18th Century Religious Items

18th century carved & painted symbolic Christian plaque will make a unique and special addition to your devotional display! Hand-carved from fruitwood around the time of the founding...

From Italy, Marche central region, a polychrome carved holy water font mid-18th century, a shaped panel with carved and gilt scrolls and acanthus leaf details. A green edge decoratio...

Decorate a table or a shelf with this beautiful antique gilt "Reliquaire" mirror. (Reliquary in English). Crafted in Italy circa 1780, the religious item stands on a tripod base endi...

Devotional plaque, Saint Thomas Aquinas. Bronze. Spanish School, 17th-18th centuries. Rectangular bronze devotional plaque with a ring at the top, a molded frame, and a relief figu...

Medal. Spain, 18th century. Devotional medal made of gilded metal that shows an image of the Virgin Mary, placed on a pedestal and surrounded by a r...

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...

Brass Hanukkah Lamp Menorah, The Netherlands, circa 1730. The backplate is pierced and embossed with floral motifs around the vessel in the center...

18th century hand carved, painted and gilt triangular wood base with three angel heads with wings. The charming faces of the cherubs are hand painted with black hair and red lips, ea...

Antique print titled 'Platte Grond van de Stad Babilon, volgens Herodotus en A. Kircherus'. This original antique print shows a view of ancient Babylon with the tower of Babel...

18th century Angel's head sculpture handcarved in wood.

An early 18th Century Italian Baroque Kneeler or kneeling stool in walnut. This rare antique from a church has a drawer as well as a door with a shelf inside. In the interior of this piece, the bible or other catholic religious items...

Antique print religion titled 'Tulit Igitur Mulier de Fructu Illius, et Comedit (..)'. This print depicts Temptation and Expulsion. Originates from 'Frescoes in the Sistine Chapel'. ...

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 6th station of the cross " Vero...

Fabulous, hand-carved and veneered, 1700's, solid marble tabernacle from an Italian church altar. The scrolling, side pillars are surmounted by a ...

"French Gilt Ciborium – Silver Cup, Louis XV Period (circa 1740–1760)" French Gilded Ciborium – Silver Bowl, Gilded Copper Base & Lid Louis XV Period (c. 1740–1760) / Reassembled & H...

“Saint Dominic and Saint Francis”. Polychromed terracotta. Colonial (South America) school, 18th century. It is narrated in this piece, with a remarkable...

Lividly carved in solid oak, this continental religious figure depicts a saint or santo with his hands extending out. The carving is of very high quality and extremely detailed in th...

This beautiful antique Christ statue was hand carved in France, circa 1780. Standing on a octagonal integral base, the sculpture depicts our Lord...

Antique print, titled: 'Puzza ou la Cybele des Chinois (…)' - This plates hows Puzza, Sibyl of China and Puzza sitting on a Lotus flower. Source unknown, to be determined. Artists...

Saint Nicholas devotional medal on support. Gilded bronze, textile, metal, 18th century. Golden bronze devotional medal placed on a support by wires that has an oval frame enhanced ...

A rare and exceptional 18th century gilt iron processional cross with IHS to the centre, mounted on a magnificent painted gesso, carved wooden altar vase dating to the baroque period...

Circa 1720 Large Early 18thC Italian Oak & Polychrome Carved Statue of a Bishop / Saint. Flat back with a secret panel which would have been used to hide gold. An exceptional exam...

PAIR OF MONUMENTAL CARVED PANELS FROM THE 18TH CENTURY IMPORTANT SPANISH BAROQUE 18TH CENTURY WOODEN PANELS ATTRIBUTED TO: Luis Bonifás y...

Hallmarked in London in 1730 by Thomas Tearle, this handsome, George II, antique silver flagon, stands on a flared base, and features a wonderfully engraved coat of arms. The flagon ...

18th Century Walnut Prayer Kneeler from the Collection of Italian Prince Ambrogio II Caracciolo We present a unique piece of history! This magnificent kneeler in solid walnut dates ...

Place this beautiful gilt statue with base in a living room or bedroom. Hand carved circa 1780, this elegant two-piece antique sculpture was found in a chapel in Southern France and ...

Chinese Qing Dynasty Bronze Statue of Seated Happy Maitreya Buddha. A Chinese bronze statue from the late 18th century Qing Dynasty period is ca...

This 18th century Italian gilded reliquary box is made to contain a personal relic or shine. It has brackets for wall mounting. The front of the door has...

Beautiful hand carved marble head of a Madonna. Unique period piece with a beautiful weathered patina. France, circa 1750. Weathered Measurements include the wooden base.

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 ...

