Six Very Fine Early 19th C Moulds Picturing Dutch Queen and King's Figures

The polychromed statues are in an excellent state and date from a period when profane sculptures started to replace the religious ones.

Antique late 19th C Victorian lifesize bull’s head taxidermy with glass eyes on beautiful oak shield wearing a leather collar with brass bell The mount has a leather collar with bra...

Bamileke Kuosi Elephant masks comprise cloth panels and hoods woven from plantain fiber over raffia. On this background glass beads are stitched in geometric patterns. The basic form depicts salient features of the elephant—a long trunk and large ears. The hood fits tightly over the masker's head, and two hanging panels, one behind and one in front, partially conceal the body. The front panel is the elephant trunk, and the two large, stiff circles hinged to either side of the head are its ears, which flap as the masker dances. While the mask symbolizes an elephant, the face is human. Eyeholes provide visibility, and a nose and mouth with teeth are normally present. The glass beads used on these earlier masks were nineteenth-century trade beads of Venetian or Czechoslovakian manufacture, used as well in exchange for slaves. Elephant mask costumes...

The cigar store Indian originated as a tradition, not in the United States but in Europe, where carved “Virginie men,” as Europeans called native Americans, were used for advertising...

English ornithological showcase containing 34 birds from India, Turkistan, Eastern China and south east Asia. Species preconvention 01/06/1947 can be commercialized in accordance wit...

The German sculpture Franz Josef Steger (1845-1938), under the guidance of Professor Wilhelm His (1831-1904) and based on the designs of anatomist Car...

19th-early 20th century French mould for glass bottle, Hand-turned. Beautiful patina.

A fine and stunning pair of Sevres porcelain figures, mid 19th century, of a female fruit picker and a male grape harvester, the bottoms with underglaze Sevres marks. Sevres porcelain at its best in this magnificent pair. A fine example from a New Orleans home in the lower garden district...

Very rare Swedish sled, early 19th century.

A magnificent pair of very large Meissen putti representing Day & Night by Heinrich Schwabe. Each figure wrapped in a cloth, float above the earth's atmo...

Early 19th century pair of lead putti figures A charming matched pair of hand-crafted early 19th century lead putti figures. Size in inches: H 10” x...

A very fine late 19th century gilt bronze fireplace fender The centre of the fender with a wreath and scrolling foliage with berries, each end with a child reaching toward a flame...