Sculptures

A Gogotte Formation Of natural form, dating from the Oligocene period (30 Million years ago). Beguiling natural mineral formation, they are the result of calcium carbonate binding w...

This huge megalodon tooth is five to ten million years old out of South Carolina, USA. The megalodon was the biggest predatory shark to ever live. Reaching lengths of 70 feet or more...

This huge megalodon tooth is five to ten million years old out of South Carolina, USA. The megalodon was the biggest predatory shark to ever live. Reaching lengths of 70 feet or more...

This huge megalodon tooth is five to ten million years old out of South Carolina, USA. The megalodon was the biggest predatory shark to ever live. Reaching lengths of 70 feet or more...

This huge megalodon tooth is five to ten million years old out of South Carolina, USA. The megalodon was the biggest predatory shark to ever live. Reaching lengths of 70 feet or more...

This huge megalodon tooth is five to ten million years old out of South Carolina, USA. The megalodon was the biggest predatory shark to ever live. Reaching lengths of 70 feet or more...

This huge megalodon tooth is five to ten million years old out of South Carolina, USA. The megalodon was the biggest predatory shark to ever live. Reaching lengths of 70 feet or more...

This huge megalodon tooth is five to ten million years old out of South Carolina, USA. The megalodon was the biggest predatory shark to ever live. Reaching lengths of 70 feet or more...

This huge megalodon tooth is five to ten million years old out of South Carolina, USA. The megalodon was the biggest predatory shark to ever live. Reaching lengths of 70 feet or more...

This huge megalodon tooth is five to ten million years old out of South Carolina, USA. The megalodon was the biggest predatory shark to ever live. Reaching lengths of 70 feet or more...

This huge megalodon tooth is five to ten million years old out of South Carolina, USA. The megalodon was the biggest predatory shark to ever live. Reaching lengths of 70 feet or more...

From Xianghualing, Hunan Province, China Internally clear transparent crystal cluster of vivid green cubic fluorite crystals on matrix. The matrix is clearly visible through the c...

Unusual Antique / French Art Deco 1920s Mannequin Display Head/Brass Thread Hair,,, signed,,

Masterful sculpture by the French artist Renè Rod made in terracotta at the end of the 19th century, sublimely showing us Hercules as a child, lying on a lion skin...

Gem Green Apophyllite with Stilbite from Jalgaon, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra, India. This specimen displays large, perfectly terminated white gemmy Apophyllite crystals whic...

Just discovered and coming from a Shinto Shrine deaccession, and now in our Kyoto warehouse. Call or message us for details or to reserve. Japan an early and superb pair (2) of ...

An impressive Art Deco sculpture dating from the 1920s / 1930s made by famous Artists of Art Deco period- Armand Godard. An exceptional piece of the finest quality! Cold painted Spel...

A large cluster of rare orange tangerine quartz crystals. These rare quartz clusters are only found in this region of the world. A hemotite oxidate wi...

18th century Italian gold leaf altar stick with a Chesapecten plated fossil scallop shell and natural forming Baroque pearls. The Chesapecten plate...

A superb Art Deco sculpture depicting a young lady holding a parrot. Made and signed by famous artist of Art Deco period Demétre Haralamb Chiparus. A beautifully detailed piece of s...

Tang Dynasty Full Set Of Painted Pottery Zodiac Figures (TL tested) The Thermoluminescence Report (Item #185404) will accompany this sale. A Rare Set of Chinese Pottery Zodiac Figu...

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique French 18k yellow gold ornament of a double bass; part of our ornamental silverware collection. This exceptional antique cast French 18k ...

A Large Chinese Pottery Mythical Creature Figure from the Han Dynasty China. Western Han Dynasty Circa 25 - 220 TL tested estimated age 1800 years old (+/- 200) by Artemis Testing ...

Crackle glaze ceramic sculpture by Lejan at Orchies, France, circa 1925. "BOUNTY". One of the largest Art Deco crackle glaze ceramic pieces. Measures: Width 15" (38cm), Height 19" (4...

Large French Art Deco sculpture, France, 1920s. "Allez Hop" (Let's go). Young teenager with two setters. Polychrome plaster. Height : 19.3"(49cm), Width : 23.2"(59cm), Depth : 11.4"(...

