Antique Ex-Voto - Domestic votive offering from Sant'Agata di Catania - Sicily - Sacred Art

Late 18th century - First half of the 19th century

Location: Catania, Sicily (Italy)

Carved and gilded wood, decorative blue glass background, gilded metal saint in relief under glass

Gilding heavily worn, revealing the white undercoat, structure weakened (wood detached on one side), central circle roughly cut.

Antique study mask by Simonne Laubé, circa 1930 

Flayed model

In vulcanized and painted rubber

Inspired by the famous death mask from L'Inconnue de la Seine

Megalodon tooth fossil - Otodus megalodon 

11.8cm

Indonesia

Fossil shark tooth

Megalodon tooth fossil - Otodus megalodon 

10.2cm

Indonesia

Fossil shark tooth

Black crow with spread wings on pedestal

Corvus corone

Perfect in a cabinet of curiosities, a masterpiece!

No shipping

Syringe for antidiphteria serum in it's case

Dr. Roux's method

Early 20th century

Diaphanization of a cat foetus - Felis catus (Not full term)

Biological preparation

The aim of diaphanization is to render the tissues transparent through a chemical process, and specific dyes are used to highlight the skeleton.

You can see the bones through the skin!

Not a protected species

Flight of Morpho menelaus butterflies under a Napoleon III-style cloche

Superb butterflies in an impressive electric blue

Crow on pedestal - Corvus corone

Perfect in a cabinet of curiosities, a masterpiece!

Note that the wooden crosspiece is not exactly centred on the resin base

Royal spiny lobster - Beauchêne explosion style under glass

Panulirus regius

By Will Never Die

Origin: Atlantic Ocean - Brittany

Anatomie de L'Homme - 1831

Anatomy of Man

Volume 2 with its black and white Atlas - 99 lithography

By Dr Bourgery and the illustrator Jacob

Le corps de l'Homme

Anatomical colour plates with cut-out superimposed leaves

By Edmond Perrier - Schleicher Frères & Cie Editeurs

No date, circa 1900