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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

Spearhead gypsum crystal from Seine et Marne

Patinated metal flower base for ball or sphere - Base - support

Can be used to support a decorative ball or sphere.

3 sizes

Illustration image, base sold without ball

You are purchasing 1 base, not the set of 3

Ex-Voto heart in clay by Cuore di Argilla 

Italy crafts - Made in Venice

Small model

A contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional ex-voto, originally a votive offering made to a god in request of a grace or in thanks for a grace obtained after a vow.

Protective laboratory bell jar - High form with knob in blown glass

Period: 1900 - Pharmacy - Apothecary

Used by the pharmacist to cover precision instruments or isolate preparations undergoing analysis

Agate egg on base

Formed from successive layers of chalcedony

Origin: Madagascar - Natural colours

The egg can be removed from its base

Human jaws in porcelain mounted on a blackened wooden base

Anatomical dental model for dentists

19th century

Book of secrets - Storage box from Maison Merci Louis

A trompe-l'œil book with interior hiding place

Amethyst fragment on a stand

Semi-precious stone, a purple variety of quartz

Ref A - Small

High base specially designed to hold a ball or egg

Perfect for ostrich eggs 

Not suitable for emu, rhea or swan eggs, for example

Box of cocaine lozenges

Menthol - Cocaïno - Boraté by the Pharmacist Holler in Maubeuge

Magnificent lid typical of Art Nouveau: 1900-1910

EMPTY

19th century oil or paraffin lamp stand

Made of brass with a Paris porcelain body painted with rose and ribbon motifs

Can be used as a support, pedestal or candle holder

Antique Chrome-plated metal coffin handle

Winged hourglass motif

Art Deco period – 1925–1935

Some signs of oxidation on the handles

Brand new from the period; it has never been installed

Antique pharmacy box for remedy made of canvas cardboard

Myra pills 

Covering in sumptuous red maroquiné/chagrin paper, with edges and slices enhanced with a deep violet/purple very characteristic of the creations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: 1890/1910.

You buy 1 box but not the lot

The apothecary’s Drawer - Size L

Antique wooden pharmacy drawer that can be used as a storage box - Craft Furniture Drawer

To be diverted on the shelf or niche for your curiosities

Antique hand-crafted manufacturing with dovetail joints and turned wooden pull knob

Width: 13cm - Length: 49cm - Height: 5cm 

Sold empty, without accessories