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19th Century Pair of Bronze Statues depicting Mercury and Diana
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th Century pair of bronze statues depicting Roman deities including Mercury - the messenger of the gods, and Diana – the Goddess of wild animals and the hunt.
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Antique 19th Century European Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Pair of Bronze Figures of Bathers
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th Century pair of bronze figures of bathers, La Baigneuse after Etienne-Maurice Falconet (1716-1791).
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Antique 19th Century French Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Bronze Statue of a Medieval Page
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th Century bronze statue of a medieval page holding a book, it is raised on a stepped rectangular marble plinth.
Category
Antique 19th Century European Medieval Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
19th Century Pair of Bronze Egyptian Revival Sphinx
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th century pair of bronze Egyptian Revival sphinx figures in reclining poses seated on solid wooden rectangular plinth bases. A well-detailed...
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Antique 19th Century European Grand Tour Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Patinated Bronze Sculpture of a Dancing Female Figure
By Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th century patinated bronze sculpture of a dancing female figure, possibly a sea nymph. The figure stands on a base of seashells and repouses twirling a drape around her body. It b...
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Antique 19th Century French Neoclassical Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Sculpture of Guan Yu '关羽'
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th Century sculpture of Guan Yu (??), a guardian deity.
Guan Yu (d. A.D. 219), a warrior of the late Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220) renowned for his valo...
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Antique 19th Century Irish Chinese Export Figurative Sculptures
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Metal
18th Century Carved Limestone 6ft Tall Sculpture of the Mythological Figure Pan
Located in Dublin 8, IE
18th Century Carved Limestone Sculpture of the Mythological Figure Pan.
In ancient Greek mythology, Pan is the god of the wild, protector o...
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Antique 18th Century Irish Georgian Garden Ornaments
Materials
Stone, Limestone
Amazone zu Pferde, Bronze Equestrian Statue after August Kiss 'German, 1802-1865'
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Amazone zu Pferde is an 1841 bronze equestrian statue by August Kiss, installed outside the Altes Museum in Berlin, Germany.
It was based on a smaller clay model which August Kiss first built in 1839. Amazone zu Pferde stands opposite its companion statue, Löwenkämpfer.
A bronze copy, cast in 1929, sits in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Zinc copies also exist in England, Italy, and elsewhere in Germany
August Kiss (1802-1865)
August Kiss was trained at the Ironworks in Paprotzan and the Royal Iron Foundry Gleiwitz. He further took lessons in chasing and drawing at the Academy under Leonhard Posch. From 1825 he worked as a student and later as assistant in the workshop of Daniel Rauch. In 1830 Kiss received a teaching position at the Königlichen Gewerbeinstitut in Berlin. He also repeatedly collaborated with his friend and colleague Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The marble version of the fighting Amazone sculpture, one of his masterpieces, is nowadays to be found in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Moreover Kiss designed the tombs of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Christian Daniel Rauch.
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Antique 19th Century German Victorian Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
Early 20th Century Bronze of Boy with a Goose, after the Antique
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Early 20th century bronze of boy with a goose, after the antique. Signed, Musee du Louvre.
A young boy with a goose, one of many Roman copies of a Hellenistic bronze original (160 B...
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Early 20th Century French Edwardian Animal Sculptures
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Bronze
19th Century Figural Bronze Sculpture of William Shakespeare
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th century figural bronze sculpture of William Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Shakespeare was an English poe...
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Antique 19th Century Irish Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Pair of Bronze Figural Sculptures
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th century pair of bronze figural sculptures in the manner of Franz Xavier Messerschmidt (1736 – 1793), two character heads depictin...
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Antique 19th Century Irish Georgian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
19th Century Georgian Marble Profile of a Gentleman
Located in Dublin 8, IE
A Georgian profile portrait of a gentleman carved from Pentalic marble. Possibly
'The Old Pretender', cousin of the Duke of Cumberland, House of Stewart.
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Antique Early 19th Century Irish George III Figurative Sculptures
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Marble
Early 19th Century Capodimonte Figural Group
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Early 19th century Capodimonte lively figural group of two women tending to a gentleman’s hair with playful little dog, circa 1820.
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Antique 1820s Irish Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
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