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Figurative Sculptures For Sale
Period: Early 1900s
Period: 1890s
Classic Sculpture in Biscuit on Base, Gustafsberg, Dated 1910, Siblings
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Classic sculpture in biscuit on base, Gustafsberg, dated 1910.
Siblings.
Measures 30.5 cm. x 20 cm.
In perfect condition.
Stamped. Gustafsberg, PS.
Category
Early 1900s Danish Art Nouveau Antique Figurative Sculptures
Stone Statue of Kwan Yin, circa 1900
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Elegant, carved stone figure of the goddess of compassion and mercy, Kwan Yin. She wears stylized robes and makes a gesture blessing. The surface is wonderfully worn and cracked thro...
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Lifesize French 19th Century Sculpture of a Lady with a Lantern, by Louis Hottot
By Louis Hottot
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine and rare lifesize French 19th century patinated metal figure of a standing maiden holding a lantern, the impressive figure depicting a young scantily dressed and barefoot...
Category
1890s French Belle Époque Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Brass
"La Fée" French Art Nouveau Bronze Sculpture by Louis Chalon
By Louis Chalon
Located in New York, NY
A French Art Nouveau "Fairy" or "La Fée" bronze sculpture by Louis Chalon. A nude female figure stands on an open flower with complex, textured roots. On her back are four "wings" in...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Turn-of-the-Century Marble Hounds
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Pair of beautifully sculpted, left-and right, Italian, Carrara marble, seated hounds on bases of the same.
Category
Early 1900s Italian Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
"Roman and Greek Myths, " Fabulous Gilded Bronze Urn with Multiple Male Nudes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Teeming with male nudes and mythological scenes illustrating stories such as Diogenes' search for an honest man, and Romulus and Remus' role in the birth of Rome, this rare bronze urn was sculpted by Ferdinand Levillain, France's master of bas relief at the turn of the last century. Levillain was famous for his low reliefs in medallic work and finely-detailed bronze objects, and was greatly admired in his day for giving a modern interpretation to Greek and Roman subjects. This stunning gilded bronze urn...
Category
Early 1900s French Belle Époque Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Italian Late 19th Century Belle Epoque Carved Marble Figure of a Bather Girl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine Italian late 19th century "Belle Époque" carved marble figure of a young bather. The seated young girl wearing a form-fitting one-piece tank suit, holding a hand fan, and seat...
Category
Early 1900s Italian Belle Époque Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Pair of French 19th-20th Century Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Putti Table Lamps
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine pair of French 19th-20th century Louis XV style figural gilt bronze Putti torchere table lamps on a Rouge Royal base. Each figure representi...
Category
Early 1900s French Louis XV Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Majolica Frog with Mandolin Massier, circa 1900
Located in Austin, TX
Art Nouveau green Majolica frog who playing mandolin unsigned Jerome Massier Fils, circa 1900.
The Massier are known for the quality of their unique enamels and paintings. The Massi...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
Pair French 19th Century Baroque Revival Style Steel and Bronze Chenets Andirons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A pair of French 19th century Baroque Revival style steel and patinated bronze figural chenets (Andirons). Each with a posing male figure holding a satyr shield next to decorative sp...
Category
Early 1900s French Baroque Revival Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Steel, Iron
Rare Italian Marble of a Nude Goddess Adelaide Pandiani Maraini
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Adelaide Pandiani Maraini, A fine and important Italian marble, Pamona embracing a herm of Vertumne
circa 1895, inscribed ADELAIDE MARAINI/ROMA, set upon a granite plinth with bronz...
Category
1890s Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Italian 19th-20th Century Marble Group "Allegory to Music" Children's Orchestra
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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...
Category
Early 1900s Italian Beaux Arts Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
"Nude with Lily Pad, " Important Bronze Candlestick by Roman Bronze Works
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Because the Roman bronze works cast sculpture for most of America's greatest sculptors in the early 20th century, this gorgeous bronze was no doubt created by an important artist, th...
Category
Early 1900s American Art Nouveau Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Silver Figures of Eight Immortals Yangqinghe Jiuji Marks, Late Qing Dynasty
Located in New York, NY
Important and rare silver figures of eight immortals Yangqinghe Jiuji marks, Late Qing dynasty. Each hollow figure portraying one of the immortals in an animated pose, with highly detailed facial features, four pierced with apertures for the insertion of facial hair, clad in finely chased robes, all but two with their characteristic attributes, their bases bearing either two seal marks reading Yangqinghe Jiuji gongyibu and Zhe'ning Hu Qiusheng zao, or three marks in regular script reading Yangqinghe Jiuji gongyibu, Shang and Sheng zuo, original hand-carved wood stands. Measures: 11 1/4in (28.5cm) high (tallest one).
The earliest records of the silver atelier known as Yangqinghe date to 1775 in Shanghai...
Category
1890s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Silver
German Porcelain Figure of Don Quixote, circa 1900
Located in New York, NY
Marked Hutschenreuther and impressed by the designer Carl Werner.
Category
Early 1900s German Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Italian 19th-20th Century Neoclassical & Greco-Roman Style Scagliola Wall Plaque
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A large Italian 19th-20th century neoclassical and Greco-Roman style architectural scagliola wall plaque depicting chariots, horses, allegorical maidens and gods, inlaid and painted ...
Category
Early 1900s Italian Greco Roman Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Other
French Art-deco-orientalist Spelter of a Nude Young Maiden, Attributed to Hottot
By Louis Hottot
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An Imposing fine and large French Art-Deco Spelter (Petit-bronze) figure of a standing semi-nude orientalist maiden in a brown patina, attributed to Louis Hottot (French, 1834-1905). The smiling young topless beauty, posing with her arms outstretched, her hair wrapped with a headscarf centred with a green art-glass bead and a scantily scarf tied around her waist, standing barefoot among tropical shrubs and flowers and raised on a circular mottled green marble base. A brass plaque reads "TYPHA", Paris, circa 1900.
