19th Century French Life Size Cast Plaster Study of Baby's Arm with Lace

Very pretty and decorative early 20th century French articulated life-size mannequin's arm in dark brown painted and plastered heavy solid wood. To lay or hang and use for extraordi...

A wonderful set of two Victorian heavy cast brass sitting English Pointer dogs. Depicted 'en profile' facing towards or from each other. They were originally made as doorstoppers, but also very useful as large bookends...

Very elegant Musées Royaux du Cinquantenaire Bruxelles atelier de moulage plaster cast of a woman's left hand, early 20th century. Decorative piece ready for 'hanging out' or just '...

This is a very cool guy, it's a wooden head of a 19th century 'the Strongest Man of the World' attraction on a carnival or fair. The brown color, or maybe the shape of his head, mak...

I found this very lovely Austrian cold painted terracotta model of a Pug Dogie in seated position with little red collar adorned with gold pain...

Fantastic vintage 1970s-1980s pumpkins, also know as gourds, in Italian Murano and Swedisch Kosta Boda heavy mouth blown glass. Large life size pumpkins in orange, yellow and green glass. The three large orange-yellowish pumpkins are very pretty 1970s Murano ones. And the smallest green one is a Swedish Kosta Boda from the 1980s. The three 'classic' Murano pumpkins...

A life-size French mid-19th century cast iron statue of a semi clad pretty maiden wearing Classical Greek costume, standing over a broken jug whilst leaning on a wall, circa 1860.  

A very decorative Italian 19th century plaster statue of young baby Hercules. The statue is raised on an elongated hexagonal patinated base. Above is a wicker designed bed with large pillow and bedding. A small cherub resting in bed is focused on two serpents...

A wonderfully modelled bust of a French lady showing off her amazing coiffeured hair of curls with a large bow, wearing a gathered intricate lace top and sitting on a deeply waisted ...

Headless Plaster Statue of a Saint or Bishop. France, circa early 19th century.

An impressive larger than life-size cast and gilt bronze left hand and arm of a bodhisattva, late 19th century or earlier, Tibet. The over-sized arm and hand of graceful proportions. The arm tapering down to a slender wrist embellished with a simple bracelet hiding the join between the hand and arm. The hand and arm richly gilt. The join to the elbow visible and exposed. The hand heavily cast, with nice detail to the fingernails and cuticles. The palm with simple incised lines. The hand, with the pointer and pinky fingers raised, and the middle and ring finger folded down touching the thumb, performs the gesture known as karana mudra, the gesture of dispelling evil. (Here in Texas we refer to this gesture as "Hook'em Horns!") Karana mudra is often associated with Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, known in Tibet as Chenrezig, and in China as Guanyin. The hand and arm would originally have been part of a much larger sculpture. Unfortunately many Tibetan Buddhist sculptures...

Plaster bust on base. Preliminary study for marble carving with markings for the stonemason. France, 1850-1880. A very decorative piece.