Gesso Decorative Objects

A Nineteenth Century European gilt and gesso mirror carved in the Neoclassical style having festoons of C scrolls upon a diapered ground and bead...

A cast gesso bust of Napolean from an Italian foundry

Italian Plaster Sculpture Depicting Moses Inspired by Michelangelo Early 1900s. This plaster work recreates one of the masterpieces of Renaissance art, Michelangelo's Moses, inspired...

A 17th-century Baroque candle holder made of wood and plaster, painted and lacquered. Spain. This object features distinctive carvings; we can see that the side handles are shaped li...

A fine carved pine and specialist aged gesso decorated large wall applique in the form of a half palm tree. The inspiration taken from Spencer House.

Fabulous wooden rectangular frame with fantastic patina. This wood frame will accommodate a 12x9 piece of artwork. Add some vintage charm to your favorite water color, print of oil p...

Mid-20th-century Italian frame. Carved, chiseled, and gilded (bronze-colored) wood and plaster furniture, featuring beautiful lines and high quality. The frame can hold a mirror or p...

3-950 Oversized impressive gesso male figural library sculpture.

Molded gesso sculpture of the head of a horse on base that is 12" diameter.

Classic gilded vintage pine frame with a distinctive patina of age, entirely in Baroque style, decorated with elegant acanthus leaves, patterns, and flowers, circa the first half of ...

18th century English hand-carved and gilded eagle decorated with pyrophyllite on a pyrophyllite in matrix base. The head of the eagle has been replaced with a hand-carved, gesso addi...

Plaster mannequin by Christian Dior. Good condition. Thank you

Spanish frame from the first half of the 20th century. A carved and gilded (bronze-colored) wood and plaster furniture, attractively decorated and tasteful. The frame can hold a mirr...

An exuberant 19th-century Italian Rococo-style silver-leaf altar candelabra, richly carved in wood with the lively movement and theatricality collectors prize. The scrolling façade u...

A dramatic pair of hand-carved, gessoed and 22k gold gilded, urn-form balustrade finials surmounted by flame forms. Each on a tapered foot with a pe...

Beautifully hand carved, gessoed and 22-karat gold gilded, wood angel with flowing hair, extended wings and scrolling, acanthus leaf drapery.

Large gold-colored pine frame, entirely in classic Baroque style, decorated with acanthus leaves, flowers, and a ribbon pattern all around, second half of the 20th century. A lovely...

Magnificent large gilded vintage pine frame with a lovely aged patina, XL size, entirely in classic Baroque style, decorated with elegant acanthus leaves, tendrils, and patterns all ...

Large golden pine frame with a beautiful age patina, XL size, entirely in classic Baroque style, decorated with elegant acanthus leaves and patterns, XL size, vintage object from cir...

pre 1825, Spanish Colonial, wooden polychrome column base depicting a putti holding up a corbel where a pillar would have been sat. The pillar is long gone but the intricate carvings...

A rare and most impressive Tyrolean antique hand carved and painted floor-standing torchiere altar lamp with rich detail and beautiful warm, rustic, distre...

Beautiful and impressive gold-colored wooden frame, entirely in classic Baroque style, elaborately decorated with acanthus leaves, flowers, and a ribbon pattern all around; a very hi...

Pair of French gilt wood and gesso decorative carved foliage and gadrooned hanging wall brackets, Early 19th century.

sculpture in plaster (gesso) produced in or around a Venetian art school during the 1960s. the stone behind is from the period so I think it will fit well.

A very large scale 19th century Italian baroque revival silver giltwood altar candlestick Height 96 cm x Width 29 cm x Depth 29 cm Candle plate 16 cm Internal width x 1.5 cm heig...

Michelangelo David Foot Sculpture Art work at the Academia dal belle arte Venezia . sold as a set it was meant to be coffee table with the glass as a top . USA Continental in home de...

Large, gilded vintage pine frame with beautiful age patina, XL size, entirely in classic Baroque style, decorated with elegant acanthus leaves, vines, and patterns all around. Impres...

On offer here is a stunning pair of 100% original gold leaf gilt and polished corner consoles, meticulously hand-carved from solid linden wood. Made in southern France around 1710, t...

18th century English wood carved standing Chinese attendant with lotus bowl, The well carved and decorated figure with glass eyes, holding a 10 inch...

German Shepard 1950 s gesso Italian vintage statue .

Large gilded vintage pine frame with red velvet frame on the inside, completely in classic baroque style, decorated with acanthus leaves, flowers and patterns, first half of the 20th...

A stunning pair of late 18th-Century to early 19th-Century Italian carved gilt wood tripod floor pricket altar candlesticks or torchieres. These gorgeous cathedral candlesticks...

A Folk Art carved wood and gesso painted standing horse with painted cloth saddle and horse hair tail Mounted on a later made black painted platform.               

Orientalist gilt carved frame. Antique Islamic/Arabesque carved gilt mirror with corner blocking and deep sculpted edge framed in further bead molding. England, 1880's Dimensions: 34...

19th century St Francis wearing a rob with rope tied around his waist. Holding with two-arm a child.

This is a Large Gessoed Wooden Sculpture of Saint Peter. It depicts a barefoot male Saint with a white hair and beard standing up. The sculpture robe portrays the “Estofado” techniqu...

A Pair of Napoleon III style giltwood and gesso picture frames, 19th C. having oval openings and relief branch and leaf embellishments on frames.