Antique print titled 'Phinée délivré des Harpyes (..)'. This print depicts Phineus delivered from the Harpies by Calais & Zethes. Phineas was said to be a son of Poseidon, or of Phoenix, and had the gift of prophecy. Zeus, angry that Phineas revealed too much of the plans of the gods, punished him by blinding him and setting him on an island with a buffet of food. However, he could eat none of it because the harpies, vicious, winged women, stole the food out of his hands right before he could eat. This continued until the arrival of Jason and the Argonauts...

Interesting and rare original 18th-century copper plate used for printing religious engravings. The plate is finely engraved with a burin, depicting sacred scenes typical of the devo...

A fine Kashkul carved from half of the giant nutshell of Coco-de-mer likely from Persian Qajar Dynasty circa 18-19th century. Kashkul is a container known as the beggar's bowl, carri...

Description: Antique print titled 'A perspective View of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem and other Structures'. A view of the Holy Sep...

Antique print titled 'Les Enfans de Niobé Tués (..)'. This print depicts Apollo and Diana killing Niobe's Children with their arrows. In Greek mytholo...

The backplate is cast and pierced with a central two-handled vase of flowers, flanked by fully formed birds with their heads turned outward. The side panels fitted with two servant lights, fronted by a row of eight oil fonts. Scholars theorize that these Polish Chanukah Lamps that bear two servant lights (as opposed to the singular servant light normally found on a Chanukah Lamp), served a purpose, having been used on one of the days that Chanukah fell on the Sabbath, as Sabbath Candlesticks. For another example, see page 296 of the book “Five Centuries of Hanukkah Lamps...

Antique print, titled: 'Das Bildnus des H. Evangelisten Johannis (…).' - This original antique plate shows a portrait of John the Evangelist. From: Biblia : das ist die gantze He...

Antique map titled 'Carte des Douze Tribus D'Israel (..).' Map of the Holy Land showing the twelve tribes of Israel's. Tribes are all named...

Antique print, titled: 'La communion des Lutheriens dans l'Eglise des Minorites à Augsbourg' - This original antique print shows the Communion of the Lutherans in the Minorite Chu...

Description: Antique print titled 'Deuil des Femmes Greques a Rama' and 'Bapteme des Grecs dans le Jourdain'. The upper image depicts Mourning Greek widows in Rama, the lower ima...

The backplate is cast and featuring two birds in the center surrounded by open scrollwork. The side panels fitted with two servant lights, fronted by a row of eight oil fonts. Schola...

Antique print titled 'La Representation du Grand Pontise'. Old print depicting a Jewish Priest. This print originates from 'Introduction à l'écriture sainte, où l'on traite tout ...

Lovely putti sculpture in typical Baroque Style. This beautiful and chubby putto sculpture was probably part of a larger Church ornament / sculpture o...

Relief carved, gessoed and 22-karat gold gilded, Italian bishop's crest featuring three bees amidst foliate scrolls, drapery swags, and tassles.

Description: Three religious images on one sheet titled 'Verscheide Manieren van Kruysigen'. Various methods of crucifixion. This print depicts religious punishments and originates...

Very rare hand pair carved wooden reliquary shrines with wonderful decoration and color/gilding, Italy, circa 1750 Weathered, small losses and old re...

Antique print titled 'S. Bartholomaeus pluvian undique decidentem ab area Monasterii precibus arcet'. Scarce plate showing Bartholomew the Apostle in the ...

Antique print, titled: 'P. Guilielmus Cuperus (…)' - Portrait of the Jesuit Willem (Guilielmus) Cuperus (1686 - 1741). Source unknown, to be determined. Artists and Engravers: ...

Antique print of a horse drawn float with religious figures. Double page with joined sheets and original folding lines. This print originates fro...

Antique print titled 'De Twee groote Synagogen der Hoogduitsche Jooden en het Oude-Zyds-Huiszitten-Aalmoesseniers-Huis van agteren, in 't verschiet'. Old print depicting two large large synagogues of German jews...

Beautiful and meaningful religious art. If only the best quality and condition is good enough for you then this stunning and practical size corpus of Christ could be gracing your wall soon. Both the perfect anatomy and the amazing details in this antique corpus...

Antique print of various Greek religious ceremonies. With French description. Artists and Engravers: Anonymous Condition: Very good. Stamp on ...

Saint Anthony of Padua with the Infant Jesus. Oil on canvas. Spanish school, 18th century. Oil on canvas showing Saint Anthony of Padua (Lisbon, August 15, 1195 - Padua, June 13, 12...

Antique portrait titled 'Melanchton'. Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon. Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560), born Philipp Schwartzerdt, was a German reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and an influential designer of educational systems. He stands next to Luther and Calvin as a reformer, theologian, and molder of Protestantism. As much as Luther, he is the primary founder of Lutheranism. This print originates from 'Historie der kerken en ketteren van den beginne des Nieuwen Testaments tot aan het jaar onses Heeren 1688 ... In het Neederduyts vertaald' by G. Arnold. Artists and Engravers: Gottfried Arnold (1666 – 1714) was a German Lutheran...

