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Material: Stoneware
Samuraï Sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Sculpture Samuraï all in stoneware, hand-crafted
piece with subtle engraved details and decorated
with enamels.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
$6,477 / item
Vintage Decorative Egyptian Pharaoh Statue on Marble Base, Grand Tour Souvenir
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A beautifully crafted statue of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, I believe it is Ramses the 2nd however I am not completely sure. The statue appears to be made of copper or white metal. ...
Category
1970s Egyptian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Metal
Unique Large Stoneware Sculpture Woman's Hand by Finn Lynggaard, Denmark, 1970s
Located in Odense, DK
An amazing unique stoneware sculpture modelled in the shape of a woman's hand with blue glazed nails. Made by Danish artist Finn Lynggaard at his own studio in the 1970s. Stamped mon...
Category
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Greek Tragedy Black Terracotta Mask - France 1950's
By Vallauris, Jean Marais
Located in New York, NY
One of a kind black terracotta Greek tragedy decorative mask. French art from the 50's. In good vintage condition. Minor dent on the back.
Holes are present in order for the mask...
Category
1950s French Vintage Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Terracotta
"Pompeii" Memory Jug by Michael Thompson
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life.
Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars, memory jugs are African American folk art objects that honor a loved one who has recently passed. Small tokens and mementos of the deceased are gathered and affixed to the exterior of a jug or vase, an abundance of memories that celebrates a life lived to the fullest.
Michael Thompson applies this tradition to his own practice, creating tactile assemblages of this and that. Formed in the manner of collage, each jug honors the lost memories of generations past and his own memories of personally discovering each item. With varied sources for materials including Kyoto, Turkey, and Mexico, a great number of the found shards are 18th and 19th century ceramics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Esther Shimazu Signed Japanese Hawaiian American Female Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Esther Shimazu's bald female sculpture. She uses hand-built techniques to construct clay figures using colored slips, oxides when firing, then hand sands them and rubs in pigments to...
Category
20th Century Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Exclusive Danish early 20th century sculpture of large green glazed goblin
Located in Ebberup, DK
Original antique large unique sculpture of goblin made by Danish artist Anders Møller.
Anders Møller resided on Funen and was born in 1890. He was a member of Danish artist group “Germinalen”, a part of the art and ceramic movement in Denmark at that time. The sculpture is estimated to be from the 1930s.
This mythical, grotesque creature has exaggerated features and is possibly influenced by European Gothic or Art Nouveau aesthetics. The expression also has a resemblance to the work of earlier artist such as Niels Hansen Jacobsen...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish Art Nouveau Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Monumental Leza McVey Surrealist "Eye in Hand" Ceramic Sculpture, 1977
By Leza McVey
Located in Chicago, IL
Monumental Leza McVey Surrealist "Eye in Hand" Ceramic Sculpture, 1977
Partially glazed stoneware
Signature: Signed "Leza" inside the hand
Dimensions: 23¾" H × 14¼" W × 7¾" D
Conditi...
Category
1970s American Vintage Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Original and Unique Ceramic Fountain by Otto Prutscher and Michael Powolny, 1914
Located in Vienna, AT
Executed by Michael Powolny for the Wienerberger Keramikwerkstätten, ceramic and stoneware, ochre colored, body holding a dish in her outstretched arms standing above a three-tired C...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Jugendstil Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Roman torso in stone
Located in 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, NL
Muscular torso in stoneware, after the classical greek and Roman sculptures.
with a good patina. Signed but not readable (see last picture).
Probably circa 1930.
Category
1930s Italian Classical Roman Vintage Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$1,002
Hyllested Danish Mid-Century Art Pottery Eskimo Figure
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A charming and uncommon Danish mid-century art pottery eskimo figure made by Hyllested Keramik and dating from around 1960. This highly collectable figure is referenced by some as re...
Category
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Danish Jugend Art Nouveau 1900s fine art ceramic sculpture w. mythical creatures
Located in Ebberup, DK
A striking and highly decorative ceramic sculptural lidded urn estimated to be from the 1900s, possibly originating from the renowned Søholm ceramic factory during its Skønvirke peri...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish Art Nouveau Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
1950s Mid-Century Wall Plaque Adam Dworski Wye Pottery Woman
Located in Hyattsville, MD
A Ceramic Wall Plaque made by Croatian Ceramicist Adam Dworski who set up Wye Pottery Studio in Clyro Wales England in the late 1950s.
