Ceramic Sculptures

"Wrestlers" 1936 Olympic Porcelain Gay Mid 20th Century Art Deco WPA Modern LGBT Hungarian porcelain sculpture designed by Bela Pankotai Farkas for the 1936 Berlin Olympics...

a very interesting art decò ceramic sculpture of a fox, made and signed by the french artist David D’Yerna active in the city of Malakoff; David D'Yerna was a pioneer of modern stylised animalier sculpture The fox is shown before making an attack during an hunting trip. Art Deco, short for the French Arts Décoratifs, and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I),and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. Through styling and design of the exterior and interior of anything from large structures to small objects, including how people look (clothing, fashion and jewelry), Art Deco has influenced bridges, buildings (from skyscrapers to cinemas), ships, ocean liners, trains, cars, trucks, buses, furniture, and everyday objects. Sculpture was a very common and integral feature of Art Deco architecture. In France, allegorical bas-reliefs representing dance and music by Antoine Bourdelle decorated the earliest Art Deco landmark in Paris, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, in 1912. The 1925 Exposition had major sculptural works placed around the site, pavilions were decorated with sculptural friezes, and several pavilions devoted to smaller studio sculpture. In the 1930s, a large group of prominent sculptors made works for the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne at Chaillot. Alfred Janniot made the relief sculptures on the façade of the Palais de Tokyo. The Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the esplanade in front of the Palais de Chaillot, facing the Eiffel Tower, was crowded with new statuary by Charles Malfray, Henry Arnold, and many others.[86] Public art deco sculpture was almost always representational, usually of heroic or allegorical figures related to the purpose of the building or room. The themes were usually selected by the patrons, not the artist. Abstract sculpture for decoration was extremely rare. In the United States, the most prominent Art Deco sculptor updated classical and mythological subjects and themes in an Art Deco style. His most famous work was the statue of Prometheus at Rockefeller Center in New York City, a 20th-century adaptation of a classical subject. Other important works for Rockefeller Center were made by Lee Lawrie, including the sculptural façade and the Atlas statue...

ENID BELL "AFRICANS" TERRACOTTA, SIGNED AMERICAN, WORKED IN PARIS, C.1937 17 INCHES Enid Bell 1904-1994 Enid Bell was born in London on December 5, 1904. She worked as a sculptor, author, illustrator and professor, and was primarily active in the New York/New Jersey area. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1920...

KAROLY FULOP "THIRST" CERAMIC, SIGNED, TITLED HUINGARIAN-AMERICAN, C.1930S 20 INCHES Karoly Fulop was born in 1893 in Czabadka, Hungry. He was a painter, sculptor, and watercol...

"Wrestlers" by Herand. Stamped P. Farkus on top of base. Stamped Herend on bot tom of base. 16 x 7 ½ inches. Herend is a Hungarian company founded in 1826 that specializes in luxury hand painted and gilded porcelain. This porcelain sculpture is a vintage work commissioned for the 1936 Olympics.

Enid Bell Original terracotta, signed, dates to her time in Paris where she won a gold medal in 1937. Signed, 17 inches tall not including the wood base. Enid Bell 1904-1994 Eni...

"Vase" is a ceramic vase with a unique matte glaze. The piece is signed and is comprised of beautiful shades of green and blue. 7 3/8" x 3" vase Statement from...

This is a vintage French ceramic, very Cubist, signed with initials. I have never been able to identify the artist. 12 Inches tall.

An original period Art Deco porcelain figurine made by Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur (Vienna Porcelain Manufactory) titled "Theban Dancer", in Vienna, Austria, c. 1930. 12.5&q...

Initials on the back Anita Weschler was a sculptor of representational and abstract pieces, working in a variety of media including cast stone, bronze...

Unique handmade tile painting, 21 x 21 Inches with frame. American, c.1940