Italian Busts

Guglielmo Pugi

Antique Late 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Busts

Alabaster, Carrara Marble

Very fine carved sculpture of a young Pierrot by Guglielmo Pugi (1850-1915), late 19th century in alabaster and white Carrara marble foot. Signed on the back Pugi.

Marioni

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Hollywood Regency Busts

Ceramic

Faithful reproduction of Caracalla, one of the bold and brutal roman Emperors who ruled in the early 200s A.D. This bust is made of ceramic and with a slight natural white patina en...

Marioni

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Hollywood Regency Busts

Ceramic

Faithful reproduction of Adriano, Publius Haelius Hadrianus 76 -138 AD. A humanist, poet and philosopher he was also philhellene who graced many cities of Greece and Crete with impo...

Marioni

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Hollywood Regency Busts

Ceramic

Faithful reproduction of Adriano, Publius Haelius Hadrianus 76 -138 AD. A humanist, poet and philosopher he was also philhellene who graced many cities of Greece and Crete with impo...

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Early 20th Century Italian Renaissance Figurative Sculptures

Marble

This beautiful figure has been carved in the image of the internationally-renowned sculpture of David by Michelangelo. The original was crafted between 1501-1504 to accompany the sta...

Antique 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Busts

Marble

This Grand Tour bust of the Capitoline Venus was carved after the antique, the work is signed on the integral plinth V. Campidoglio and was executed during the second half of the 19t...

Antique 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Busts

Marble

A fine grand tour marble sculpture executed during the last quarter of the 19th century, this bust is thought to depict Gaius Octavius Thurinus or Caesar Augustus, the adopted heir o...

Antique 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Busts

Bronze

Bronze bust of classical Greek male. Possibly Bacchus. 19th century grand tour. Grand tour bronze bust of Narcissus after the original found in 1862 at Pompeii. When first found in ...

Antique Late 19th Century Italian Busts

Plaster

Amazingly beautiful 19th century Italian neoclassical bust of the Charioteer of Delphi. Plaster with an exceptional patina in the absolutely perfect depiction of the aged bronze from...

Giovanni Barbera

Early 20th Century Sicilian Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Earthenware

Studio-built, earthenware sculptures depicting a young man and woman. Roughly textured and beautifully stylized. Signed and dated by the artist. Barbera lived and worked in Palermo a...

Antique 15th Century and Earlier Italian Classical Greek Busts

Terracotta

An exceptional classical Greek terracotta from Tarentum, South Italy, circa 4th century BC. Depicting a youth with slender neck, the oval face subtly inclined to the left, the sen...

Neapolitan Craftsman

Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Busts

Marble, Bronze

Neapolitan "scugnizzo" bust, Street boy, in polished and burnished bronze, circa 1930.  

Unknown

Antique Early 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Busts

Bronze

The small well-cast dark patinated bronze portrait busts of Greek philosophers, after the antique, each on circular turned socles, surviving from the early part of the nineteenth cen...

Richard Ginori, Giambologna

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Renaissance Figurative Sculptures

Porcelain

Examination of the Ginori Manufactory in Doccia’s Inventory of models, which can be dated to between 1780 and 1791, reveals the attention paid to Florentine sculptors from the Renais...

Richard Ginori, Giambologna

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Renaissance Figurative Sculptures

Porcelain

Now in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, the large marble group depicting Firenze trionfante su Pisa was sculpted by Giambologna, in collaboration with Pietro Francavilla, to make a ...

François Duquesnoy

Antique Early 1800s Italian Renaissance Figurative Sculptures

Marble

This marble figure of a sleeping child was crafted around 1800 in the style of François Duquesnoy, a sculptor active in Italy in the early 17th Century. Duquesnoy’s bas-relief work a...

Antique Late 19th Century Italian Busts

Marble

Charles Caccia and Henry Dasson respectively 1883 and 1885. A quite exceptional pair of Carrara marble and bronze figures of Nubian male and female figures. Both signed, the bases an...

