Mid-20th Century Animal Sculptures

This is the only known example of this -Elephants Safari- Monumental Presentation Bowl & Master Work- Hand Painted by Eva Fritz-Lindner (1933-2017) This is a wonderful handmade, hand-painted and hand glazed large center piece...

Hunting Dog Bronze Sculpture.English Spaniel Pointer Hunting Dog.This beautifully executed cast bronze figure of the hunt canine sculpture depicts a...

Rare carved wooden carousel camel with a monkey on its back. In the style of Charles Loof. Part of a private collection for more than 40 years.

This good quality and very nicely detailed terracotta figure of a life sized cream and tan spaniel gun dog is great fun. It has a wonderful natural expression and is modelled in a ...

A painted concrete pelican sculpture from the mid 20th century, with nicely distressed patina. Created during the midcentury period, this statue captures our attention with its charm...

Beautiful vintage blue & white foo dog. No chips or breaks. Incredible details. Dimensions: 18 H x 16 W x 9 D.

Bring timeless coastal elegance to your home or garden with this stunning set of two vintage metal crane sculptures. Featuring graceful, elongated forms and intricate feather detaili...

Very good vintage condition.

Vintage brass lobster sculpture, circa 1970s. The piece is in good vintage condition with appropriate wear and patina. This is a hook on the back that ma...

A vintage Hungarian porcelain emperor penguin by Hollohaza. Crisp white glaze with gold accents. Marked on the base.

An Indian vintage Nandi bull sculpture from the mid 20th century, with carved motifs and dark patina. Created in India during the mid 20th century, this car...

Hand painted glazed terracotta lion sculpture with open mouth. Hand painted sculpture with a lot of presence. Good condition 1960's - Italy Dimensions: Height: 25cm Width: 44cm ...

This is a heavy vintage bloodhound ornament. An American, bronze and marble figural dog sculpture by Grace Mott Johnson, dating to the mid 20th c...

Beautiful pair of bronze bookends on marble by the famous French sculptor mostly made animals.

Brutalist Cat Sculpture Gorgeous! 25" Tall! Mid Century Modern One of the Coolest Cat Sculptures in the World Metal & Enamel Circa 1959 This monumental sculpture captures the form...

"PANTHER" Sculpture covered in a cold patina. c.1930 Rests on marble base. Inscribed in script: D. H. Chiparus. Cold patina was very popular in the Art Deco period. The metal: bronze, spelter, etc. would be covered with chemicals to create the brownish tone. Usually ammonium chlorite and cupric chloride was used to achieve the desirable tone. Since the finish was quite fragile and could wear off...

This a great example of a mid-20th century, circa 1950s, Elephant sculpture. The elephant has been eloquently detailed with all of his wondrous wrinkles and glass eyes. The leather e...

Bitossi fish tray, ceramic, white, matte brown, pink, blue, incised, signed. Large scale hand thrown pottery tray with white glaze over raw claw. The body...

"Eagle Owl" is a fine porcelain figurine depicting an owl about to depart from a branch to attack its prey. The details are exquisite and set off by 24 karat gold. It is produced by ...

Large Wooden strolling bear handcarved in Brienz ca. 1930 A large antique statue of a walking bear. Made of lindenwood, finely handcarved with na...

Walter Bosse Cancer Zodiac Sign Brass Figurine, 1950s Original condition

Vetrerie Toso, Italy, circa 1930s. It is made in blown glass and polychrome paste. A clear sign of the authenticity of the piece, its age and its creation is the presence of ash particles in the glass. It is a vintage piece, therefore it might show slight traces of use, but it can be considered as in excellent original condition and ready to become a piece in a home. Literature: Giordana Naccari, Cristina Beltrami, ed. Skira, "L' Arca di Vetro. La Collezione di animali di Pierre Rosenberg...

Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown Pulegoso bubbles, over black core and gold flecks Italian art glass cat sculpture. Documented to designer Alfredo Barbini, circa 1950s. The cat stands...

Small Elephant Figurine by Walter Bosse Vienna Around 1950s Original condition

Exotic parrot in multi-color ceramic by Royal Dux production from late 1950s.