Louis Hottot was a French sculpture who mainly specialized in Orientalist female figures and other Orientalist subjects and themes, most of his works were produced in spelter. He exhibited his works at the Paris Salon from 1885 to 1898. Hottot is best known for his Orientalist-themed sculptures, including Almie du Caire, circa 1887 and Fille d'Egypte, circa: 1885. He was a member of the Socie´te´ des Artistes Franc¸ais.
Literature:
Les Bronzes du XIXe Siecle, P. Kjellberg, Les Editions de L'amateur, Paris.
S. Richemond, Les Orientalistes...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Deco Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Spelter
Monumental Pair of French 19th-20th Century Putto Flambeaux Urns Torcheres
By René Rozet 1
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Monumental pair of French 19th century figural gilt and patinated bronze Rosso Granite marble Flambeaux Urns Torcheres, each depicting a pair of allegorical Putti (Children) holding ...
Category
1890s French Louis XV Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Turn-of-the-century, Solid Alabaster, Kwan Yin Figure
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Italian, hand-carved, graceful Kwan sculpture in flowing robes. The figure stands on an octagonal, solid alabaster base and is mounted on a large, fluted, period, carved-wood column....
Category
Early 1900s Italian Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
Wonderful Signed Bronze Sculpture Juan Clara Ayats Onyx Girls Playing with Chair
By Juan Clara
Located in Roslyn, NY
Wonderful signed patina bronze sculpture by Juan Clara Ayats on an onyx base of two girls playing with a chair, Spanish artist (1875-1958).
Category
Early 1900s Spanish Renaissance Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Onyx, Bronze
Tazza by Michael Powolny, VWGK, Austria, circa 1907
Located in New York, NY
Ceramic tazza, composed of three kneeling putti around a blue bottomed basin. Marked on the underside with impressed monogram VWGK factory mark model 153.
OUR REFERENCE N8303
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Vienna Secession Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
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
Napoleon Bronze Sculpture Desk Inkwell, Signed Emile Pinedo
By Émile Pinedo
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
Napoleon Bonaparte bronze desk inkwell, signed Pinedo with foundry mark. Mounted over a Green Alps marble.
Antique signed 19th large bronz...
Category
1890s French Empire Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of French Bronze Figural Ram Bookends, Signed L. Fontinelle, Circa 1900
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of French bronze figural ram bookends exported to sale for the America market, Ovington, N.Y. Signed by maker in France. Louis Fontinelle, Early 20th cent...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Deco Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Art Nouveau Ceramic Inkwell by Carabin
Located in New York, NY
A French Art Nouveau "Femme à la Coloquinte," glazed ceramic inkwell by François-Rupert Carabin. The inkwell feature a nude woman embracing an unusually large gourd, circa 1900.
A s...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Vienna Bergman, N Bronze Jockey Riding on Jumping Horse Made, circa 1920
Located in Vienna, AT
Gorgeous Vienna Tall Bronze Figurine made by famous manufactory Bergman(n) circa 1920.
The Jockey clad in typical garments (= cap, riding boots, riding breeches...
Category
1890s Austrian Other Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dance with a Snake, Austrian Jugenstil Bronze and Marble Sculpture, circa 1900
Located in New York, NY
Made of a beautifully crafted patinated bronze, it proudly stands on its original magnificent marble base. Unsigned, the authorship is unidentified.
Full of tasteful provocative ero...
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Jugendstil Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Art Nouveau Figural, "Parfum Par Flora"
Located in Fairfax, VA
Art Nouveau figural of young woman posing with flower titled "Parfum Par Flora." In the Art Nouveau style, made of patinated spelter.
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Spelter
Bronze Sculpture of Children Playing
Located in Fairfax, VA
Beautiful Dutch bronze. Children playing and laughing on red marble.
Category
Early 1900s Dutch Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, 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
Rancoulet Bronze Indians
By Rancoulet
Located in Dallas, TX
19th century Rancoulet bronze sculpture pair
Indians.
Category
1890s Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Large Royal Dux Water Carriers
By Royal Dux
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A large and impressive pair of Royal Dux neoclassical figures of water carriers.
Category
Early 1900s Czech Neoclassical Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pottery
Rare Bronze Paperweight Celebrating 500th Anniversary of Leipzig Univ, 1909
By Max Lange
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Depicting two male nudes lifting a garland framing Medieval images of the two patron saints of Leipzig University -- St. Laurentius and John the Baptist -- this rare and beautiful br...
Category
Early 1900s German Beaux Arts Antique 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
English Silver Hand, London, 1909
Located in New York, NY
English silver hand, London, 1909. Maker: Henry and Albert Batsy.
Category
Early 1900s English Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Silver
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
Meissen Art Nouveau Figure 'Tied Up Cupid' by Paul Helmig, Germany Circa 1900
Located in Vienna, AT
Excellen Art Nouveau porcelain figurine by Paul Helmig:
Winged cupid boy with a suffering expression tied to a tree with a long garland of roses, an empty quiver at his feet.
On high...
Category
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Patinated terracotta sculpture signed by Mathurin Moreau
Located in Paris, FR
Very large and beautiful terracotta sculpture by Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912) depicting "Spring". The young woman with beautiful hair is seated on a rock, shielding herself from view ...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Sculpture 'Diana the huntress' Marble
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sculpture (Diana the huntress) marble
marble material
origin Italy without signature
perfect condition without restoring.
Category
Early 1900s Italian Neoclassical Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
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
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
Antique, New and Vintage Figurative Sculptures
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