Pair of Bronze Whippet Statues

Concrete stone dog Statue of a Whippet Dog Marked with a logo and text Whippet Lovely and adorable statue of a whippet dog Shows sometrace of use The si...

Pair of bronze Buddha statues.

A good quality pair of 19th century French bronze statues depicting a male and female dressed in robes, carrying vases of flowers and fruit, mounted on square bases with claw feet.

Pair of English Regency bronze whippets or greyhounds on verdi antico marble book form bases, after a model by Thomas Weeks. Each dog sculpture is beautifully cast with their individual personalities. 6 inches high 5 wide 5 deep including bases. These whippets are resonant of the early nineteenth-century work of Thomas Weeks (d. 1834) who established a 'Royal Mechanical Museum' or emporium in Tichbourne Street in about 1797. The attractions included various animated animals and insects, ingenious clocks, musical instruments, elaborate temples, toys and other such peculiarities that appealed to the London public in the late 18th and early 19th Century (C. Gilbert, 'Some Weeks cabinets reconsidered', The Connoisseur, May 1971...