Stone Busts

I could not identify the sitter. Socle base. From a Mississippi collection.

Deluxe marble bust depicting a 1970s white lady

Late 19th Century alabaster and bronze bust of Dante Alighieri on a green marble base. This is a beautiful antique marble and bronze bust of the famed late 13th to early 14th century...

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Johannes C. Bjerg 1886-1955. Dark patinated bronze head of the Greek Goddess Artemis mounted on a black marble base. Stamp from bronze caster L. Rasm...

Deluxe marble bust depicting a lady 20th century

Hugues Bacquet : South asian bust in patinated terracota on a wood base Bust of a south Asian women (probably Vietnam, Cambodgia) Signed : Hugues Bacquet Circa 1960, France Dimen...

A very fine Italian 19th century carved carrara marble sculpture Group Titled "LA GIOIA NELL'INNOCENZA DOPO IL LAVORO" (The Joy of Innocence After Labour) by Professor Raffaele Belliazzi (Italian, 1835-1917). The slender figure of the young boy, seated and resting on a rock with his hanging legs crossed and joyfully eating a cluster of grapes picked from his hat that is resting on his lap. The intricate carving of his shirt, jacket, pants, hat and boots with fine attention details such at the stitching, buttons, the hem on his pants, the wear on the soles of his boots and the features on his face makes this one of Belliazzi's finest known works. The sculpure rests on a dark green serpentine marble pedestal with a rotating top. Signed: Profor. Belliazzi, Carrara. Florence, circa 1870-1880. It may be possible to identify the present marble sculpture of a boy eating grapes...

This Art Nouveau style bronze bust is a brown patinated figurative sculpture. It represents a young boy. The bronze bust shows a softly modeled face with natural expression and gentl...

A French carved walnut putto feeding a swan sculpture from the late 19th century, with marble base. Created in France during the last quarter of the 19th century, this walnut sculpte...

A finely carved 19th century marble bust depicting Julius Caesar, executed in the neoclassical taste during the Grand Tour period. Crafted in white marble, the bust reflects the inf...

Signed Machauld et Eug. Cornu – G. Viot et Cie Fondeurs Bust of a Greek goddess, made entirely of silvered bronze and gilded bronze. The tiara and collar necklace ornating the bust are finely decorated with stylized floral motifs of polychrome champlevé enamel. It rests on a molded base and square plinth made in red griotte marble. The sculptor Eugène Cornu (1827-1899), installed in Paris at N.29 rue Popincourt, after having worked as a designer and then director for the renowned company Tahan, worked closely with the « Compagnie des Marbres Onyx...

An Italian 19th-20th century carved color-alabaster bust of a young beauty. The finely carved two-tone alabaster bust, depicting a young girl posing with a side gaze and wavy hair ti...

A large striking bronze bust sculpture of a man with the likeness of Will Rogers. This piece was created by Leonard McMurry, also known as Oklahoma’s “Michelangelo”. It stands on a green marbled stone square base. The sculpture depicts a man, with an extreme likeness to Will Rogers. The man has combed hair, which is parted to one side. The sculpted bronze bust has a fabulous patina, and the square green stone it is affixed to is marbled with fantastic greens, blacks, and creams. About the Artist: Leonard McMurry, (1913–2008) - McMurry is best known for his bronzes, which are primarily figurative, in many venues, from Oklahoma City to St. Louis to New York City. In 1941 his work received Honorable Mention in the Prix de Rome competition. In 1952 his work was included in the National Sculpture Society show in New York. Among his works in Oklahoma are The 89er, at the Oklahoma City Civic Center, The Legend of the Great Westerner (informally called "Buffalo Bill") at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, and Healing Hands, at the City of Faith Hospital/Oral Roberts University in Tulsa. (which at the time was the largest casting in the world.) For the 1982 Diamond Jubilee of Oklahoma statehood, McMurry completed a series of twenty-one busts of Oklahoma's governors. He also created fourteen busts for the National Hall of Fame for American Indians in Anadarko. Leonard McMurry died in 2008. Born to a family of prominent cotton farmers in the Texas panhandle, McMurry moved to Oklahoma in 1955 and studied under the sculptor's Carl Mose and Ivan Mestrovic...

