Antique Putto

A very fine and charming pair of French 19th century Louis XV style figural gilt and patinated bronze chenets, each surmounted with a seated patinated bronze putto holding on to a br...

The tiles depict a decorative roman style mosaic, outlined with repeating embellishments to the edge around a pair of lions facing towards two central tiles detailed with a classical...

The very top and very base of each bracket culminates in a playful putto, who represents one of the four seasons.

This fine clock has a gilt bronze case cast with a winged putto, allegorical of the arts and of painting. He is holding a miniature portrait of a young lady, and leaning on a fluted ...

Admirable Rosenthal figurine group by Josef Limburg Manufactory: Rosenthal / Selb / Bavaria / Germany Dating: manufactured circa 1925 Material and technique: porcelain / china...

Strikingly, each features a beautiful, curved handle topped by a winged putto finial.

It has a monochromatic Classical scene, depicting three women in drapery placing a sculpture of cupid onto a pedestal. A putto in the background carries flowers, and what appears lik...

The works signed “S Marti”, depicting “Labour voilant Le temps” for “Love veiling time” the bronze doré et Patine figure and veiled clock on rouge griotte marble plinth with inset b...

Antique 18th century Imperial Russian solid silver-gilt impressive lidded tankard, parcel gilt, of traditional tapering form on a spreading foot, the sides chased with gilt putto mas...

It represents a figure in three quarters, half naked, with different afterthoughts on the position of the legs, whilst playing a lyre. Above, three puttos throw flowers. The artist ...

With porcelain figures from the original period of origin around 1775: Two electrified bronze lamps with gilding: a profiled pedestal in a triangular shape with beveled corners as a ...

Atop this stands a patinated bronze sculpture of a winged putto, who holds aloft an ormolu candelabra with ten scrolling branches of stylized acanthus leaves and ten lights with flow...

To the left of the drum reclines a patinated bronze putto, who holds in one hand a gilt bronze sheet of paper and in the other a gilt bronze pencil.

None of the cherubs are clothed, although two of them are draped in colored textiles. The putto on the far left has a billowing peach colored material hanging from the left shoulder ...

This antique pair of wooden figurines from France have been hand-carved to depict a male child (or putto) with loosely-curled locks and chubby cheeks, fitted in robed attire, in bent...

Beautifully ornate, this Baroque putto statue has been preserved for more than 150 years, only small losses revealing the sculpture’s age.

Very rare and exceptional porcelain figure group: Standing young beauty with her hair tied back at the nape of her neck and crowned with a tiara, wearing a long dress softly embraci...

The single front-door black-lacquered cabinet centered with a Pietra Dure (Semi precious hard stones) plaque depicting a floral bouquet, flanked by ormolu mounts of Bacchus, with flo...

A very fine museum quality Italian 19th-20th century life-size marble sculpture titled "Searching for Love" by Vito Pardo (Italian, born in Venice in 1872) Depicting a semi-nude life...

The impressive fender surmounted on each end by a figure of playful battling armorial putto (children), one holding a sword and a shield, the other a holding a spear and shield, both...

Duquesnoy’s bas-relief work at the Villa Doria Pamphili in Rome is often credited with establishing a prototype for sculptures of putto and cherubs. These sculptures had a great impa...

Each object features a winged putto descending from above, holding out a scrolling branch with two lights in each hand.

An exceptional and rare late 19th century gilt bronze mounted Louis XV Style Bureau Plat Attributed to Zwiener Attributed to Joseph Zwiener The serpentine case with a rectangular t...

The original beveled rectangular mirror plate with rounded top corners is set within a giltwood frame carved with a palmette frieze surmounted by a swan's neck pediment with foliate ...

Showing two different putto or cherub figures, each holding a long stemmed flower that forms the candleholder.

Night is dressed in a blue cloth that covers the head and is crowned by a star crown. The putto looks thoughtfully down, holding the poppy seed in his right hand, which is supposed t...

Set in modern giltowood frames, they come from a Lombard private collection. The figure of the putto, traditionally linked to a childlike conduct of life, allegorically enhances t...

The mutual influence of the artists in this circle is clear from the fact that Podestà 's Bacchus and Ariadne (At Arte Antico) cites in the putto who scares another putto with a mask...

Better recognized by their Italian name, putti—the singular putto refers to the Latin putus, meaning “boy” or “child”—these types of figures often recur in religious artwork as symbo...

Alluring cheese keeper with attractive blue palette Displays a desirable aged patina throughout Distinctive Jasperware with white over blue ground Of generous size with provision ...

