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Silver jewelry box belonging to the early 20th century.

Pair of finely worked solid silver scutures signed Gemito with Chiurazzi's gallery stamp. The woman is depicted half-length dressed in period clothing and rests on a circular base. ...

Antique Neapolitan silver pourer belonging to the early 20th century. The central sinusoidal-shaped body is embellished with a pod interspersed with a winged dolphin-shaped handle. ...

Antique burnished bronze sculpture depicting a woman's head(NINA) signed Gemito galleria Chiurazzi. The woman with the somewhat sad expression is the artist's wife who portrays her ...

Patinated bronze sculpture depicting bust of street urchin signed "Vincenzo Cinque." The lost-wax cast bronze sculpture rests on the on rectangular marble base signed on the revers...

Napoleon III French gilt bronze cup/centerpiece. The central body totally historiated in relief with mythological scenes is supported by two shoot-shaped handles. The square-shape...

Finely chiseled gilt bronze Empire clock belonging to the early 19th century. The vase shape is typical of its period and features a large porcelain dial surrounded by relief elemen...

FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE Early 20th century Italian cameo with woman profile. Hand carved cameo. Dimensions: H 3.5cm x W 3cm Italian manufactory of early 20th century. Probably ...

Original sculpture signed/numbered 2/8 ex. Gold and silver plated bronze. Acquired directly from the artist. Free shipment worldwide. William Sweetlove, born in Ostend, Belgium, in...

Bronze art deco ram sculpture by Paul A. Lobel from the RKO Roxy Theater, Rockefeller Center, New York. Hand wrought. Provenance: RKO, Roxy Center Theatre; Mr. Eugene Lee Schoen; Mr. Neal Prince & Mr. Herbert Wade Hemphill Jr.; Mr. Neal Prince; The Trust of the above; Heritage Auctions. Presented by Joseph Dasta Antiques Paul Lobel (1899 - 1983): The accomplishments of Paul A. Lobel, industrial designer, metalsmith, sculptor and cartoonist/illustrator, may be viewed as the quintessential American success story. Born in Romania, at the turn of the century, he emigrated to the United States while an infant, and, from humble beginnings on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, grew up to attain a one-man show in Paris in 1925, win two awards at the International Exposition of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1932, be the subject of two exhibitions at the American Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He also founded an innovative jewelry and metals studio/shop in New York’s Greenwich Village. Furthermore, his contemporaries regarded him with awe and almost everything he attempted came to fruition. In the summer of 1926 Lobel exhibited 35 works, including drawings, etchings, paintings, metalwork and sculpture, in a one-man show at the Grande Librairie Universelle in Paris. During the next year, he toured London, Rome, Florence, Rotterdam, Brussels and Berlin, then, broke, returned to America where he again rented desk space and tried to resume his advertising career. But he was haunted by the modern design that he had been exposed to in Paris. So, after borrowing money to open a metalwork studio on Lexington Avenue, he sought out architect Eugene Schoen, an enthusiast of modern design, whom he had formerly been introduced to by Boardman Robinson. Schoen was in the process of opening a gallery devoted to showing the work of designers and craftsmen imbued with the spirit of modernism...

Large French Neoclassical sculpture of Androcles and the Lion. Exceptional quality casting and patina. Mid 19th century. The runaway slave Androcles became friends with a wounded lion...

"Mother and Child" an impressionist bronze sculpture of baboons by sculptor Blanca Will, American, 1881-1978, dated 1912. Works by Will are rare. Blanca Will Exhibited at the National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts...

Charles Rumsey was a child prodigy sent to Paris to train in sculpting at age 12. He was not only a prodigy sculptor but an avid horseman and sportsman...