A very cool modernist rosewood owl sculpture, on base, circa 1950s. The piece is in very good vintage condition and measures 4.75"W x 1"D x 6"H. A very ...

Majolica sealife platter Vallauris, circa 1950. High relief of 2 fishs, seaweeds, starfish. Nautical style. Measure: 8.3" diameter.  

Danish Teak Figurines 1950s

Standout pair of life size French porcelain parrots perched on tree trunks, hand decorated in striking tropical colors. Signed by the maker on...

Mid Century Anglo-Indian Leather Tiger Footstool C.1950 Liberty London A superb example, of wonderful proportion. In excellent condition commensurate o...

1960s Scandinavian Modern Wood Squirrel Personal Valet Brush Style of Kay Bojesen Denmark 5.25 D x 7 H x 1.88 W Preowned original vintage condition S...

Phyllis Morris original poodle table lamp, signed, Blue, 1952 Hollywood Regency. Iconic American Pop Design. Signed. Rare custom blue poodle. With original harp and lace shade. From the 1950s to her passing in 1988, Phyllis created hundreds of designs blending the Hollywood Regency and California eclectic styles with her interpretation of Baroque-meets-Fantasy. Phyllis Morris’ first and most iconic design was the Poodle Lamp...

Mid-Century Murano glass horse with original silver foil label attributed to Archimede Seguso circa 1960s. Smoked grey glass, delicately formed and in excellent vintage condition. No...

Curtis Jere "Birds in Flight" bronze sculpture, circa 1976 Fantastic 1970s hand signed bronze sculpture by noted artist / designer Curtis Jere. Hand welded bronze birds on a py...

This charming set of two Murano glass mice is an authentic work of art created by the renowned master glassmaker Seguso. Featuring a brilliant shade of rosA and sinuous lines that en...

Adorable! Mid Cnetury Modern Brutalist Torch Cut Metal Owl Green Eyes Here is a marvelous 1970s brutalist, torch cut owl with a very appealing look! These owls were made popular...

A vintage lost wax cast bronze sculpted group of three monkeys in a tree in Verde and bronze patina. This vintage item is currently available for sale and we can make new ones (lead ...

Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown Sommerso red amethyst Italian art glass guinea or quail bird sculpture. The piece is attributed to the Salviati company, with Alfredo Barbini the ...

Pair of Beautiful Singing Cats. Antique and very rare Karl Hagenauer Felix the miniature cat Art Deco brass figurine from WHW Werkstätte Hagenauer Wien, Vienna, Austria, early 20th c...

Superb leather giraffe from England from the 20th century from the 50's Very nice giraffe in superb condition which has a very beautiful patina. The bl...

A very nice large raku pottery seated bear by Tony Evans, circa 1970s. The piece is signed on the underside and extremely well crafted; it has wonderful gre...

Great pair of vintage brass Chinese foo dogs, circa 1950s. Great detail and patina on this heavy, solid and well crafted set; the pair are in very good vintage condition and measure ...

Beautiful hand-carved wood standing giraffe. Standing over 6 feet tall with exceptional carved details. Measures: 74.5".

White porcelain sculpture of a polar bear made in former Czechoslovakia in the 1960's by the famous Royal Dux.

Small Majolica sealife platter Vallauris, circa 1950. High relief of fish, seaweeds,starfish. Nautical style. Diameter / 7.5 by 6"  

Pair of ceramic glazed knipa ducks by Paul Hoff for Gustavsberg, Sweden This is the goldeneye duck (Knipa) from the Arkipelag series designed by Paul Hoff. There are 13 birds in t...

A pair of Mid-Century Murano handblown glass Birds-of-Paradise, by Alfredo Barbini. Beautiful pale pink color with gold inclusions throughout and controlled bubbles on the body and t...

Vintage Bronze Greyhound or Whippet

Exceptional Centerpiece Alfredo Barbini V.A.M.S.A. Murano Glass 1940/50

Charming mid century lidded dog box ambitiously handcrafted in wicker and wood with an uncanny essence of dog. From the famed Shanghai Collection.

