Fabric Animal Sculptures

Small handmade sheep in white wool plush and beech wood. Designed by German artist and designer Hans-Peter Krafft, produced in Germany by Meier Germany. Originally used as a stool,...

Handmade sheep in curly white fur and beech wood. Designed by German artist and designer Hans-Peter Krafft, produced in Germany by Meier Germany. Originally used as a stool, the sh...

Handmade sheep in white wool plush and beech wood. Designed by German artist and designer Hans-Peter Krafft, produced in Germany by Meier Germany. Originally used as a stool, the s...

Handmade sheep in curly white fur and beech wood. Designed by German artist and designer Hans-Peter Krafft, produced in Germany by Meier Germany. Originally used as a stool, the sh...

Handmade sheep in curly brown fur and black colored wood. Designed by German artist and designer Hans-Peter Krafft, produced in Germany by Meier Germany. Originally used as a stool...

Small sheep in brown wool plush and handmade beech wood. Designed by German artist and designer Hans-Peter Krafft, produced in Germany by Meier Germany. Originally used as a stool,...

Handmade sheep in curly brown fur and beech wood. Designed by German artist and designer Hans-Peter Krafft, produced in Germany by Meier Germany. Originally used as a stool, the sh...

Handmade sheep in brown fur and and teak coloured wood. Designed by German artist and designer Hans-Peter Krafft, produced in Germany by Meier Germany. Originally used as a stool, ...

Small handmade sheep in brown fur and and teak coloured wood. Designed by German artist and designer Hans-Peter Krafft, produced in Germany by Meier Germany. Originally used as a s...

Small handmade sheep in curly white fur and black colored wool. Designed by German artist and designer Hans-Peter Krafft, produced in Germany by Meier Germany. Originally used as a...

Handmade sheep in curly brown fur and black colored wood. Designed by German artist and designer Hans-Peter Krafft, produced in Germany by Meier Germany. Originally used as a stool...

Small handmade sheep in curly brown fur and beech wood. Designed by German artist and designer Hans-Peter Krafft, produced in Germany by Meier Germany. Originally used as a stool, ...

Wood Wool Sheep 1970s

For the collectors of extremely rare Black Forest animal carvings. With a combined 35+ years of experience in selling Black Forest antiques we have never seen a pair of table lamps ...

The Hanns-Peter Krafft Wool Sheep Sculpture, an early edition with plenty of vintage charm, was crafted for the German Company Meier. Handmade, this sculpture showcases unique charac...

"XAI” lamb designed by Salvador Dali manufactured by BD Barcelona and Deyrolle. Measures: 87 x 26 x H 71 (head) and H59 (back) approximate Inspired by the painting "Interpretation ...

Steiff Jocko Monkey, 1950's German Sitting Mohair Chimpanzee, Collectible Vintage Stuffed Monkey, Steiff No Ear Button

Original Steiff Rehkiz Germany 50ies in very good condition

The most charming sheep stool/sculpture we have ever seen. Wonderful quality featuring dense Tibetan wool coat, natural sheep horns and natural leather ears. Sheered lambswool covere...

Impressive mid century life size sheep stool. Made from beech wood and real wool. A very decorative item. One ear has had a slight damage, other then that its in good condition ...

Automaton with dogs in a basket - poodles in rattan dog basket. A wicker basket filled with 4 black poodle dogs. A moving store display with 1 mama poodle and 3 puppies. The dogs ...

Step into the enchanted world of Edna Cataldo's imagination with her bighorn ram creation. A captivating sculpture that blurs the lines between art and function. Inspired by the icon...

20th Century Viennese bronze cat pincushion Pincushion showing a cat with bristly hair Viennese bronze with red velvet, figure of the Ea...

Handmade sheep in curly white fur and black colored wool. Designed by German artist and designer Hans-Peter Krafft, produced in Germany by Meier Germany. Originally used as a stool...

Exceptional horse head sculpture made of strong composition of resin ,acrylic and gesso and beach send , hand made and Etch on copper horse bride. The bottom of the sculpture is cot...

