Bi-Face skull - Half face and half skeleton
Carving on deer antlers - Memento Mori
Bi-Face skull - Half face and half skeleton
Carving on deer antlers - Memento Mori
On one side the intact face, on the other the skeletal face. In the end we all end up like this!
Memento Mori : Latin locution meaning "Remember that you will die".
In order to remind proud and power-hungry men of their common fatal fate: death.
During the triumph of a Roman general, the slave on the chariot holding the laurel wreath said the famous phrase reminding him of his condition of mere mortal: "Memento mori". In order to remind him to keep his feet on the ground...
Material: Carved antler - Blackened wood base
Provenance: Indonesia
Total height: 9.5cm Diameter of the base: 3.8cm
Megalodon tooth fossil - Otodus megalodon
13.6cm
Indonesia
Fossil shark tooth
Wall decoration of Pompeii - Herculaneum mosaics: Chromolithographic plate
By Wilhelm Zahn
Published between 1832 and 1849
Memento Mori - Fan - Ref B02
Sculpture on buffalo bone
Steampunk Flight of butterflies Napeocles Jucunda et Salamis Parhassus
Amputation case - 19th-century wooden surgeon's case
From COLLIN & Cie, Paris
Anatomical plate: "L'Anatomie de L'Homme" by Dr Bourgery and draughtsman Jacob -1837/1843
Brown lace sea fan on a base
Brown Whip Coral
Painted botanical plate - Cryptogamy
Voyage to the South Pole and Oceania on the corvettes the Astrolabe and the Zélée, executed by order of the king during the years 1837-1838-1839-1840 under the command of M. Dumont-d'Urville captain of vessel
Published in 1846
Atlas of Natural History - Botany
Cryptogamy
Flight of butterflies: Heliconius family under glass dome
Flame gorgon - Red Whip Coral on pedestal - Ellisella grandis from Indonesia
19th century pharmacy display jar
Blown red glass
Engraved swordfish rostrum from Borneo - Indonesia
XL Size - Dimensions with base: H99cm
Ref B
Bi-Face skull - Half face and half skeleton
Carving on deer antlers - Memento Mori
