Italy, the wooden sculpture...
Category
Early 19th Century European Baroque Antique Religious Items
Materials
Wood, Paint
Pair Thai Gilt Bronze Kneeling Sacred Angels, 'White Lotus' Fans Take Notice!
Located in Stamford, CT
Pair of Thai gilt bronze Buddhist gatekeeper male and female Teppanom kneeling sacred angels. With wonderful verdigris patina and gilt ceremonial costumes and jewellery.
Teppanom ar...
Category
Mid-20th Century Thai Mid-Century Modern Religious Items
Materials
Bronze
A German Pewter Passover Plate, Circa 1810
Located in New York, NY
This charming and historically significant German pewter Passover plate, crafted circa 1810, is a poignant example of early European Judaica crea...
Category
1810s German Antique Religious Items
Materials
Pewter
Superb Walnut Lombardi Style Italian Kneeler
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A rare and extraordinary Louis XVI style Walnut Kneeler dating to the mid 1700’s and likely Italian. Monolithic in form, the Cabinet features inset drawer, side and door panels with...
Category
18th Century Louis XVI Antique Religious Items
Materials
Walnut
"Madonna with Child and Angels". Italy, 15th-16th Centuries
Located in Madrid, ES
Bronze in its color and gold, lapis lazuli, rock crystal, enamel.
In the centre of the work is presented, enthroned, the figure of Mary, with a mantel (fireplace) on her shoulders and hair and holding on her knees the child, who appears addressing one of the angels. The virgin is also sheltered by an ogee arch supported on turned columns, and raised visually by steps. This composition achieves a very striking contrast: the dark bronze figure, in contrast to the lapis lazuli background and the part of the arch and the outside of it, in gilded bronze. Under the steps there is a heraldic enamel shield with a key on an azure background. The angels, kneeling, are flanking this figure, and, appearing in dark bronze, visually share the "category" of religious figures with Mary, while their (lower) position gives more status to both the Mother and Jesus. The rest of the composition is completed with a delicate landscape: constructions and walls on mountains, clouds in the sky, plants, stones, etc. To the outside, another lapis lazuli frame is placed decorated in the corners with appliques, giving way to carved and polychrome wood. The lapis lazuli is a semiprecious stone already known in the seventh millennium BC., found in deposits from the Caucasus to Mauritania. From the end of the middle ages, it increased its export to Europe, its use being more frequent since then both to use it as a pigment in paintings after grinding it (giving rise to the finest and most expensive of the blues, and of the colors in many occasions), as for backgrounds of paintings, incrustations in works of art, jewelry and, a little later, in the well-known "hard stone works". The figure of Mary still shows an influence of Gothic models, although more European than Italian, along with elements that could already show a closeness to the Renaissance: although the nakedness of Jesus is already shown in Gothic works (Madonna with Angels by Fra Angelico ), the creation of space by playing with the cloth in front of Christ can be appreciated in more advanced paintings (Virgin with Child by Domenico Ghirlandaio, National Gallery of London); the presence of a powerful throne can be seen frequently in Italian Madonnas of the Quattrocento (and before), but not quite as presented here. As for the landscape, it is necessary to compare it, for example, with that of the fresco of the Condotiero Guidoriccio de Fogliano (Simone Martini, finished in 1328). This is a work of great technical and aesthetic quality, not to mention the materials chosen for its creation, comparable only to outstanding examples from around the world, such as those preserved in the Palazzo Madama in Torino (Italy), where the coral It also has an important role. It is essential to mention, also, works such as the plate of hard stones (lapis lazuli between them) with a relief of Mary with the Child in...
Category
16th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Religious Items
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Bronze, Enamel, Other
Mid-19th Century Spanish Oil Painting of Saint Francis
Located in Round Top, TX
A very beautiful mid-19th century oil-on-canvas painting of a young Saint Francis praying at an altar, circa 1860. The artist is Juaquin Vayreda (1843-1894). This painting is a copy ...
Category
Mid-19th Century European Antique Religious Items
Materials
Canvas
Limoges enamel plaque the Assumption of Mary, silver frame. France, around 1600
Located in Gorssel, GE
Limoges enamel pax depicting the Assumption of Mary, in a silver frame in Renaissance style decorated with scrollwork and five angel heads,
ca. 1600.