Good size and top quality carved wildlife sculptures. On the internet and in certain countries in the world you can find many hand carved wooden elephants, but they are mostly of poor to very poor quality when it comes to the actual details. These two impressive bull elephants on the other hand come with tremendous physical details and whomever hand carved this pair must have studied these majestic creatures for a long time. Besides that, he or she must have been a seasoned sculptor/wood-carver, because it takes a special kind of talent to reach this level of craftsmanship. We have searched the worldwide web and there is not a single wooden elephant sculpture out there that even comes close to having the same quality details and/or such perfect anotomy. It does not take a biologist to see that the artist has perfectly captured the soul of these ancient herbivors and therefor too they have great aesthetic and decorative value. Some of the amazing details of these sizable tuskers are their dried-leather-like skins. You just don't find carved elephants like that, because besides being extremely time consuming, it also takes great skill. Other great features/details are the loose skin around the hips and around the 'armpits', the trunks and mouths, the amazing body postures and ofcourse the stunning ears. They too are unlike anything we ever saw in an elephant sculpture. That too is why it did not take 30 seconds for us to know we had to have these in our gallery on 1stdibs (now also home to the most beautiful elephants on earth). Besides being more realistic than any wooden elephant we have seen or sold before, this pair also is fairly large in size. And with them being carved out of solid teakwood they have quite a bit of weight to them as well. Previous owners have clearly taken very, very good care of these midcentury carved elephants which is why they could not be in better condition either. We hope that by giving praise to the beauty of elephants in particular and acknowledging the importance of wildlife on our planet in general, that these stunning sculptures will help raise awareness so that mother nature will not one day be...

This charming and life-size tiger teddy, originally crafted as a toy for the children's room, is a testament to quality craftsmanship. Exceptionally well-made, it features an interac...

Brass Modernist Deco Style Gazelle bookends sculptures, a pair Offered for sale is a pair of brass gazelle art deco or modernist style bookends or ...

A large life -size white wool sheep by Hans-Peter Krafft. 1970s. Made in Germany. The sheep was handmade from original white wool, leather and solid high-quality beech wood. The entire production took place in Germany circa 1970. The sheep originally served as a stool but are now sought after as beautiful Design objects for interiors. The wood has a beautiful grain. The smaller black paintings...

A white wool sheep by Hans-Peter Krafft. 1970s. Made in Germany. The sheep was handmade from original white wool, leather and solid high-quality beech. The entire production took place in Germany. The sheep originally served as a stool but are now sought after as beautiful Design Objects for Interiors. The wood has a beautiful grain. This sheep is the smaller model, which is approx. 62 cm high. Slight signs of age-related wear, some minor wear to the fur. The smaller black paintings...

The story of this pair of Thai carved and jeweled wood Singha guardian dogs is as great as the dogs themselves. They were purchased from the estate of a 100 year old wealthy woman th...

Mid-20th century Palatnik-like italian Op Art acrylic/lucite monochromatic translucent owl sculpture/paperweight By: Abraham Palatnik (in the style of...

Whimsical rare sheep sculpture, handmade circa 1950s solid teak legs and face, covered with real leather and wool, beautiful piece of art rare to find.

'Miniature' life-like interpretation of a Persian cat. Its executed in natural wool and is entirely hand-crafted. It has a small leather patch saying Sysslebäck indicating that is wa...

Mid-Century Brutalist Bronze Sculpture of a Horse in great vintage condition. Measures 11" in width, 3" in depth and stands 13" in height.

Beautiful antique German toy, a pull toy, a pull horse toy. This antique toy horse, circa 1930s, is mounted on a wooden platform with wheels. The ca...

Meissen great dane white porcelain dog. Antique white porcelain dog sculpture of a great dane beautifully modeled with original custom conforming red velvet covered base, with markin...

Therapeutic toys Seal manufactured and designed by Renate Müller in the 1970s in the GDR. The toys are handmade from ecologically acceptable materials in typical use of jute and colo...

A Pair of beautiful Sheep stools . The pair are wonderfully decorative, however are used for stools, or as a pull up in a room when extra guests come by. They are a wooden frame with Yak fur...

