Stone Animal Sculptures

This exquisite hand-carved Lapis Lazuli "Hatching Turtle" sculpture is a remarkable blend of artistry and natural beauty. Expertly crafted from genuine lapis lazuli, the sculpture ca...

1920´s Art Deco polo match bronze sculpture. Scene of two polo players on their horses. Made of Silvered Bronze mounted of a Italian Portoro marble base...

Large sculpture of a majestic big cat. Over the years we have owned and sold a fair number of beautiful quality sculptures in all kinds of materials, but we never had the pleasure o...

This striking brass antelope/kudu bust is very reminiscent of noted designer Karl Springer's work. An impressive and heavy brass sculpted antelope's head sits on a double ogee black ...

Grønlandica, figure of a wild duck made of soapstone. Approximately 1960/1970s. In good condition, signs of use. Marked. Dimensions: L 7.5 x D 3.0 x H 5.0 cm.

Black pottery bear with a brown band inset with turquoise and coral stones, 1989. Signed "Juan Tafoya." Juan Tafoya (1949-2006) was a well-known San Ildefonso Pueblo potter. Coral wa...

20th century French stone lion holding a shield on a pedestal. A 20th century lion carved from stone holding a crest carved with a lion with wearing a crown. It is a representation o...

Greenlandica, figure of a walrus made of soapstone. Approximately 1960/1970s. In good condition, signs of use. Dimensions: L 12.5 x D 4.0 x H 8.0 cm.

An antique French novelty bronze inkwell modeled as 'Les deux rats et l'oeuf' mounted on a red veined marble base and dating from the latter 19th century. The inkwell is based on the...

Crafted from 100% natural, finest grade lepidolite, this finely carved 3.4 lb sculpture captures the magnificence of the dragon via a beautiful rare mineral. With scales gleaming and...

Italian Carved Marble Boar Sculpture. We offer a well carved copy of the original Italian marble boar sculpture located in Florence Italy. This version...

For your consideration, a Studio Artist Pam Foss Racehorse Head with Blinker Hood in Bronze Formica Stone Wood Bronze Sculpture Signed and number...

The Brendan Bass Estate Collection pays homage to the beauty of vintage and antique pieces, each artfully concealing endless stories collected through the generations in which they ...

This impressive pair of white marble lions was sculpted by the renowned Italian artist Danilo Cervietti (20th Century). The sculptures are loosely modeled after the style of Antonio ...

A very nice and hard to find mixed metals on quartz base dragonfly sculpture by C. Jere for Artisian House, circa 1971. The piece is in great vintage condition with a wonderful pati...

1970s Original big travertine hedgehog sculpture by F.lli Mannelli. The item is in excellent condition. Made in Italy. Dimension: 3,93 w x 0,78 D x 3,93 H inches L 10 cm x P 2 cm x c...

Finely hand carved rock crystal.

This is a Lalique frosted and clear crystal rabbit “Cesar” figurine. The rabbit is lying down with its straight up ears in alert position and very large...

An American concrete deer from the mid-20th century, with nicely weathered appearance. Made in the US during the 1950s, this concrete deer charms us with...

1970's "signed" carved stone abstract owl sculpture, in vintage original condition with some wear and patina due to age and use.

Rare Signed Curtis Jere Brass Spray Sculpture with Bronze Bird on Quartz Base Three stemmed wire sprays with lower brass leaves and a perched bird in solid bronze Mounted to quartz...

This Finch carving is a unique piece of art, carved from museum-quality rose quartz and fluorite, with  garnet eyes and carnelian beaks. The finches are perched atop a green tourmali...

Pair of serpentine Grand Tour lions.

Add a majestic and regal touch to your outdoor space or entryway with this striking pair of vintage Boho cast cement lion statues. Each lion is met...

Adorable little seated bunny figurine / paperweight.

This retired Swarovski crystal Paradise bird is the Cockatoo. Made from kakadu red crystal (which is more of a dark pink colour) and sits on a wooden base. Roland Schuster was com...

This silver plated metal horse and rider sculpture is initiated, but the artist could not identified. It is presumed that the sculpture was m...

Mid-century horse sculpture made in Italy in Travertine Marble, by Fratelli Mannelli. marvelous piece to enrich an ambient. A small chip visible on the last photos as indicated by...

Onyx Plinth From our Sculpture collection, we are delighted to offer this Austrian Cold Painted Bronze Horse. The Bronze mounted upon a squared green onyx base with a convex beading...

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...

Beautiful and unique addition to your desk. This beautiful horse bust rests on a marble base making it an understated elegant part of your décor. The base i...

Hand-carved in Veneto, Italy, this pair of limestone horses are sculptures in the round, meaning that they can be viewed from any angle. Although the c...

A fine antique Egyptian Revival bronze sculpture. In the form of a male lion. Mounted atop a mottled rouge marble plinth. Simply a lovely Egyptian Revival bronze! Date: ...

