Silver Ex-voto - Votive Offering - Sacred Art - Religious Art by Boncoeurs

An ex-voto (from the Latin ex voto suscepto, “according to the vow made”) is an offering made to a deity or saint in gratitude for a favor received or in request of protection. This offering can take many forms.

These offerings in the form of objects can take many forms and be made from a variety of materials.

Model: Sacred Heart Eligia

Silver Ex-voto - Votive Offering - Sacred Art - Religious Art by Boncoeurs

An ex-voto (from the Latin ex voto suscepto, “according to the vow made”) is an offering made to a deity or saint in gratitude for a favor received or in request of protection. This offering can take many forms.

These offerings in the form of objects can take many forms and be made from a variety of materials.

Model: Anatomy - Hand

Entomological frame 

Species: Morpho Adonis butterfly from French Guiana

Frame with black background and white border

Entomological box

Species: Rhinoceros Beetle - Chalcosoma chiron

Also known as the three-horned rhinoceros beetle

Dimensions: 15x18cm

Antique bronze base for ball, sphere, or egg - Base - stand

The feet are shaped like animal mouths.

Late 19th - early 20th century

Sold alone without egg or ball

Cat skull under glass dome

Felis catus

Hypoctonus rangunensis - Uropygi - Vinegaroon - Whip scorpion - Arachnid

Entomological box Arachnid

Entomological box

Species: Scarab beetle Ischiopsopha jamesi

From Papua

Megalodon tooth fossil - Otodus megalodon 

11.8cm

Indonesia

Fossil shark tooth

Megalodon tooth fossil - Otodus megalodon 

10.2cm

Indonesia

Fossil shark tooth

Common cuttlefish 

Wet specimen in fluid 

Sepia officinalis

Medicalized sheep skull on a base

Ovis aries

Ancient skull whose teeth were discovered under the bone and above the eye socket, with Roman numerals written in places. It may have been a skull used for study in a school.

Original patina, the skull is not young, there may be some missing pieces! It looks like it came out of the reserves of an old museum.