About A pair of original bronze-plated bookends with original felt on the bottom. Stamped "PMC" Philadelphia Metal Co. Both bookends are in good condition and have retained their ...

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,...

ABOUT An original pair of Art Deco Trojan horse bookends manufactured by Dodge Trophy Inc. Los Angeles California USA. Both pieces have retained their original bronze finish and a...

A Fine Pair of French 19th/20th Century Gilt-Bronze Sculptures of "The Marly Horses" (Now turned into lamps) After the original by Guillaume Coustou (French, 1677-1746). The large pair of equestrian bronze sculptures, finished in a gold patina, each depicting rearing horses with their groom, both raised on oval a black slate and Bardiglio marble bases and fitted with modern electrical twin-light brass fittings and cream colored shades. The base on an ebonized wooden platform. Circa: Paris, 1900-1920. Sculpture & Base Height: 31 1/4 inches (79.8 cm) Base Width: 21 3/4 inches (55.3 cm) Base Depth: 12 3/4 inches (32.4 cm) Height to top of (Adjustable) shade fitting: 48 1/4 inches (122.6 cm) Shade Height: 15 inches (38.1 cm) Shade Width: 26 inches (66.1 cm) Shade Depth: 20 inches (50.8 cm) The original Marly Horses are two 1743–1745 Carrara marble sculpted groups by Guillaume Coustou. They were commissioned by Louis XV of France for the trough at the entrance to the grounds of his château de Marly. Coustou's last works, they were intended to replace two other sculpted groups, Mercury on Pegasus and Pegasus, Renown of Horses, both by Antoine Coysevox, which had been removed to the Tuileries Gardens in 1719. Louis XV chose the modellos in 1743 and the full-size sculptures were completed in only two years, being installed at Marly in 1745. They proved highly successful in reproduction, particularly on a smaller scale, and prefigured Théodore Géricault and other Romantic artists' obsession with equestrian subjects. The Marly horses were later also used as the central motif of the monochrome 819-line RTF/ORTF test card which was used on TF1 from 1953 until 1983. The originals were moved to the place de la Concorde in Paris in 1794 and Louis-Denis Caillouette (1790–1868) restored them in 1840. In 1984 it was concluded that the annual military parades on 14 July were damaging the sculptures and they were replaced by marble copies produced by Michel Bourbon in the studio of a subsidiary of Bouygues. The latter also gained the right to an extra copy, which was placed in Bouygues's social building. The original sculptures were moved to a former courtyard in the Richelieu wing of the Louvre Museum, which was renamed the 'cour Marly' in their honour, whilst Bourbon's two main copies were moved to the originals' first site near the trough at Marly, with work overseen by the architect Serge Macel. Guillaume Coustou the Elder (29 November 1677, Lyon – 22 February 1746, Paris) was a French sculptor of the Baroque and Louis XIV style. He was a royal sculptor for Louis XIV and Louis XV and became Director of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1735. He is best known for his monumental statues of horses made for the Chateau of Marly, whose replicas now stand in the Place de la Concorde in Paris. Coustou was a member of a family of famous sculptors; his uncle, Antoine Coysevox, was a royal sculptor; his elder brother, Nicolas Coustou was a sculptor, and his son Guillaume Coustou the Younger also become a noted royal sculptor. Like his older brother, he won the (Prix de Rome) of the Royal Academy which entitled him to study for four years at the French Academy in Rome. However, he refused to accept the discipline of the academy, gave up his studies, set out to make his own career as an artist. He worked for a time in the atelier of the painter Pierre Legros, and eventually returned to Paris. Upon his return to Paris, he assisted his uncle Coysevox in making two monumental equestrian sculptures, Fame and Mercury, for the Château de Marly, the new residence of Louis XIV near the Palace of Versailles, where he went to escape the crowds and ceremony of the Palace. He later (1740–1745), made his own horses, The Horses of Marly, his most famous works, to replace them. The horses reinvent the theme of the colossal Roman marbles of the Horse Tamers in the Piazza Quirinale, Rome. They were commissioned by Louis XV in 1739 and installed in 1745 at the Abreuvoir ("Horse Trough") at Marly. The horses were considered masterpieces of the grace and expressiveness of the French Late Baroque or Rococo style. After the Revolution they were moved from Marly to the beginning of the Champs-Élysées on the Place de la Concorde. The originals were brought indoors for protection at the Louvre Museum in 1984. In 1704 Coustou was received into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. The work he made to mark his entrance was Hercules on the Pyre, now in the Louvre. It displays the special hallmark of the Baroque, a twisting and rising transverse pose, as well as highly skillful carving. He rose to become Director of the academy in 1733. Another of his major works from his later career, the statue of Maria Leszczynska, (1731)is on display at the Louvre. Coustou also created two colossal monuments, The Ocean and the Mediterranean among other sculptures for the park at Marly; the bronze Rhone, which formed part of the statue of Louis XIV at Lyons, and the sculptures at the entrance of the Hôtel des Invalides. Of these latter, the bas-relief representing Louis XIV mounted and accompanied by Justice and Prudence was destroyed during the Revolution, but was restored in 1815 by Pierre Cartellier from Coustou's model; the bronze figures of Mars and Minerva (1733–34), on either side of the doorway, were not interfered with. In 1714 for Marly he collaborated in two marble sculptures representing Apollo Chasing Daphne (both at the Louvre), in which Nicolas Coustou sculpted the Apollo and Guillaume the Daphne. About the same time he was commissioned to produce another running figure in marble, a Hippomenes designed to complement an Atalanta copied from the Antique by Pierre Lepautre...

