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Religious Items For Sale
Style: Other
Style: Rococo
Decorative Plate Depicting the Scene of the Apparition in Lourdes, France
By Rosenthal
Located in Chorzów, PL
Decorative plate depicting the scene of the apparition in Lourdes, France.
Dimensions: diameter 19 cm.
Category
1990s French Other Religious Items
Materials
Porcelain
Merciful Jesus Bust, Northern Europe
Located in Chorzów, PL
Merciful Jesus Bust, Northern Europe.
Very good condition.
dimensions: height 32 cm, width 36 cm, depth 16 cm.
Category
1940s Belgian Other Vintage Religious Items
Materials
Terracotta
Italian Pair of 18th Century Religious Incense Torches
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This is an incredibly unique pair of incense torches from Italy that have recently been fitted with new metal bases so they may stand-up alone. Made of painted metal and wood that’s ...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Other Antique Religious Items
Materials
Metal
Antique Lopburi Buddha Statue from Thailand
Located in Atlanta, GA
The Buddha statue was made from a copper alloy in a standing position with hands in double Abhaya mudra. This mudra symbolizes the act of dispelling fear in the face of adversity. In Laos and Thailand where this mudra are used as one of the most iconic gestures, with its origin was pre-Buddhism era, when it was a symbol of good intentions and friendship when approaching strangers. In contrast to Indian iconography, it was often shown with both hands raised to the level of the shoulder in Southeast Asia. The statue was made in the classic Lopburi style, which historically was heavily influenced by Khmer art...
Category
Late 18th Century Thai Other Antique Religious Items
Materials
Metal
20st Century Italian Sterling Silver Chalice
Located in VALENZA, IT
Large Liturgical Chalice in sterling silver.
The base is finely embossed with the face of Christ, grapes, vine leaves and ears.
The workmanship is h...
Category
1990s Italian Other Religious Items
Materials
Sterling Silver
Mid-18th Century Burmese Stone Buddha
Located in Kastrup, DK
A mid 18th century Burmese stone Buddha seated in Bhumisparsha mudra position* (“calling the earth to witness”).
Black-red lacquer with remnants of gild...
Category
18th Century Burmese Other Antique Religious Items
Materials
Stone
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Chalice
By Vitali
Located in VALENZA, IT
Conical shaped sterling silver chalice with base.
The body is completely smooth and shiny while the removable cup is 24kt gold
Italian silverware, already with a centuries-old tradi...
Category
1990s Italian Other Religious Items
Materials
Sterling Silver
Set of Two 18th Century Italian Silk Frames with Embroidery and Saints Figures
Located in Milan, IT
Pair of antique embroidered frames, rectangular shape, in ivory colored silk satin with embroidery in cotton and gold lamé of floral elements and love knots. These are devotional monastic Italian...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Religious Items
Materials
Paste, Silk
Middle-Eastern Brass & Bronze Temple Shrine Architectural Element Lamp
Located in Forney, TX
A magnificent, rare and unique Middle Eastern temple architectural shrine element, three lamp, possibly a fireplace overmantle, richly decorated, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Asian Other Religious Items
Materials
Brass, Bronze
18th Century Italian Cross with Kyanite, Calcite Crystals, and Baroque Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian crucifix with gold-plated kyanite, calcite crystals in matrix, and baroque pearls. The crucifix is originally from a church in Liguria. It is hand-carved and pai...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Religious Items
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Plate, Gold Leaf
17th Century Thai Bronze Bust Of The Buddha
Located in Stamford, CT
A Thai bronze head of the Buddha. Sukothai period, late 16th-early 17th century. His face with serene expression, arched eyebrows above incised eyes a...
Category
Early 17th Century Thai Other Antique Religious Items
Materials
Bronze
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Chalice with Vergin Mary Wrapping the Cup
Located in VALENZA, IT
Chalice in 925 sterling silver made in cast and embossed and chiseled completely by hand. The figure of the Virgin Mary has a coat, burnished and oxidized in 2 shades, which surrounds the golden cup...
Category
1990s Italian Other Religious Items
Materials
Sterling Silver
Large Lacquered Wood Antique Burmese Buddha Statue
Located in Atlanta, GA
A gilt and lacquered wood Buddha statue from Southeast Asia likely Burma, circa 19th century. The Buddha is depicted as seating on a slightly taper...
