Life-Size Carved Komodo Dragon Sculpture

Majolica boxer dog. Life size.

Sinuous modern carving of a Mesoamerican. Aztec? Mayan? Striated sandstone, circa mid-20th century.

Profile of a Buddha on three carved and gilt wood panels. Mid 20th century.  

Two Italian glazed terracotta black and white spaniels. Life Size. midcentury.

A striking metal sculpture of a fish. Iron with gold gilt decoration. Probably Asian.

Exotic carved teak sculpture. The sentinel with his sword drawn. 19th century architectural artifact.

Realistically carved wood Komodo Dragon, with green and yellow-painted scales Size: 14cm high; 126cm long.

Extraordinary tall vintage palm tree sculpture handcrafted in wood carved and paint decorated with leaves, coconuts, trunk, and weighted terra firma base.

Life-size carved marble allegorical sculpture of hope circa 1900, unsigned, the woman wearing a Roman style gown and depicted perched on a cra...

Chinese Hand-Carved Dragon Wooden Sculpture

A pair of hand carved soapstone vases with a dragon motif. Measurements are for each piece.

One of a kind coatrack with inlaid geometrical patterns and unique animal 'sculptures'. With the Arts & Crafts era being one of our favourites, we are always thrilled to find antiques from that era. Especially ones that we have never seen before and that we never expect to see again. We could not be more thrilled to find this unique and pure Dutch Arts and Crafts coat rack and the fact that it is in such amazing condition made us even happier. Finding top quality antiques in this incredibly condition is getting ever harder. This large size but undeep coat rack has an amazing patina, it comes with a set of four perfect brass hooks and several smaller ones as well. They all have the perfect patina and the circular mirror too is the original one and certainly in good enough condtion for you to check your good looks before leaving. However, what makes this remarkable Arts and Crafts work of beauty stand out from anything we ever saw is the combination of geometrical inlays and the unique animal 'sculptures'. Around the turn of the century (so between 1890 and 1910) many Europeans first started to learn about exotic animals in countries far away. The artisan whom created this work of art coat rack must have heard about or seen a first photo of a komodo dragon...