Early 20th Century Animal Sculptures

An authentic Pair of Antique Cat and Dog Andirons in original as found condition. Ca. early 20th c. hollow cast brass. Each seated and looking out. The cat with a wide curled tail, t...

The large and rare Majolica group consisting of a nude male figure riding a horse was sculpted by Else Bach for the famous Karlsruhe ceramic works in...

Great Antique Black Forest Plaster Deer Head ca. 1900s Item e6952 A lovely wooden Black Forest deer head made of plaster and wood. Handmade in folk a...

Early 20th Century Terracotta Italian Dog Statue A slender and refined shape, this hand-crafted early 20th century terracotta dog statue would hav...

Our Magnificent Art Deco Edouard Marcel Sandoz silver bronze, Rabbit is in Beautiful conditions! it has a marble base and it is signed on the base Ed. M. Sandoz and Susse Freres Pari...

A superb late 19th to early 20th century French Colonial tray, expertly carved and inlaid in wood. This piece is from Indochina and features two remarkably detailed carved dragons th...

Carrying import marks for Chester in 1903 by Berthold Muller, this charming, Antique Sterling Silver Model of a Pig, is wonderfully modelled, and features a removable head. The pig m...

Early 20thc Painted iron Coin bank. Wonderful age and patina to the body. Old brown paint. Iron mold has wear to bod y from age and use.

Classic early 1910s Vienna bronze figurine. This polychromed cold painted bronze is probably something you need if you’re a Vienna bronze collector. Found at an estate sale in Vienna...

A stylish Art Deco wrought iron snake desk weight in the brutalist style by renowned ironworker and designer Edgar William Brandt (French, 1880 – 1960) and ...

A charming and large handmade figurine / statue depicting a baby deer / fawn. Originally designed as a doorstop by Walter Bosse and manufactured between 1924 and 1936 in Kufstein, Ty...

A Pair of Early 20 Century Patinated Bronze male and female Hounds. Larger measures 13" in width, 5" in depth and 8.5" tall. Smaller is 9" in width, 4...

Modeled and incised with the conjoined "PW" for Paul Walther. Crossed swords Meissen mark in underglaze blue.

Beautiful old and heavy garden ornament, statue of a cute pig depicted with a pumpkin and corn cobs, made of cast iron, the statue has a beautiful rusty age patina, estimated first h...

This is an antique decorative Scottish Terrier. A British, spelter ornamental Scottie dog, dating to the Edwardian period, circa 1910. Exudes character and appealing weathering ...

Small Rare Majolica frog Jerome Massier, circa 1900. Reference / Page 118,119 "Barbotines de la Cote d 'Azur" of M.Bottero.

Architectural or Industrial style Oil can, a nice addition to your collection. Found at an estate sale in Nuremberg, Germany. It is not marked. Measurements gi...

Pair of Chinese porcelain bluebirds having turquoise bodies and aubergine bases.

This amazing concrete dog statue was found in the country estate and is in fine condition with the original white painted surface.Great on the fron...

Masterful Pair of Italian Horses in bronze Early 20th Century 1:1 real height, lost wax casting. Origin Venice, private collection. Perfect for the outside or even for the inside. T...

Classic early 1910s Vienna bronze figurine. This polychromed cold painted bronze is probably something you need if you’re a Vienna bronze collector. Found at an estate sale in Vienna...

The beautifully hand carved Chinese wood horse is in the style of those produced during the Tang Dynasty. The material is a dark wood with remnant of red paint. Parts were carved sep...

For your consideration, fleurdetroit presents this fun iron turtle from the early days of the twentieth century. This folk art turtle can be at home in...

Don Quixote on horse on marble base. Signed A. Hussman.

Breathtaking porcelain peacock by Nymphenburg, the sculptor Theodor Ka¨rner created in 1906. This model was is signed and dated by the artist in 1912. This piece is also marked with ...

An antique heavy cast iron boot scraper in the from of a dachshund dog. Scraper section is 9.25” long

Dachshund cast metal boot scraper or door stop from the 1920's powder-coated in a fantastic shade of green. Add a classic British touch with this one-of-a-kind piece in your foyer, m...

Art Deco Silvered Brass Whippet Statue, seated on octagonal base. 30" H x 10" W x 10" D. Provenance: From a 5th Avenue Estate. Keywords: Animalier, Scult...

1910s Belle Époque cold-painted small bronze figurine of a pair of hounds/dogs by Franz Bergmann, Austria By: Franz Bergmann Material: bronze, paint, copper, metal Technique: cast, ...

Art Nouveau cold-painted bronze small elephant figurine by Franz Bergmann, Austria By: Franz Bergmann Material: bronze, paint, copper, metal, bone Technique: cast, cold-painted, pai...

A magnificent, fine and impressive antique cast German sterling silver table owl; part of our continental ornamental silverware collection. This magnificent antique cast German silver table ornament has been realistically modelled in the form of a owl. This antique silver owl ornament...

Pair highly stylized large Chinese or Japanese carved wooden guardian lions (fu lions or foo dogs), hand-painted with gilt highlights.

Bronze Bulldogs on an Onyx base by Vrai, France, 1920 Two large cold painted bronze Bulldogs (largest 14 cm long) standing and sitting on a Onyx base marked with Foundry mark Vrai B...

Rare large French Art Deco elephant sculpture by Charles LEMANCEAU at Saint-Clement (Luneville), France, 1920s. French Art Deco ceramic. Width: 18.5"(47cm), Height: 11.8"(30cm), Dep...

