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Sculptures For Sale
Style: Baroque
Style: Arts and Crafts
Wood base or pedestal. Spanish school, 17th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Base. Carved and gilded wood. Spanish school, 17th century.
Base for sculpture made of carved and gilded wood with a rectangular and flat shape, slightly raised on circular legs and...
Category
17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Other
Marble Sculpture of a Saint, Late 17th Century
Located in CH
A late 17th century marble sculpture of a saint, possibly Central Italian. Monogrammed on the marble base "F G F."
Category
Late 17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Abstract Ceramic Bull Signed Florentino. Spanish Earthenware Clay Art. 70s
Located in ROTTERDAM, ZH
What a beautiful piece of art! This bull is made of earthenware / ceramic and most probably made in Spain. Signed Florentino. Just a few of these works are in circulation. In near pe...
Category
1970s Spanish Arts and Crafts Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware
18th Century Italian Gilded Angel Head with Baroque Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian gold leaf angel head or "putto" adorned with baroque pearls. A putto is a cherub figure frequently appearing in both mythological and religious paintings and scu...
Category
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
Polychromed wood base or pedestal. Spanish school, 17th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Base. Carved and polychrome wood. Spanish school, 17th century.
Rectangular base base, made of carved and polychrome wood in gray tones, which has been decorated with a series of mo...
Category
17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Meissen Large Allegorical Group 'The Fire' by M.V. Acier, Germany Around, 1850
Located in Vienna, AT
Excellent Meissen porcelain group of the 19th century:
Depiction of the merely cloth-covered, bearded and crowned god Hephaestus (Roman: Vulcanus) seated centrally on a rock, holding a long-handled hammer beside him and looking off to the side, surrounded by winged putti representing activities from his trade: Patronizing the entire artistic spectrum of metalworking, including the production of jewelry, weapons, sacred-ritual and profane utilitarian objects, the one helping putto to his right is busy firing a cannon made of metal, to his left another putto is forging on an anvil with the help of a hammer and tongs, in front of him, at his feet are presented ornately crafted war ornaments such as a helmet and shield, at the back a putto holds small torches in both hands.
The group is based on irregular rock base with gold rim.
Designer:
MICHAEL VICTOR ACIER (1736 Versailles - 1799 Dresden)
Trained as a sculptor in Paris, he received a call to the porcelain factory in Meissen in 1762: he created a large number of groups in the Watteau style...
Category
Mid-19th Century German Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
White Ceramic Sculpture by Renzi & Reale Glazed Earthenware Italy Contemporary
Located in London, GB
Renzi & Reale, Baroque Rain, 2003, glazed earthenware. Measures: 23 x 23 x 21 cm
White ceramic sculpture by renowned designer-makers duo Renzi & Reale who operated in a successful collaboration from the early nineties till the early 2000s. There are only few pieces left of this stunning ceramic production which combines centuries old ceramic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Large Terracotta Relief - Lombardy, First Half of 17th Century
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Large Terracotta relief of the flight into Egypt
Lombardy, first half of 17th century
Painted terracotta
91 x 85 x 11,5 cm
This event in the early life of Christ is recounted i...
Category
17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Hand Carved Antique Alabaster, Happy & Serene Lady Bust / Sculpture By Fattorini
Located in Lisse, NL
Top quality and practical size sculpture of a beautiful and serene lady.
If you are a collector of antique and top-quality works of art then this hand carved lady sculpture could...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Arts and Crafts Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
Pair of Rusted 19th Century Decorative Finials
Located in Tilburg, NL
Pair of Rusted Decorative Finials. End of 19th century.
This is a wonderful antique pair of rusted (fence) finials. Great as decoration on a desk, cabinet or table or usable as bookends.
Elegant and well proportioned cross shape with a gothic appearance. Please note the little flower you'll find attached to the base. Beautifully rusted and patinated over time. Therefore the charm of these finials comes as much from of the shape as from the patination. Great warm and earthy tones. Heavy quality and execution.
Please note we have another set of 2 rusted finials...
Category
19th Century Unknown Arts and Crafts Antique Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Carlo Marcellini 'Florence 1644 – 1713', Florentine Baroque Putto
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Carlo Marcellini (Florence 1644 – 1713)
Putto
White and green marble
41.5 x 73.5 cm
This marble putto carved in high relief, almost a tutto tondo, and set on an elegant green marble background, appears almost naked, sitting on a cloud. His peculiar pose, in adoration, suggests that the work was a part of a larger composition including other figures in devotion.