Sculptural 18th century Italian gold leaf wood fragment figure of Christ (Florence) on calcite crystal cluster in matrix. The calcite crystal cluster is from Elmwood Mine, Tennesse...

Derby was able to produce exceptional work, and these vases are a brilliant example of what they were capable of, when making for the top of the market. The body, the modeling, and t...

Antique wooden figure. Probably 17th century. Age-related condition.

Sculptural 18th century Italian gilded crucifix with calcite crystals and baroque pearls. The calcite crystals are from Elmwood Mine, Tennessee. It is an example of the world's fin...

From Wagholi Quarry, Maharashtra, India Vibrant royal blue cavansite crystals in spherical aggregates on quartz microcrystal-coated matrix with small isolated rhombic calcite crys...

Malachite and Chrysocolla from Kolwezi, Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire). Large polished free form botryoidal specim...

From Jalgaon, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra, India. Exceptional formation of vivid green apophyllite crystals on matrix with large pink stilbite crystals in a wheat sheave format...

Beautiful specimen from Piedra Parada, Las Vigas de Ramirez, Veracruz, Mexico. Lustrous deep-purple transparent amethyst quartz crystals surrounded by smaller colorless quartz cry...

From De'an mine, Wushan, De'an Co., Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, China Large cluster of gem transparent deep purple dodecahedron fluorite crystals etched from Quartz mat...

18th century Italian gold leaf angel wing mounted on tourmaline in crystal quartz. The large, gold leaf and painted angel wing originally came from a church in Tuscany. It was onc...

Beautiful specimen from Piedra Parada, Las Vigas de Ramirez, Veracruz, Mexico. Parallel formation of amethyst crystals with great transparency and rich purple color with well define...

Hematite included Calcite from Fengjiashan Mine, Edong Mining District, Daye Co., Hubei Province, China. Large cluster of sharp scalenohedral crystals of calcite with red hematite...

This striking circular slice preserves the end of a large geode. Lined with deep purple, high peaked amethyst crystals, this wonderful piece is punctuated with small calcites overl...

Henri Collomb, French artist (1905-?), “Nu féminin allongé (Lying female nude), walnut hand carved. The sculpture has a signature. It ships from Germany....

By sculptor Nelly Pollak, an Art Deco period white ceramic sculpture of horse with topless female rider or equestrienne, holding a fish, for Paul Bocquillon and his Faïence de Paris. Signed in blue underglaze N. Polack on the front and Faience de Paris on the back, both on the ceramic plinth...

A collection of museum minerals in a display case. Presented in a sleek glazed case, the set includes 48 European minerals, including a gold vial, a rock with traces of gold, lapis l...

A very large, naturally occurring botryoidal hematite specimen, presented on one of our exclusive painted plaster display plinths. Hematite is the most important iron ore; in fact, ...

We present you this figurine depicting a girl with a garland of flowers. It is a plaster cast on a pedestal, dated the 1920s. The figurine is a part of a set, together with a depic...

Scolecite on Stilbite From Nasik District, Maharashtra, India. Large acicular spray of transparent scolecite crystals on pink stilbite crystal cluster matrix in large lustrous pin...

This sculpture represents Santa Ana (Saint Anne) with the infant Mary. Verge.    