This bronze bust portrays Beethoven with a focused expression and modeled curls, set on a dark marble base. This is a portrait bust in bronze designed for interior decoration. The wa...

Antique bronze bust of a smiling child by Jean Antoine Injalbert. Foundry mark Siot Decauville Paris, Numbered. France 1900. Bronze, patinated. Belgian red marble base. Jean Anto...

In continuity with her signature explorations of the female form, Marcela Cure introduces a new sculptural memento that sheds light upon the mulling yet beauteous intricacies in woma...

In continuity with her signature explorations of the female form, Marcela Cure introduces a new sculptural memento that sheds light upon the mulling yet beauteous intricacies in woma...

This is a beautifully hand carved alabaster bust of Augustus Caesar. Augustus Caesar was the first Roman Emperor and this day is a remembered in the month of August after his name. T...

This item is a vintage French-style portrait bust sculpture, depicting a young woman in a classical or Rococo style, crafted from plaster, resin, with a marble or wood pedestal. Des...

Refined torso statue of Ercole Massimo di Marco (Heracles for the Greeks) demigod hero endowed with exceptional strength. His labors became the symbol of the sacrifices that the exer...

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A stunning Italian late 19th early 20th century hand carved alabaster bust sculpture depicting a young baby girl cradling a dove. The girl wearing a lace bonnet her hair tied back a...

Exquisite and very refined chrysoelephantine sculpture depicting the bust of a child wrapped in a hooded gilded cloak. The work combines carved ivory for the face, which emerges from...

Ferdinando Vichi (Italian, 1875-1945) A fine and lifesize Italian white Carrara marble Greco-Roman figure of the Belvedere Apollo, after the original, now in the Vatican Museum, the Belvedere Apollo has defined the Greek aesthetic ideals of harmony, noble simplicity and quiet grandeur. Apollo is depicted as an archer, having just killed the Python of Delphi. The carved figure displays the tension lingering as if the arrow has just left his bow. Standing on an oval base inscribed: F. Vichi, Firenze, Made in Italy. Florence, circa 1895-1900. Measures: Height 68 inches (192 cm) Width 47 1/4 inches (120 cm) Depth 38 1/2 inches (97.8 cm) Width of base 25 inches (63.5 cm) Former Property of Adolph Henrich Joseph Sutro's famous Cliff House and indoor public swimming establishment, The Sutro Baths...

Model Nude Archer mounted sculpture bust bronze stone base Art Deco antiques CA . Excellent color and details decorative Sculpture on a desk as garniture on a mantle fireplace, on a ...

A very fine and charming Italian 19th century life-size Carrara marble sculpture of "A Mother and Child" depicting a young joyous mother holding her young child in her arms, by Profe...

An imposing sculptural bust carved in white marble depicting a nobleman or high-ranking military dignitary from the Baroque period, likely inspired by European models of the 17th and...

19th Century pair of small bronze busts on marble plinths. The subjects are the French Enlightenment figures Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Objets de vertu like these were popul...

A very elegant and original 1930's Art Deco figurine of a lady in cold painted Spelter. She stands on an onyx base which is in good order and free from any damage. She's in great con...

Antique Hand-Carved Carrara Marble Bust, Presumably of "Winter", Created Around 1700. Italy, Baroque, Venice Region. In the Style of or Attributed to Orazio Marinali. This exquisite...

Cipri Adolf Bermann (German, 1862-1942) a very fine 19th century gilt-bronze miniature figure of a Bacchus Herm, depicting Bacchus, also known as Dionysus, the god of the grape harve...

Likely French, 19th century. An antique Art Nouveau era carved marble bust of a young lady. The marble presents very well and shows the true craftsmanship of the era. Signed to the ...