Category
19th Century Burmese Other Antique Religious Items
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Rare Large Antique Balinese Temple Hanging Lamak, Indonesia
Located in Atlanta, GA
An extraordinary "Kepeng Lamak" from Bali, Indonesia, circa early 20th century. Lamak is a general term for temple hangings, mostly made of disposable materials like palm leaves for temporary offerings. A small number, such as this piece, were made by wealthy and aristocratic families for permanent display. The lamaks are traditionally displayed in temples or residents for a strong spiritual reason in Bali that is known as "Artja". They could function as receptacles, or a vessels of for the habitation of the deities when they descent to the earth on propitious occasions.
In a goddess form with a carved wood head adorned with painted face and mirrored crown who likely represents Dewi Danu, the water goddess, this lamak was constructed with a bamboo frame, cotton pompoms, fabric fragments...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Other Religious Items
Materials
Copper
Rosenthal Plate with the Image of Jesus, Germany
By Rosenthal
Located in Chorzów, PL
Rosenthal plate with the image of Jesus, Germany.
Possibility to hang on the wall
Very good condition.
Dimensions: 25 cm.
Category
1920s German Other Vintage Religious Items
Materials
Porcelain
Figurine of the Deity Green Tara, Tibet, 18th Century
Located in Chorzów, PL
Figurine of the deity Green Tara, Tibet, 18th century
In Tibetan Buddhism, she is a female bodhisattva, the personification of mercy and empathy. G...
Category
1750s Tibetan Other Antique Religious Items
Materials
Brass
Lama Tsongkhapa, Tibet, 18th Century
Located in Chorzów, PL
Lama Tsongkhapa, Tibet, 18th century
Lama Tsongkhapa was a Tibetan Buddhist reformer and scholar, founder of the Gelug school.
Measures: Gilding / brass, 33 x 25.5 x 18.5 cm.
Category
1750s Tibetan Other Antique Religious Items
Materials
Brass
18th Century Italian Processional Finial with Polished Agate Coral on an Agate
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian processional finial with polished agate coral on a coordinating agatized coral base.
The finial originally came from a church in Tuscany. Polished agate cora...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Religious Items
Materials
Agate
Silver Incense Boat 'naviculae', Possibly Portugal, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Naveta. Silver. Possibly Portugal, 18th century.
Base with counterweight. With hallmarks.
Naveta with oval foot decorated with relief elements and moldings, balustrade foot and body with light boat shape, presenting a hinged lid in the front, a widening in the lower area towards the foot and a decoration distributed throughout the exterior base of rockery motifs and plant elements (the same theme is presented on the foot and base) on a background of chopped luster, with an angel's head on two wings in relief towards the peak, accompanied by plant elements (the which protrude from the edge of the lid). Although the shape of the piece follows in general lines the most usual prototypes in these incense containers used in the liturgy, it is necessary to indicate that it was more frequent to find them more similar to a ship. The naveta's belonging to the influence of Rococo is clear both for the lines of the object and for the decoration to which reference has already been made (pebbles, plant elements with movement, volutes with pronounced curves, contrasts between concave and convex lines ... ), as well as it is possible to find some points in common with Portuguese works (presents an auction with an angel head in relief a silver naveta with a spoon by Leandro
Gagliardi made in Rome between 1744 and 1750 that is preserved in the Museum of Sao Roque of Lisbon in Portugal, compare with the silver plated censer that the same master made between 1749 and 1751 for the Chapel of San Juan Bautista of the Church of San Roque in Lisbon). The contrast marks present in the upper part of the naveta (the "capitalized" letters in a rectangular space), although it should also be noted that this work does not follow the most striking typology of navetas related to this center (naveta de 18th century silver from the Church of Alcántara de Maranhao, Brazil; naveta by Sebastiao Bernardes dos Santos, dated 1747 from Sé do Funchal, which is kept in the Museu de Arte Sacra Do Funchal in Madeira Portugal...
Category
18th Century European Rococo Antique Religious Items
Materials
Silver, Other
Sculptural 18th Century Chalice with Calcite Crystals in Sphalerite on Lucite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian wood chalice decorated with calcite crystals in sphalerite on a Lucite base. The hand carved and painted chalice is from a...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Religious Items
Materials
Rock Crystal
20th Century Italian Solid Silver Holy Water Stoup with Tap
Located in VALENZA, IT
Holy water stoup in 800 solid silver.
Made entirely by hand, embossed and chiseled with leaves and pods motif. The lid is removable to allow water to ...
Category
1970s Italian Other Vintage Religious Items
Materials
Silver
Ganesh Deity Figurine, Mongolia, 18th-19th Century
Located in Chorzów, PL
Ganesh deity figurine, Mongolia, 18th-19th century
Ganesha is in Indian mythology the patron saint of scholars, science, schools and scribes. Leader of the ganas and of cunning an...
