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Figurative Sculptures For Sale
Period: 1920s
Period: 1890s
English Porcelain Figural Double Coupe Centerpiece, Royal Worcester, circa 1890
Located in New York, NY
With impressed Worcester mark and puce mark. Depicting two colorful figures reclining against a tree stump, the two coupes with molded basket weave exteriors.
Category
1890s British Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
"Nude with Bowl, " Rare Art Deco Sculpture by Solon for Amer, Encaustic
By Leon Victor Solon
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A classic and rare example of Art Deco sculpture, this piece was designed by Leon Victor Solon, an important color theorist and designer who became the artistic director of the American Encaustic Tile...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Gustave Gillot, Goddess Pomona, French Art Deco Bronze Sculpture, circa 1920s
Located in New York, NY
Impressive "high" Art Deco bronze dark-brown patinated sculpture of Pomona by Gustave Gillot (French, 1888-1965) of an excellent quality.
Signed by the sculptor and stamped "Edition Pomona" on the plinth.
Pomona, the ancient Roman goddess of fruit trees, gardens and orchards is watching over, protects and cares for their cultivation. Pomona is associated with the flourishing of the fruit trees, in artistic depictions she is generally shown with a platter of fruit or a cornucopia.
A statue of Pomona is set atop the Pulitzer Fountain in Manhattan's Grand Army Plaza...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dancing Boys, Black Forest Art Deco, Hand-Carved Wood Sculpture, 1920s
Located in New York, NY
Signed on the base with an unencrypted monogram...
Category
1920s German Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
F. Falcone, Orientale, Italian Art Deco Hand-Carved Wood Sculpture, circa 1925
Located in New York, NY
Signed on the side of the base, "F. Flacone" and "Orientale 1800", dated "1925".
Carved out inscription on the bottom of the base, "Chiavari". (Chiavari is a small town in the Pro...
Category
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Original Art Deco Nude Scarf Dancer Bronze Signed Fanny Rozet, circa 1920
By Fanny Rozet
Located in North Bergen, NJ
Stunning original French Art Deco nude scarf dancer bronze signed Fanny Rozet was among the few women artists and an important members of the "Evolution Group" an Avant-garde group o...
Category
1920s Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Marble Abstract Figural Sculpture by Oriani, Italy 1985
Located in New York, NY
A lovely modern sculpture by 20th century Italian artist Oriani.
Category
1920s Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
"Nondum, " Remarkable Art Deco Bronze Sculptural Panel with Multiple Nudes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Entitled "Nondum" or "not yet," this remarkable and important bronze panel by Anna Ladd depicts a time in the future -- a mysterious, ecstatic world that seems to represent both para...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Terracotta Sculpture by T. Foris
Located in Houston, TX
Well executed antique French terracotta figurative sculpture signed T. Foris (1921). This gorgeous French terra cotta figurative sculpture depicts two dancing maidens.
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Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Rudolph Henn, Child Feeding a Squirrel, Art Deco Bronze Sculpture, circa 1920s
By Rudolph Henn
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the artist on the plinth, this desk-size sculpture of a child feeding a squirrel was created by the sculptor mostly known for his depictions of children, Rudolph Henn. In t...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bugatti Type 35 Motoring Bronze
By August Hannessen
Located in London, GB
'Rallye du Mont Blanc’:
A fine quality, and extremely heavy cast bronze motoring trophy by August Hannessen dating from circa 1928, depicting a Bugatti Type 35 beneath a ceremonial...
Category
1920s French Other Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Female Nude Bookends, Rare Bronze Sculptures by Max Kalish, Paris Foundry
By Max Kalish 1
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Finished with a gorgeous, deep green-black patina with mossy highlights, this rare pair of bronze bookends depicting seated female nudes was sculpted by Max Kalish, best known for his series of sculptures celebrating the American worker...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Tall Burmese Monk Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A tall standing Burmese monk with flowing robes on lotus leaf. Attractive patina, shows it's age beautifully, Burma, circa 1880.
BH421.
Category
1890s Burmese Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Lacquer, Teak
Charles Raphaël Peyre, French Art Deco Silvered Bronze Sculptural Group, c. 1925
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco silvered bronze sculptural group with two female putti figures reclining together in an embrace, surrounded by flowers and filigree. Sculpture has a beautiful silver finish, and rests on the original rouge marble base. Signed on the right front “Raphael Peyre”; and foundry mark “B.L. Paris” with “Cire Perdue” (lost wax) in an oval cartouche in the back.
The piece is very heavy (51 pounds), crating recommended for shipment.
Charles Raphaël Peyre...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Charles Vyse Studio Pottery Figure
Located in New York, NY
"The Cinneraria Boy" circa 1925. Modeled as a boy wearing herringbone trousers and plaid jacket holding a wrapped bunch of blue cineraria flowers.
Category
1920s English Vintage Figurative Sculptures
"Victor Riding His Mount, " Rare Art Deco Sculpture by GyöRgy Zala
By György Zala
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Famous for his design of Heroes Square in Budapest, including the sculpting of several monumental bronze figures atop the central column and framing piers, Gyo¨rgy Zala was one of Hu...
