Bone Religious Items

Rare Museum Quality 19th Century Italian Memento Mori Skelton in Coffin Objects of this natural do not come to market that often, we luckily uncovered this example from a private co...

This antique French Victorian gilt champlevé cloisonné crucifix is a magnificent and rare religious artifact that exemplifies the artistry and craft...

A scarce ecclesiastical antique European Baroque religious altar reliquary monstrance with holy relic! circa 1825 Also known as a ostensorium, ostensory, or relic shrine, this remarkable vessel would have been used in Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, High Church Lutheran, Anglican, and various other Christian churches for the display on an altar of some object of piety, typically an important venerated Saint relic...

An Interesting 19th Century European Bone Dreidel. This is a truly unique Dreidel indeed; the similarity of this Dreidel is that it's a spinning mechanism with a top handle and diff...

An Excellent 19th Century European Bone Dreidel. This Dreidel is an early example of the bone dreidels which were made in Europe in the 19th century. The cylindrical-shaped bone th...

In good condition From a private collection Free international shipping 17th Century Flemish Corpus Christi Religious Carving

Vintage Crucifix made of Deer Antlers A vintage crucifix with a metal sculpture of the suffering Christ on the cross. The cross is made of two deer antler pieces which are mounted o...

Early French ivory tableau featuring, 'the Baptism of Jesus.' Etched on ivory and surrounded by decorative ivory and gilded wood frame. Aged and yellowed,...

19th century Napoleonic Prisoner of War Folk art Corpus A rare and unusual example of a 19th Century hand crafted Napoleonic folk art prisoner of war corpus Christi. Later added ...

Prisoner of War Memento Mori This unusual object is made from cow bone. Likely to have been produced in the 19th Century by a prisoner of war. this...

Vanitas or Memento Mori skull. Carved bone. 17th century. Small human skull made of bone carved in its color with a clear naturalistic intention (visible in details such as the nose, the lower area, etc.). In the Baroque, the human skull is a common element and protagonist in a series of themes: on the one hand, there are the "Vanitas" or "Memento Mori" (painting, sculpture, relief, etc., sometimes combining carving with another figure -like the ivory rosary bead from the first half of the 16th century from the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in which the skull appears combined with reptiles; Memento Mori in a private collection made in Germany in the 17th century in which a skull and a half is combined face of Christ-); on the other hand, it is not possible to forget the reliquaries with the bones of saints, very often jeweled and decorated skeletons of the Valdsassen Basilica in Waldsassen, Germany; reliquaries in churches and cathedrals; etc.); and in addition, it is necessary to remember the representations of Death in the form of a human skeleton or already decomposing body (present in all supports in tombs -Bernini, tomb of Urban VII, Saint Peter of the Vatican-), macabre dances -even from the Age Media-, allegories, etc.). Although it is true that, normally, death and these representations of human skulls associated with it usually present some lack in teeth or structure (to highlight the decay, etc.), there are also some from the Baroque period in which there are no missing teeth; note, also, that the treatment of the eye sockets is somewhat particular in the present case, and that examples are preserved in marble, wood, ivory, bone, terracotta, etc. This element (which already appears in the Renaissance as demonstrated by the account of the rosary with lovers and the death skull...

Early 18th Century antique hand carved and polychromed hand painted table crucifix from France with its original patina preserved. The crucifix could po...