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Artist: Unknown
19th Century Grand Tour Marble Bust of a Young Apollo
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Grand Tour Marble Bust of a Young Apollo (Late 19th Century)
Marble bust on a swivel marble base
Unsigned
24 ½" high x 21" wide x 9 1/2 " deep...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Large Romanesque Cistercian marble capital. Northern Italy.
Located in PARIS, FR
Large romanesque capital with water leaf in red Verona marble. This type of capital is typical of 12th century Cistercian abbeys and represents a tr...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Medieval Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Marble
1900s Marble Relief Rondelle
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hand-carved, white marble, relief medallion of famous Danish sculptor, Betel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) who has an entire museum dedicated to his work in Copenhagen.
Category
Early 1900s Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Iron
Pair of Anglo-Indian Brass Birds
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Intriguing pair of antique Anglo-Indian ducks or birds with a
confident stance and engraved details, featuring removable lids and
round classes stands that show evidence these where ...
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Tole Military Hat Trade Sign on Lucite
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Trade sign depicting an 18th century British officer's hat with a weathered finish and presented on a custom Lucite stand.
Category
20th Century Folk Art Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Mid Century Italian Ceramic or Porcelain Cat and Dog Sculptures
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Best friends together, vintage Italian life size dog and cat figures on matching cushions, crafted in ceramic, hand decorated and glazed.
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Maximilien-Louis Fiot Bronze Ducks In Flight Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
Maximilien-Louis Fiot (1886-1953) Art Nouveau-Art Deco sculpture of Ducks in Flight, patinated cast bronze sculpture mounted on thick Acid etched gl...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mid-Century Banana Leaf Wall Sculpture
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Dramatic mid century wall sculpture crafted in metal with three life size stylized banana leaves cut in a brutalist technique and finished with a faux brass patina lacquer.
Please ...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Italian Tole Palm Tree Sculpture
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Tole palm tree sculpture with four separate palm trees at assorted stages of development. Original paint now muted and oxidized. All mounted on a handwr...
Category
Early 20th Century Other Art Style Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Harriet Frishmuth 1923 Bronze Of The Vine
Located in Dallas, TX
Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (American, 1880-1980)
The Vine, 1921
Bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 11.5 inches (29.2 cm) high on a 3/4 inches (1.9 cm) high marble base
Inscrib...
Category
1920s Art Deco Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Modernist Geometric String Sculptures
Located in Milford, NH
A pair of modern geometric string art sculptures featuring nailwork on a gray fabric covered board or panel, unsigned, in custom plexiglass cases....
Category
20th Century Modern Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Anglo Indian Folk Art Carved Wood Lion Tiger
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Whimsical carved mahogany rustic sculpture of a big cat with a surprising yet charming combination of the form of a lion and the stripes of a tiger. Retaining its original paint now ...
Category
Early 20th Century Other Art Style Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
ANCIENT RARE BRONZE FIGURE OF DIONYSOS (BACCHUS) ROMAN EMPIRE 1ST CENTURY AD
Located in Milan, IT
This bronze sculpture is an exquisitely detailed representation of the god Dionysos, whose cult was one of the most popular in ancient times. Here, the god is nude, with a mantle that gently lies on his right leg. He is holding a bunch of grapes with his left hand, and a rhyton (drinking horn) with the right. The god is youthful and joyfully gazes forwards, with a crown of ivy leaves set upon his long flowing hair.
These features clearly resemble those of the life-size Roman marble sculpture of Dionysos exhibited at the British Museum, acc. no. 1861,0725.2 .
This statuette was probably part of a larger composition and used as a decorative element applied to a piece of furniture. Its finely wrought details, as well as the attractive olive-green patina led to its inclusion in the collection of the Fitchburg Art Museum for thirty years.
PROVENANCE
English Private Collection (Sotheby’s, London 17-18 July 1985, Lot 204)
Royal Athena...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Clio by Studio of Romanelli
Located in New Orleans, LA
Studio of Raffaello Romanelli
Early 20th Century Italian
Clio
Inscribed "Executé sous la Direction du Prof. Romanelli" (on base)
Marble
Clio, the muse of history from Greek mytho...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Vintage Tiki Candle Holder, Bowl, or Chalice Warriors
Located in Plainview, NY
Vintage Tiki Candle Holder, Bowl, or Chalice Warriors
A vintage Tiki-style candle holder, bowl, or chalice cast stone features a sculptural pedestal supported by a ring of styliz...
Category
20th Century Tribal Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
Art Deco Cast Brass Macaw Bird Sculpture
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive cast brass Macaw parrot sculpture crafted in the Mid-Century with Art Deco influence. Having graceful flowing form and presented on a walnut stand. Hand polished and lacqu...