South Arabian Alabaster Inscription Calcite Alabaster circa 1st century A.D. ‘’Consequently, neither white marble of Paros nor any other stone which men admire can be compared with the precious stones of Arabia, since their whiteness is most brilliant, their weight the heaviest, and their smoothness leaves no room for other stones to surpass them.’’ - Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Book II, 52.9 This inscription, finely worked on an alabaster tablet, is a remarkably well preserved example of Ancient South Arabian script, with its distinct bold, angular forms, written in the Qatabanic dialect - that is, the dialect spoken by the people of the kingdom of Qataban, which ruled much of modern day Yemen from the 7th Century B.C. to the 2nd Century A.D. The text, which reads: ‘[... ...]sa?d and Ma?add?i- / (of the lineage) of Hawfa- / She entrusted Anb- / against any malfeasance (which would remove it) from its place’ - indicates that it likely served to commemorate a temple offering. The quality of the script, incised so neatly into the surface of the alabaster, tells us that this piece was commissioned by somebody of considerable wealth and prestige, employing a scribe of equally considerable expertise. South Arabia was known throughout the ancient world for its incredible wealth - so much so that the Romans termed the region ‘Arabia Felix’ - literally, ‘Happy, or Fortunate, Arabia.’ That wealth was built largely on the trade of spices and incense, in which the Kingdom of Qataban played a major part. According to Pliny the Elder, this was the sole country through which frankincense could be exported, first being collected in the city of Shabwa, on the South Arabian coast, and from there travelling by camel up to Gaza, to be shipped all across the Mediterranean - not only that, but all growers of myrrh across Arabia were required to give a quarter of their yield to the king of the Qatabanians. As such, the kingdom became exceedingly rich and powerful, and Pliny goes on to tell us that ‘The nations of the Larendani and the Catabani, and the Gebanitæ [...] occupy a great number of towns, the largest of which are Nagia, and Thomna (the capital of Qataban) with sixty-five temples, a number which fully bespeaks its size.’ Because of the nature of its exports, frankincense in particular - the ‘sweat of of the gods’ according to the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and perhaps most famous as one of the three gifts brought to the newborn Christ - being closely associated with the divine, South Arabia’s reputation in antiquity was as a mysterious, almost sacred, and - crucially - extraordinarily wealthy region, at the very edge of the known world; in the words of Herodotus: ‘’Enough of marvels, and yet the land of Arabia gives off a scent as sweet as if divine.’’ This inscription invokes the protection of god Anbay, the judge-oracle of the chief god ‘Amm, who he served as an attendant. Much of what we know of the religious life of the ancient South Arabians comes to us from early Islamic texts, describing what is known in Islamic scholarship as ‘Jahiliyyah’ - the age before the advent of Islam in Arabia. What comes across in much of these texts is that these religious practices placed a great deal of emphasis on sacred stones, perhaps linked to the brilliance of the alabaster which is local to the region, and which a great many of the cult-objects produced in this time are made from. Hisham ibn-Al-Kalbi’s Book of Idols records: ‘’The Arabs were passionately fond of worshipping idols [...] Whenever a traveller stopped at a place or station in order to rest or spend the night, he would select for himself four stones, pick out the finest among them and adopt it as his god, and use the remaining three as supports for his cooking-pot.’’ This inscription was once in the collection of the intrepid British-Australian travel...

Rare Goldscheider Art Deco ceramic figure of the 1920's: Young dancer with pageboy hairstyle, leaning slightly forward and looking to the right, putting her right leg forward and ho...

Art Deco Style Barometer with Mercury Thermometer Weather Station Antique Decorative Cherrywood Wall Barometer Austria 1920s Please don't hesitate to get in touch with any further q...

Very nice Art Deco bookends, pair of monkey’s figures. Mounted over green marble bases. Perfect to use for heavy books. Signed Bourcart, France, circa ...

Large 1921 bronze applique ornament with ornate wreaths and urns and coins showing the ancient Greek Goddess Terina. This was retrieved from the main doorway entryway of 345 Madison ...

Natural Cluster Trilobite (Ptychopariida) fossil on Matrix with acrylic display stand (18.5 lbs)). Ptychopariida is a large, heterogeneous order of trilobite containing some of the ...

This is an unusual pair of 17th Century (or earlier) Flemish (?) carved lions that once formed part of a large cabinet or, perhaps, the feet of an elaborat...

From Jebel Ouichane, Beni Bou Ifrour, Nador, Nador Province, Oriental Region, Morocco Lustrous transparent blue-gray bladed barite crystals in intersecting aggregates of subparallel...

18th century Italian gold leaf sunray mounted on pyrophyllite with titanium quartz. The 18th century gold leaf sunray was once a halo motif as part ...

A stunning collection of 5 natural mineral specimens, each presented on an exclusive painted plaster plinth. Included in the set are a range of outstanding large cabinet specimens, f...

Azurite with Malachite from Liufengshan Mine, Guichi, Anhui Province, China. Lustrous translucent vibrant royal blue crystals of azurite partially lining a gossan matrix with botryo...

Beautiful plaster sketch made in France in the 1920s, the sketch represents the hero in the defense of victory.

Golden Barite with Marcasite Crystals from Nandan County, Hechi, Guangxi, China. Complex intersecting formation of lustrous gem translucent golden bar...