Published in 2007 by Sandro Bellesi in the monograph dedicated to Gioacchino Fortini (pg.155), this beautiful marble putto was included in the catalog of Carlo Marcellini, a prominent figure in the baroque renewal of Florentine art.
Born in Florence in 1644, Carlo Marcellini received his artistic education in the city of the lily, specializing in stone sculpture and stucco modeling under the guidance of Bartolomeo Cennini before continuing his studies in Rome in the Accademia Medicea founded by the Grand Duke Cosimo III in order to familiarize some more promising artists with the essential “ taste of Rome ”.
Under the guidance of Ercole Ferrata and Ciro Ferri, Giovan Battista Foggini...
Category
17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Handcrafted & Painted English Art Noveau Iron w Wood & Leather Door Stop, C1900
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous antique English Arts & Crafts doorstop. Painted wood scenes on 3 sides depicting a woman in nature. Some wear and paint loss. Otherwise in excelle...
Category
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Baroque Sculpture, 18th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Patinated baroque sculpture on a stylised landscape base in the form of a female figure with a flowing cloak and an expansive gesture. Provenance: Wittelsbach estate.
Category
18th Century Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Wood
17th Century Carved Wood Silver Gilt Polychrome Figure of Saint John
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Large Saint John the Evangelist figure created in the workshop of Franz Matthias Hiernle in Mainz, Germany. The superbly carved and highly decorated slender figure, in an elegant and...
Category
17th Century German Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
Midcentury Painted Plaster Figural Seated Nude Sculpture
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Exquisite Canadian midcentury reclining decorative nude seated sculpture of a female seated and touching her toes. The sculpture is beautifully ex...
Category
20th Century Arts and Crafts Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Paint
Pair of 19th Century Giltwood Wings on Iron Bases
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of 19th century Italian Baroque style 22K giltwood wings. The wings have been mounted on iron bases. Wear is consistent with age. There is some mis...
Category
19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Iron
17th-18th Century Italian Hand Carved Wooden Reliquary Bust
Located in Buisson, FR
Spectacular and very decorative piece. Carved wooden reliquary bust representing a Saint figure. Beautiful traces of its original silver and gilding. Weathered, small losses and with...
Category
17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Pair of 19th C Gold Carved Wood and Gilt Gesso Display Stands
Located in Hastings, GB
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...
Category
1830s French Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Gesso, Wood
Antique Bust French Wooden Carving with Decorative Cherub Head
Located in Buxton, GB
Unique Antique Wooden Cherub Bust
Antique Wood Cherub Head Carving
Authentic
Tete d Angelot
Composite & Giltwood
Beautiful Carved ...
Category
19th Century French Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Paint, Wood
Hand Carved Alabaster Vase N.1_ from the Good Silverware Collection
By Volterra
Located in Piacenza, IT
We produced these artcrafts together with master craftsmen that we met touring through Italy, during a two years research.
The Good Silverware collection is, in a way, souvenir. The...
Category
2010s Italian Arts and Crafts Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
Weller Garden Ware Vintage 1920s Art Pottery Brown Ceramic Spaniel Dog Statue
Located in East Peoria, IL
Weller Garden Ware Vintage 1920s Art Pottery Brown Ceramic Spaniel Dog Statue
Large and rare Spaniel garden ware dog statue with superior mold and colo...
Category
1920s American Arts and Crafts Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Clay
Unique Hand Carved Alabaster Vase N.2_ from the Good Silverware Collection
By Volterra
Located in Piacenza, IT
We produced these artcrafts together with master craftsmen that we met touring through Italy, during a two years research.
The Good Silverware collection is, in a way, souvenir. The...
Category
2010s Italian Arts and Crafts Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
Female Figure Sculpture Léopold OUDRY
Located in Madrid, ES
Female Figure Sculpture Léopold OUDRY (1854-1882)
Art bronze bust, set on a lacquered wooden base. Signed L.Oudry.
Height: (total) 40 cm
G...
