"Il Porcellino" or the Boar of the Ufizzi by Pietro Tacca

Very finely chiselled cast bronze sculpture depicting a beautiful nude nymph standing emerging from tall reeds at the edge of a stream. At her feet is a water jug, with a marble base...

Garniture of bronze figures, depicting a scene of hunters with an elephant with a dead tiger strapped securely on top of it, accompanied with one hunter and another at his side with ...

"The Little Sad One" by Demtre H. Chiparus (1886-1947). Patinated bronze and ivory on marble base. Alberto Shayo (1993) "Chiparus, Master of Art Deco" p. 76.

Goldscheider Ceramic statuette "The Captured Bird" design by Josef Lorenzl (1892-1950) and it was registered as the "Model 5230".The woman depicted h...

A mid-19th century model of the Uffizi Boar, called 'Il Porcellino', by Austin & Seeley, the seated figure of the boar on an integral square plinth. This cast stone model of the Uffizi Boar takes its name from a 17th-century bronze fountain by sculptor Pietro Tacca, made for Cosimo II de' Medici and originally placed in the Loggia at the Mercato Nuovo in Florence. This civic space was also known as the Loggia del Porcellino, named after the boar as rubbing the statue's nose is said to bring great wealth. Made in the 1630s, it was modelled after an earlier marble version (Italian, 2nd-1st century BC) discovered in Rome in 1556 on the slopes of the Esquiline Hill, itself thought to be based on a lost Greek Hellenistic bronze version. After restoration, the marble statue was brought to Florence in 1568 as a gift from Pope Pius IV to Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici, initially placed in the Pitti Palace. Both this marble and the 17th-century bronze versions are now housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. It remained an immensely popular subject for Grand Tourists, who collected their own versions. It is a testament to the commercial prowess of Austin and Seeley...

Il Porcelino after Pietro Tacca, Green Serpentine Marble Sculpture, Italy 19th Century

This splendid ceramics boar was made by the Sardinian master ceramist Claudio Pulli. Claudio Pulli's works have a particular ceramic casting process and are unique in the world. Th...

Pair of Gambone Ceramic Boars