Gilded Paper Mache "Boy" Store Display Mannequin / Sculpture, circa 1930s

One of a kind large scale pocket knife (24" L), likely used as a store display / sign composed of a painted and carved walnut handle / bolster wi...

Hedwig “Hedi” Schoop “Turnabout Cat” in glazed and gold-leafed earthenware (ca. 1950s, California, USA). After fleeing Nazi Germany for the USA in 1930s alongside her husband compos...

This large, hand-carved wooden sculpture depicts a hand holding a stone and boasts spectacular detail and varying textures and shapes. The work is artist signed by inlay and dated "H...

1960s Bowie Brutalist work composed of patinated steel rods and braze welded masonry nails with gilt decoration which fan out to create a free-form / moving sculpture...

Elegant Art Deco style bronze black panther sculpture (circa 1940s, France). Natural, dark patina. Impressive, high-design objet d'art with int...

Magnificent and monumental in scale (26" in diameter / 79" circumference) redwood burl sphere. Can be used as a stand-alone impressive sculpture / decorative object or, with slight m...

Large 30" 1930s "Bathing Beauty" Store Display / Mannequin. Very unusual, minor damage to leg (see photo).

This large advertising store display 'Nipper' dog was made by the Old King Cole Company of Ohio, and dates to approximately 1920 and done in a period Art Deco style. The sculpture is done entirely of a molded paper mache which has been hand painted with a white ground, and black accents with some gold finish on the collar. This RCA advertising store display has been restored at some time, as evidenced by the re-painting of the entire sculpture. There is some overall wear as presented in the photos and consistent with age and use,. This figural advertising 'Nipper' dog is clearly signed with a red paper label for the 'Old King Cole Company' inside the hind quarter with the crown logo. These store display Nipper dogs were done for several years for RCA, and the first ones were done in paper mache, and later done in fiberglass and the last renditions done in a molded plastic. This advertising sculpture...

Male mannequin head or millinery, store display.

A very large and stunning hand painted French Art Deco necklace and/or camisole display mannequin bust of a chic woman. Her expression is not ...

Excellent bronze of boy and rabbit measuring 15 1/4"H x 5 1/2"W x 5"L. By Massachusetts/New Mexico/New York artist Warren Wheelock (1880-1960). The work has a dark, rich patina and was created circa 1930s. A sculpture by Wheelock is in the collection of the Smithsonian Art Museum. He also had a work that was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. This piece is in perfect condition with no flaws. Born in Sutton, Massachusetts, Warren Wheelock (1880-1960) became a painter, sculptor, illustrator, teacher and writer. He was known for his direct carving of geometric shapes to create figures that were nonobjective, and he also did representational heroic portraits. Exhibition venues include the Corcoran Biennial, the Woodstock Art Association, and the American Abstract Artists. He had a strong connection to the mountains of western North Carolina as well as to Woodstock, New York, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. During his life he was well-enough known and respected to be referenced in articles in Life Magazine, Time Magazine, and the New York Times. A heroic bronze by Wheelock of Baron von Steuben is in Philadelphia. He did WPA work...

Wonderfully stylish and completely original 1930s Art Deco female mannequin. She's made from compressed board, similar to papier maché and then skillfully layer of plaster and hand p...