About: A pair of original bronze plated bookends with original felt on the bottom. Both bookends are in good condition and have retained their finish and have the appropriate pati...

Antique traditional Koino Bori wind flag in original box. By unknown artist from Japan, circa 1950. In original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving...

Rare Hand Made Doll, by Marilyn Neuhart for Textiles & Objects, which was a "pop up shop" conceived by Alexander Girard and sponsored by Herman Miller in May of 1961. See the last tw...

Very rare and striking (lots of pun intended) Arts & Crafts wall gong. This remarkable house gong with an elephant sculpture even comes with the original an...

About A vintage pair of bronze plated Irish Setter bookends with original felt. Creator New Art. Date of manufacture circa 1940s. Materials and ...

Rare Hand Made Doll, by Marilyn Neuhart for Textiles & Objects, which was a "pop up shop" conceived by Alexander Girard and sponsored by Herman Miller in May of 1961. See the last tw...

1970s Handcrafted Raj Indian Camel embroidered fabric colorful patchwork. Measures: 10.5 tall x 9 deep x 4.25 wide Preowned original vintage condition. See images provided.  

Rare Hand Made Doll, by Marilyn Neuhart for Textiles & Objects, which was a "pop up shop" conceived by Alexander Girard and sponsored by Herman Miller in May of 1961. See the last tw...

Folk Art sheep rolling toy Germany, first half of 20th century wool, wood, fabric Bending the neck the sheep bleats. High craftsmanship. ...

Italian-made mid-century "Hollywood" regency ceramic table lamp in the shape of a seated grinning monkey holding a vase/urn. Stunning tropical fantasy lampshade. Like new Measurem...

Wonderfully handcrafted antique table or desk lamp for a unique ambiance. If you are looking for a rare, beautiful design and top quality ...

Large French brass cockerel rooster An impressive large French brass cockerel stands in a fighting pose with its wings out-stretched and tail held high. The piece shows great...

Beautiful antique German Roy, a pull toy, a pull horse toy with cart. This antique toy horse, circa 1930s, is mounted on a wooden platform with whe...

1988 Maitland Smith handcrafted tessellated Marble decorative Water Bird. Featuring a rounded oval, floating waterfowl, shore bird form accented with ivory cream tessellated marble, ...

Late 19th century automaton of a monkey in 18th century style dress. Likely to be French, this piece shows all the hallmarks of J. Phalibois, one of the foremost makers of clockwork toys...