Category
Late 20th Century Art Deco Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Bariba People, Benin, Rare Terracotta Ceremonial Altar Vessel.
Located in brussel, BE
This pottery vessel, embellished with high relief figures, was made by women of the ethnic group of the Bariba (or Baatonu) in the northern provinces of Benin. The Bariba potters pas...
Category
20th Century Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Human face gargoyle/grotesque man with mustache; Gothic Limestone Carving
Located in Indianapolis, IN
This gothic style architectural segment of a building facade located ion Harlem, NYC, was carved 1924-1926 by William Bradley & Son Cut Stone Contractors. In 2020, each limestone scu...
Category
1920s Gothic Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
A Cold Painted Austrian bronze Lamp of a Cobbler Shop
Located in New York, NY
Cold painted Vienna bronze table lamp miniature of an orientalist cobbler shop scene
marked ''FBK''
Origin: Austria
Date: 19th Century
Dimensions: 9.25" x 7" x 7"
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Roman Marble Bust of an Emperor
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautifully hand carved Carrara marble bust of a Roman Emperor on a variegated marble base, elaborately robed with a laurel wreath adorning his head.
Category
19th Century Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Marble
African art tribal maternity figure, Lobi peoples Ghana - Ivory Coast
Located in Norwich, GB
A delightful African maternity figure from the Lobi peoples of the Ivory Coast/Ghana. With a serene yet feisty expression, the mother is carry...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Large, 18th Century, Painted Santos Figure
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hand-carved and painted, polychrome, Roman Santos figure in mid-stride. The figure wears stylized, flowing robes and stands atop a period base.
Category
Early 18th Century Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
ITALIAN MARBLE FIGURE OF A GRIFFIN, 19th Century
Located in Milan, IT
ITALIAN MARBLE FIGURE OF A GRIFFIN
Italy, early 19th Century
marble
87 x 54 x 20 cm
34 1/4 x 21 1/4 x 7 3/4 in
Category
19th Century Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Monumental Italian Rationalist Marble Sculptures of Young Athletes
Located in Rome, IT
This monumental pair of sculptures in "Bardiglio" marble represent Greek Athletes figure , on a cylindrical base . Exaltation of the male strength and beauty, inspired by the trend i...
Category
1960s Modern Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Marble
African zoomorphic puppet head sculpture from the Bozo Tribe in Mali.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century zoomorphic African puppet head sculpture from the Bozo tribe in Mali.
This puppet head would have been used by the Bozo ethnic group during the Sogobo ceremony.
This ancestral tradition continues in the region of Segou in Mali along the Niger river. It is an opportunity to regroup the different villages and give rise to musical and theatrical performances whose highlight is the puppet show...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Metal
18th Century, Heralding Angel Sculpture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An iconic, hand carved, gessoed, painted, and parcel-gilt, Italian polychrome sculpture of tousle curled angel in windswept drapery. Beautiful expression and patina. Now mounted on a...
Category
1730s Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
Mario Torres Wicker Sculpture of a Woman
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Amusing and macabre life size midcentury Mario Torres woven wicker sculpture of a woman in Edwardian attire. Having copper flowers and metal feathers on her hat and skeletal hands, one holding an umbrella. This unusual sculpture is composed of a metal frame in wrapped wicker...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Copper
Master Angel
Located in Wien, Wien
MASTER ANGEL
Museum sculpture of the master of Mauer
Austrian Danube Region
Around 1500/20
Lime wood, carved full round
Height 55 cm
Provenance:
Hofstätter Collection, Vienna
The masterful sculpture was made in the workshop of the master of the altar of Mauer around 1500 in Lower Austria. It can be located in the context of the Danube school of the first third of the 16th century, was carved from limewood and is 55 cm tall. Since there are no attributes or context, it is an unknown figure of a carved altar.
The master of the altar of Mauer is an anonymous Gothic carver who was active between 1500 and 1525 and received this so-called emergency name through the altar for the parish and pilgrimage church of Mauer near Melk. This winged altar was probably commissioned by Göttweig Abbey in the 1470s and is made of lime wood. It shows an expression in the transition from late Gothic to early Renaissance and is considered the most important carved altar in Lower Austria, created between 1510-15.
The figure presented here is very related in its design to the figures of the altar of Mauer. In lively-moving form, the male figure turns his upper body to the right, with his head pointing upward, probably toward the sky. The right leg in lunge emerges from under the frock...
Category
16th Century Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Wood
$38,000
Figural Terracotta Sculpture Depicting Winter
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A beautifully sculpted terracotta statue depicting Winter. The robed figure is holding a burning cauldron of fire. A laurel crown tops her head. She is standing beside a rock with ca...
