Aristide de Ranieri Figurative Sculptures

Rare and stunning majolica glazed antique clock from the European Art Nouveau era. If you like rare Arts & Crafts antiques in general and marvelous clocks in particular then this handcrafted table clock from circa 1900-1910 could be the perfect addition to your collection / interior. When you understand how many difficult and time consuming techniques it took to create this antique work of time telling art, will you really be able to appreciate its beauty, rarity and quality. First of all, it would have taken a designer several days, if not weeks, to hand draw this design and this would take multiple sketches. Secondly, a ceramics specialist created the perfectly shaped and glazed majolica 'clock house'. This requires glazing and heating/'baking' in the keln and there too many things can go wrong. Thirdly, the aesthetically beautiful flower sculptures that you now see in gilt bronze, would first have to be sculpted out of clay or another material. From that initial sculpture a mold would have to be made and that mold would then be filled with extremely hot liquid bronze. The bronze sculpture would then have to be sanded, polished and gilt. Fourthly, in both the glazed ceramic clock house and the bronze flowers...

Art Deco Silvered bronze bookends of a young satyr and girl holding grapes. By Pierre Laurel. Fantastic Bronze details. Signed Laurel. France 1925-1930. Literature: “Bronzes, sculp...

The clock is signed by the Clockmaker Festeau Le Jeune. The case after a design of François Vion in form of a lion supporting a cylindrical case draped with ribbon tied laurel swags ...

French Art Nouveau sculpture with a clock decorated with a pair of women rejoicing in the season's harvest. In great condition. Sold as is...

Art Deco mantel clock in Egyptian style. France, ca. 1925. Bronze cold-painted, onyx, marble base. Signed top right on the base: KELETY. Measurements: Height 20.47 in ( 52 cm ), Width 16.54 in ( 42 cm ), Depth 5.91 in ( 15 cm ) Alexander Kéléty...

Rare and original antique lamp by Aristide de Ranieri (1865-1929). This rare and original, early 20th century table lamp really has it all. During the day you have a beautiful and m...

A pair of rare french Art Deco lamps by Max le Verrier. The lamps are signed in the metal ) L.Artus, a pseudonym that Max le Verrier used only in the Twenties.The high quality proces...

William Billy Haines Cast Metal with Pompeian Bronze table lamp pair, 1950s. Shades are NOT included. Haines included this design in a few of ...

Hippolyte Moreau (French, 1832-1927), "Song of the Lark". Original 19th century bronze depicting a young girl figure seated on a tree stump with baby birds in...

Pair of polychrome Capodimonte porcelain figurines, a man with basket of grapes and a girl with a basket of flowers, both with round gil...

Art Deco figure lamp, showing a seminude bronze female figure standing on a podium and leaning towards a frosted glass screen. The figure can al...

Austrian Erotic Bronze Nymph & Satyr, Style of Bergman Austria, circa 1900s A well executed two piece bronze, that presents the naked female figure f...