Charming early 20th-century bronze sculpture of a Scottish Terrier by French artist Paul Edouard Dreux, known for his characterful and anatomically sensitive depictions of animals. T...

This gorgeous 272 gram malachite fish has been hand carved and hand-polished out of excellent quality malachite from the DRC. Malachite is a lusciously hued, bright and dark green ba...

Huge Carved Stone Garden Statue Sculpture of Regal Big Cat Lion Center Piece . Exquisite monumental Hand carved Stone Figure of a regal lion Garden Statue Sculpture , as a fountain C...

Reclining deer with removable antlers.

Thomas François Cartier, born on January 3, 1879, in Marseille, France, and passing away on December 27, 1943, was a notable French sculptor celebrated for his masterful depictions o...

Early 20th century Art Déco patinated bronze sculpture of duck with marble base by Gerhard Schliepstein, Germany By: Gerhard Schliepstein Material: bronze, copper, tin, metal, stone...

Exquisite pair of antique Art Deco bookends model: ''Gazelle" by Hippolyte François Moreau 1930. Magnificent Art Deco style with great sense of movement and elegance. Hippolyte Morea...

A very nice hand carved stone alligator / crocodile sculpture, circa 1980s. Great detail and color in this piece that measures 18" W x 5.5" D x 3.5" H.

Amazing and rare set of three Carrara white marble sculptures. Fratelli Mannelli designed this fantastic set in Italy during the 1970s. There are three elements in this set: an elephant, a giraffe and a camel. This set is extremely rare because of the material. For this set high-quality white Carrara marble was used, while normally, the Mannelli sculptures were made in travertine marble. A wonderful set of sculptures...

An 18K gold, diamonds, amethyst, tourmaline, bloodstone, carved emerald, opal and jasper toucan bird resting on a gold tree branch, mounted on a carved malachite base. A very rare and unique gold-mounted jeweled object...

Pair of sculptures from the Art Deco period in France. Each is sculpted into the shape of a lion, featuring one outstretched paw on a ball and supported by a base. These sculptures a...

Beautiful design and wonderful light creating, mineral stone fixture. This marvelous, early 20th century alabaster and bronze work of lighting art is another one of our recent and g...

Exceptional Art Deco sculpture/lamp by Max Le Verrier (1891-1973) representing a monkey under an umbrella. It is titled "The Rain" or "Monkey with an Umbrella". Model created around 1925-1927...

A painted concrete pelican sculpture from the mid 20th century, with nicely distressed patina. Created during the midcentury period, this statue captures our attention with its charm...

This exquisite 7.75-inch carved dolphin is sculpted from clear rock crystal, showcasing the natural beauty and translucence of this prized mineral. The dolphin's sleek and graceful f...

Wonderful bronze and marble sculpture by Renéti untitled " Les frégates" or "Mouette sur vague." It is a beautiful and elegant representation of two doves flying over a wave. The bro...

Pair of birds carved from various semiprecious stones with an amusing expression and brass feet perched on carved stone tree trunks.

This distinguished pair of 20th-century marble sculptures, known as the Medici and Vacca Lions, captures the timeless elegance of these iconic lion figures. Each lion is meticulously...

A rather charming, novel mid century bronze hippopotamus on a marble base with gilt border.

An early 20th century Chinese Republic period carved hardstone drinking vessel, called a rhyton, in the form of a mythical pixiu. The archaistic vessel carved in the Han Dynasty style from a single block of lavender gray nephrite and featuring a large horn-shaped cup being supported by a mythical pixiu. The pixiu carved with a nice sense of motion, head reared back, mouth open, and claws bared. The cup bearing a design of large horned taotie ogre masks on either side. The stone with areas of artificial "calcified" patination.  The pixiu is an ancient beast from...

This piece is simply a show stopper when it comes to unique decor finds. It's the piece in your home that guests are drawn to because of its majestic beauty and owners find themselve...

With curly manes and playful expressions, these petite stone fu dogs are adorable companions and benevolent guardians of the home. Also known as shizi, the pair represents yin and ya...

A stunning all natural genuine tiger's eye sculpture depicting a dragon chasing a ball. The sculpture is made with a whole slab of natural Tiger's Eye with fantastic iridescence. Fin...

Art Déco spelter egret sculpture with marble and alabaster base signed by Julcame Reg, France By: Julcame Reg Material: metal, spelter, zinc, lead, alabaster, marble, stone Techniqu...

After Alfred Barye (FRENCH, 1839–1882) bronze lion sculpture, "Lion - Tuant un Sanglier," a male lion standing over his prey, a wild boar; signed on base on right side, raised on a c...

Stunning pair of 1970s swan-shaped sculptures in travertine and made in Italy, designed by Enzo Mari for F.lli Mannelli.

Jadeite Bird Figurine on Hand-Carved Trunk and Wooden Base