Sculptures

A stunning and extremely high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. Belle Époque period ormolu and Rouge Griotte marble statue. The statue is raised by exceptional acanthus leaf ...

Carved marble miniature of King Louis XVI, early 19th century. Appears to be in the original frame. N.P. Trent has been a respected name in antiques for over 30 years with a large co...

An attractive and richly detailed French mid 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and patinated bronze signed Delesalle statue. The statue with an oval patinated bronze base has two fem...

A wonderful and very detailed pair of French 19th century patinated bronze statues. Each is raised on a square base with the word...

In Medieval Europe and even more during the early 16th century fantastic beasts could be found in Bestiaries, a literary genre close to poetry. A bestiary used the characteristics of...

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...

A high quality and most charming French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated bronze, ormolu and white Carrara marble statue signed Lemire. The statue is rai...

A sensational and large scale French mid 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated bronze statue of Diana the Huntress, signed by Barbedienne. Diana dressed in classical attire and is rea...

A pair of cast bronze cherubs or putti standing contrapposto on a square red marble base, France, circa late 1800s. Note: These charming cherubic figures were probably used in combi...

The statue of the Biblical figure, David, is considered to be one of Donatello's landmark works and a milestone in the Italian Renaissance. This statue is entirely made of silver dep...

A striking French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and patinated bronze bust of Diana the Huntress, signed Houdon and Susse Frères. The bust is raised by a striking circular base wi...

A charming and high quality pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated bronze and ormolu statues. Each statue is raised by a square base with a Fine ground like design. Abov...

A stunning and high quality true pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated bronze, ormolu and black Belgian marble statues of Mercury and Fortuna, after a model by Louis Gu...

A striking and very high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and Rouge Griotte marble statue after Claude Michel Clodion. The charming statue is raised by a beautiful sq...

Early 16th Century Spanish carved-wood and polychromed panel of The Betrothal and Love of Joseph and Mary mounted on a Lucite panel and framed with a walnut wood hand-finished frame.

16th century Italian carved and polychromed figure of a male saint or prophet with a wonderful presence. Shown holding an open book in his right hand with flames at his feet, mid-16t...

A charming and most decorative French 19th century Louis XVI style terracotta bust of a young boy signed Houdon. The terra cotta bust is raised by an attractive Rosso Levanto circula...

A handsome French 19th century Louis XVI st. Biscuit de Sèvres porcelain statue of a fisher boy. The statue is raised by an oblong terrain ...

A very handsome French 19th century patinated bronze and ormolu statue of Diana the huntress, signed Susse Frères. The statue is raised by a rectangular mottled base with a concave f...

This is an old large Spaniard hand painted and carved wood nude baby Jesus. He has hand painted large expressive eyes and eye brows. His abundant hair is bro...

An elegant and high quality true pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and silvered bronze statues. Each statue is raised by silvered b...

A unique and extremely decorative French 19th century Louis XVI st. Sienna marble, patinated bronze and ormolu statue. The small scale statuette is raised by a square base with a fin...

A charming and very high quality true pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated bronze and ormolu statues, signed Carl Kauba. Each patinated bronze winged cherub is dated 1...

A handsome pair of French Louis XVI st. 19th century statue depicting Mars and Minerva. Each statue is raised by a White Carrara circular pedestal abo...

A most charming pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated bronzes, ormolu and Rouge Griotte marble statues. Each small scale statue is raised by an elegant circular Rouge G...

A beautiful and most charming true pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated bronze statues signed E Blavier. Each statue is raised by a finely executed ground designed bas...

A charming French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu statue of Pierrot singing. Pierrot is standing on a square base all dressed in his pantomime outfit playing his ukulele and singin...

A charming and unusual French Louis XVI st. mid 19th century patinated bronze, ormolu, marble and silvered bronze statue. The statue is raised by a rectangular Rouge Griotte marble base with cut corners and a tapered mottled design. Above sits an adorable winged patinated bronze cherub wearing a swaging garment and a Hercules style helmet with a lion's head. The cherub is holding a commemorative silver...

