17th Century Pewter Charger with Hallmarks

Collection of 12 early Black Forest roe mounts very nicely carved and great color and patination. Priced per mount.

Continental school (Late 19th century) Forest landscape with figure Oil on canvas Dimensions: 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches.

Spectacular late 17th early 18th century Ebonized commode with Boulle decoration. Great scale and color. Very good condition with all brass inlay intact. Very dramatic piece which co...

Spectacular early 20th century relay trophy plaque.

Pair of 18th century hand-colored armorial engravings in giltwood frames.

Barbizon School (19th century) Forest Landscapes oil on canvas; oil on board 13 3/8 x 21 3/8 inches.

This silver bas-relief is an original decorative artwork realized in the mid-17th century. The work is an original relief realized in silver. A golden frame is included (cm 28 ...

Grand Baroque composition made in Naples in the mid-17th century intended for the private chapel of a noble Neapolitan family. In the early nineteenth century on the finely executed ...

19th century Portuguese Palissy plate with large alligators, lizards and turtles searching through mossy tuft. Indecipherable mark, probably Mafra, Ca...

17th century wooden columns Beautiful 17th century columns carved in wood with a geometric drawing of 65 cm tall.

Beautifully carved and painted polychromatic religious figure that resembles St. Francis. Right hand is missing. Figure is bearded and is wearing a monk's cloak. St. Francis is the f...

Cerberus Black painted stone Italy, 17th century Measures: 80 x 69 x 36cm (one head missing) Cerberus, cruel monster, fierce and strange, Through his wide threefold throat barks as a dog Over the multitude immers'd beneath. His eyes glare crimson, black his unctuous beard, His belly large, and claw'd the hands, with which He tears the spirits, flays them, and their limbs Piecemeal disparts (Dante, Inferno, Canto VI). Cerberus figure seated, in his role of ferocious guardian of the underworld; he shows a nervous musculature, an adherent skin which reveals the ribs, long and robust limbs; his heads are broad and the eyes set well apart. Painted in black to amplify his menacing look, the infernal guardian is depicted with his famous attributes, writhing his heads, growling and barking furiously. Cerberus, in Greek mythology, was the monstrous watchdog of the underworld – also known as the “hound of Hades” – preventing the dead from leaving, and making sure that those who entered never left. A child of Typhon and Echidna, he was part of a monstrous family, which included Orthus, the Lernaean Hydra, and the Chimaera as well. Only on three occasions Cerberus was tricked by visitors of Hades: Heracles did it with his strength, Orpheus with his music. In "The Inferno", Dante places Cerberus as the guardian of the third circle of Hell. With his three mouths, Dante saw Cerberus as a beast that was synonymous with the sin of Gluttony. Virgil gets past the monster by throwing mud in his three mouths, temporarily choking him. Very rare are the representations of Cerberus in ancient statuary...