Resting Giraffe in Plaster with white Finish and gilt Ossicones (Horn like tusks), stunning Animal Sculpture. Handmade in the 1980 and origin is America. This is a beautiful piece of...

Contemporary Ceramic Golden Glazed Roaring Lion Sculpture Ceramic Statue with Silverleaf Ceramic Base Dimensions: 8.25" W X 6"D X 14.5"H

Golden wooden sphere sculpture formed with a bright golden sphere at the top supported with a gray wooden base. Baroque style from late 20th century. *The item is sold as a unique...

This exceptional pair of monumental hand-carved rams stands as a testament to rustic craftsmanship and grand-scale artistic vision. Each figure is meticulously carved from solid wood...

Signed plaster sculpture, 1970s Chipboard base and plasterboard lower platform H58 x L70 x P100 - Kg40 Style Vintage Periodo del design 1970 - 1979 Production Period 1970 - 1979 Yea...

Antique 18th century Italian painted and carved wood candlestick, with a few hints of gilding still remaining. There are small patches of the ...

A pair of hand crafted wood and gilt gesso overlay baroque display stands (ideal for clocks or small statues and busts), each with applied harleq...

Our Antique Italian Altar Candlestick was beautifully hand-carved and gilded round 200-years ago and has weathered the test of time exceptional w...

Plaster sculpture depicting a 20th century man. Italy. This sculpture presents the face of a man with intense and firm expressiveness. The wrinkles on his face, especially in the fo...

Gold Gilt Gesso Frame German Decorated Wall Plaque Plate c1920s

A rare wooden casket with polychrome and gilded pastiglia relief, Italy, 15th century. The box is adorned with four finely executed scenes from the life of an unknown martyr — beautifully preserved and remarkably vivid after centuries. Dimensions: 15.5 × 10.4 × 9 cm Provenance: Dutch private collection In overall good condition for its age, with minor losses to the surface and possible retouching to the polychromy. The ball feet are likely later additions. Pastiglia [paˈstiʎʎa], an Italian term meaning "pastework", is low relief decoration, normally modelled in gesso or white lead, applied to build up a surface that may then be gilded or painted, or left plain. The technique was used in a variety of ways in Italy during the Renaissance. White lead pastiglia was a north Italian speciality, produced between about 1450 and 1550. Six workshops were identified by Patrick M. De Winter, although their location remains uncertain; the Workshop of the Love and Moral Themes, whose products seem the most numerous, was possibly at Ferrara, where the painter Cosimo Tura began his career gilding caskets. Venice is also thought to have produced them. Other workshops identified by De Winter include the "Workshop of the main Berlin casket" and "Workshop of the Cleveland Casket". The subjects were typically classical, drawn from both mythology and Ancient Roman history (especially the early period covered by Livy), but biblical ones are also found. Compositions can often be shown to be borrowed from another medium, such as prints or bronze plaquettes...

Very elaborate scrolling foliate carvings on these Italian giltwood girondole mirrors with candle sconces. Oval mirrors reverse etched wit...

This commanding vintage floor vase is a masterclass in texture and organic form, perfectly embodying the Brutalist and Wabi-Sabi aesthetics. Hand-crafted with a heavily textured plas...

American gilt carved wood and gesso eagle with extended wings grasping gilt rounded bar. Eagle was used for center decoration on drapery rod. Early 19th c...

Early 19th century gilt and gesso picture frame. Found at an estate sale in Columbia, Tennessee. Objects from the sale were attributed to President James K. Polk's estate. Fantastic ...

This superb work of art combines the beauty of a painting with the mechanical complicities of an automaton and clock. Depicting a rural scene, the clock is integrated into the church, sitting within the giltwood and gesso frame. Also within the painting is automaton windmill, again integrated into the picture atop the windmill. The automaton runs off the clock, so requires no separate winding, The clock is a fine 8 day, fusee movement with gut string, with verge escapement...

This commanding pair of monumental Italian pricket candlesticks, dating to the mid-to-late 19th century, represents the height of Baroque Revival craftsmanship. The paw feet, swellin...

Pair of Italian carved wood, gesso, and silver gilt floral prickets with centered spikes for candles, bulbous ring columns with bead work, and terminating on stylized lions paws feet...

American oil on canvas portrait of seated young lady in the original gilt wood floral flame, New York, Mid-19th century.

19th century Italian wood and gesso 10-light candelabra which has modernized and electrified. Distressed but functional. Measures: 26.5" H x 15.5" W x 15.5" D 6.5" W x 6.25" D (base).

St. Florian (250 A.D. – 304 A.D.), was a the patron saint of firefighters, brewers, chimney sweeps, and the town of Linz, Austria. He served in the Roman army and part of his duties included organizing fire fighting brigades. He was secretly a Christian and became famous for miraculously saving a town from being destroyed by fire; after he prayed and threw a single bucket of water on the blaze, it was extinguished. This beautifully carved and painted statue dates to approximately the end of the 1600s or early 1700s. It clearly depicts St. Florian with a bucket in hand and a flag in the other. At his feet, is a miniature building...

This striking vintage artisan sculpture is a masterwork of architectural caprice, blending classical motifs with Postmodern flair. The piece is constructed as a three-tiered totem, f...

This dramatic and decorative pair of urns made in France in the 1920's are in the popular empire revival style. Turned as a rather stretched Campania urn on a stand the vases are the...