Category
Early 1800s Mongolian Other Antique Religious Items
Materials
Copper
Burmese Buddhism Scripture with Lacquer Covers
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large Theravada Buddhism scripture book from Burma, circa late 19th century-early 20th century. The book opens to continuous folding pages that is accordion like. Ink scriptures in curvy Burmese language were handwritten on both sides of the pages. The papers are bind by two lacquered wood covers with elaborate design that features relief scrolls and mini mosaic...
Category
Late 19th Century Burmese Other Antique Religious Items
Materials
Lacquer, Paper
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
Original Drawing, Circle of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696-1770 Venice, Italy
By Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Original Drawing, Circle of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696-1770 Venice, Italy
Although we offer this old master drawing as circle of Tiepolo, we are convinced, based on the composi...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Religious Items
Materials
Paper
Antique Giltwood Buddha Statue Southeast Asia
Located in Atlanta, GA
A delicately carved wood Buddha in an upright standing posture with a double Abhaya mudra. The statue displays a gilt surface with beautiful patina and some minor wear. The face was ...
Category
19th Century Thai Other Antique Religious Items
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Chinese Export Silver Christening Mug
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A very good and impressive antique Chinese Export Silver christening mug; an addition to our diverse silver christening collection.
This fine antiq...
Category
1890s English Other Antique Religious Items
Materials
Silver
Burmese Kammavaca Giltwood Box, Stand, and Manuscript, 18th/19th Century
Located in Austin, TX
A gorgeous Burmese carved and gold leafed teakwood stand and cover for a kammavaca manuscript, late 18th or early 19th century, Burma.
The manuscript chest is heavily rococo influenced, speaking to the French presence in the region at the time. The carved teak stand is formed as a raised platform set upon four large scrolling acanthus leaf feet, with carved flour-de-lis to the apron.
The cover for the stand is also carved from teak, and features a series of rectangular cartouches, each set with a red foil backed glass "gem", surrounded by shell inlay, and embellished with green and silver foil backed glass sequins.
The top of the cover features the same design motif, with the addition of thayo lacquer design elements, and is strongly reminiscent of Tibetan manuscript...
Category
Early 19th Century Burmese Rococo Antique Religious Items
Materials
Gold Leaf, Foil, Silver Leaf
18th Century Italian Wooden Carved Sarcophagus-Shaped Chest with Reliquary
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An Italian Rococo sarcophagus-shaped wooden chest of bombé rectangular form with richly carved gilt decoration on a distressed ebonized ground. The hinged pagoda top lid is skillfull...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Religious Items
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
Very Large Gilt Thai Standing Buddha
Located in Pasadena, 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
Pair of 19th Century Italian Carved Giltwood Church Reliquary Mirrors on Stand
Located in Dallas, TX
Crafted in Italy circa 1820, each antique church reliquary sits on a rectangular base, and features hand carved scroll decor including a shell motif a...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Rococo Antique Religious Items
Materials
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
19th Century Zinc Angel Kneeling on Clouds
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Most likely an alter or sanctuary piece for holding candles. Wonderful scale and perfect paint surface. Many layers of vivid colors. Appears to have been molded from two pieces.
Category
19th Century American Other Antique Religious Items
Materials
Zinc
Giltwood Niche. Rococo, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Hornacina formed by a back decorated with molding and a support for a sculpture decorated with a masque and vegetal motifs and topped by a split pediment with a central motif worked ...
Category
18th Century European Rococo Antique Religious Items
Materials
Wood
An Exceptional Carved Giltwood & Black Lacquered Shan Style Buddha, Circa 1890
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A most impressive and exceptionally fine hand carved, black lacquered & gilded Shan style buddha. Shown wearing a finely carved & richly detailed mon...
Category
1890s Burmese Other Antique Religious Items
Materials
Giltwood, Lacquer
Late 19th Century Siamese Stone Relief Temple Carving
Located in Hudson, NY
This temple relief was purchased from a late 19th century upstate NY garden. This lovely Buddhist carving is in an as found state taken directly from the...
Category
1890s Burmese Other Antique Religious Items
Materials
Stone
18th Century Italian Ecclesiastical Tabernacle with Baroque Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian tabernacle with baroque pearls from Venice. It is hand-painted and carved with with gilded details and a painted marble effect. There is a gold leaf sunburst on ...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Religious Items
Materials
Gold Leaf
18th Century Italian Cross with Smoky Quartz Crystals and Druzy Petrified Wood
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian brown and gilded cross adorned with smoky quartz crystals and druzy petrified wood. The smoky quartz crystals are from Madagascar and druzy petrified wood from t...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Religious Items
Materials
Rock Crystal, Quartz
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.
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