Category
19th Century Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Marble Bust of Roman Leader
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An 18th c. hand-carved, solid Carrara marble bust, likely of a holy Roman Emperor on a specimen marble base of the period. Inscribed "OTTONI".
Category
18th Century Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Marble
ANCIENT MARBLE RELIEF ACHANTUS LEAVES "PULVINO" ROMAN EMPIRE 2ND CENTURY AD
Located in Milan, IT
PROVENANCE
Private J.E. Collection, Bavaria, 1960s
Category
15th Century and Earlier Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Four Season Extraordinary Set of Italian Stone Caryatids Sculptures
Located in Rome, IT
Four Caryatids sculptures with classically draped figures and their distinguishing symbols. Autumn, winter, spring and summer. Measures: Height with square form bases cm 220.
Time...
Category
20th Century Academic Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
18th Century, Carrara Marble Bust
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hand carved, marble bust in three quarters, of a young man in a sensitively rendered, open-neck robe, with flowing hair held in a delicate circlet.
Category
Late 18th Century Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Marble
'Sitting Ballerina' Cast Bronze Figure on Granite Base
Located in Toronto, ON
Bronze sculpture of a ballerina taking a rest. Her leotard is patinated to a lovely green shade to contrast with the bronze colour of the rest of her figure. Ballet slippers are visi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
$500 Sale Price
50% Off
Pair of Exceptional Italian Sphinx Limestone Statues
Located in Rome, IT
Designed as entrance guardians, this pair of mythical lady sphinx statuary display the head and chest of a neoclassical woman and the body of a recumbent lion on a rectangular stone ...
Category
2010s Baroque Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
Italian Stone Garden Sculpture of Roman Mythological subject Apollo
Located in Rome, IT
Finely carved mythological subject in Vicenza limestone of Apollo and Minerva Excellent condition from an estate of Veneto.
Measurements: Statues cm 150, base cm 85.
Category
20th Century Academic Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
Carved wooden lectern - Eagle. Italy, 19th century
Located in Varmo, IT
Carved wooden lectern - Eagle. Italy, 19th century.
88 x 55 x h 153 cm.
Made entirely of carved wood in the shape of an eagle.
- This item is sold with a certificate of authentic...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Wood
$2,692 Sale Price
26% Off
Scrolled leaf rosette foliate border block roundel end; Gothic Limestone Carving
Located in Indianapolis, IN
This gothic style architectural segment of a building facade located ion Harlem, NYC, was carved 1924-1926 by William Bradley & Son Cut Stone Contractors. In 2020, each limestone scu...
Category
1920s Gothic Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
Victorian Terracotta Dogs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of expressive, hand-painted, terracotta dogs with glass eyes from England.
Category
19th Century Victorian Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta, Paint
Coppia di Medaglioni in Marmo Profili di Papi fine XVII-inizi XVIII secolo
Located in Pistoia, IT
Coppia di medaglioni in marmo raffiguranti i profili dei papi Gregorio VIII e Leone IX. Italia, bottega romana, fine XVII-inizi XVIII secolo.
Gregorio VIII, nato Alberto di Morra ...
Category
Late 17th Century Italian School Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Marble
19th Century Bronze Bust of Julius Caesar on Stone Base
Located in Beachwood, OH
Bronze Bust of Julius Caesar, 19th Century
Patinated bronze mounted to stone base
Unsigned
11.25 x 4.5 x 4.5 inches
Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman. A member o...
Category
19th Century Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
$1,760 Sale Price
20% Off
ANCIENT ROMAN MARBLE ALTAR FRAGMENT, 1ST/2ND CENTURY A.D.
Located in Milan, IT
Roman Marble Altar fragment from the 1st/2nd Century A.D. with the typical element of Roman rituals.
Provenance: Nicolas Koutoulakis (1910-1996), Paris...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Marble
French Modernist Bronze Abstract Figural Sculpture on Mahogany Wood Base
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
9-410 Abstract figural bronzesculpture set on a wood base
Category
1940s Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$425 Sale Price
55% Off
Head of Avalokiteshvara, KHMER, Cambodia, Bayon Style
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A gray sandstone head of Avalokiteshvara, Khmer, Cambodia, Bayon Style from the 13th century. The artwork is unsigned. Provenance: Charles Craig, Privat...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Stone
'Elephant' original African Shona stone sculpture Zimbabwe
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This small and intimate sculpture of an elephant is a heartfelt and doting example of the sculpture of the Shona artists of Zimbabwe, but also demonstrates the clever use of the texture of the stone. The sculpture is stylized, though more naturalistic than many of the sculptures of the Shona artists. The elephant leans backward and reaches its trunk into the air. The use of texture on its body is ingenious, using a series of crossing lines to create a rough surface that mimics the appearance of real elephant skin, adding a lifelike effect to the stationary stone.
