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Period: Mid-19th Century
European Glazed Terracotta Figure of a Lion
Located in Essex, MA
The proud lion seated letting out a roar. On a plinth base.
Used in the movie "Knives Out".
Category
European Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
19th Century Fratin Bronze Pair of Candelabras
Located in Paris, FR
Bronze pair of candelabras 19th century, Fratin
Christophe Fratin (1801-1864) is a famous French animal sculptor who exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1831–1842 and 1850–1862, as wel...
Category
French Romantic Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$17,726 / set
Stunning Antique circa 1860 Hand Carved English Oak Recumbent Lion Statue
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning recumbent Lion carved statue on plinth base
A very good looking well made and decorative piece, its hand carved from one piece on ...
Category
English High Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Oak
Pair of 19th Century Japanese Bronze Playful Puppies
Located in Hudson, NY
Antique bronze sculptures of puppies playing. Traces of gold on both, one holding tassels in its mouth. Measurements: 3 1/2" h x 6 1/2" w x 3 3/4" d and 4 1/4" h x 5 1/2" w x 3 3/4" d
Category
Japanese Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mêne, Pierre-Jules (1810-1879): Struggle
Located in Budapest, HU
Pierre-Jules Mêne (1810-1879): STRUGGLE
Technique: bronze, granite base
Dimensions: 15 x 22 x 11 cm
Signed: Pierre-Jules Mene
Pierre-Jules Mêne (1810-1879) was a prominent French s...
Category
French Romantic Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Important Bronze sculpture “The Draft Horse” by T. Gechter – 1841
By Jean-François Théodore Gechter
Located in HÉRIC, FR
Antique bronze sculpture with a medal patina depicting a harnessed draft horse. Théodore Gechter's signature is present on the base and dated 1841. This superb equestrian sculpture i...
Category
French Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A Pair of Early 19th Century Meissen Porcelain Figures of Swans
Located in New York, NY
A Pair of Early 19th Century Meissen Porcelain Figures of Swans. This pair of swans portrays the graceful form of these birds with a level of artistry that is truly exceptional. The...
Category
German Rococo Revival Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Animalier Bronze of an Ostrich by Alfred Barye
By Alfred Barye
Located in London, GB
A very rare late 19th century French Animalier bronze study of a standing ostrich, the detailed feathering chased with extremely Fine precision, the flightless giant bird...
Category
French Other Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Doorstop, 19th Century, English Victorian, Cast Iron, Bell, Rope Twist
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
The rope twist handle above an acanthus leaf stem terminating in the form of a bell.
Category
British Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Brass
19th Century Fratin Bronze Bear Cup Fratin Signature is Engraved
Located in Paris, FR
This Fratin bear cup has engraved signature, 19th century, silver plate bronze.
The cup is mounted on foot and is composed at the base of elephant heads ...
Category
French Romantic Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$2,730 Sale Price
20% Off
Bronze Sculpture, "Child pinched by a crayfish", after Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
By Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
Located in Paris, FR
Bronze sculpture with a brown patina shaded in green signed Pigalle on the base, representing a child surprised by a crayfish's pinching. Tears are running down the cheeks of the naked child, sitting on a large shell, as he has just been pinched by a crayfish. The sculpture rests on a green marble base.
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle is a great French sculptor born in Paris in 1714. At a very young age, he studied sculpture and became aware that his art was the meaning of his life. He moved to Italy in 1734 to perfect his technique. Then, he joined the Beaux-Arts, thanks to his work "Mercury attaching his heel" (1740) which had an immediate success. Several artists have a copy, painters represent it on their canvases, and a biscuit reduction is made by the manufacture of Sevres in 1770. Very quickly the orders multiplied and Mme de Pompadour took him under her wing. Juggling between baroque and classical styles, he made portraits of Diderot and Voltaire and then realized the famous funeral monuments...
Category
French Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Bronze Pheasant Preying on a Lizard, Alphonse-Alexandre Arson (1822-1880)
Located in New York, NY
Titled Perdrix au lézard. Inscribed Arson.
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A Patinated Iron Sculpture of a Bull
Located in London, GB
A fine patinated iron model sculpture of a bull. From the collection of the late Countess Bunny Esterhazy (1938-2021)
Category
French Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Christophe FRATIN Bronze Bear Cup Signed Daubrée 19th Century
Located in Paris, FR
This Fratin bear cup is signed Daubrée editor, 19th century, silver plate bronze.
the cup is mounted on foot and is composed at the base of elephant head...
Category
French Romantic Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$2,730 Sale Price
20% Off
Joseph Cuvelier Equestrian Bronze, circa 1860
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A Joseph Cuvelier (French 1833-1879) bronze equestrian model of a polo player, circa 1860, cast by H. Luppens & Cie, dark brown patina.
Category
French Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$5,120 Sale Price
20% Off
Christophe FRATIN Bronze Bear Cup bronze caster Daubrée 19th Century
Located in Paris, FR
Fratin bear cup is signed Daubrée editor, 19th century, silver plate bronze.
The cup is mounted on foot and is composed at the base of elephant heads and...