Category
19th Century French Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Baroque Putti Cherubs, Polychrome & Gilt Wood, French Pyrenees ca 1700
Located in Aarhus C, DK
Pair of original Baroque wooden putti / winged cherubs.
We were told that they originate from a church in the French Pyrenees.
We suppose they are from circa 1650 to 1750.
The p...
Category
17th Century French Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Wood
19th Century Italian Carrara Marble Hand Washbasin
Located in Madrid, ES
19th century ITALIAN carrara MARBLE HAND WASHBASIN.
Hand basin in white carrara marble decorated with leaves and bunches of grapes.
WIDTH 69cms
LENGTH...
Category
19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Late Renaissance/Early Baroque Genovese Italian Cherubs
Located in Victoria, BC
This extraordinary pair of Late Renaissance/Early Baroque Genovese Italian wood cherubs is a testament to the exceptional craftsmanship and artistic f...
Category
16th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Fine Pair of Tall 18th Century Italian Carved Wood Cherub's
Located in Petworth,West Sussex, GB
A fine pair of 18th century tall Italian carved wood harvest cherub sculptures. These sculptures each hold a piece of harvest aloft their curled heads, forms elegantly poised as if c...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Paint
Attractive Bronze Marlin Sword Fish Sculpture Vintage Decorative Art
Located in London, GB
Attractive bronze marlin sword fish sculpture Vintage Decorative Art.
Free standing naturally patinated cast crafted bonze / brass vintage Deco marlin s...
Category
1950s British Arts and Crafts Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
18th Century French Carved Giltwood & Polychrome "Mother and Child" with Base
Located in Dallas, TX
Place this beautiful gilt statue with base in a living room or bedroom. Hand carved circa 1780, this elegant two-piece antique sculpture was found in a chapel in Southern France and ...
Category
Late 18th Century French Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Giltwood
Antique & Large Owl Sculpture Symbol for Wisdom & Learning Table Lamp, Otto Pech
Located in Lisse, NL
Large, good condition and beautifully handcrafted & colored "snowy owl sculpture" by Otto Pech, 1904.
This hand-crafted antique owl clearly was well loved by it's previous owners,...
Category
Early 20th Century German Arts and Crafts Sculptures
Materials
Brass
17th Century Sandstone Gargoyle on Stand
Located in Vosselaar, BE
A early 17th century French Gargoyle. Gargoyels were originally intented as waterspouts for churches and castles but soon were used as ornamentation. A...
Category
17th Century French Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Sandstone
Spanish Sculpture of the 17th Century "Saint Antony and the Child Jesus"
Located in Madrid, ES
Spanish Sculpture of the 17th century "Saint Antony and the Child Jesus"
Measures: H: 61cm,
polychrome and gilded wood.
Good condition.
Category
17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Wood
18th Century Continental Italian Baroque Wood Carved Kneeling Angel Sculpture
Located in Studio City, CA
A truly magnificent and wonderful large hand-carved Italian Baroque wood church angel from the 18th Century. This work, which at one point was likely pol...
Category
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Wood
18th Century Italian Carved Wood and Polychromed Figure of Baby Jesus
Located in Ballard, CA
18th century exceptional Italian carved wood and polychromed figure depicting baby Jesus holding the world in his hand, he has halo made from sterling silver and the globe is also st...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Silver
ROUND BAS-RELIEF OF PERSEPOLI PERSIA IN STONE late 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
ROUND BAS-RELIEF OF PERSEPOLI PERSIA IN STONE late 19th Century
This roundel is part of a series of roundels inspired by wonderful ancient Greek coins.
Freely reproduced from a Thr...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
August Moreau '1834-1917' "Le Jeunes Filles". French Bronze Sculpture Signed
Located in Madrid, ES
AUGUST MOREAU (1834-1917)
"Le Jeunes Filles".
French bronze sculpture
19th Century
Signed Moreau.
Height: (total) 57 cm
good conditions.
Category
19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Mid-Century Modern Abstract Driftwood Floating Suspended Sculpture
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Large Mid-Century Modern Abstract Driftwood Floating Suspended Sculpture.
Category
20th Century American Arts and Crafts Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Amazing Spanish Sculpture 17th Century " Guardian Angel "
Located in Madrid, ES
Spanish school S. XVII
Guardian angel
Polychrome wood carving.
Height: 115 cm.