Unknown Shona artist
'Elephant,' late 20th century
springstone
4.5 x 3.87 x 1.63 inches
Overall excellent condition; some minor surface abrasions
Shona artists and crafts people have been working in different media for generations. These include paintings, pottery, basket ware, wood carvings, and sculpture done in metal as well as the stone carvings. While there is not a long standing tradition of sculpture in what is now Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia), stone carvings dating from the 15th century were seen in Great Zimbabwe, an excavated temple near Bulawayo. Most of the artifacts from this location have been moved to museums in Cape Town, South Africa or London.
It is generally agreed that Zimbabwean stone sculpture...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Stone
"Bobo Mask of Dance, " Wood created in the Volta Region, Ghana in c. 1930
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bobo Mask of Dance" is a wood sculpture with painted accents. A human face with two protruding shapes make up the mask, while a long structure sit atop.
37...
Category
1930s Tribal Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Large Gilt Bronze Sculptures of Cheetahs
Located in Rome, IT
Fantastic pair of gilt bronze Cheetahs sculptures . The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.
Category
Early 2000s Modern Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$11,750 Sale Price
20% Off
Late 17th C, Baroque, Saint, Italian School, Wooden Sculpture of Saint Anthony
Located in brussel, BE
The impressive life-size statue of St. Anthony (Lisbon, 1195 – Padua, 1231) used to be probably in a church or monastery of the mendicant order of the Franciscans. You can immediately recognize a Franciscan monk by his brown habit, brown hooded cloak...
Category
17th Century Baroque Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Set of Six Bronze Doll Head and set of Eight Bronze Doll Torso Molds
Located in Dallas, TX
Set of six doll head molds and set of eight bronze doll torsos constructed o f bronze. The molds were used in the manufacturing process in the 1920s for making plastic dolls, are mou...
Category
1920s Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Bronze Statue of Prince Albert Edward as a Sailor Boy
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
This statue is of Prince Albert Edward, eldest son of Queen Victoria, Prince of Wales, future King Edward VII (1841-1910) dressed in a sailor suit. After a very popular painting of the young prince done in 1846 by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-73) that is in the collection of the British Royal Family.
Category
1890s Victorian Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Four Season Extraordinary Set of Italian Stone Caryatids Sculptures
Located in Rome, IT
Four Caryatids sculptures with classically draped figures and their distinguishing symbols. Autumn, winter, spring and summer. Measures: Height wi...
Category
20th Century Academic Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
Pair of Exceptional Italian Sphinx Limestone Statues
Located in Rome, IT
Designed as entrance guardians, this pair of mythical lady sphinx statuary display the head and chest of a neoclassical woman and the body of a recumbent lion on a rectangular stone ...
Category
2010s Baroque Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
Alabaster temple with mythological figurative bronze figure from the 19th century
Located in Florence, IT
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...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster, Bronze
"Lovers" in Carved Wood, Young But Eternal
Located in San Francisco, CA
We are surrounded by graphic images, songs, greeting cards, and even paintings all created toward the effort of expressing romantic love. While so potent, and even sometimes transfor...
Category
1960s Modern Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Tiffany & Co. 19th Century Bronze Cherub on Marble Base
Located in Beachwood, OH
Tiffany & Co.
19th Century Cherub
Bronze on marble base
Engraved on back of base
Sculpture: 6 x 13.5 x 7 inches
Overall: 7.5 x 15.5 x 9 inches
Tiffany & Co. is an American luxury je...
Category
19th Century Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$3,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Finely carved female figural marble engagement statue by C. Dazzi
Located in New York, NY
Finely carved female figural marble statue by C. Dazzi
A full length white marble statue of a young woman in a dynamic dress admiring her engagement ring. Resting on a pink marble vase...
Category
19th Century Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Large Gilt Bronze Sculpture of Leopard
Located in Rome, IT
Fantastic gilt brass leopard sculpture . The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.
Category
Early 2000s Modern Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Kabuki Dancer Custom Framed Wall Tapestry
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5068 Japanese Kabuki dancer hand made wall tapestry
signed Eva
Set in a custom made frame
Category
1980s Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Fabric
19th Century Burmese School Buddha Head of the Shan (Tai Yai) Style
Located in Beachwood, OH
Burmese School, 19th Century
Buddha Head of the Shan (Tai Yai) Style
Wood with red lacquered pigment
25 x 13 x 10 inches
dry lacquer form with finely sculpted features such as the e...
Category
19th Century Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Lacquer, Wood
Seated Japanese Amida Nyorai Buddha ; Early 20th century.
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Seated Japanese Amida Nyorai Buddha
Polychrome porcelain
Japan, Meiji era, early 20th century
Satsuma Kilns
11 1/2 x 6 1/3 x 6 1/3 inches
...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
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