Bronze 'Child Motorist' mascot bookends by Jean Verschneider, 1910

CAST BY RENOWNED FOUNDRY ETLING OF PARIS From our Bronze Sculpture collection, we are delighted to offer this French Bronze Female by Jean Verschneider and Etling Paris. This Art D...

Superb and extremely rare art deco sculpture by Jean Verschneider (29 August 1872 – 20 December 1943) of a girl giving out golden apples. This sculpture is particularly rare because ...

An early 'Bibendum Protégé' Car mascot - Hood Ornament, French, circa 1910, Nickel-plated bronze figure of a 'slim' Mr. Bibendum, mounted on wooden black base. Perfect for any Classi...

Bronze sculpture with a brown patina shaded in green signed Pigalle on the base, representing a child surprised by a crayfish's pinching. Tears are running down the cheeks of the naked child, sitting on a large shell, as he has just been pinched by a crayfish. The sculpture rests on a green marble base. Jean-Baptiste Pigalle is a great French sculptor born in Paris in 1714. At a very young age, he studied sculpture and became aware that his art was the meaning of his life. He moved to Italy in 1734 to perfect his technique. Then, he joined the Beaux-Arts, thanks to his work "Mercury attaching his heel" (1740) which had an immediate success. Several artists have a copy, painters represent it on their canvases, and a biscuit reduction is made by the manufacture of Sevres in 1770. Very quickly the orders multiplied and Mme de Pompadour took him under her wing. Juggling between baroque and classical styles, he made portraits of Diderot and Voltaire and then realized the famous funeral monuments...

"Sitting Kewpie" or "The Thinker", Car Mascot Hood Ornament, 1910´s. Made of silvered bronze, mounted over a green and white mrble base. Can de used as a desk paperweight. Originally appearing in the form of magazine illustrations between 1905 and 1909, Kewpie dolls...

Rare Gendarme / Policeman Car Mascot by Antoine Bofill, French, circa 1910. A rare Policeman / Gendarme Car Mascot / Hood Ornament by Antoine Bofill, French, circa 1910, the imposing...

Kneeling figure hammering a spike in the ground. Signed J. Valenta. With the 'AR' monogram for Arthur Rubinstein foundry.

Truly fine and extraordinary, this large and heavy bronze bookend, beautifully sculpted, cast and chased, depicts a sleeping male nude figure, his arm resting on a Classical mask, his body curled around an owl, and his left arm clasped by a small child. Given that the owl represents knowledge and wisdom, and the mask indicates art and theater, the sculpture is suffused with allegory and meaning. The sculpture is not signed, but is stamped 530/101 and shows an engraved inventory number, probably added by the first owner. The bronze has a lustrous patrina, and sits on an oxblood marble...

Jeannot child mascot on his pig radiator cap 1930 aluminum dimension length 9 cm by 3 cm. Bertin's model Additional information: Material: Cast iron ...

A good small bronze bust of a child after Jean-Antoine Houdon. The child with head turned to the left in a downward gaze. Slightly pensive and some...