Early 20th Century Animal Sculptures

Art Deco bronze sculpture whale in the waves by Marcel André Bouraine Bronze with silver patine, alabaster waves, on a Belgian Black marble bas...

Cold-painted bronze pheasant sculpture attributed to Franz Bergmann. Austria, early 20th century.

Unusual Antique Hand Carved African Fertility Primate / Baboon, Gorilla,, Extremely well executed,, all hand carved,, remnants of original hair, bone eyes and teeth detail.

Cold-painted bronze mouse sculpture attributed to Franz Bergmann. Austria, early 20th century.

This is a Lalique Crystal Mascot Rooster Tete de Coq small bust/paperweight. It depicts a very well done clear crystal rooster. It has the Lalique Fran...

Set of 8 cold-painted bronze cat band sculpture attributed to Franz Bergmann. Austria, early 20th century.

Cold-painted bronze cats sculpture attributed to Franz Bergmann. Austria, early 20th century.

Architectural Italian Murano art glass door pull, circa 1960s, azure glass handle, brass hardware. Nice addition to your front door. Found at an estat...

Cold-painted bronze sheeps sculpture attributed to Franz Bergmann. Austria, early 20th century.

Known as the ‘Olympic Rider’, this patinated bronze group of a man upon a horse is by the German artist Heinrich Splieth. The design is simple yet restrained and refined: an ideal ma...

Silvered French Bulldog Money Box. A figural antique money bank in the shape of a French Bulldog Dog, made in Germany circa 1920s. A Cubistic Bulldog sculpture with large orange - brown glass eyes and a collar. He's sitting on a treasury with lock. Under the coffer there is a silverstamp. The valve under to close this money bank is no longer there. This Stunning Art Nouveau - Art Deco Bulldog Sculpture is a collectible for the French Bulldog Lover. Bulldog penny bank - cashbox - piggy bank - moneybox - Frenchie - Bulldog Collectibles - Money Box Collectables - antique money bank - silvered money...

Painted ceramic couple of parrots. Czech, circa 1920.

Pair highly stylized large Chinese or Japanese carved wooden guardian lions (fu lions or foo dogs), hand-painted with gilt highlights.

Erotic bronze sculpture. Austria, early 20th century.

A Continental life size bronze sculpture depicting a deer, circa 1930. Elevate your outdoor space with the captivating beauty of this Continental life-size bronze sculpture from the ...

Cold-painted bronze sculpture signed Geschützt. Austria, early 20th century

An interesting early 20th Century erotic Austrian bronze study of a walking crocodile. The crocodile's back is hinged to reveal a gilt bronze naked bea...

Large bronze sculpture depicting an elephant with raised trunk. Typical Tuscan foundry manufacture from the early 1900s. Burnished investment casting. Measurements: HxWxD 45 x 56 x ...

Art Deco Max Le Verrier / Artus Bird Hood Ornament / Paperweight - France. Hard to find circa 1925 famous Pelican by Artus. (Pseudonym for Max...

Early 20th Century Terracotta Italian Dog Statue A slender and refined shape, this hand-crafted early 20th century terracotta dog statue would hav...

This small well executed sculpture is signed by an unknown artist and presumed to date to approximately 1920 and done in the period Art Deco style. The sculpture is composed of cast ...

Cold-painted bronze cats and dog sculpture attributed to Franz Bergmann. Austria, early 20th century.

Set of 8 Cold-painted bronze monkeys band sculpture attributed to Franz Bergmann. Austria, early 20th century.

Nicely carved pair of festive birds.

Three Ducks is a particular charming moment in time captured by the artist of this sculpture. Three ducks beautifully rendered, somewhat plump, and out for a walk perhaps at the edge...

Featuring a Dog with Pups Rare Swiss Black Forest Dog group. The group modelled as a smooth coat St. Bernard female with her three puppies. The...

Pair of Cold-painted bronze deers sculpture attributed to Franz Bergmann. Austria, early 20th century.

Pair of Art Deco Austrian Bronze Rabbits Signed R. Desset Each rabbit mounted on a block of variegated green serpentine marble. Rabbits are ea...

Early C20th unusual large carved wood sculpture of an elephant, with head turned slightly to right in a waking stance and one foot at rest,...

A PAIR OF CHINESE CLOISONNE ENAMEL PARROTS ON STANDS 1st half of 20th century Each multi-coloured parrot is naturalistically modelled. The details of its feathers finely depicted, g...

Early 20th Century Alabaster Polar Bear A fine early 20th century carved alabaster sculpture of a polar bear. Additional information: Origin: France Period: Circa 1925, 20th Centu...