Ceramiche Zaccacnini

Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

Ceramic

Pair of ceramic figurines by Ugo Zaccagnini. Italy, 1960s.

Early 20th Century Italian Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Porcelain

Art Deco figurative sculpture of a woman. Measures: Height 28 cm. Width 25 cm. Depth 24 cm.

Antique Late 19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Busts

Terracotta

A late 19th century hand painted terracotta bust of a young woman, a princess of the House of Aragon after Francesco Laurana (1430-1502, Dalmatian), raised on an integral base design...

Antique Late 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Busts

Very fine carving of a child in the Italian Renaissance 15th century style. Many of the major artists of the Renaissance made busts of children in various mediums, Desiderio da Setti...

Le Bertetti

Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Busts

Ceramic

Face sculpture Le Bertetti Torino Mid-Century Modern Italian design Melancholy.

Early 20th Century Italian Busts

Terracotta

Italian glazed terra cotta bust, circa 1940.

Antique 18th Century Italian Baroque Revival Busts

A wax bust depicting Saint Lucia with glass eyes. The artist shaped and decorated the sculpture with care. The Sicilian workshops of the period produced impressive works of art. Manu...

Capodimonte

Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

Brass, Porcelain

Pair of handmade polychrome porcelain sculptures depicting two winged angels, a pair of fine putti, one holding flowers, Allegory of abundance. Both porcelain figures stand on a gold...

Pugi

Vintage 1930s Italian Art Deco Busts

Outstanding Italian Carrara marble bust of mercury or Hermes, signed Pugi, circa 1930. This carved marble sculpture from the studio of Guglielmo Pugi is a great example of the skill ...

Antique Late 19th Century Italian Busts

Bust of Julius Caesar made of marble mounted bronze base with patina.

Unknown

2010s Sicilian Modern Vases

Clay

It's an unique piece made by a sicilian young artist, it's in white clay and fully hand-painted, made in Caltagirone, a little town near Catania. Signed 1/1 m.r. on the bottom.

Vintage 1920s Italian Busts

The bust, in bronze set on a marble column and plateau comes in three pieces, with a height of 120 cm and weighing 250kg, is a Fine example of this well-known Sculptors work, it is b...

Vintage 1950s Italian Figurative Sculptures

Ceramic

Great Italian sculpture by Silvio Righetto dated 1956. Object in glazed ceramic Cacciapuoti, hand painted, of exceptional size and quality. Sculpture richly decorated depicting the C...

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Busts

Marble

Sculpture Busts Roman set of two in solid hand-carved marble lightly red tinted and grey tinted. A/ L56xD28xH72cm. Grey tinted marble. B/ L56xD28xH74cm. Lightly red tinted marble.

Antique Early 18th Century Italian Busts

Carrara Marble

Carrara marble bust of the Virgin Mary.

Vintage 1910s Italian Busts

Bronze

Italian sculpture from the early 20th century. Chiselled bronze object depicting an abstract subject in honor of Andrea Rossi, pilot of the Mille. Work signed and dated 1911 lower ri...

Antique 18th Century Italian Baroque Busts

Beautiful wooden Bust, Italy circa 1750, with its original gilding. Weathered, losses.

Late 20th Century Italian Classical Roman Busts

Marble

Bust of Roman emperor Hadrian in Carrara white and serpentine green marbles.

Affortunato Gory

Early 20th Century Italian Busts

Marble, Walnut

This highly detailed white marble composition is a beautiful example of 20th century sculpture. Crafted in Italy circa 1920, the carved bust of two young beauties sits on a separate,...

Antique Late 19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Busts

Majolica

Fine Majolica glaze over terra cotta bust of Bacchus; son of Zeus and Persephone, the name adopted by the Romans for Dionysus. Nice scale. Measures: 32" height, 18" width, 13" dep...

Antique 1880s Italian Renaissance Revival Busts

Terracotta

Emperor Augustus Caesar, Roman statesman and military leader, first Emperor of the Roman Empire, captured in an impressive bust: hand-sculpted detail of old well-patinated terracotta...

Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Busts

Stone

Midcentury stone sculpture of the head hand chiselled and terracotta antique base 1900s wonderful patina.

Mid-20th Century Italian Greco Roman Busts

Plaster

After the antique, sometimes also known as a bust of Zeus. This head is a copy from one full figure statue of Poseidon in the act of throwing a spear. It as a painted finish, and wax...

Unknown

Antique Early 1900s Italian Beaux Arts Figurative Sculptures

Carrara Marble

A very fine and large Italian 19th-20th century Carrara marble group "Allegory to Music" depicting five Bacchic putti musicians playing various instruments. The finely carved Palatia...

Bitossi, Aldo Londi

Vintage 1960s Italian Busts

Ceramic

Blue ceramic Guan Yin bust from Aldo Londi's iconic "Rimini Blu" series for Bitossi, circa 1960s. Variations in blue from dark to light, with nice detailing throughout. Guan Yin (als...

Late 20th Century Italian Classical Roman Busts

Marble

Hand-carved bust of Roman emperor Julius Caesar in different coloured marbles.

Antique 17th Century Italian Baroque Figurative Sculptures

Sandstone

The figure carved with classical robes, draped over shoulders and around waist, supported by a tree trunk with olive leaves, symbols of peace and victory, with left leg raised, lacki...

Antique Mid-19th Century Italian Renaissance Busts

Majolica

Renaissance style Majolica glazed ceramic handcrafted bust of a Florentine Madama. Measures: 20” width, 19.5” height, 10” depth.

Antique Early 19th Century Italian Wall-mounted Sculptures

Marble

The subject wears a shawl around her head. Her eyes are cast upwards. Two tear drops on her left cheek. Perhaps it depicts the Virgin Mary. The marble is decorated around the subjec...

Mid-20th Century Italian Busts

Marble

Beautiful Italian carved white marble bust of woman with intricate lace work on her blouse and meticulous attention to detail throughout, rested on black and rouge marble pedestal. S...

Antique 19th Century Italian Busts

Marble

19th century Italian carved marble bust of a maiden in classical robes and headdress. Meticulous attention is given to the details of the bust and especially on the facial features. ...

Antique 19th Century Italian Busts

Alabaster

19th century Italian alabaster bust. Titled 'Modestia'.

Vintage 1940s Italian Greco Roman Busts

Italian artist signed patinated plaster Greco Roman bust sculpture, circa 1940 Signature illegible.

Antonio Garella

Antique Late 19th Century Italian Busts

Bronze

Of mid brown patina with gilt highlights, the figures each signed 'A. Garella' and dated '1887', and with the foundry inscription 'Flli Galli / Firenze', Desdemona also inscribed 'Pr...

Antique 19th Century Italian Busts

Bronze bust of Homer, after the antique, Neapolitan. Mounted on marble pedestal.

Antique Late 19th Century Italian Busts

Majolica

Pair of Italian majolica busts, circa 1870.

Antique 1890s Italian Busts

#9-440 Hand curved Art Nouveau alabaster bust of a young woman. Her elaborate hat framing a beautiful face. The style of clothing of the late 19th century Art Nouveau period. The bus...

Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

Glass, Murano Glass

Beautiful carnival dancers couple. Very stylish couple full of harmony and color, perfectly proportioned. The price is for the two figurines. Measures: Height 34 cm and 38 cm. Wid...

Pietro Bazzanti

Antique 1860s Italian Neoclassical Busts

Marble

A beautiful neoclassical hand-chiseled marble bust of venus after Antonio Canova, Signed Pietro Bazzanti, Florence. This beautiful bust was originally made by Antonio Canova (1757-18...

Raffaello Romanelli

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Busts

Bronze

This bronze bust is an original sculpture made in 2003 by Raffaello Romanelli. Its classical lines draw the attention to the artist's careful study of muscles, while the broken legs ...

Raffaello Romanelli

2010s Italian Busts

Plaster

This stunning objet d'art, handcrafted of gypsum by sculptor Raffaello Romanelli in 2015, won the award Premio Firenze in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. This powerfully evocative piece p...