Italian Animal Sculptures

Pair of polychrome bronze animalier sculptures. This exceptional and very rare pair of sculptures depicting cranes are a supreme example of the Japaneseising taste in vogue in Europe...

Elephant vase in white ceramic, re-edition of the model designed by Gio Ponti for Richard Ginori, made in the 1980s Ø cm 10 Ø cm 5,5 h cm 10 Company of Lombard origin founded in 18...

Hand-painted porcelain duck by Richard Ginori, made in the 1980s Ø cm 7 Ø cm 6 h cm 12 Company of Lombard origin founded in 1896 when the Marquis Carlo Ginori, passionate about whi...

A very fine early 20th Century silvered bronze study of a rearing cobra with its body coiled and head raised, exhibting excellent hand finished surface detail, unsigned ADDITIONAL I...

An Art Deco sculpture with three deer on a marble base. Measures: Width:43 cm. Depth:15 cm. Height:37 cm. Weight:10 kg.

This Art Deco fired clay lion was produced in Italy in the late 1930s. Completely black polished.

Dolphin sculpture on an orange Murano glass ball, whose creation is attributed to Seguso in the 1960s Ø 9 cm Ø 19 cm h 23 cm Seguso is a family name synonymous with Murano glass, a...

Art Deco Bronze Elephant Sculpture Italy. Impressive bronze Art Deco sculpture of an elephant in dark green cast bronze on brown marble base. Elephant with raised trunk on marble bas...

Beautiful, antique, early Murano hand blown Sommerso red, controlled bubbles and gold leaf Italian art glass fish sculpture on clear base. Created in the manner of designer Flavio Po...

Beautiful pair of decorative blown glass sculptures. Italy, 1960s.

Impressive Italian Art Deco 1940s large table clock in ceramic, white and light blue ceramic in good condition.  

A simple and elegant figurative brass sculpture of two flying birds, one composed of polished brass and one of patinated brass. The swirly ...

Stylized marble sculpture of a horse by the Italian sculptor, Amedeo Gennarelli (1881-1943), mounted on a wooden plinth with veneer.

A Pair of Artistically created birds for table decor, silver-plated roosters - ideal for a coffee table or bookends. These figures are Classic Hollywood Regency! They are each unique...

Coniglio in vetro di Murano intatto anni 60 alto 10 cm profondo 9 cm largo 4 cm firmato V.NASON&C. Murano Italy

This is a 1970s Gucci shoehorn with an art deco style dog head. It is made of silver metal and is in very good condition, The shoehorn is marked 'Gucci'...

An Art Deco hand-painted ceramic figure of a fawn manufactured in Italy by Egisto Fantechi in Sesto Fiorentino in the Thirties. It's a lovely example o...

"Crouching Deer" fawn green sculpture figure designed by Giovanni Gariboldi (1908 - 1971) Richard Ginori - San Cristoforo, Italy, 1940s. Cast ceramic sculpture with marbled green g...

This Art Deco Sculpture was produced in Italy and more precisely in Milan, by Guido Cacciapuoti in the 1930s.  The base is in ebonized wood and the sculpture, a couple of fishes is in light blue porcelain stoneware. Under the base there is the label 'Made in Italy, G. Cacciapuoti, Ceramics and...

Zaccagnini "Colombe rose" craquelé faience Art Deco sculpture Ceramiche Zaccagnini, Gualdo Tadino, Italy, 1940 Signed under the base. 20.5 cm H - 18.5 x 9 cm Conditions: ...

Ercole Barovier for Barovier and Toso Rare Murano glass Sculpture of a Donkey in vibrant red with gold applied accents. The leg is up. Rare art deco sculpture. The nearly fifty y...

Huge special terracotta sculpture of a pair of antelopes. The sculpture is signed and on a solid walnut wood pedestal. The animal pair is reproduced at the moment of movement. This ...

Italian sculpture of Art Deco period in handmade glazed porcelain of two galloping horses.

Vintage Italian Mid-Century porcelain sculpture of a leopard, mid-stride, with open mouth. Italian hand-painted glazed porcelain standing leopard. Mid-Century Ceramic Cheetah Leopa...

Earthenware Fishes sculpture Mod. 1511 Angelo Biancini SCI Laveno 1938 Excellent condiction literature: Angelo Biancini tra Faenza e Laveno: ceramiche 1937-1940.   

“Créature Fantastique” Ceramic sculpture. Augusto Chini (Florence, 1904), Manifattura Fornace San Lorenzo, Italy, circa 1930. A juvenile important work by Maestro Chini. Very fine craquelure, delicate purple nuances on dark green and light metallic lustre. Signed A. Chini on the edge and serial inside the base. The Chini family, leading exponents of European Art Nouveau. One of the most important manufacturers of Art Nouveau ceramics...