Total height: 14.8 cm., width...
Category
Early 1600s French Antique Religious Items
Materials
Copper, Enamel, Silver
Mid-Century Brass Crucifix
Located in San Diego, CA
A very nice MCM brass crucifix with Jesus on the cross, circa 1970s. Nice weight and detail. #3854
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Religious Items
Materials
Brass
Large Judaica Hanukkah Menorah in Sterling Silver
Located in London, GB
Large Judaica Hanukkah Menorah in sterling silver
Israeli, 20th Century
Height 104cm, width 78cm, depth 33cm
Weight 8kg 204g
Of a notably large size, this Hanukkah menorah combines...
Category
20th Century Israeli Religious Items
Materials
Sterling Silver
Early 20th Century Three Hindu Deities of the Siam, Hand-Carved Exotic Hardwood
Located in Vigonza, Padua
1920-1930 three Hindu deities of the Siam, hand-carved exotic hardwood
n. 1 measures cm: H 150, W 35, D 25
n.2 measure cm: H 102, W 35, D 25.
Category
Early 20th Century Thai Arts and Crafts Religious Items
Materials
Wood
Antique Tramp Art Crucifix in Wood, Folk Art Cross, circa 1880
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
This intricately hand-carved Tramp Art crucifix dates to circa 1880 and exemplifies the resourceful and expressive craftsmanship characteristic of the genre. Constructed from layered...
Category
1880s French Folk Art Antique Religious Items
Materials
Wood
Antique Bronze Concrete Edger
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
A vintage bronze concrete edger with wood handle. Embossed with maker's mark and serial number.
Shown with life size hand model for scale.
CREATOR Goldblatt.
DATE...
Category
Early 20th Century Religious Items
Materials
Bronze
Modernist Silver Plate Menorah
Located in San Diego, CA
Modernist silver plate menorah, circa 1970s. The menorah is in fair condition with some spotting to the plate and measures 6.5"W x 4.25"D x 6.7...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Religious Items
Materials
Silver Plate
$200 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique & Large, Hand Carved Alabaster Sacred Heart of Christ Sculpture / Statue
Located in Lisse, NL
Sttunning, quality and meaningful work of religious art.
This skillfully hand carved and large size Sacred Heart of Christ statue is another one of our ...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Arts and Crafts Antique Religious Items
Materials
Alabaster
Modernist "Crucifixion” Wall Plaque by Talleres Monastico, Benedictine Monks
Located in San Diego, CA
A very cool modernist ebonized wood and mixed metals (sterling, brass & copper) "Crucifixion" plaque / wall sculpture by Talleres Monasticos - work...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Mid-Century Modern Religious Items
Materials
Sterling Silver, Brass, Copper
$300 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Polish Silver Kiddush Cup
Located in New York, NY
Engraved silver Kiddush cup, Poland, circa 1840.
On a flat base with floral decoration and with two village scenes engraving, one of the village scene depicting a tower with a simil...
Category
Mid-19th Century Polish Antique Religious Items
Materials
Silver
$1,500 Sale Price
20% Off
Large 18th century Spanish Colonial Religious Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large oil painting of the holy family on hand woven canvas.
Peruvian or Bolivian.
Acquired from an estate in the San Francisco Bay Area f...
Category
18th Century Peruvian Spanish Colonial Antique Religious Items
Materials
Canvas
$8,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Symbolic Turkish Sivas Carpet
Located in New York, NY
A highly inspiring directional Turkish sivas carpet woven for the Turkish government. Inscribed is the name of the regime at the time, "OSMANI". You also see the same elements seen in the Turkish flag...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Campaign Religious Items
Materials
Wool
$3,200 Sale Price
23% Off
JESUS CHRIST CRUCIFIED Indo-Portuguese sculpture from the 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
JESUS CHRIST CRUCIFIED
Indo-Portuguese sculpture from the 18th Century
in ivor..... The figure is represented in agony, with cendal draped around the waist. Cross in rosewood wood ...