Category
French Romantic Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$2,730 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century French Black Forest Carved Walnut Cow Sculpture Composition
Located in Dallas, TX
This stately antique Black Forest sculpture composition was carved in France, circa 1860. The sculptural fruitwood work of art features a farm s...
Category
French Black Forest Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Walnut
Spanish, 1850s Fair Carousel Wooden Dog
Located in Marbella, ES
Spanish, vintage hand painted wooden dog with stuck out tongue, from an old fair ground Carousel.
Category
Spanish Mid-Century Modern Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Large Pair of Famille Rose Pheasants by Samson
By Samson & Cie
Located in Southall, GB
A large pair of Famille Rose pheasants by Samson. The size alone makes them very rear and highly collectable. They are in extremely good condition with the colors speaking for themse...
Category
French Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
$43,494 Sale Price / set
20% Off
A Charles X Palais Royal Ormolu and Mother of Pearl Equestrian Statue
Located in London, GB
A very fine and rare Charles X period Palais Royal ormolu and engraved mother of pearl Statuette Sculpture of a horse. With an engine-milled ormolu mounted mother-of-pearl base
Prove...
Category
French Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Ormolu
Christophe Fratin "walking monkey" Bronze, Signed, XIXth Edition
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Christophe Fratin (1801-1864) "walking monkey"
bronze, signed, signature of the founder Qyesnel
XIXth edition.
Category
French Napoleon III Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Fine and Small Antique Bronze of a Packhorse by T. Gechner
Located in London, GB
A fine mid-19th century brown patinated cast bronze animalier figure of a work horse in harness. Very fine detail and a beautiful quality bronze. Signed in the bronze T. Gechter for ...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rare 19th Century Decorated Tole Dummy Board
Located in Shipston-On-Stour, GB
A rare C19th decorated tole dummy board constructed as stick stand, depicting a terrier with red ribbon collar, seated upon a red velvet cushion stool with small cabriole legs and pa...
Category
English Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Tin
Meiji Period Japanese Bronze Lion And Crocodile On Wooden Base
Located in Southall, GB
A delightful Meiji Period Japanese bronze lion and crocodile on a root wood base. A skilfully hand crafted piece that encapsulates the splendour of each animal from the lush lions mane and muscular body to the scales and ridges of the toughened skin of the crocodile. The expressions of both the lion and the crocodile are clear and crisp, caught in the midst of a battle for life and death. The lions eyes...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$7,157 Sale Price
20% Off
An English Composition Standing Dog Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
A vintage English composition standing dog sculpture from the 20th century, with glass eyes and red collar. Crafted in England during the midcentury period, this dog sculpture features a pug standing...
Category
English Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Composition
Christophe FRATIN (1801-1864), Taureau à la grenouille (A Bull With a Frog)
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Between 1839 and 1849 (?)
Chef-modèle made out of patinated bronze, base in Rouge Griotte marble.
Signed « Fratin », « Fonderie de L. Richard Eyck et Durand » engraved on the base.
D...
Category
French Romantic Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Griotte Marble, Bronze
Solid Silver Spade Holder Depicting a Sheffield Porcupine
Located in Marseille, FR
Porcupine spade holder in solid silver (the base on the other hand is in silver metal and posterior to the subject) hallmark "R" in a square with a dot: English hallmark of Sheffield...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Silver
‘The Monkey Rider’, Paul Joseph Raymond Gayrard
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
‘The Monkey Rider’ – Paul Joseph Raymond Gayrard (1807 - 1855).
Signed to the base ‘Paul Gayrard’ and dated 1846.
A rare patinated bronze group of a monkey in the guise of a Jockey riding a racehorse, startled by a barking dog at his feet.
French, Dated 1846.
The mid-nineteenth century saw a surge of interest in animalier bronzes with whimsical and anthropomorphic subjects becoming particularly fashionable. In a similar vain to Christophe Fratin’s humanised depiction's of Bears posed as lamp lighters, dentists and reading books, Gayrard created his famous Monkey bronzes. He was awarded a First Class Medal at the 1846 Salon for his humorous group ‘The Monkey Steeplechase’, which can be related to subject of the present sculpture, ‘Monkey Rider’.
With the publication of Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species in 1859’ the popularity of anthropomorphically conceived subjects began to decline. As such these sculptures were only created during a very brief window of time and are consequently very rare.
PAul Joseph Ryamond Gayrard
Paul Joseph Raymond Gayrard (1807 – 1855) born in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
He studied at an early age under his father the sculptor and engraver Raymond Gayrard, before becoming a student of François Rude and later David d'Angers.
He first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1827 and continued to submit works throughout his lifetime winning a Second Class Medal in 1834 and a First Class Medal in 1846 and 1848. His last recorded exhibit was in 1855.
He executed many busts of notables of the day which proved popular with the haute bourgeois, but it was his talent for animalier that confirmed his reputation as a sculptor of considerable talent. His known bronze animal models date from the years 1846 until 1848 with his powerful plaster of a 'Harness Horse...
Category
French Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Fratin Bronze Bear Cup Not Signed
Located in Paris, FR
This Fratin bear cup is 19th century, not signed but similar to others, silver plate bronze.
The cup is mounted on foot and is composed at the base of el...
Category
French Romantic Antique Mid-19th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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