Four antique bronze plaques depicting water-nymphs, by Ferdinand Barbedienne French, 19th century. Measures: Height 47cm, width 12cm, depth 2.5cm Finely cast in relief from patinated bronze with parcel gilt patina, these French 19th Century panels each depict a Classical female water-nymph. The relief structure and design is after four panels from the important marble fountain from the Renaissance period in Paris called the Fontaine des Innocents. This was created by the French sculptor Jean Goujon...

A charming and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and Breche Violette marble statue after Étienne-Maurice Falconet. The statue is raised by a circular marble base ...

A most charming and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and patinated bronze statue of a maiden dancing with cherubs with musical instruments Signed A. Carrier. The...

A large-scale French 19th century Louis XVI st. Biscuit de Sèvres Porcelain bust of Madame La Contesse Du Bary in the manner of the sculptor Pajo...

A fabulous pair of French Mid-Century Modern Louis XVI style and Bagues style cockatoo-form rock crystal and 24k gilt metal wall appliques/sconces. Each of these sconces is modeled a...

A charming true pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. black Belgian marble, ormolu and patinated bronze statues of ‘Jean qui rit, Jean qui pleure’, Jean who laughs, Jean who crie...

A charming and high quality pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated bronze, ormolu and rouge Griotte marble statues signed Clodion. Each small statue is raised by a circu...

Bronze group with brown patina featuring Cupids fighting over a heart after Etienne-Maurice Falconet (1716-1791). This work had a great success in the second half of the 19th century...

An elegant and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated bronze and ormolu statue of Diana and her dog, signed A. Carrier. The statue is raised by a most decorative ba...

A fine pair of French 19th-20th century Louis XVI style figural gilt bronze (Ormolu) mounted and Vert Maurin marble (Veined green marble) covered urns. The domed removable lid centered by a flambeau finial, the ovoid body flanked by a pair of Putti (children) terms with their arms raised, warming their hands to finial flame...

A beautiful and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. terra cotta statue, signed Clodion. The statue is raised by a lovely darker patina terra cotta base with a fine mottled...

Decorate a study or a man's office with this elegant antique plaque. Crafted in France circa 1880, the wall decor features a coat of arms with a medieval royal knight...

Sea monster Carrara marble mouth fountain Italy, late 16th century It measures 13.8 x 31.5 x 18.9 in (35 x 80 x 48 cm) State of conservation: some small evident gaps and widespread signs of wear due to outdoor exposure. The gray marks crossing it do not come from restoration, but are rather the natural veins of the marble. This work has some morphological characteristics typically associated with the iconography of the sea monster: an elongated muzzle, sharp teeth, protruding eyes, elongated ears, and a coiled serpent's tail. An in-depth series of studies on artistic depictions of the sea monster attempted to verify how this symbol evolved in antiquity in the European and Mediterranean contexts and how it gradually changed its image and function over time. The iconography itself is mutable and imaginative and its history is rich with cultural and artistic exchange, as well as the overlapping of ideas. This occurred so much that it is difficult to accurately pinpoint the "types" that satisfactorily represent its various developments. However, we can try to summarize the main figures, starting from the biblical Leviathan and the marine creature that swallowed Jonah (in the Christian version, this figure was to become a whale or a "big fish", the “ketos mega”, translation of the Hebrew “dag gadol”). Other specimens ranged from the dragons mentioned in the Iliad (which were winged and had legs) to "ketos” (also from Greek mythology), the terrifying being from whose Latinized name (“cetus”) derives the word "cetacean". See J. Boardman, “Very Like a Whale” - Classical Sea Monsters, in Monsters and Demons in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds, in Papers presented in Honor of Edith Porada, Mainz am Rhein 1987, pp. 73-84). In Italy the monster underwent yet further variations: it can be found in Etruscan art on the front of some sarcophagi representing the companion of souls, while among the Romans we find the “Pistrice” (cited by Plinio in Naturalis Historia PLIN., Nat., II 9, 8 and by Virgilio in Eneide: VERG., Aen., III, 427), which appeared in the shape of a stylized hippocampus or a very large monstrous cetacean and evolved into a hideous being with a dragon's head and long webbed fins. During the Middle Ages, the sea monster was the object of new transformations: at this time, it is often winged, the head is stretched like a crocodile, the front legs are often very sharp fins - sometimes real paws - until the image merges with dragons, the typical figures of medieval visionary spirituality widely found throughout Europe (on this topic and much more, see: Baltrušaitis, J., Il Medioevo fantastico. Antichità ed esotismi nell’arte gotica, Gli Adelphi 1997). In Italy during the 15th and 16th centuries, the revival of classicism - representative of the humanistic and Renaissance periods - led to a different reading of these "creatures". Indeed, the sea monster was also to find widespread use as an isolated decorative motif, especially in numerous fountains and sculptures where dolphins or sea monsters were used as a characterizing element linked to water (on this theme see: Chet Van Duzer, Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps, London, The British library, 2013). From the morphological point of view, the "sea monsters" of this period are mostly depicted as hybrid figures, in which the body of a mythological or real being (a hippocampus, a sea snake, a dolphin), is joined to a head with a rather indistinct appearance. It was usually characterized by large upright ears, an elongated snout, sharp teeth and globular, protruding eyes; a complex and indefinite figure, both from the symbolic point of view and from that of its genesis. The work we are examining is placed as a cross between the medieval sea serpent and the Renaissance dolphin, with stylistic features which recall the snake as often used in heraldry (such as the "snake" depicted in the coat of arms of the Visconti - the lords and then dukes of Milan between 1277 and 1447 - and which, for some, may be derived from the representations of the “Pistrice” that swallowed Jonah). In the search for sources, Renaissance cartography and in particular woodcuts should not be neglected. See for example the monsters of Olaus Magnus, from the editions of the “Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus” (“History of the peoples of the north”) and the natural histories of Conrad Gesner, Ulisse...