A majestic Art Deco bronze study of a walking panther with excellent deep green patination and a very fine smooth tactile surface, raised on a polished black marble rectangular base and signed I Rochard ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Width: 45 cm Condition: Excellent Original Condition Circa: 1925 Materials: Bronze and Marble SKU: 8978 ABOUT Irénée René Rochard (French, 1906 ~ 1984) – born in Villefranche sur Saône in 1906, his mother was a painter and his brother was the actor-singer Armand Mestral. Rochard chose the course of an artist’s life and turned to animal sculpture in order, as he used to say “pay tribute to animals”. On leaving the École des Beaux-Arts at the age of 22, he won first prize for a life-size panther sculpture and many other prizes and awards followed throughout his career. In the 1920’s Rochard frequently met with other animal sculptors, including François Pompon and Edouard Sandoz.

Pipe holder, made of carved wood depicting a french bulldog. Glass paste eyes. Black Forest, Germany, circa 1900.

Whimsical hand carved Balinese sculpture of a stylized deer having original paint decoration and wonderful character.

A Fine Pair of French 19th/20th Century Gilt-Bronze Sculptures of "The Marly Horses" (Now turned into lamps) After the original by Guillaume Coustou (French, 1677-1746). The large pair of equestrian bronze sculptures, finished in a gold patina, each depicting rearing horses with their groom, both raised on oval a black slate and Bardiglio marble bases and fitted with modern electrical twin-light brass fittings and cream colored shades. The base on an ebonized wooden platform. Circa: Paris, 1900-1920. Sculpture & Base Height: 31 1/4 inches (79.8 cm) Base Width: 21 3/4 inches (55.3 cm) Base Depth: 12 3/4 inches (32.4 cm) Height to top of (Adjustable) shade fitting: 48 1/4 inches (122.6 cm) Shade Height: 15 inches (38.1 cm) Shade Width: 26 inches (66.1 cm) Shade Depth: 20 inches (50.8 cm) The original Marly Horses are two 1743–1745 Carrara marble sculpted groups by Guillaume Coustou. They were commissioned by Louis XV of France for the trough at the entrance to the grounds of his château de Marly. Coustou's last works, they were intended to replace two other sculpted groups, Mercury on Pegasus and Pegasus, Renown of Horses, both by Antoine Coysevox, which had been removed to the Tuileries Gardens in 1719. Louis XV chose the modellos in 1743 and the full-size sculptures were completed in only two years, being installed at Marly in 1745. They proved highly successful in reproduction, particularly on a smaller scale, and prefigured Théodore Géricault and other Romantic artists' obsession with equestrian subjects. The Marly horses were later also used as the central motif of the monochrome 819-line RTF/ORTF test card which was used on TF1 from 1953 until 1983. The originals were moved to the place de la Concorde in Paris in 1794 and Louis-Denis Caillouette (1790–1868) restored them in 1840. In 1984 it was concluded that the annual military parades on 14 July were damaging the sculptures and they were replaced by marble copies produced by Michel Bourbon in the studio of a subsidiary of Bouygues. The latter also gained the right to an extra copy, which was placed in Bouygues's social building. The original sculptures were moved to a former courtyard in the Richelieu wing of the Louvre Museum, which was renamed the 'cour Marly' in their honour, whilst Bourbon's two main copies were moved to the originals' first site near the trough at Marly, with work overseen by the architect Serge Macel. Guillaume Coustou the Elder (29 November 1677, Lyon – 22 February 1746, Paris) was a French sculptor of the Baroque and Louis XIV style. He was a royal sculptor for Louis XIV and Louis XV and became Director of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1735. He is best known for his monumental statues of horses made for the Chateau of Marly, whose replicas now stand in the Place de la Concorde in Paris. Coustou was a member of a family of famous sculptors; his uncle, Antoine Coysevox, was a royal sculptor; his elder brother, Nicolas Coustou was a sculptor, and his son Guillaume Coustou the Younger also become a noted royal sculptor. Like his older brother, he won the (Prix de Rome) of the Royal Academy which entitled him to study for four years at the French Academy in Rome. However, he refused to accept the discipline of the academy, gave up his studies, set out to make his own career as an artist. He worked for a time in the atelier of the painter Pierre Legros, and eventually returned to Paris. Upon his return to Paris, he assisted his uncle Coysevox in making two monumental equestrian sculptures, Fame and Mercury, for the Château de Marly, the new residence of Louis XIV near the Palace of Versailles, where he went to escape the crowds and ceremony of the Palace. He later (1740–1745), made his own horses, The Horses of Marly, his most famous works, to replace them. The horses reinvent the theme of the colossal Roman marbles of the Horse Tamers in the Piazza Quirinale, Rome. They were commissioned by Louis XV in 1739 and installed in 1745 at the Abreuvoir ("Horse Trough") at Marly. The horses were considered masterpieces of the grace and expressiveness of the French Late Baroque or Rococo style. After the Revolution they were moved from Marly to the beginning of the Champs-Élysées on the Place de la Concorde. The originals were brought indoors for protection at the Louvre Museum in 1984. In 1704 Coustou was received into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. The work he made to mark his entrance was Hercules on the Pyre, now in the Louvre. It displays the special hallmark of the Baroque, a twisting and rising transverse pose, as well as highly skillful carving. He rose to become Director of the academy in 1733. Another of his major works from his later career, the statue of Maria Leszczynska, (1731)is on display at the Louvre. Coustou also created two colossal monuments, The Ocean and the Mediterranean among other sculptures for the park at Marly; the bronze Rhone, which formed part of the statue of Louis XIV at Lyons, and the sculptures at the entrance of the Hôtel des Invalides. Of these latter, the bas-relief representing Louis XIV mounted and accompanied by Justice and Prudence was destroyed during the Revolution, but was restored in 1815 by Pierre Cartellier from Coustou's model; the bronze figures of Mars and Minerva (1733–34), on either side of the doorway, were not interfered with. In 1714 for Marly he collaborated in two marble sculptures representing Apollo Chasing Daphne (both at the Louvre), in which Nicolas Coustou sculpted the Apollo and Guillaume the Daphne. About the same time he was commissioned to produce another running figure in marble, a Hippomenes designed to complement an Atalanta copied from the Antique by Pierre Lepautre...