Art Deco sculpture in gilded spelter on a solid marble base 'LA JOUEUSE DE FLUTE'. Originates from France and dates to the 1930's. She's unsigned but very much in the manner of Urian...

Striking and scholarly pair of monumental late 19th century Italian patinated bronze busts, depicting the great classical philosophers Heraclitus(left) and Archytas (right). Both fig...

Set of 4 similar Italian Neo-Classic (19th Century) white marble relief busts depiction four faces framed by ornately carved hair. (PRICED AS Set) Each bust unique with slightly dif...

Mounted Sculpture Bust Bronze on Marble Base Bibelot Decorative Center Art Piece . Excellent colors and details decorative hand finished On a Desk as garniture on a mantle fireplace,...

A stunning, classically inspired bust carved from three-toned marble, depicting a female figure wearing an ancient-style helmet, evoking the iconography of the goddess Minerva or an ...

Green serpentine marble sculpture Late 19th century Height approx. 88 cm. The flying mercury and the bronzes While he was still busy working on the fountain in piazza Maggiore, the papal delegate Cesi asked Giambologna for a statue to be placed in the courtyard of the Archiginnasio, seat of the ancient and prestigious Bolognese university; he should have painted a bronze depicting the god Mercury with his index finger stretched towards the sky, a symbol of the divine origin of knowledge, which would have served as a warning to all students. The project was never completed, but Giambologna elaborated a model preserved at the Civic Museum of Bologna, which is only the first of the numerous bronzes with the same subject made by the artist, defined precisely as flying Mercury. In later versions, the sculptor transformed Mercury into a much more dynamic figure reaching upwards, as if ready to take flight, giving it an unprecedented freedom of movement and lightness. When he returned to Florence, the sculptor certainly proposed it to the Medici, who enthusiastically immediately ordered one to be sent to Emperor Maximilian II of Habsburg, as a diplomatic gift for the ongoing negotiations of the wedding between Francesco and Giovanna, sister of the sovereign. Giambologna replied with the two bronzes preserved in Vienna and Dresden and in 1580 cast the large Mercury now exhibited in the Bargello, originally intended for the loggia of the villa of Cardinal Ferdinando dei Medici to crown a fountain placed in the center of a magnificent decorative complex; the only variant with respect to the previous examples is constituted by the head of Zephyr placed under the foot of the god and from which a breath of wind blows it upwards, accentuating the sense of immateriality. In addition to the successful invention of the flying Mercury, Giambologna acquired immense fame by making numerous other bronzes for the Florentine collectors of the time; his first patron, Bernardo Vecchietti must certainly have owned many, given to him in part by the sculptor in exchange for his protection, but around the 1880s it can be said that there was no collector who did not aspire to own a work by Giambologna, especially those of small format. The development of this trend in Florence is largely due to the artistic passions of the Grand Duke Francesco I, who with the creation of environments such as the Studiolo in Palazzo Vecchio and the Tribuna degli Uffizi, provided new criteria for the exhibition of the works, pushing all collectors to imitate his extraordinary collection. In the Studiolo, in addition to the painted tables that decorated the doors of the cupboards filled with all kinds of things, there were 8 niches containing bronze figures of divinities; Giambologna painted the one depicting Apollo (1573-75), with the characteristic serpentine pose and beautifully finished. The placement of the statuette in the niche was no longer an impediment to the plurality of views as Giambologna endowed it with a sort of mechanism that allowed it to rotate. For the Tribune he instead created the six Labors of Hercules (1576-1589), small silver sculptures...

Beautiful hand carved white Macael marble bust of a maiden at actual size. Artist unknown. The marble pedestal is not included in the price. Origin: Spain Period: End of 20th centu...

