Golden 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: Heart Giorgio

Sardonyx Agate Obelisk

Also known as banded agate

Origin: India

Forgotten Book Notebook by Maison Merci Louis 

Small model

Dimensions: 10x15cm - 120 blank pages

Letter clamp on stand

Clamp on stand featuring a gentleman's gloved hand to display a menu, a photo, a letter, a drawing... and reinvent the Art of hanging, Cabinet of Curiosities style!

The height of the stem is adjustable.

Sold without letters, alone

Antique glass oil lamp in pressed molded glass - Provence

19th century, circa 1880/1890

Decorated with satyr masks, ram's head and bouquet of flowers

Height 26cm

Highly transparent crystal glass with beautiful clarity

Sardonyx Agate Obelisk

Also known as banded agate

Origin: India

Grey-Black patinated marble base for ball or sphere

Base - support

Antique labels in a pharmacy box for cures made of canvas cardboard

Poison label - Ref A

The pharmacist used his boxes of medicine to put away the labels he would then put on the bottles that he would resell to his customers.

Antique labels in a pharmacy box for cures made of canvas cardboard

TOXIC label - Do not exceed the prescribed dose

The pharmacist used his boxes of medicine to put away the labels he would then put on the bottles that he would resell to his customers.

Stem - Baroque base in turned wood and gilded stucco - Italy (Tuscany), 19th century

Italian Giltwood Altar Floral Stand

Antique religious altar bouquet stem made of turned and carved wood, covered with a stucco undercoating (gesso) and gilded.

Lack of gesso and gilding in some places, which is precisely why the white gesso appears under the gilding.

Traces of use and visible gaps in stucco

Butterfly in BROWN hair - Reproduction of a butterfly in hair

Souvenir in hair in the Victorian manner of 19th century funerary reliquaries, mourning memories

Artistic work carried out by the Maison Vaillant since 2023 in Rambouillet

Little Candle by Cabinet de Cire for Curiositas

Model: Curiositas logo

Made in France

Dr. Potain’s aspirator set in its felt-lined box

Late 19th century, circa 1880

Antique medical instrument without manufacturer marking

non-functional

Antique brass and cast-iron rack-and-pinion microscope in wooden case

Late 19th century - Early 20th century

Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case

Late 19th century - 1885-1894

Antique medical instrument from manufacturer MATHIEU in Paris

non-functional

Memento Mori (White) 

Skull carved in buffalo bone