Category
1920s Hungarian Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Femme Au Pieuvre" French Art Nouveau Glazed Ceramic Inkwell by Rupert Carabin
Located in New York, NY
A French Art Nouveau "Femme-Pieuvre," brown glazed ceramic inkwell by Rupert Carabin, wherein a woman ecstatically rips open the head of an octopus, spilling its ink. A beautiful pl...
Category
1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Enrico Mazzolani Ceramic Female figure, Italy, 1930s
Located in Milan, IT
Enrico Mazzolani ceramic female figure, Italy, 1930s.
Category
1920s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Maiolica
"African with Lute, " Rare Sculpture of Female Nude by Archipenko Student
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Sculpted in the late 1920s by Margaret Berger, a student of Alexander Archipenko, this is one of the finest sculptures to come out of his ARKO Modern American Ceramics school in Wood...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay
"Smelling the Rose, " Classic Art Deco Sculpture with Female Nude, France
By Onnaing
Located in Philadelphia, PA
With a basket of roses in her lap, more roses at her feet, and another at her nose, this lovely sculpture of a female nude with a very modern hair style is a classic example of Art Deco design. The sculpture was produced by the famed Onnaing pottery, established in 1821 and best known for a long line of Majolica ware...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
"Ivory Coast Figures", Important Art Deco Sculptures for Eugène Printz Interior
By Jean Camus
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Representing the fascination that so many French and Belgian sculptors had in the people of the colonies established by their nations in West and Central Africa, culminating in the e...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
"First Born, " Art Deco Marble Sculpture by Chester Beach, Influenced by Rodin
By Chester Beach
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of tender affection and familial love, this marble sculpture is one of the finest works of Chester Beach, one of America’s foremost sculptors in the...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Diana the huntress sculpture Vienna bronze
By Ernst Beck
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Diana the huntress sculpture Vienna bronze
Bronze with marble base
Origin Austria Circa 1920
The sculpture is in very good condition and its silver ...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
1920s / 30s Just Andersen "Sitting Nude" Design by Asta Lilbæk
Located in Handewitt, DE
1920s/30s Just Andersen, sitting nude woman. Dark patinated bronze / disko metal on base. Very beautiful work. Designed and signed by Asta Lilbæk. No.D1744
Category
1920s Danish Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Late 19th Century Bronze Sculpture of Hermes
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
A late 19th century bronze figure depicting Hermes in full stride. Unsigned.
Category
1890s French Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Porcelain Figurine 'Pearl Seeker' K. Himmelstoss, Rosenthal Selb Germany, 1920
By Karl Himmelstoss, Rosenthal
Located in Vienna, AT
Excellent Rosenthal figurine of the 1920s:
Unclothed girl with a wreath of flowers on her shoulder-length hair parted in the middle, kneeling on the ground with her right leg and pic...
Category
1920s German Art Nouveau Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Goldscheider Vienna Art Déco Figurine 'The Captured Bird', by Lorenzl c. 1925
Located in Vienna, AT
One of the most famous and elegant models from the Goldscheider manufacture:
The dance 'Der Gefangene Vogel' performed by the dancer Niddy Impekoven (1904-2002) in the early twenties...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Lucienne Heuvelmans, Virgin and Child, Art Deco Figurative Sculpture
By Lucienne Heuvelmans 1
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb patinated bronze and ivory art deco sculpture of the Virgin Mary tenderly holding her child, Jesus, by Lucienne Heuvelmans, signed. France 1920s.
Very good condition.
Dimen...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Fallen Gladiator", Rare Gold-Glazed Art Deco Sculpture by Elek, Hungary
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This depiction of a half-nude gladiator, wounded or dying, with his shield to one side, was sculpted by Kóbor Elek, one of Hungary’s most celebrated artists in the 1920s. The origin...
Category
1920s Hungarian Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Archer Statue by Salvatore Melani
Located in Austin, TX
Statue of an archer with drawn bow made of bronze patinated pewter. The sculpture sits on a black marble base adorned with two onyx embellishments. The figure is in very good antiqu...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Art Deco bronze sculpture nude with spear Amazone by Marcel Bouraine France 1925
Located in Antwerp, BE
Art Deco bronze sculpture nude with spear Amazone by Marcel Bouraine
Signed Bouraine with Etling Paris Foundry mark. France 1925.
Bronze, silver & black patina.
This bronze is illu...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jean Garnier Bronze Sailor Boy Sculpture
By Jean Garnier
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, AR
J. GARNIER: a charming BRONZE FIGURE of a young sailor-boy, dressed in "bobble-topped" beret and sailor's smock, his arms folded as he happily dances a jig. Good color and patina, an...
Category
1890s Argentine Belle Époque Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
1920 René Lalique, Car Mascot Statuette Sirene Glass with Sepia Patina Mermaid
By René Lalique
Located in Boulogne Billancourt, FR
Car Mascot Statuette "Sirene" made in frosted glass with sepia patina by René Lalique in 1920.