JOHN WARRINGTON WOOD British, 1839-1886 Bust of a Woman, almost certainly depicting Lady Layard (1870) Carrara marble signed to the reverse "WARRINGTON WOOD SCULPT ROMA 1870" Item # 405UGP17Q A very finely carved marble bust that almost certainly depicts Lady Layard (British, 1843-1912) at 27 years of age. While the bust is not titled, John Warrington Wood had a relationship with the family, first sculpting Lady Mary Enid Evelyn Layard's husband and cousin Henry Austin Layard the year before in London in 1869. Wood exhibited that bust at the Royal Academy in 1870 and the same year Lady Layard would have sat down with him in Rome for the completion of this bust. Interestingly, Henry Layard decided he did not like the bust that was completed of him and eventually re-commissioned Wood to complete the bust again 12 years later in 1881, that example held in the permanent collection of The National Gallery in London. The same year, John Warrington Wood executed a second bust of Lady Layard that is held in the permanent collection of the British Museum of Art (acc. no. OA.10557). It is interesting to view the painting completed by Vicente Palmaroli y González...

An elegant, classically inspired female bust carved from white marble, depicting a figure with serene features and harmonious proportions, reminiscent of Greco-Roman sculpture. The ...

A beautiful 20th century bust of a Roman, hand carved in Carrara White and Cipollino Apuano Marble. This is a great piece not sure who it is but it's a good looking marble bust in gr...

Modernist sandstone bust sculpture of a male Artist unknown. The sculpture is beautiful from all sides and radiates simplicity and openness. The full height of sculpture is 34 cm x ...

Sculpture by Emmanuel Villanis in bronze and marble base, Art Nouveau period, circa 1900. Dimensions : H: 40cm, W: 21cm, D: 15cm Contact us before ordering to confirm product avail...

On a veined marble base; after Jean-Baptiste Greuze, inscribed on the reverse 'D'Apres Greuze (Musee Du Louvre)'. This beautiful patinated bronze bust depicts an elegant young lad...

A life-size carved marble bust of the Roman Emperor Otho (69 AD), dating from the second half of the 20th century. The face and body have been sensitively modelled in Carrara marble...

Aphrodite Callipygia, in white veined marble, 20th century. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS, INFORMATION ABOUT THE LOT, AND A SHIPPING QUOTE CAN BE REQUESTED BY SENDING AN EMAIL TO

A woman's torso in white marble. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS, INFORMATION ABOUT THE LOT, AND A SHIPPING QUOTE CAN BE REQUESTED BY SENDING AN EMAIL TO

Bronze bust of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, this figurative sculpture represents the German poet, writer and natural scientist in a restrained and simplified style. Cast in solid bron...

Marble bust of a laughing young girl. Delicately worked and tinted sculpture of a genre typical of late 19th Century Italy and early twentieth century.

Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra, Yellow Siena marble. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS, INFORMATION ABOUT THE LOT, AND A SHIPPING QUOTE CAN BE REQUESTED BY SENDING AN EMAIL TO

Sculpture of Hercules in red Levanto marble. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS, INFORMATION ABOUT THE LOT, AND A SHIPPING QUOTE CAN BE REQUESTED BY SENDING AN EMAIL TO:

Fine Carved Alabaster Bust  19th/20th century, the young beauty gazing, her hair pulled back beneath a scarf, on a rectangular plinth, with ass...

Large Torso of Venus in white Carrara marble, 137 cm high. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS, INFORMATION ABOUT THE LOT, AND A SHIPPING QUOTE CAN BE REQUESTED BY SENDING AN EMAIL TO

Upper part of a torso of Mercury. Ancient Rome · 2nd century AD. Marble. 64 cm with the stand. Provenance - Private collection of C. M., Leuven, Belgium. Acquired between 1980 an...

Aphrodite crouching sculpture. Ancient Rome · 1st–2nd century AD. Marble. 173 cm total height with the stand. Provenance - Private collection, C.M., Leuven, Belgium. Acquired on ...

Very charming and original 1930s French figural group, features a young nude lady sat down reaching out to a swan, she has a styled hair cut of her era. The ...

The sculpture realized by a Roman sculptor as from the Roman academy tradition, is carved with two marbles. Gaius Iulius Caesare formally known as Cesare was a Roman general and statesman who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic...

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