Monumental Neolithic Greywacke Toki Blade with Handle on Stand Side Tables studied in Amsterdam before moving

studied in Amsterdam before moving to Rome in 1677 and actively working thereon

offering a remarkable look at how renaissance art is often altered in restoration throughout its life - showing faint and haunting reflections of heaven’s keys and a lost halo

Coming from the well documented 18th and 19th century English collections of painter Thomas Hudson and art dealer William Mayor

often worn as jewelry or amulet strung within the suspension holes

the archaeologist who famously discovered and excavated the Temple of Aphrodite in Knidos

Monumental Neolithic Greywacke Toki Blade with Handle on Stand Side Tables studied in Amsterdam before movingOriginates from: Rarotonga, Cook Islands Era: 12th 9th Century BCE Dimensions: 15" H x 7" W x 3" D Intensely beautiful and sculptural Greywacke stone adze with incorporated carved handle, from the Neolithic era, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Dating between the 12th and 9th Century BCE, but likely passed down ancestrally, as the inscriptions on the front and back side of this piece are more recent. A collector marking also present on the verso. As