Rare Hand Made Doll, by Marilyn Neuhart for Textiles & Objects, which was a "pop up shop" conceived by Alexander Girard and sponsored by Herman Miller in May of 1961. See the last tw...

A stunning and unique stoneware rooster sculpture with amazing glaze. Made by Tyra Lundgren. Executed in her own studio in Sweden, 1955. Great condition, but with a couple of chips to the base (pictured). Signed by the artist in two places, and dated 1955-06-20. Provenance: bought from the estate of the artist in 1979. Tyra Lundgren (1897-1979) was one of the most multifaceted artists and modernists of the twentieth century. She was a painter, drawer, sculptor, ceramist, glass- and textile designer, as well as an author and an art critic. She was the first woman who designed glass for Paolo Venini at Murano in Venice and she also served as the artistic leader at Arabia in Helsinki at a time when men tended to hold those kinds of positions. Tyra Lundgren grew up in Djursholm, near Stockholm. Her parents were John Petter Lundgren, professor at Veterinärinstitutet (institute of veterinary sciences) in Stockholm, and Edith Lundgren née Åberg, who was a housewife and raised their six children. The bourgeois home also comprised a nanny and a female cook. The family were very socially active, travelled often, and enjoyed the outdoor lifestyle. Tyra Lundgren’s schooling began at Djursholm coeducational school, where her teachers included Natanael and Elsa Beskow and Alice Tegnér. Her school friends included Greta Knutson-Tzara, Stellan Mörner, and Ingrid Rydbeck-Zuhr. Tyra Lundgren knew from the time she was five years old that she wanted to be an artist. She first became aware of the profession through Axel Fahlcrantz, who rented a studio on the plot of land where she lived with her family. In 1913 she began to attend Högre konstindustriella skolan (HKS, now known as Konstfack, college of arts, crafts and design) where she studied decorative art as well as handicrafts in various forms until 1917. One of her fellow students and friends there was Estrid Ericson, who later founded Svenskt Tenn AB in 1924. Whilst attending HKS Tyra Lundgren also took painting lessons at the Althin school of painting. In 1917 she was accepted as a candidate at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts where, apart from breaks during which she undertook studies abroad, she remained until 1922. She spent a couple of months taking lessons from Anton Hanak in Vienna and from 1920–1923 she was a student of André Lhote in Paris. Tyra Lundgren was primarily active in four countries: Sweden, Finland, France, and Italy. She spent much of her professional life travelling and considered herself to be a European. Greece and Mexico also formed important centres in her artistic life, as did the USA. She had an extensive social network which included focal individuals within twentieth century-European and American artistic and cultural circles. Tyra Lundgren’s main artistic motifs were birds, fish, and people which she depicted through different techniques and materials. Her artistic expression involved a variety of different directions and styles. She was a pioneer of the 1920s Swedish Grace style, the name of which had been coined by the art critic Morton Shand at the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930. This was a Swedish Art Deco style, characterised by elegance and traditional art which contrasted with the current artistic ideals of functionalism. Tyra Lundgren made her debut at a group exhibition held at Kungliga Akademien för de fria konsterna in 1921. She went on to show her work at various exhibitions throughout the 1920s. After that period she only very rarely exhibited her paintings. Tyra Lundgren’s painted output can be divided into different periods or stylistic directions. The first of these, and the most extensive, was her post-Cubist period which began in 1920 on her arrival in Paris. Her paintings from this time and right up to the mid-1930s typically comprise portraits, self-portraits, live-model painting, still-lifes, interiors, and landscapes in the Cubist style. Many of the great number of self-portraits she painted were produced in the New Objective style, displaying broad variation in terms of clothes, poses and techniques. Two of these – Huvud med vit duk and Självporträtt both from 1921 – can be seen at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, although the majority of these works are at Gotlands Museum. Tyra Lundgren’s second artistic period comprises the years of 1927 to 1929 and is characterised by the New Objective style inspired by medieval techniques and materials (Giotto, Piero della Francesca). Her motifs were still-lifes and landscapes. At