A high quality and most charming French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu statue of a maiden with winged cherub signed Musée de Sèvres. The statue is r...

An exceptional true pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated bronze, ormolu and Black Belgian marble statuettes of Apollo and Daphne. Each ...

A sensational French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated bronze, ormolu and Rouge Griotte marble statue, signed Clodion. The statue is raised by a demi lune shaped moulded Rouge Gri...

A charming and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated bronze, ormolu and white Carrara marble statue. The statue is raised by a beautiful square white Carrara marbl...

A striking French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu bust of a young maiden signed A. Rollé. The bust is raised by a square patinated bronze base below a circular ormolu socle pedestal with a mottled border. The beautiful maiden above is draped in a wonderfully executed flowing garment with a holly leaf at her shoulder. Above her lovely and finely detailed face is her hair wrapped...

A very charming true pair of French 19th century Louis XVI style ormolu cherub statues. Each richly chased winged cherub displays a joyful expression and stands upon a tapered circul...

A charming pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated bronze statues depicting Parisians during the Belle Epoque. One bronze is of a courting scene with a gentleman and a la...

An outstanding pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu statues. Each statue is raised by an elegant mottled base with fine rounded borders. The beautiful maidens above are e...

A beautiful and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu, patinated bronze and Vert de Patricia marble statue of drummer boys. The statue is raised by a rectangular Vert...

Very elegant sculpture reprenting a Putti (angel) from the German renaissance period -16 century Rare sculpture in walnut of great quality with a very beau...

A charming small scale French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and marble statue. The statue is raised by a square marble base below a fine ormolu terrain design. The lovely winged ...

An exceptional and most charming true pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and Rouge Griotte marble statues. Each statue is raised by a Fine circular Rouge Griotte marble...

A most impressive and nicely scaled pair of French Louis XVI st. ormolu festive figural statues, signed Devaulx. On the left she is leaning on a tree stump, draped in a flowing garme...

A striking French 19th century Louis XVI style patinated bronze and ormolu bust of Menelaus. The bust is raised by a square ormolu base below a fine mottled socle pedestal. The richl...

A large-scaled and most charming French 19th century Louis XVI st. cast iron grouping of two winged cherubs holding an urn. The cast iron statue is signed Antoine Durenne in the fron...

Extremely large, hand molded, painted, and majolica-glazed, relief sculpture "Tondo" (meaning "art in the round") after famed Renaissance artist, Andrea della Robbia...

A charming and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated bronze and ormolu statue titled: "Au Clair De La Lune" and signed BOURET. T...