19th Century Italian Carved Monkey Butler

Vintage Italian Venetian hand carved wood sitting monkey. Very well carved and realistic look. Painted finish with monkey sitting on silver gilt rock ba...

Very rare and superbly carved 19th century Italian grand tour Carrara marble profile plaque relief of a Roman Emperor engraved with "Titus Vespas...

19th century Italian neoclassical marble bust of female, possibly Aphrodite symbolizing the timeless ideals of beauty, love, and desire. Beautifully carved with delicate facial featu...

19th Century Hopi carved Kachina doll. Circa 1900: cottonwood with earthen pigments, 7 3/8 in. H., with a stand. Collection inventory number on back of skirt.

19th Century Spanish Colonial wood and polychromed hand carved figure of a Santos or possibly Jesus. The practice of creating Santos figures began in Spain and they usually wore orna...

Beautiful pair of antique carved figurines. Italian, circa 1780, the tall sculptures depict two men, probably soldiers, in flowing robes with one arm out stretched. The elegant fig...

19th century Black Forest carved monkey sculpture.

a finely carved wooden monkey butler / servant / footman figure on stand, glass eyes, open mouth with teeth, once held a tray in its outstretched ...

Marvellous, early Arts & Crafts chair with human-like, monkey sculptures. I once learned that one of the goals of art is that it should trigger your imagination. Also, in the sense that it should make you ask yourself the question, what am I looking at and what does it mean (to me)? When I first saw this chair I immediately knew I was looking at a unique work of art and the artistic, human-like monkey sculptures lift it to a whole different level. Realizing that this chair is most likely created in the era of the British Aesthetic Movement around 1880, it came to me how the artist who created this piece could very well have been inspired by a book he may have read, 'on the origin of species' by Charles Darwin. My imagination led me to believe that reading about 'evolutionary biology' could very well have been the seed that was at the root of this marvellous and meaningful work of art. A work of art that lesser creative minds may simply call 'a chair'. Your imagination may tell you something very different and that is why this unique and very well preserved antique also is a great conversation piece. Our price for this 'Darwin chair...

19th Century (Meiji Period) Japanese hand-carved wood seated monkey. The eyes are inlaid and made of glass. The fur and details are very realistic. The piece is signed on the bottom ...

19th Century English Majolica Monkey on a Banana leaf Pitcher.

Horse in front of a trough, carved wood, work of great finesse and delicacy Good condition, restorations (almost invisible!) on the legs Black Forest, similar to the work of Huggle...