Pair of 19th Century Stone and Marble Busts

Early 19th Century pair of Portland stone heads. The carved heads with carved neck ropes, depicting slaves, circa 1815.

19th Century pair of Italian marble busts depicting two children held on square Violet Jura Brocatelle marble pedestals with white and black marble detail.

19th Century Italian Marble bust of the Classical Greek philosopher Socrates. His draped robe is hand-carved in red Scagliola with the face modelled in contrasting white Carrara marb...

18th Century Italian Marble Bust of Caesar Augustus. His draped robe is hand-carved in red rosso levanto marble with the face modelled in contrasting white Carrara marble. The piece ...

Two life-size, expressive busts of white marble as allegories of winter as an old man with coat and tongs - and - of spring as a youth with cap, on conical stelae with leaf ornaments...

Pair of large classic HEADS from the 1950s. HEADS of large size and weight in terracotta or similar on iron bases. Very decorative. Measures: 51x35x20 cm and without bases: 44x35x20 ...

An extremely well carved pair of Statuary Carrara marble busts on marble pedestals, by important sculptor Odoardo Fantacchiotti.  Odoardo Fantacchiotti (11 May 1811–4 June 1877) was an Italian sculptor of the late-Neoclassic period. He was born in Rome, but his family moved to Florence. In 1820, he enrolled in the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze. At the Academy, he studied under S. Ricci, and first started exhibiting in 1828. Gaining the patronage of the Grand Duke, he continued his studies, following the ideas of Aristodemo Costoli of depicting the "bello naturale". In 1839 at the Academy, he exhibited the work of the Massacre of the Innocents. In 1840 he was named professor at the Academy. Among his public works are the statue of Boccaacio and dell'Accorso for the ground floor niches of the courtyard of the Uffizi, medallions commemorating Francesco Redi and the bust of Ferdinando II de Medici for the Museo della Specola, a statue of Sallustio Bandini (now at the Accademia dei Georgeofili, but initially planned for the loggia of the Uffizi. A marble Virgin...

PAIR OF BUSTS "LUCIUS VERO" SMALL PLASTER BUST - TANAGRE 21th Century Lucius Ceionius Commodus Verus (December 15, 130 - 169), better known simply as Lucius Verus, was co-Emperor wi...