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  • 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 ...
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  • Niche. Carved and polychrome wood. 16th century
    Located in Madrid, ES
    Niche. Carved and polychrome wood. Century XVI. Wall niche with a rectangular front opening topped by a venerated shape finished in gold with two polychrome angel heads in the corne...
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  • 18th Century Italian Hand-Carved Polychrome GIlt Holy Water Font
    Located in Milan, IT
    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...
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  • Mid-18th Century French Carved Polychrome Statue of Moses in Oak Niche
    Located in Dallas, TX
    Crafted in France circa 1760 and resting in a carved oak niche, the figure depicts the prophet Moses, the most important prophet in Judaism and Christianity. Moses is best known from the story in the biblical Book of Exodus and Quran as the lawgiver who met God face-to-face on Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments after leading his people, the Hebrews, out of bondage in Egypt and to the "promised land" of Canaan. He is represented with horns on top of his head. The horns came about because of an ambiguity of the Latin version of Exodus 34, 30. After being addressed by God on top of Mount Sinai and given the Tablets of the Law containing the Ten Commandments, Moses descended to his people in the desert. His face was seen to shine with a divine light. (The first Moses with horns was commissioned in 1505 by Pope Julius II for his tomb; it was based on a description in chapter 34 of Exodus in the Vulgate, the Latin translation of the Bible used at that time). The religious and biblical item...
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    Antique Mid-18th Century French Gothic Religious Items

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  • 17th Century Polychrome Wooden Niche with Angels and Pilasters
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    17th century Polychrome wooden Niche with Angels and Pilasters.
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