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Allegorical mythological figurative bronze from the 19th century

19thC

Small gilt bronze objet d'art on wooden base depicting a young sea creature, most likely a newt. These types of objects were very common in aristocratic homes, often kept in the lord...

Early 20th-century Art Nouveau decorative bronze depicting a smiling mermaid carried by a wave above a fountain with a mask. The reference is to the fairy tale by writer Hans Christ...

Alabaster temple with Corinthian capitals, palmette decoration runs along the rim. On the front, two swans are carved on the base, while there are five rosettes at the top. In the ce...

The small bronze depicts a small seated faun, immortalized while playing a wind instrument as can be clearly seen by the puffy cheeks. is signed at the base R. Castagnino and is from...

Delicate 19th-century bronze sculpture depicting two cherubs joyfully playing with a faun. This playful, mythological scene reflects the Romantic taste of the time for classical alle...

This figure is made of bronze with brown patina and representing a couple embracing and kissing each other.This scene was immortalized by Jean-Antoine Houdon.French sculptor whose religious and mythological works are definitive expressions of the 18th-century Rococo style of sculpture. Elements of classicism and naturalism are also evident in his work, and the vividness with which he expressed both physiognomy and character places him among history’s greatest portrait sculptors.Houdon began sculpting at age nine and underwent the long training prescribed by the Académie Royale. In 1761 he won the Prix de Rome, and while in Rome (1764–68) he established his reputation with a large marble statue...

This very detailed and well executed cast antique bronze sculpture is unsigned, but presumed to have been made in France in circa 1850 in a neoclassical Revival style.

Nineteenth-century bronze blind love symbolized by a cupid looking like a day blind man with a brown patina on a gilded bronze base. note a difference in patina between the upper par...