Pair of Italian desk top brass bronze dog sculptures ideal as decorative paperweights or eventually as book holders.

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Molded glass gile depicting a wounded gazelle by Napoleone Martinuzzi (1892-1977) circa 1930 for Venini, molded mark 'NM' An example of this model was employed in a floor lamp de...

Murano We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau and Vintage styles since 1982. If you have any questions we are at your disposal. Pushing the button that reads 'Vi...

Murano We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau and Vintage styles since 1982. If you have any questions we are at your disposal. Pushing the button that reads 'V...

Murano We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau and Vintage styles since 1982. If you have any questions we are at your disposal. Pushing the button that reads 'View All From Seller'. And you can see more objects to the style for sale. Salviati & C Measures: Violet : 33 long x 10 high x 5.5 depth Green: 30 long x 9 high x 5.5 depth The lawyer Antonio Salviati and his dream In 1859 in his premises at Number 731 of Dorsoduro, Venice the “Salviati Dott. Antonio fu Bartolomeo” company was established. This is when, Vicenza-born lawyer Antonio Salviati started the entrepreneurial career, moved by a passion for the precious mosaics of the Basilica of San Marco and fascinated by Murano glass art, he decided to start-up his own production of mosaics and objects in Murano glass. An ambitious and far-sighted goal pushed him along this path: to revive the fate of Murano glass production that has been fallen for decades. A challenge which finds the maximum support from two fundamental figures in the history of Murano glass: the mayor of the island, Antonio Colleoni, and the Abbot Vincenzo Zanetti, founder of the glass museum and of the first art school for glass masters. The first successes and international investments The launchpad was the “First Glassmakers’ Exhibition” in 1864 in which Salviati participated with a monumental mosaic that earns him a prize superior to the Gold Medal. The success achieved affirmed the credibility of the Company which thus started its glass production in Palazzo da Mula. The new corporate and productive reality needed investors and the lawyer started to internationalise the company by addressing the economic and financial market across the Channel. The UK immediately showed huge interest in Salviati’s mosaics – as testified by the mosaic that can be seen on the façade of the current Apple Store in Regent Street, London. It was also in London, on 21st December 1866, that the “Società Anonima per Azioni Salviati & C.” was established with the support of diplomat Sir Austen Henry Layard and historian William Drake. The new corporate set-up was further established with the purchase of a new headquarter, this time on the Riva dei Vetrai in Murano. The universal show of Paris in 1867 celebrated the relaunch project of Antonio Salviati “Venice owes a debt of gratitude to the knight Salviati in the resurgence for one of the most legitimately famous of its industries”. From Esposizione Illustrata di Parigi, 1867 pg. 275. “Venice and Italy have gain huge success in the Universal Exhibition. The resurgence of one of the city’s most famous industries is consecrated in this very occasion by the gold medal awarded by the jury to Mr Salviati […] the crowd […] is gathering around the display cases that hold those pieces of glass that are so transparent and so light as to appear like woven air, impregnated, when in their elegant forms that become rainbows of those iridescent reflections that cover them at the artist’s whim – the author of a real ray of sunshine from the beautiful and splendid Venice”. From Esposizione Illustrata di Parigi, 1867 pg. 311 The fundamental role of training in murano glass Training plays a fundamental role for the Company; attendance at the Art School was made compulsory for “[…] all the young workers of the Factory who don’t only tire themselves in manual work. This was established with the idea not only to lift their dignity and their initially limited aspirations, […] but also to improve their artistic education and thereby facilitate an improvement also in their economic situation”. Together with the art school, a free school was also set up to teach all employees to read and write. Diversification in production and made-to-measure projects In a short time, Salviati & C. diversified its production to include glasses, cups, amphoras, and vials which guaranteed the first prize in the universal exhibition for three consecutive years. Its mosaic production also flourished, being used in world-class projects: from the Houses of Parliament in London, to the Viceroy’s palace in Alessandria in Egypt, to the Opera House of Paris, including the private homes of wealthy New York personality. The entire 19th century for Salviati & C. was represented by development, success and fame in the national and international markets, and the Company became a symbol and reference point of Murano glass art throughout the world. The Salviati legacy at the turn of the century On the death of Antonio Salviati in 1890, first his three children followed one another at the helm of the company and then Maurizio Camerino, previously general manager. It was thanks to him that the decorative mosaic project of the Stanford Memorial Church in Palo Alto (California, USA) took place after 12 years of work. As well as the opening of a sales point in Via Montenapoleone in Milan and the institution of a museum collection of Murano glass from the 19th and 20th centuries. The post-war years, biennials and lighting After Maurizio Camerino’s death in 1931, his three children took over the helm of the company: its solid foundations allowed them to strive for new important goals in the art world, participating in the Biennials of 1932 and 1934. Not even the Second World War could tarnish the strength of the Salviati brand: in the post-war years Renzo Camerino renewed the ruined production headquarter and enthusiastically restored all his commercial contacts. Thanks to his grandson Renzo Tedeschi (newly graduated in Engineering at the Polytechnic of Turin and upon his return from an apprenticeship in the United States), Salviati launched its production in lighting appliances. The following years saw intense growth in the number of collaborations with renowned artists and designers. In 1959, the production site was moved to Fondamenta Radi 16, where it still stands today. The great lighting projects The larger production area allowed the company to further expand the international market in the field of architectural lighting. A number of projects were undertaken, such as the 9-tonne, 22-metres high chandelier in the Chamber of Commerce in Parma, the ceiling illumination in the premises of the World Intellectual Property Organisation in Geneva and the Kowloon Hotel in Hong Kong; not to mention the sound-absorbing windows of the Aula Nervi in the Vatican and the lighting system of the great honour hall of the Philippine Plaza Hotel in Manila in collaboration with architect John Marsteller. The reputation of Salviati & C. was further affirmed by the commission – after an international call for bids – for twelve 11-metre high chandeliers for the Tonhalle concert hall in Dusseldorf, made using an innovative system of modular glass elements – “LS- System” – one of the today company’s cornerstones. Salviati from the modern age to the present The story of Salviati continues in the modern era, keeping the focus on creating an innovative style that had distinguished it since its inception. Participation in international exhibitions increased, such as the Venice Biennials from 1958 to 1972 (the final year in which Murano glass was allowed) thanks to projects by designers of the calibre of Betha and Teff Sarasin, Claire Falkestein, and Luciano Gaspari. In 1962 Salviati was awarded with the highest recognition in the Design world, the “Compasso d’Oro” prize assigned by A.D.I. for the Marco vase designed by architect Sergio Asti. In 1965 the company changed its name to Salviati & C. s.p.a.; then it was purchased by the Gruppo Ferruzzi in 1987 which later on it was transferred to a French company. Since 2015 the company returned to be Venetian with the acquisition by the Umana group. Salviati and its designers Salviati’s designers: Luciano Gaspari, Sergio Asti (Compasso d’Oro 1962), Claire Falkenstein, Ward Bennet, Teff and Betha Sarasin, Ingo Maurer, Ross Lovegrove, Amanda Levete, Tom Dixon, Nigel Coates, Thomas Heatherwick, Luca Nichetto, Ben Gorham...

