Mid-20th Century Animal Sculptures
Period: Mid-20th Century
Color: Red
Perfume Lamp of an Owl by Carl Scheidig/Gräfenthal, Germany, 1930s
Located in Verviers, BE
Perfume lamp in the form of an owl attributed to Carl Scheidig Grafenthal, Germany.
Made from glazed porcelain.
Electrical parts European standards with an inner light bulb (standard E 14) to give a warm and comforting night light. The light also shines through the glass eyes.
The Owl was a much-loved motif of the Art Deco period, and these friendly Owl figurines are perfect for a child's bedroom. A drop of perfume or essential oil...
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German Art Nouveau Vintage Mid-20th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Murano Venetian Vintage Glass Mouse Figure, 1950s-1960s
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A delightful vintage Italian Murano novelty glass mouse figure standing wearing a long 'robe' in red cased in amber glass with a large white button with la...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
Alessandro Pianon Pulcini Glass Bird
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An Orange Pulcini Bird Designed by Alessandro Pianon and manufactured by Vistosi c. 1963o
Smooth surface with copper legs.
Minor carbon black spot, whi...
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Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
Murano Red Multi-Color Millefiori Flowers Italian Art Glass Rooster Sculpture
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful, vintage Murano hand blown Sommerso red and millefiori flowers Italian art glass rooster figure, sculpture or paperweight. Attributed to Ga...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Murrine, Sommerso, Murano Glass, Blown Glass
1930 Angelo Biancini SCI Italian Ceramic Sculpture Red Pottery Fishes
Located in Brescia, IT
Earthenware Fishes sculpture
Mod. 1511
Angelo Biancini
SCI Laveno 1938
Excellent condiction
literature: Angelo Biancini tra Faenza e Laveno: ceramiche 1937-1940.
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Italian Articulated Jointed Red Wooden Bear
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Striking red maple bear figurine with hand-painted and applied details (ca. 1950, Italy). Interior elastic and stuffing allow for articulation of limbs. Bear cannot stand on its own but can sit upright. Bold, vibrant decorative object pairing well with Modernist decor...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Maple, Paint
Salviati Murano Glowing Uranium Art Glass Italian Bird Bookend Sculptures
By Salviati
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown uranium yellow with orange tails Italian art glass chirping birds bookend sculptures. Documented to the Salviati Company. Each has a generic "Mura...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Uranium Glass, Glass, Sommerso, Murano Glass, Blown Glass, Art Glass
Red-Toned Wooden Vintage Abstract Animal Sculpture, Swedish Mid Century Handmade
Located in Stockholm, SE
A lovely wooden sculpture designed in Sweden in the midcentury. It is in very good condition except from that one of its legs is repaired. The designer is unknown.
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Chinese Cinnabar Elephant
Located in New York, NY
Wonderful decorative elephant figure in red cinnabar. We believe this item is Chinese export, circa 1970s, the elephant shows some loss to the red finish on the top of the hind end, ...
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Chinese Chinese Export Mid-20th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Lacquer
Seguso Murano Sommerso Orange Red Yellow Italian Art Glass Squirrel Figurine
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful and very cute, vintage Murano hand blown Sommerso red orange, yellow Italian art glass squirrel sculpture / figurine. Documented to designer A...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Sommerso, Glass
Murano Sommerso Red Amethyst Fade Italian Art Glass Bird Sculpture Figure
By Salviati
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano handblown Sommerso red amethyst Italian art glass guinea or quail bird sculpture. Attributed to the Salviati company. Has origina...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Sommerso, Glass
Italian Murano Glass Art Fish Sculpture
Located in Antwerp, BE
Italian fish sculpture hand blown and crafted in multiple colors of Murano glass, not signed.
Made in Italy in the 1950s-1970s.
Measures: Heig...
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Italian Hollywood Regency Mid-20th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Murano Glass
Large and Playful Frederick Weinberg Style Wire Horse sculpture Planter Stand
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Red iron rod frame planter that has been sculpted into the shape of a horse in the style of designer Frederick Weinberg, circa 1950. A playful piece that is both whimsical with a scu...
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American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Large Italian Orange Glass Fish Sculpture by Pino Signoretto, Murano
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Large sculptural fish in orange and white glass on thick Lucite base.
Signed by Murano artist Pino Signoretto, limited edition 14/250.
Pino Signoretto (1944-2017) was born in 1944 in a small town near Venice; in 1954 he started working in a chandelier furnace. In 1959 he learned from the great masters Alfredo Barbini, Livio Seguso, Ermanno Nason and Angelo Seguso. In 1960 he became a master glassmaker.
In 1978 he opened his own studio in Murano. He began collaborations with painters and architects, including Dalì, Vedova, Licata, Kruft, Dal Pezzo, Vitali, Pomodoro, Willson. In the 90s he was called to teach in universities and design schools in the United States, Canada and Japan. From 2000 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice.