Molded signature into the decor.
Perfect condition
Height: 10.5 cm
Félix Marc...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Japan 1890 Meiji Period Seated Figure of Quan Yin in Enamelled White Porcelain
Located in Miami, FL
A Seated Quan Yin from the Japan Meiji period (1886-1912).
Rare and highly detailed sculpture, created in the Imperial Japan, during the Meiji period (1868-1912), circa 1890. This...
Category
1890s Japanese Meiji Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Sculpture by Ivanov Dimitry Iosivovich for Lomonosovski S.Pietroburgo, 1923
Located in Montelabbate, PU
The author of the model (1923) is the sculptor Ivanov Dimitry Iosifovich. Signed in paste on the base and under the brand lomonosovski porcelain of St. Petersburg The famous Russian ...
Category
1920s Russian Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Art Deco Bronze Sculpture Bathing Nude by Jaume Martrus Y Riera 1925 G. Bechini
Located in Antwerp, BE
Art Deco bronze sculpture bathing nude by Jaume Martrus y Riera.
With foundry mark of G. Bechini, Barcelona.
Patinated bronze on a green marble base.
Spain 1925.
Category
1920s Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Very Large Porcelain Figure Faun with Crocodile Rosenthal Selb, Germany
Located in Vienna, AT
Admirable and very rare Art Nouveau Figurine by Rosenthal.
The faun stands frightened on a broken piece of ruins with Egyptian inscriptions, holding a panpipe in his right hand, a s...
Category
1920s German Art Nouveau Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
1920s Hand Forged Iron Spear Tribal Warrior Sculpture African Dogon
Located in Chula Vista, CA
African tribal Dogon hand forged spear & chain sculpted warrior
West Africa circa 1920s.
6.75 H x 3 W x 2.5 D
Original vintage unrestored condition.
Refer to images.
Category
1920s Congolese Tribal Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Antique Italian Terracotta Classical Bust on a Wood Base
Located in Houston, TX
Antique Italian terracotta classical bust on a wood base.
Italian patinated terra cotta bust or sculpture of a classical Roman on a wood base, circa 1920, possibly a Grand Tour piece...
Category
1920s Italian Classical Roman Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Robert Aitken, A Dance, American Art Deco Patinated Bronze Sculpture circa 1920s
By Robert Aitken
Located in New York, NY
Signed ‘AITKEN’, and ‘XOROS’ (Greek: Dance) on the plinth.
Dimensions:
Height 20 inches
Width (top) 11 inches
Depth 6 inches
This remarkable in its expensiveness sculpture depicts a forest spirit – satyr, dancing and playing his reed simultaneously. With horns and horse ears, satyrs were endowed with the qualities of wild creatures with animal qualities, little thought of human prohibitions and moral standards. In addition, they were distinguished by fantastic endurance, both in battle and at the festive table. Their great passion was the passion for music, reed being one of satyrs’ main attributes.
Robert Ingersoll Aitken (1878-1949) was a noted American sculptor, born in San Francisco, California. He became a noted sculptor who spent most of his career teaching at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He has done numerous portraits, full size and bust, of well known figures, and his work is in many collections and museums including the Smithsonian Institution and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. For his early study, he was a painting pupil of Arthur Mathews...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rare Joe Descomps Art Deco Nude Sculpture
Located in Miami, FL
Sculpted in stone, a beautiful French Art Deco nude female with floral details and fabric draping, signed Joe Descomps, dated under the base, 11-6-26, June 11, 1926.
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Antique, New and Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Figurative sculpture is a modern art form in which artists create work that is typically representative of the visible world. However, sculptures that are considered to be figurative in style can definitely be inclusive of abstract elements. A wide range of antique, new and vintage figurative sculptures has been made over the years by both well-known and emerging artists, and these pieces can prove striking and provocative as part of your home decor.
Realistic representation in visual art has a very long history. And while figurative artists, whether figurative painters or sculptors, find inspiration in humans, animals and real-life objects, good figurative sculptures can make us think differently about how the real world should look. Just as figurative paintings might include Photorealistic human likenesses, they can also include elements of Surrealism and can suggest a creative and alternative reality. Figurative sculptures aren’t always realistic impressions of our world — depictions of the human form in classical Greek sculpture, for example, might emphasize beauty and physical perfection.
There are a variety of figurative sculptures on 1stDibs created by artists working in a number of styles, including Art Deco, Art Nouveau, mid-century modern and more. A large figurative sculpture can introduce an excellent focal point in a guest bedroom, while smaller works might draw the eye to spaces such as wall shelving or a bookcase that people may otherwise overlook.
When decorating your living room, dining room, home office and study areas with figurative sculptures, don’t be afraid to choose bold colors to inject brightness into neutral spaces. Texture is another factor to consider when purchasing figurative sculptures. A highly textural work of ceramics or wood will catch the eye in a sleek modern space, whereas a smooth, flat glass sculpture can offer an often much-needed contrast in a room that already has many textures.
On 1stDibs, find antique, new or vintage figurative sculpture or other kinds of sculpture for your home decor today.
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