Spectacular Greyhound from the beginning of the 20th century, carved in wood with golden patina and stamped on the made in Italy base. Condition: Good condition in general, to hig...

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Murano with gold We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau and Vintage styles since 1982. If you have any questions we are at your disposal. Pushing the button that reads 'View All From Seller'. And you can see more objects to the style for sale. Attributed to Seguso - Barovier We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau and Vintage styles since 1982. If you have any questions we are at your disposal. The history of "Seguso Vetri D' Arte" is directly linked to the "Vetreria Artistica­ Barovier" company. When the Barovier workshop was forced to reduce production in 1929, due to a financial crisis in America, the original group of ten partners had to separate and Antonio Seguso in 1931, assisted by his sons Ernesto and Archimede opened a small workshop of his own. They were joined by Luigi Olimpio Ferro and Napoleone Barovier the following year. Together the craftsmen establish the "Artistica Soffieria e Vetreria Barovier Seguso & Ferro" company as equal partners. In 1934 Flavio Poli joins the firm as artistic director and within only a brief period of time a distinct style of designs emerged. The close collaboration between Flavio Poli, Archimede Seguso and Alfredo Barbini played an important part in the success of the company. New glass techniques are developed which include never before seen color applications. The companies innovative designs constantly received awards and during the 1935 World Fair in Brussels and the 1936 Milan Triennale they did attract the interest of a new group of clientele. One of them is the French wholesale company "Veronese" from Paris which would play a defining role in the history of the company. The demand for an increase in production requires additional investments and the partners felt that there is a need to multiply their investment tenfold. Luigi Olimpio Ferro subsequently decided to withdraw from the company and his shares are acquired by Flavio Poli, which makes him a full partner. As a result, the company name is changed to Seguso Vetri D’ Arte and it is officially recognized in 1937. A period of great success and prosperity ensues, lasting until the outbreak of World War II. The post ­war period is a time of great change in Europe and the rebuilding of the economical structure in Italy requires major investments which result in the introduction of new import duties and taxes. To safeguard the copyright of the Seguso Vetri D'Arte designs an application for a second entry into the commercial registers of Venice is made by the partners in 1945. Strict export regulations curb international business relations for many years after the war and the company decides to focus on the domestic market instead. In 1946 a large retail location is opened at the Piazza Diaz in Milan where in addition to the art glass, German porcelain and Italian pottery is offered. In 1950 Flavio Poli develops a new sommerso glass technique, which consists of an overlaying of transparent layers of glass. The overlapping creates new shades of color which prior to the introduction of this technique had not been seen. Flavio Poli's most iconic design is the "Valve", which resembles an upright, slightly opened clam shell. The design was introduced in 1951. Mario Pinzoni joins the company in 1953 as a personal assistant to Flavio Poli and his responsibilities as a draftsman included the compilation of archival and the existing production drawing s...