Category
Early 18th Century Portuguese Baroque Antique Religious Items
Materials
Wood
Antique Silver Tube with hand written Quran excerpts Parchment Scroll ca 1800
Located in Doha, QA
This is a beautiful and masterfully done silver oriental tube with hand written Quran excerpts parchment roll inside. The Tube has been hand crafted in 19th century and the scroll it...
Category
Early 19th Century Saudi Arabian Antique Religious Items
Materials
Silver
Large Pair of 18th / 19th Century Italian Silvered Reliquaries
Located in Milford, NH
A fine large pair of Italian silvered metal over wood reliquaries with putti, grape, shell, and scrollwork design. Each have memorial pendant displays with names (The left reads S. Innocentii M & S Clementiani M,” while the other is illegible. The pair is in very good condition, with great overall patina, some metal lifting...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Religious Items
Materials
Metal
19th Century Indo- Portuguese Rosewood Altar from Goa
Located in West Hollywood, CA
An incredibly gorgeous 19th century altar from Goa. This Indo-Portuguese piece is crafted from rosewood and reflects the unique blend of Indian and Portuguese artistic influences cha...
Category
19th Century Indian Other Antique Religious Items
Materials
Rosewood
Complete bible bound in green leather morocco with silver clasps, 18th century
Located in Gorssel, GE
La Sainte Bible qui contient le Vieux et le Nouveau Testament edited by: Z.CHatelain & Fils, Arkstee & Merkus, Marc Michel Rey. A.D. 1770.
Subtitle: 'Le nouveau Testament, cést à di...
Category
18th Century European Rococo Antique Religious Items
Materials
Silver
Enameled Reliquary Pendant – 18th Century, Gilt Silver
Located in Madrid, ES
Elegant and refined enameled reliquary pendant from the 18th century, finely crafted in gilt silver. The piece depicts the Virgin Mary, delicately captured in polychrome enamel, demo...
Category
18th Century Baroque Antique Religious Items
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Carved oak lectern with eagle covered in gold leaf
Located in PARIS, FR
This grand 18th-century german lectern is a striking example of religious craftsmanship, featuring a magnificently carved oak eagle, richly adorned with gilded gold leaf. Standing 21...
Category
18th Century German Other Antique Religious Items
Materials
Wood
God Lamp / Church Chandelier Brass Early 20th Century Sanctuary Lamp Art Nouveau
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
God's Lamp/Church Chandelier brass early 20th century Sanctuary lamp Art Nouveau style
Beautiful authentic brass Church chandelier/God's lam...
Category
Early 20th Century French Gothic Revival Religious Items
Materials
Brass
Early 19th Century Polychrome Sculpture of the Immaculate Virgin - Germany
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
This finely carved and polychrome-painted wooden sculpture depicts the Immaculate Virgin Mary in a classic pose, standing atop the globe with a serpent beneath her feet — a powerful ...
Category
1820s German Baroque Antique Religious Items
Materials
Plaster, Pine
17th Century Sterling Silver Reliquary with Intact Wax Seal
Located in Madrid, ES
A rare and sacred 17th-century sterling silver reliquary, exquisitely crafted and preserving relics of multiple unidentified saints. This devotional object reflects the spiritual int...
Category
17th Century Antique Religious Items
Materials
Silver
'World Chronicle', 1st Edition, by Schedel & Wolgemut, Nurnberg, 1493
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
'World Chronicle' 1st edition, by Schedel, Nurnberg, 1493
Original woodcut, one page with seven illustrations and Latin text
By Hartmann Schedel, originally published: July 12, 1493
Illustrator: Michael...
Category
15th Century and Earlier German Renaissance Antique Religious Items
Materials
Paper
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Very Large Gilt Thai Standing Buddha
Located in San Marino, CA
A very large gold Thai standing Buddha featuring intricate inset glass detailing. Supported by a later custom wooden stand
Category
20th Century Thai Other Religious Items
Materials
Wood
Silver Gilt Judaica Torah Breastplate or Shield, by Moses Salkind & Co
Located in London, GB
A silver gilt Judaica Torah Breastplate or shield, by Moses Salkind & Co.
London, 1931
Measures : Height 56cm, width 22cm, depth 3cm
Made in Lon...
