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Rhinoceros horn with gold filigree setting, Goa (India) or Lisbon, around 1580

Rhinoceros horn with gold filigree setting, Goa (India) or Lisbon, around 1580. Horn of the African rhinoceros (black rhinoceros or black-mouthed rhinoceros; Diceros bicornis); Setting: Gold filigree, rubies, pearls, 81 cm × 13.6 cm © Kunsthistorisches...

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Tags: Cabinet de curiosités, rhinoceros horn

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10 mars 2026

Tortoise snuffbox, France, probably Paris, ca 1780-1800

Tortoise snuffbox, France, probably Paris, ca 1780-1800. Carapace of a geometric tortoise, Gold, in part enamelled, rose gold, inset stones. Height 4.5 cm, width 10 cm, depth 6 cm © Kunstkammer Georg Laue Provenance: Monaco, private collection This South...

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Tags: Cabinet de curiosités, Tortoise Snuffbox, France, Paris

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19 octobre 2025

Cabinets de curiosités at Kuntskammer Georg Laue

Cabinet de curiosités © Kuntskammer Georg Laue Cabinet de curiosités © Kuntskammer Georg Laue Cabinet de curiosités © Kuntskammer Georg Laue Cabinet de curiosités © Kuntskammer Georg Laue

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Tags: Cabinet de curiosités

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27 juin 2024

Bezoars at Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Bezoar Spanish, 3rd quarter 16th century. Bezoar, gold, emeralds, rubies. H. 25,5 cm, B. 16 cm, T. 13,3 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Kunstkammer, 981. © KHM-Museumsverband. The bezoar, a gastrolith (stomach stone) from goats and llamas, has found...

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16 mars 2024

Coral Cabinet, Late 1500s - Schloss Ambras Innsbruck

Coral Cabinet, Late 1500s - Schloss Ambras Innsbruck. Collection Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien .

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15 mars 2024

A Collection of Renaissance and Baroque Scientific Instruments, German and French, 16th-18th centuries

A Collection of Renaissance and Baroque Scientific Instruments, German and French, 16th-18th centuries. Wood, silver, brass, ivory, glass. Height 4-18.5 cm. KUNSTKAMMER GEORG LAUE at TEFAF 2024. © 2024 TEFAF Provenance: French and German private collections.....

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23 novembre 2023

Victorian summer fire-screen with taxidermy birds by and labelled for Henry James Burton (1814-1895)

A superb Victorian summer fire-screen with taxidermy birds by and labelled for Henry James Burton (1814-1895). Made in London in the second half of the 19th century, this case contains a variety of rare birds such as quetzal, trogon, cotinga and a multitude...

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Tags: Victorian, Henry James Burton, summer fire-screen, taxidermy birds

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9 novembre 2022

Discover the natural wonders of the world & its ancient civilizations: Hindman to present a cabinet of curiosities

Courtesy Hindman. CHICAGO, IL .- Step into a cabinet of curiosities this November 10th with Hindman ’s Ancient Art & Natural History: A Cabinet of Curiosities auction. Highlighting the auction is a rare and completely preserved iridescent ammonite fossil...

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Tags: bronze, egyptian, Horus, Isis, greywacke, Roman, Old Kingdom, limestone relief, Meteorite Slice, Isis-Hathor

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24 août 2022

A North European ormolu-mounted nautilus-shell cup, first half 19th century

Lot 206. A North European ormolu-mounted nautilus-shell cup, first half 19th century; 7 1 ⁄ 4 in. (19.5 cm.) high; 5 1 ⁄ 2 in. (14 cm.) wide . Price Realised GBP 6,930 (Estimate GBP 2,500 - GBP 4,000 ). © Christie's 2022 With a winged mask and dragons...

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Tags: ormolu-mounted, first half 19th century, North European, Anthony and Marietta Coleridge Collection, nautilus-shell cup

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24 août 2022

Shell boxes from Anthony and Marietta Coleridge Collection sold at Christie's London,

Lot 202. Two English gold-mounted shell boxes; the turritella box, London, circa 1765; the cancellaria shell with mark of David Arthur Thomas, London, 1966. The turritella: 4 in. (10 cm.) long; the cancellaria: 31⁄2 in. (9 cm.). Price Realised GBP 3,276...

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Tags: George III, cowrie shell, Anthony and Marietta Coleridge Collection, David Arthur Thomas, shell box, cancerallia, turritella, Scottish silver

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