Magnificent and prestigious are his large works, such as twelve large fountains...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Lucky Horse Pin
Located in Seattle, WA
bakelite horse pin with pair of boots and horseshoe for luck
Category
Vintage Mid-20th Century Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bakelite
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Located in Bloomfield Hills, MI
Over 500 years ago Chinese potters first experimented with copper oxide glazes to create a fiery red finish that became known as Flambe. When these Sung Dynasty (AD 960 to 1279) porcelain pieces reached Europe, they were collectively called flambe, because the glaze’s resemblance to flames, and were instantly prized by collectors. Sung Dynasty ceramics are considered by many to be history’s foremost expression of the ceramic art. Although the origin of these striking flambe ( or transmutation) glazes is lost in legend, one of the greatest achievements of Royal Doulton’s artisans was the rediscovery of long-lost secrets from China’s master potters, and their ceramic ware that was renowned for its rich, blood-red and ruby effects. Marks on verso indicated the piece was made after 1930.
After much experimenting and hard work, the Doulton company found immediate success at the St. Louis Exhibition in 1904. More experimenting continued in order to perfect the art of flambe and in 1920 Royal Doulton exhibited its new “Sung” wares and proved they were still the pioneers in the flambe field. Later generations of Europeans dubbed the color sang-d-boeuf, because it resembled ox blood.
Royal Doulton is an English ceramic and home accessories manufacturer that was founded in 1815 by John Doulton at Lambeth, London in association with John Watts and known as Doulton and Watts. Operating originally in Vauxhall, London, and later moving to Lambeth, in 1882 it opened a factory in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, in the centre of English pottery. From the start, the backbone of the business was a wide range of utilitarian wares, mostly stonewares including storage jars, tankards and the like, and later extending to other technical ceramics. From 1853 to 1901, its wares were marked Doulton and Co., then from 1901, when a royal warrants was given, Royal Doulton.
It always made decorative wares, mostly stoneware, and from the 1860s, the firm made considerable efforts to get a reputation for design, in which it was largely successful, as one of the first British makers of art pottery initially done through artistic stonewares made in Lambeth, but in 1882 the firm bought a Burslem factory, which was mainly intended for making bone china, tablewares and decorative items. It was a latecomer in this market compared to firms such as Royal Crown Derby, Royal Worcester, Wedgwood, Spoke and Mintons, but made a place for itself in the later 19th century . Today Royal Doulton mainly produces tableware and figurines.
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Saint. Clement Style France Art Deco Panther in Antique Red Glazed Ceramic
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ABOUT ARTIST
Walter Bosse (Austrian, 1904 – 1979) was a Viennese artist, designer, ceramist, potter, metalworker, and craftsman noted for his modernist bronze animal figurines and grotesques.
Walter Bosse was the son of artists Luise and Julius Bosse. His father worked as a portrait painter at the imperial court.
Walter Bosse attended the Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule, now the University of Applied Arts Vienna from 1918 to 1921, where he studied ceramics under Michael Powolny, and ornament under Franz Cizek. He then attended the Munich School of Applied Arts (Münchner Kunstgewerbeschule).
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Bosse's work grew in popularity and a number of his pieces were shown at the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts in 1925. He started designing for Augarten Porcelain Works (1924), as well as Goldscheider (1926) and Metler and Orloff (1927). In 1931, to meet increasing demand (especially in America), Bosse opened up a bigger shop in Kufstein, but by 1933 he started to feel the effects of the economic depression. By 1937, the Kufstein works were closed.
In 1938, now divorced, Bosse moved back to Vienna, where he founded Bosse Ceramics (Bosse-Keramik), which expanded under the new name “Terra” to include glass, toys, textiles and a variety of craft items for the gift market. In the late 1940s, Bosse began experimenting with brass by giving his ceramic figures a metal coating to protect them from breakage.
He formed a partnership with Herta baller, whose company (the Herta Baller Company) manufactured and marketed the brass figurines, this collaboration was called the Bosse/Baller company. In the early 1950s, Bosse and Baller began exploring a new style of brass called the “Black Gold Line” or "Black Golden Line" of brass figurines. He transitioned all of his efforts to brass and the figures became popular worldwide. Despite Bosse's success with his brass figures, it was still a difficult time for him financially. In 1953, partly fleeing from financial troubles, he moved to Iserholm, Germany where he set up a new shop and continued production. In Vienna, the Herta Baller Company continued to make and sell Bosse's designs. Bosse also collaborated with Karlsruhe State Majolika Works on a number of pottery animal figures.]
In 1958, he designed for Achatit Schirmer in Cologne. Bosse also turned his efforts to small, everyday items such as letter openers, keyrings, corkscrews, and pencil holders, all of which bear the distinctive "black and gold" look.
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