Of Cantabrian origin from the city of Trasmiera. It belonged to a private chapel to which it gave i...
Category
17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Martha J Cornwell American Arts & Crafts Glazed Terracotta Elephant Sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine early 20th century sculpture of an elephant.
Attributed to Martha Jackson Cornwell.
Depicting a stoutly modeled elephant on an integral plinth with a blanket draped across its back and an Indian headdress or harness across its forehead.
Decorated in white, blue, and green glazes on a terracotta body and with inset beads or pearls to the elephant's head and forehead.
Cornwell was a student of Kenyon Cox, Arthur Dow, and Augustus Saint Gaudens at the Art League in New York City at the end of the 19th Century. She was subsequently an assistant to St. Gaudens for a decade and a half on his Shaw Memorial in Boston.
All in all, simply a wonderful, unique sculpture from one of America's important female sculptors of the early 20th Century!
Date:
Early 20th Century
Overall Condition:
It is in overall fair, as-pictured, used estate condition.
Condition Details:
With some losses to the blanket edges...
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
18th Century Italian Baroque Carved Santos Icon Sculpture
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Majestic 18th century Italian baroque polychrome Santos icon sculpture of a young man. The carved icon is depicted standing and wearing a flowing robe with graceful movement. He has ...
Category
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Wood
18th Century Italian Silver Leaf Cross with Plated Crystals on a Mica Cluster
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian sliver leaf and mecca cross adorned with gold and silver plated crystal points and mica mounted on a mica and tourmaline in calcite matrix base. The crucifix originally came from a church in Tuscany. The gold and silver plated crystal points replicate the original sunrays or halo around the cross. The piece is mounted on a mica and tourmaline cluster that is in a matrix of calcite. The mica holds a shimmery appearance that can reflect light - like nature's disco ball. It perfectly coordinates with the silver leaf and mecca painted cross...
Category
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Crystal, Silver Leaf
Important Portuguese Oratory from the 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Portuguese Oratory from the 17th century,
rosewood, internally sculpture in polychromatic and golden wood "The Virgin with the Child" Perfect cond...
Category
17th Century Portuguese Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Titus Roman Emperor, Terracotta Round End, 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Titus Roman Emperor, terracotta round end 19th century.
Diameter 31cm.
thickness 6cm.
weigh 8kg.
Material terracotta.
Very good condition.
Titus Flavius Caesar Vespasian Augustus (in Latin: Titus Flavius Caesar Vespasianus Augustus; in the epigraphs: IMP•T•CAESAR•VESPASIANUS•AVG•PON•M•TR•POT[1]; Rome, 30 December 39 – Aquae Cutiliae, 13 September 81, better known simply as Titus, was a Roman emperor, belonging to the Flavian dynasty, and reigned for just over two years from 79 to 81, the year of his death.
Before ascending the throne, Titus was an able and esteemed general who distinguished himself for the repression of the rebellion in Judea in 70, during which the second temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. He was considered a good emperor by Tacitus and other contemporary historians; he is known for his program of public works in Rome and for his generosity in rescuing the population following two disastrous events: the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 and the fire in Rome in 80. Famous is the definition that the historian Suetonius gave of him:
"Amor ac deliciae generis humani. » « Love and delight of mankind. »
Titus' family, the gens Flavia, belonged to that Italian nobility which, in the first half of the first century, was gradually replacing the more ancient Roman aristocracy, weakened by the decades of civil wars fought in the first century BC. The Flavians, in fact, were not of noble origins, but they managed, within just three generations, to rise from humble origins to the honor of the imperial purple. Tito's paternal great-grandfather, Tito Flavio Petrone from Rieti, had fought as a centurion evocatus in the army of Gnaeus Pompey the Great during the civil war of 49-45 BC, fighting in the battle of Farsalo and fleeing after the defeat of the Pompeians; he was pardoned by Cesare and became tax collector...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Head of the Diana of Versailles, Terracotta Bianca, Early 20th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Head of the Diana of Versailles, terracotta Bianca early 20th century.
Artemis / Diana Goddess of hunting.
Copy of the Roman statue of the Louvre...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Abstract Modern Wood Sculpture, Still Stand No2 by Joel Escalona
Located in Estado de Mexico CP, Estado de Mexico
“Still stand” sculptures by Joel Escalona.