this point she was living in Rome and was close to the circle involved in the Valori plastici: rivista d’arte art journal. This period saw a breakthrough in her development as a painter. From the 1950s through the 1970s her work can almost be described as belonging to the Concrete style. Using light pastel colours her paintings sought light in a sometimes non-figurative expression, but often depicting abstract bird-shapes or other nature-inspired imagery. Her paintings from this period are outsized and display powerful colours, in yellows, reds, and blues. Tyra Lundgren maintained a constant production of drawings, both in terms of individual artworks and sketches for patterns and designs. She also produced the illustrations for her book Fagert i Fide. Årstiderna på en gammal gotlandsgård, published in 1961. During her early years she also produced advertising illustrations. She spent the final years of her life primarily working with lithographs which were printed at Galleri Prisma and depicted images of doves, swallows, magpies and crows. Tyra Lundgren is meanwhile best known for her work as a ceramist and in this sphere she was one of Sweden’s leading exponents. She worked in the porcelain industry as a designer and as an artisan and ceramic sculptor. Her first job was at St Eriks Lervarufabrik in Uppsala from 1922–1924, she then worked at Arabia from 1924–1937, and at Rörstrand and Lidköping Porslinsfabrik. She was the artistic leader at Arabia ahead of the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition and she exhibited her work at the World’s Fairs. During the 1934–1938 period she was connected to the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres porcelain factory in Paris. Tyra Lundgren was a pioneer when it came to giving ceramic art a public space in Sweden. She produced around 20 outsized reliefs in stoneware, so-called monumental reliefs. One of these is Märkeskvinnor, from 1947, for the former girls’ school at Bohusgatan in Stockholm. From the 1940s onwards Tyra Lundgren produced sculptural objects in Chamotte clay and stoneware, with various glazings. Her small birds are well-known and popular with many. When her ceramic efforts became too much for her during the 1970s she then produced models for sculptures in bronze. There are six of these in various places around the globe, including Solfågel in Almedalen, Visby. Tyra Lundgren began to work as a glassware designer at Moser in Karlsbad in 1922 where she designed new table services and modernised older ones. She also worked freelance for Riihimäki factory in Finland during the 1924–1929 period. From 1934 to 1938 she was employed by Kosta glass factory where she mainly designed thick-walled bowls and vases, engraved with classical motifs. She was introduced to the glassmaker Paolo Venini at Murano during the Triennale di Milano of 1936 and they began a collaboration that lasted into the 1950s. As part of this collaboration Tyra Lundgren became the first woman to design glassware and, in conjunction with the glassblower Arturo Biasutto, she developed new techniques of glass production. Her motifs at this point were birds, fish, snail-shaped designs and leaf-patterned bowls using traditional techniques as well as in new designs. It was during this time that she created the so-called tissue-shaped bowls and it remains unclear as to who specifically came up with the design but Tyra Lundgren claimed it was of her making. Tyra Lundgren was active as textile designer for Licium (now HV Licium), the sacred textiles...

Very cute Italian glazed terracotta baby tiger with adorable features. Add some chic 1960s Italian style to your home.

Great pair of vintage Chinese gold gilt wood carved Foo Dogs, circa 1970s. The pair measure 15.5"W x 3.25"D x 4"H. The set are in very good vintage condition and have a wonderful pat...

A Bitossi by Aldo Londi ceramic rooster, featuring a rare oxblood glazing. Handmade in Flavia Montelupo circa the 1960s. Absolutely gorgeous in ...

Bear figure in ceramic, designed by Knud Kyhn Bear figure of stoneware from Royal Copenhagen. Additional information: Material: Ceramic Artist: Knud Kyhn Size: 13 W X 8 D X ...

Pair of Mid-Century Italian Polychrome Glazed Terracotta Greyhounds

This Mid-20th century bronze sculpture is a delightful representation of a Scottie Dog or Scottish Terrier, capturing the essence of this iconic breed's spirited personality. Crafted...

With a reference to the Tang Dynasty an impressive pair of Chinese horses, hand crafted in a tessellated technique with carved bone as a symbol ...

Lofty life size porcelain parrot hand decorated in vivid tropical colors, glazed and perched on a tree trunk. Signed with crossed arrows on the back.