Very impressive plaster reproduction of a classical Trojan horse artifact housed in the British Museum in London. Most likely executed in the early 20th century by a gipsoteca (plast...

A rare, handmade standing sculptural amulet in the form of a fish. Unlike similar items that are mostly two-dimensional and are meant to be hanged only, this amulet is a standing sculpture in the round. The fish's eyes are made of coral, a gem stone typical of North-Africa. The body of the fish is hand-engraved with symbols from the Jewish Moroccan...

Pair of bookend patinated metal depicting horses at the rails. America end of 19th century.

This is a pair of antique decorative butchery pigs. An English, plaster shop display figure, dating to the Edwardian period, circa 1910. Rare and unusual pair of display pigs in app...

Ignacio Gallo, a renowned Spanish sculptor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, left an indelible mark on the art world with his exquisite creations. Known for his mastery in s...

Carrying import marks for Chester in 1901 by Berthold Muller, this charming, Antique Sterling Silver Model of a Partridge, has a removable head, and moveable wings. The partridge m...

Stunning and rare Black Forest bear. Striking German design from the 1920s. Hand-carved fruitwood sculpture of a life-like bear walking on all four paws. Rare because of the hand-...

French Majolica Rat Pitcher Poet Laval, circa 1900. The rat wear a jacket and hold an umbrella.

This is an antique netsuke made in Japan around Taisho period 1920s. Netsuke is a miniature sculpture, originating in 17th century Japan. Initially a simply-carved button fastener o...

One of a kind and superb condition, extra large ( diameter 38.6 inches) pendant light. If you have a passion for sculptural and meaningful Art then this antique and fully hand carved owl chandelier could be flying your way soon (no pun intended). Because of its size and quality it must have taken one very skilled German artisan weeks rather than days to fully handcarve this unique light fixture. With a diameter of 38.6 inches this is one of the largest, hand carved wooden chandeliers...

The R.Lalique's car mascots are famous. There quality is outstanding as well as for the glass as for the sharpness of the mould . This mascot was created in 1928, one of his first a...

Antique Elegance Hanging Bird Feeder or Oil Lamp in Bronze 14.25 tall x 8 d x 2.5 w Preowned original unrestored vintage condition Refer to all ...

Architectural or Industrial style Oil can, a nice addition to your collection. Found at an estate sale in Nuremberg, Germany. It is not marked. Measurements gi...

Pair of bookends in bronze, yellow Siena marble base, representing jumping goats. Signed Pierre Laurel. France circa 1900.

This pair of ornately cast fighting roosters are unsigned, but presumed to have originated from Italy and date to approximately 1920 and done in a Victorian style. The well cast roos...

Oversized 20th century wooden Indian temple horse, hand carved and decorated in polychrome, sitting atop a skateboard. Very fine craftsmanship, imposing temple horse sculpture. Arts...

French Aqua Majolica Donkey Vallauris with Basket Clement Massier , circa 1900.

Decorate a library shelf or office with this set of antique miniature monkey sculptures. Created in France circa 1920, each Chimp is seated on a stool and playing an instrument with ...

Carrying import marks for Chester in 1908 by Berthold Muller, this charming, Antique Sterling Silver Model of a Stork, is realistically cast. The stork measures 9.25"(23.5cm) tall,...

Original painted decoys, pair.

A bronze sculpture representing a fox Terrier dog on alabaster base. Signed C.Charles. France, 1920

"It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, and voluptuous pleasures." - Charles Baudelaire Iridescence, which changes in every angle of reflected light, is the perfect complement to a cat’s capricious nature. Zsolnay introduced its patented shiny metallic glaze, known as eosin, in 1893. The small family ceramics workshop begun in Pecs, Hungary by Miklos Zsolnay in 1853 had evolved into a world-class ceramics factory by this time. Zsolnay walked away with the Grand Prix at the 1878 World’s Fair in Paris for its art pottery. Under the stewardship of Vilmos Zsolnay...

A circa 1920s German porcelain parrot figurine. Measurements: Height:11" Width:6.25"(widest point) Depth:7.5".