Joel Escalona's wooden standing sculptures are objects of raw beauty and serene grace. Each one i...
Category
2010s Mexican Arts and Crafts Sculptures
Materials
Hardwood
Late 19th Century Terracotta Wrestlers
Located in Madrid, ES
Late 19th century Terracotta Wrestlers.
Wrestlers (from Villa Medici in Rome), Roman copy of the second half of the third century. B.C.
Sculptural group from a parchment bronze original, preserved in the Tribuna of the Uffizi Gallery...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
21th Century Italian Baroque Style Particular Wall Shelf
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Refined Italian sculpture in composite material recently manufactured. A beautiful wall shelf characterized by an elaborate Baroque style decoration with curls and volutes, in the ce...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Sculptures
Materials
Composition
Meissen Allegorical Group 'The Water', by M.V. Acier, Germany, Around 1860
Located in Vienna, AT
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 ...
Category
Mid-19th Century German Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Pair of Hand-Made French Reclining Lion Statues
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Truly one of a kind pair of old handmade reclining lions. These are unsigned and used a mixture of clay and fiberglass fibers.
They show very heavy signs of loss over the years b...
Category
19th Century French Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Fiberglass
19th Century Italian Carved Wood Santo Foot
Located in Houston, TX
19th century Italian carved wood Santo foot.
This stunning antique Italian carved wood Santo foot of an Archangel dressed as a Roman
soldier. This beautifully carved and gilded scu...
Category
19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Vintage Italian Ceramic Animal Figurine Turkey Porcelain Bird Figure Tureen
Located in Wommelgem, VAN
Mid century tall Italian animal figurine Ceramic decorative Turkey Tureen with ladle Vitrine object
Material: porcelain, ceramic, tin glazed earthenware...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Baroque Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica, Porcelain
18th Century Jesus Child Terracotta Figure Holy Devotional Italian Art
Located in Milan, IT
18th century Jesus Child Terracotta Sculpture an Italian Holy and devotional art polychromed figure depicting Baby Jesus standing on an a carved and go...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta, Giltwood
Important Portuguese Sculpture from the 17th Century, "Our Lady and Child Jesus"
Located in Madrid, ES
Important Portuguese Sacred Art Sculpture from the 17th century, "Our Lady and Child Jesus" in polychromatic and gilded wood,
It was never restored - m...
Category
17th Century Portuguese Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Wood
1295 Murano Art Glass Sculpture 25in, Unique Piece on White Metal Glass Frame
Located in Venice, VE
Our aim is the emotion, through glass, lighten by the spirit of art.
1295 MURANO is a furnace, a design lab and an interior point of view
regarding to the most exclusive producti...
Category
2010s Italian Arts and Crafts Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murrine
Marked Large Glazed Abstract Ceramic Face Sculpture Studio Piece Vase America
Located in Miami, FL
One of a kind signed by Artist large hand painted glazed Abstract ceramic face sculpture Studio piece vase.
Mid-Century Modern pottery made in ...
Category
1980s American Arts and Crafts Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of 19th Century Male and Female Italian Carved Figures
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Pair of 19th century male and female Italian carved figures
This charming pair of figures stand almost 6ft high, they each have a socket in their ...
Category
19th Century Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Tond of Giulio Cesare in Impruneta Terracotta Early 20th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
TOND OF GIULIO CESARE IN IMPRUNETA TERRACOTTA early 20th Century
Beautiful, hand-finished large tondo in Impruneta terracotta.
Copy of a roundel...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Wooden Madonna with Child Baroque Art Italy 17th Century with Export Certificate
Located in Madrid, ES
A Wooden Madonna with child Baroque art, Southern Italy, 17th century.
Measure: H: 71cm
Good condition for the time.
With Export Certificate to USA.
Category
Early 17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Antique, New and Vintage Sculptures
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Busts made of stone or metal may not seem like a good fit for your existing decor. Fortunately, there are many ways for a seemingly incongruous piece to fit in with the rest of your room’s theme. You can embrace a dramatic piece by making it the focal point of the room, or you can choose to incorporate several elements made out of the same material to create harmony in your space. If an antique or more dramatic piece doesn’t feel like you, why not opt for works comprising plastic, fiberglass or other more modern materials?
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