A fine bronze casted sculpture of a Elephant with a calf, resting on a black Belgium marble base. The bronze has the original olive-brown patina. It is made in France, circa 1930-1940. Signed: Irénée ROCHARD. The sculpture has a beautiful patina and is in good condition. After casting the bronze is finely finished with fine chisels, for the fine details. This chiseling process was an enormously time-consuming job. Irénée Rochard was born in Villefranche sur Saône France in 1906, In a family of artists: his mother was a painter and his brother became The actor-singer Armand MESTRAL. When he chose the course of an artist’s life too, he soon turned to animal Sculpting in order to,as he used to say: pay tribute to animal. In 22 years, on leaving the Beaux-Arts School, he was the first prize-winner for A life-size panther...

Patinated bronze early 20th century sculpture of goat by italian sculptor Ernesto Bazzaro By: Ernesto Bazzaro Material: bronze, copper, metal Technique: cast, molded, polished, pati...

Cold-painted bronze cats sculpture attributed to Franz Bergmann. Austria, early 20th century.

A delightful decorative owl. This finely hand carved Black Forest carved owl sculpture demonstrates incredible workmanship and attention to de...

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...

20th century bronze duck statue. Tons of unique details.   

A very jolly selection of Late 19th early 20th Century four Japanese Imari porcelain pigs. Each featuring a very striking and decorative enameled, hand painted Imari style floral mo...

Magnificent antique carousel horse sculpture, all original. All dimensions are below. This is a large and heavy sculpture. The weight is approx...

A very handsome antique French Animalier bronze greyhound sculpture, paperweight, circa 1900. The bronze in the style of Emmanuel Fremiet, mad...

Rare Antique Chicken Rocking Toy, Germany ca. 1920s A rare antique children's swing toy carved from wood in the shape of a chicken. Decorated with polychrome painting, made in Germa...

A magnificent and eccentric bone china Chelsea Fantasy Bird by Copeland, Spode, inspired by Meissen originals The artist had free range regarding colours - resulting in this fantasti...

An excellent early 20th Century cold painted Austrian bronze study of a standing kingfisher with superb naturalistic colour and excellent hand chased surface detail, signed with the ...

Unusual large Antique Edwardian Japanese carved linden wood bear having two bears standing on carved rocks next to a tree with one carrying a fish. Dimensions: Height 38 cm (14.96 i...

Christian Thomsen for Royal Copenhagen porcelain cockerel figurine. Created in 1923, a classic collectible piece. Signed and numbered 1126. circa 1923. Measures: height 4.25 inch...

Rare and decorative sculpture of the biggest of the big cats. Thankfully, in most countries it is not allowed to keep a lion at home. This quality carved lion therefore is the best chance of being able to enjoy one from up close. This lion sculpture with its beautiful manes and muscular tone is very well and realistically carved and thanks to the wonderful patina it also comes close to a lions true colors. This majestic, powerful and well fed king of the jungle...

Early 20th century Art Déco bronze monkey sculpture by Édouard-Marcel Sandoz for the Robecchi Foundry, France By: Édouard-Marcel Sandoz, Robecchi Foundry Material: bronze, copper, m...

Very sturdy cast iron sculpture of a rooster. Could be used on a console or kitchen counter as a decorative centerpiece display or functional as a door stop.

An unusual antique/vintage Indian Khond tribe attributed stylized patinated metal, possibly bronze, seated dog figure sculpture believed to date to the late 19th or early 20th centur...

A very fine early 20th Century cold painted Austrian bronze study of an eagle spreading its wings. The sculpture balances naturally on the talons of the eagle, free standing this a marvellous representation for these free and noble creatures. The bronze surface has excellent colour and very fine hand finished detail, signed with the Bergman 'B' in an amphora vase. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: 9 cm Width: 17 cm Length: 9 cm Condition: Excellent Original Condition Circa: 1900 Materials: Cold Painted Bronze Book Ref Antique Vienna Bronzes by Joseph Zobel SKU: 8757 ABOUT Bergman Eagle Franz Bergman Sculptures Bergman Eagle – Bergman is celebrated for his great attention to detail and wonderful vibrant colours, Franz Xavier Bergman (1861-1936) is, arguably, the most famous of the Viennese cold-painted bronze artists, delighting in producing Oriental, Arab bronze...

French Art Deco antelope couple sculpture by Charles LEMANCEAU at Sainte-Radegonde, France, ca.10. Illustrated in the Sainte-Radegonde catalogue, page #8 (see photo). Measures: Width...

This captivating Art Deco sculpture, created around 1920, is inspired by the depiction of Ariadne, the heroine of Greek mythology, atop a majestic panther in motion. Crafted from car...

Large French Art Deco sculpture, France, 1920s. "Allez Hop" (Let's go). Young teenager with two setters. Polychrome plaster. Height : 19.3"(49cm), Width : 23.2"(59cm), Depth : 11.4"(...

A fine Japanese attributed Blanc De Chine porcelain model of a amusing stylized dog dating from the early 20th century. This interesting figure is modelled as a seated dog with its t...

Theodor Kärner (1884-1966), red hunt, white porcelain sculpture for Nymphenburg Theodor Kärner (1884-1966), sculptor, worked at Nymphenburg Porcelain factory in Munich during 1905 - 1918 The white porcelain statue...

A superb early 20th Century cold painted Austrian bronze inkwell modelled with an armed Arab mounted upon his camel standing next to a palm tree on a rocky landscape with excellent n...

A charming American bronze sculpture of two ducks standing side by side, cast circa 1920 with a rich, dark brown patina. The pair is depicted in close formation, one duck with its be...