A silver mounted rock crystal seal.European, late 16th - early 17th century.Measures 2.1 x 1.7 x 23cm.The silver fob seal is set with a carved rock crystal coat of arms highlighted from behind with bl[...]
Amazing little object, (perhaps ritual), which made me search a lot in documentation, finally found in D’Allemagne collection, see attached photo.We find dimensions, turned brass with beads and inlaid[...]
A pair of turned pear wood and ground honestone games pieces. South German, second third of the 16th century. Each measures 3.3cm in diameter. The two games pieces are made from turned pear wood, the [...]
A bone vanitas rosary bead carved with four heads.French, 16th century.Measures 3.3 x 3.2 x 3.1cm. The quadrifron bead is carved with the heads of Christ, a skull, a youthful woman and a man.Originall[...]
A silver mounted boxwood cutlery sheath carved with scenes from the Old Testament. Dutch, late 16th century. Measures 20.5cm long. The cutlery sheath is intricately carved in the round, featuring deta[...]
Flint lighter Venetian type from the 16th century, in wrought iron and oval in shape, the 2 sides form soles to be struck with the stone to obtain the sparks, the interior of the oval is in iron filig[...]
Round silver seal die, unmounted plate, diameter 3.3cm, superbly engraved, legible, with a complex coat of arms:
under helmet with the crest of a winged dragon holding a mace, a coat of arms in 3 qu[...]
Bronze table bell decorated with animated scenes Condition: Good condition, crack, wear, in its original condition Height 12 cm FLANDERS, MALINES XVI/XVII century
Decorated bronze stirrup, a typology from 16th century, or early 17th, Henri IV reign, A civil stirrup, France or Spain, (our Languedoc?).
There is not much easily accessible documentation on these n[...]
Three stained pear wood games pieces with Renaissance profiles.
Nuremberg, mid 16th century.
The games pieces measure approximately 3.6 x 1cm.
Each games piece is decorated with the profile o[...]
Superb folding travel fork in steel, horn and silver inlay.
A rich decoration on the steel parts: bolsters, spring as well as the neck of the fork and the base of the tines.
The teeth are diamond sh[...]
Engraved Horn Powder Pear - Period Late 16th / Early 17th Century Very richly decorated: On one side: foliage scrolls with a horse and a horned beast On the other side: mating of a stag and a doe and [...]
An extremely rare instrument of torture known as 'The Pear of Anguish'. Wrought iron mechanism, with its original chain and the figure of a bull. Period XV-XVI century . An old repair in one of the [...]
Ivory knife (some gaps) representing a woman with her 3 children, 1 of whom hides her genitals with a palm tree, symbol of vitality.
The punched steel blade.
Dimension: length of 21 cm.
South[...]
Amulets against the evil eye. Bezoar stone and shellfish tongs? Spain or Hispanic America, 16th century. These amulets were very commonly used, especially to ward off the evil eye in newborn babies, a[...]
Bronze seal, in the shape of a shuttle or olive from an Augustinian convent. The iconography is close to that of Augustinian convents founded in the Duchy of Savoy in the 15th century.
Haute Epoque
Exceptional bishop's pendant called "ENCOLPION" - either literally the medallion worn on the breast or on the torso
Greco-Byzantine carved and openwork boxwood monk's work, around 1[...]
Rare & stunning sword hilt pommel wrought & carved iron, Italy XVIth cty with soldiers and riders
Provenance: came from La Roce Castle, nearly Neuvy en Sullias (Loiret, France)
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