Category
Early 20th Century English Religious Items
Materials
Silver
19th Century Country French Beech Wood and Rush Prayer Chair from Normandy
Located in Dallas, TX
Place this elegant antique prayer chair in a bedroom for your daily devotions. Created in Normandy, France circa 1880, the Prie-Dieu ( Pray God ), stands on curved legs joined by a d...
Category
Late 19th Century French Country Antique Religious Items
Materials
Rush, Beech
19th Century Religious Wood Carving
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Carved oak religious carving, 19th century. This is an excellent quality wood carving with a nice old patina.
Category
Early 19th Century European Baroque Antique Religious Items
Materials
Oak
18th Century Italian Wood and Gesso Altar Vase in Rose Silver
Located in Hastings, GB
A hand-crafted wood and applied gesso altar vase, late 18th century with gilt rose silver finish.
Small areas of loss to the gesso and wear to the paint commensurate with the age of...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Religious Items
Materials
Gesso, Wood
Spanish Colonial, Painted Wooden Crucifix of Christ on a Stylized Tree
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This carved wooden crucifix of Christ on a stylized tree form, is Guatemalan or Mexican, likely created in the late 1800s by a naive artist of the peri...
Category
Late 19th Century Central American Spanish Colonial Antique Religious Items
Materials
Wood
$1,200 Sale Price
39% Off
Antique Exceptional Judaica Sterling Silver Torah Pointer/Yad 1844
Located in Doha, QA
This outstanding sterling silver Torah Pointer is 35 cm long and was found in Spain. Hand crafted with lots of details and very filigran in 1844 ,19th century.
On top there is a lit...
Category
19th Century Spanish Antique Religious Items
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sitzendorf Germany 13th Station of the Cross Museum Quality Porcelain Scene
By Sitzendorf
Located in Tustin, CA
Very large, handmade and hand painted, museum quality porcelain from Sitzendorf Porcelain Manufactory in Thuringia, Germany depicts one of the most famous religious scenes in all of ...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Other Religious Items
Materials
Porcelain
17th Century Large Dutch Private Pew Currently Converted into a Bar
Located in Point Richmond, CA
17th century large Dutch oak private pew currently converted into a bar
Originally from a church in Amsterdam. The enclosure would have been used by a noble family and probably ha...
Category
17th Century Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique Religious Items
Materials
Wood
Antique Spanish Colonial Baptismal Font Vessel and Altar Garniture Pair
Located in Forney, TX
Spanish Colonial set of three Mexican religious folk art pieces. Ornate, highly decorative, silver tone with gilt accents, including two church altar ...
Category
19th Century Spanish Colonial Antique Religious Items
Materials
Silver
Religious Artifacts and Antiques for Sale on 1stDibs
Religious art has had an enduring and significant role throughout history and continues to resonate with modern audiences. Over the years, vintage and antique religious artifacts have become popular with collectors and the devout alike, and religious art has been used to express devotion across a range of media.
Historic examples of religious art remain evocative. From the Renaissance to 1800, many Old Masters actively explored sacred themes from Christianity. In the Baroque period, painters infused religious scenes with intense emotions through the technique of chiaroscuro, which uses strong contrasts between light and dark.
From the 18th to 19th century, Gothic Revival saw designers using elements that evoked the Middle Ages. Artists found inspiration in the romantic qualities of medieval paneling, furniture and other accoutrements, such as candelabras, statues and crosses. Works created in the Gothic style add drama and a grandiose elegance to any room.
Religious art reflects the diversity of beliefs around the world. Islamic art and Judaica are just a couple of examples of the vibrant expression that has coursed through faith-based art over the centuries. Sculptures have long depicted the image of Buddha, while intricately carved reliefs have stunningly depicted deities from Hinduism, like Ganesh. Members of Nepalese religions that emphasize shamanism have made ornate drums, artistically enhanced with images of animals like birds.
In some cases, artisans have created pieces that celebrate specific religious holidays such as the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. But even everyday items are an opportunity to bring both art and religion into a space. For example, designers of furniture over the years have drawn on elements found in cathedrals and other religious settings in order to elevate their work.
On 1stDibs, find a varied collection of antique and vintage religious artifacts and other objects that can be searched by style, period, artist and material, such as wood or metal.