Antique portrait titled 'William Waynfleet, Bishop of Winchester'. Portrait of William Waynflete. William Waynflete, born William Patten, was Provost of Eton (1442–1447), Bishop of Winchester (1447–1486) and Lord Chancellor...

Devotional plaque, Saint Dominic de Guzmán. Bronze. Spanish School, 17th-18th centuries. Rectangular bronze devotional plaque with a ring at the top, a molded frame, and a relief f...

Antique print titled 'Evae ex Costa Adami productio (..). This original antique print shows a scene from Genesis in the Old Testament; Eve is made from Adam's rib. Originates from 'Physica Sacra' by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer. Scheuchzer believed that the Old Testament was a factual account of the history, of the world...

Antique print titled 'Deucalion & Pyrrha (..)'. This print depicts Deucalion and Pyrrha. Deucalion, who reigned over the region of Phthia, had been forewarned of the flood by his...

Antique print, titled: 'Majorinus Numida' Majorinus was a bishop of Carthage in dispute with Ceacilianus. He favored the so-called Donatist sect. Het died ca. 329 AD. The background to the controversy was the wave of persecutions of Christians by the Roman Emperor Diocletian. At that time some Church leaders - unwilling to endure torture or death and become martyrs - had been ready to take such acts as worshipping the gods of the old pantheon, considered idols by Christians, or surrendering church books and property to the imperial authorities. Such people became known as 'traditors' ("surrenderers"). One of these "traditors", named Caecilian, had returned to the fold of the Church once the persecutions ended, and was consecrated Bishop of Carthage and Primate of North Africa. Those of the faithful who refused to accept the authority of such a spiritual leader raised Majorinus as a rival bishop; however, Majorinus died shortly after being consecrated, and it fell to Donatus to take his place and continue the struggle. This rare print originates from: 'Historie der Kerken en Ketteren van den beginne des Nieuwen Testaments tot aan het Jaar onses Heeren 1688. Onzydig in 't Hoogduytsch beschreeven, door den Hoog-geleerden Heer Godfried Arnold, Voor deezen Hoog-Leeraar in de Historien tot Giesen. In het Neederduyts vertaald. Vercierd met verscheyde Koopere Plaaten door den Heer Romeyn de Hooghe.' (transl.: History of Churches and Heretics from the start of the New Testament until the year of our lord 1688 ...), by Godfried Arnold, Dutch edition published by Sebastiaan Petzold, Amsterdam 1701. This edition contains portraits of heretic figures, etched by the reknown Romeyn de Hooghe. Artists and Engravers: Made by 'Romeyn de Hooghe' after an anonymous artist. Gottfried Arnold (pseud. Christophorus Irenaeus) was an important representative of the so-called radical Pietism, publicist, church historian and chants writer (so he was believed to have written the well-known Church song 'O Durchbrecher aller Bande'). Arnold studied theology in Wittenberg. From the Lutheran Orthodoxy he converted, through writings of Spener, to Pietism, associating later into a circle around the court preacher Sprögel, who was influenced by Jakok Böhm. Many medieval mystics were later re-issued by him. In addition he was clearly influenced by Grotius and the early enlightenment. His quest for the 'true' Christianity rightly brought him in the early Church. So he arranged an edition containing the sermons of the desert father Macarius. Arnold was a skilled patristicus, although he did not escape from the creation of an ideal image of the Christian life in the early Church, in his view a flowering time which ended with the reign of Constantine. His first study of the early Church ('Die erste Liebe der Gemeinen Jesu Christi') provided him a professor position in Gießen, a post which he soon left, disappointed by what he called the 'Ruhmsachtige Vernunftwesen des akademischen Lebens'. He continued as an individual scientist and he published books and poems. His main work is 'Unparteiischen Kirchen- und Ketzerhistorie' (1699-1700), of which this is the Dutch translation. He adapts in this study the reformatory decay theory, where the censure lies no longer with Constantine, but the post-Apostolic time. The decay is temporarily lifted with the Reformation, but occurres again soon, so that even the contemporary institutional Protestantism lies under the fire of his criticism. On the other hand he favours the 'Church of the spirit' that existed in all times (invisible) and is characterised by avoiding the world and asceticism. Not the orthodoxy, but the subjectivity of religious man...

Antique map titled: Byzondere afbeelding der landschappen, van de Apostelen bevaren en doorwandelt, om het Evangelium J.C. te prediken. Scarce map of the Mediterranean and contigu...