A genius can be depicted in art in various forms, but a common representation was that of a winged putto with the lower body of an acanthus leaf rinceau.

The body of the vase is rich in a dark-brown patina that positively glows around the bas-relief Bacchanalia scene of putto playing a tug-of-war type game, carrying wine glasses and b...

Excellent Meissen porcelain group of the 19th century: Nymph, covered only with a cloth, seated on a half shell floating on the water, holding the cloth at one end so that it forms ...

The candelabra are similarly formed, each with a white marble base and a stem modelled as a putto in patinated bronze. Each candelabrum issues six gilt bronze branches, each branch o...

Standing atop this stunning bronze chandelier the individual putto figures certainly have a determined look on their faces.

The large ornament on the front of the case shows a winged putto, his arms outstretched feeding two swans. The original silk string suspension movement has likely been changed to a s...

Sat upon the clock face, the entire composition is crowned by a Putto holding a ribboned sceptre of wheat, wrapped in a a lions skin. 

The small central door illustrates the Allegory of Vanity, personified by a young woman holding an oil lamp from which smoke escapes (the flight of time), the putto blowing soap bubb...

Each with a central Patinated solid Bronze Putto nude figure holding a loft three foliate-leaf capped branched lights terminating on a central decorative support with berry and acant...

Each light is finished with a decorative, classically-inspired finial, which features a sculpture of a seated, nude young boy, or putto, his arms raised above his head. With their...

The drum surrounding the dial is held aloft by an Atlantid type putto, who holds the drum above his head. The drum is topped by a vase finial and flanked on either side by gilt bronz...

Sciacca Coral Bracelet Italy Trapani 19th Century Period: 1829 - 1829 Provenance: Italy Length: 19 cm Dimensions: 7 cm wide and 5 cm high Weight: 72,2 gr The 19th century bracelet i...

It was not until Bernini’s “Putto on a Dolphin” statue (circa 1618), that dolphins were given a visage with this very distinct, recognizable and classic appearance.

He sits upon a barrel, and a nymph just below him to his left pours wine from a large jug into a goblet held out by a seated faun to Bacchus' right. A winged putto at the centre also...

From this is inserted the figure of a winged putto half-torso holding three candleholder arms.

The candelabra are similarly decorated, each candelabrum featuring a stem wrought as a cornucopia held aloft by a kneeling putto. The stem of each issues six candle branches: five sc...

Rising from laurel wreathed oblate bun feet, the inverted breakfront plinth base has a running boss pattern, with paterae at the intersterces, and rectangular plaques with mythologic...

The musicians are putti with horns, drums and possibly a flute and two dancing putti on either side; a cherub is pulling a goat by its horns towards the cart the goat should be pulli...

With his high forehead and broad cheeks, the boy looks like a secular putto, betraying Boese's Wilhelminian Baroque origins and adding an allegorical dimension to the depiction.

Further parallels appear in his Cupid with a Tamed Lion (Amor Triumphans) and in his oil sketch Venus Restraining Mars – Allegory of War, which features the same standing putto facin...

Elements with Fully Sculpted Putti The remaining six panels feature a fully sculpted putto at the center, enriched with gilded drapery and integrated within a complex ornamental comp...

A Louis XVI period pair of delicately chiselled gilt bronze two lights sconces in Louis XVI style in shape of putto bearing a crown of wine leaves and holding two arms of light decor...

The superbly cast playful bronze putto figure, cast almost in the round, is symbolic of love and is here accompanied by a Rooster or Cockerel, thus illustrating the triumph of light ...

The clock is surmounted by four gilt bronze flaming finials, and a central figurative putto. The candelabra are similarly formed, each with a gilt bronze structure finished with colo...

The candelabra are similarly formed, each with a conforming gilt bronze and porcelain base and a stem modelled as a putto that issues three scrolling light branches.

A Good French mantel clock garniture By Charles Oudin, Paris The garniture comprising a clock and two candelabras, constructed in gilt bronze and ‘Se`vres’ Bleu Celeste porcelain...

The vase is mounted with lion head handles to each side, also of gilt bronze, while the lid of the vase is topped by a gilt bronze finial in the form of a putto. The candelabra ar...

Fine pair of 'Sèvres' style gilt bronze-mounted painted and parcel gilt porcelain covered vases late 19th century, Paris, the painting by Poitevin, the baluster sky blue and cobalt g...

He is also considered protector of the secret oaths and the putto placed at the base of the statue has the index of the right hand on his mouth almost to recall the silence.

The composition ends with the putto or winged angel inserted over the clasp.