Art Deco Charging Ram Silvered Bronze Sculpture - Italian 1930´s. Figure signed on the base C. Rossi and Grigio. Perfect desk paperweight.

Cubist Italian bison bull ceramic sculpture in Art Deco style with blue, turquoise to dark blue color glossy glaze with partly light crackle, executed in Italy, circa 1970s. The beau...

Large Italian onyx marble cat sculpture 1970s. Stunning Art Deco decorative cat sculpture in amber colour onyx stone.

Very rare and large, antique Murano hand blown "A Fasce" striped Italian art glass fish with iridescent surface sculpture. Documented to Tyra Lundgren circa 1935-1936, fully signed "...

Stunning rare large Capodimonte hand painted porcelain sculpture. Capodimonte porcelain is a type of Italian porcelain that originated in Naples in the mid-18th century. It is known...

A vintage Italian classic Tuscan terracotta clay statuette of a regal lion in a guardian position, in good condition. Wear consistent with age ...

This stylish and chic Italian sculpture of a school of fish had taken its inspiration of the Art Deco period and of pieces by the designer Lejan. Note:...

Very particular item entirely carved by hand. Perfect conditions.

Pair of Art Deco stylized brown onyx horses head bookends. Vintage set of bookends, hand carved in brown onyx. Hermes style horses, great mo...

This sculpture by Claudio Nicoli portrays an astute horse balanced on one front leg. The scattered application of patina gives the appearance of a rich texture. It is secured onto a ...

Art Deco stoneware sculpture of an antelope enameled in red. Signature engraved: G. Cacciapuoti, stamped “Fabrique en Italie” to the socle, labels to the base. Bibliography: A...

This cast Continental silver sculpture is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from Europe, likely Austria or Italy, and dating to approximately 1920 and done in the period Art ...

This contemporary sculpture representing a walking leopard on a rectangular naturalistic base is made of solid burnished black patinated bronze, created by the Argentine-Italian arti...

Alabaster sculpture of two eagles fighting, signed C. Olivieri, with marble pedestal, Italy, circa 1900. Pedestal in marble dimensions: 115 cm hei...

Art Deco horse sculpture in laveno ceramic, made in Italy 1930s.

Beautiful and rare, vintage Murano hand blown opalescent white and cobalt blue spots Italian art glass leaping whippet or greyhound dog sculpture, on gold flecks base. The piece is v...

Highly distinctive and unique, this cylindrical paperweight is decorated on its upper surface with exquisitely detailed sculptural relief: a dove in flight, shown flying over a cluster of clouds and the word "FLIGHT." Although it shows a beautiful bird, storied in mythology and literature, this sculpture also hints at the flight of man, and the curving sides of the piece are decorated with Art Deco geometric forms, sharply incised into the stone. The artist was Brenda Putnam, who used this same image for one side of her well-known bronze medal, also entitled "Flight", issued in 1941 by the Society of Medalists...

Vintage Hollywood Regency polished gold brass horses bust bookends. Gorgeous large heavy vintage pair of bookends with shiny gold bronze horse head. These terrific equestrian bookends...

An Italian animalier bronze casting sculpture of a female roe deer, standing on an oval shaped bronze base and signed Buonapace near the left hind leg by the Italian artist Francesco Buonapace (Lecce 1902- Bologna 1975). This animal sculpture is a lovely Art Deco decorative item...

Alabaster lamp with eagle and base. Art Deco period. Italy, early 20th century. Alabaster sculpture dimensions: 40 cm depth x 35 cm width x 84 cm height. Alabaster pedestal dimen...

Spectacular sculpture of two monkeys in Italian walnut timber, circa 1960s. Good condition.

Ceramic sculptural Art Deco horse Bust, supported on brass stand on a black base, with brass double light fitting supporting an original custom sha...

Italian midcentury Art Deco style table lamp, ashtray, cigarette service or centre table, by Aldo Tura , in hand carved wood, with metal fusion parts. Parchment lampshade. Working el...