Category
1950s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
"Revealed" - Stoneware Sculpture by Eric Serritella
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Note: We highly recommend shipping through 1stDibs for its cost effectiveness, full insurance coverage, and reliable handling. While standard parcel services are an option, the defau...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Other Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Dora De Larios Signed Mexican American California Studio Pottery Sculpture
Located in Studio City, CA
A fabulous, rare, and unique large horse and rider sculpture/ candelabra by famed Mexican American California studio art potter Dora De Larios. It was recently brought to our attention by a collector of her work that this piece was featured in a presentation at the Scripps Fine Arts Foundation and it was made in 1959. It is one of her earlier works. Quite rare and special in this respect.
De Larios was born in Los Angeles to Mexican immigrant parents. She grew up in the artistic Silver Lake district near downtown Los Angeles amongst Mexican and Nisei Japanese immigrants. As a result, De Larios was heavily influenced by ancient American...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Jean Juhlin (Am. B. 1931) Stoneware Signed Sculpture 1985
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Stoneware sculpture depicting a reclining Indian female figure. The barefoot woman attired in a shawl with an intricate pierced design. The female is in reclining position with her a...
Category
20th Century American Rustic Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Midcentury Lee Rosen for Design-Technics Brutalist Figural Stoneware Sculpture
By Lee Rosen
Located in Southampton, NJ
A mid-1960s Lee Rosen for Design-Technics brutalist, figural stoneware sculpture. The sculpture is fully signed "LEE" with the DT cipher. The work features two figures, one of which ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Organic Modern Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
"Devotion" stoneware sculpture by Eric Serritella
Located in Palm Beach, FL
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Other Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
"Ghosts of the Muse" - Stoneware Sculpture by Eric Serritella
Located in Palm Beach, FL
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Other Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Doulton Lambeth Dutch Woman Figure by Leslie Harradine
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A scarce large Doulton Lambeth early Art Deco figure of a Dutch Woman designed by renowned designer and modeler Leslie A Harradine and dating from around 1914. The figure modeled in ...
Category
1910s British Art Nouveau Vintage Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Female Figurine Sculpture by Hassan Heshmat Egypt 1960s Blue Teal Stoneware
By Hassan Heshmat
Located in Stockholm, SE
Sculpture by Hassan Heshmat,
Egypt. 1960's.
Stoneware.
Unique.
Dimensions:
H: 52 cm/ 20 1/2''
Category
1960s Egyptian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Black Oval Ceramic Sculpture with 2 Rows of Small Pointed Feet
Located in New York, NY
A new series of small sculptures in the Modern Totemic vein. Not exactly humanistic, but they do have feet and personality. They are abstract...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Esther Shimazu Signed Japanese Hawaiian American Male Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Esther Shimazu's bald and chunky male sculpture. She uses hand-built techniques to construct clay figures using colored slips, oxides when firing, then hand sands them and rubs in pi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
"Igneous" Stoneware sculpture by Eric Serritella
Located in Palm Beach, FL
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Other Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Art Nouveau Stoneware Commedia Dell’arte Mask by Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Exploring new firing and glazing techniques and their myriad effects on traditional forms was an exciting approach for many experimental turn-of-the-century ceramists. Here the acid ...
Category
1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
"Chartreuse Accord" Glazed Ceramic Car Sculpture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Keith Simpson, who grew up in St. John Washington, a farming community of about 600 people in eastern WA state, always makes the underdog models of cars. He says, "They are like the ...
Category
2010s American Modern Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Southern Birch
Located in Palm Beach, FL
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Other Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$16,000
Antique Italian Neoclassical Stoneware Statue of Bacchus
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
An antique Italian Neoclassical buff stoneware statue of Resting Satyr, after the antique.
Dating circa 1880, this French sculpture is of a small scale in a desirable neutral tone...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Antique Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Stoneware Clay, Unglazed Ceramic Ethereal Sculpture by Aleksandra Krasnopolska
Located in Geneve, CH
Stoneware Clay, Unglazed Ceramic Ethereal Sculpture by Aleksandra Krasnopolska
Dimensions: W 25.5 x D 19 x H 35 cm
Materials: Stoneware clay. Unglazed ceramic sulface.
Weight: 5,6 k...
Category
2010s Spanish Post-Modern Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
"Vanadium Opal" Glazed Ceramic Car Sculpture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Keith Simpson, who grew up in St. John Washington, a farming Community of about 600 people in eastern WA state, always makes the underdog models of cars. He says, "They are like the ...
Category
2010s American Modern Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
"Oishii Teapot" - Stoneware Sculpture by Eric Serritella
Located in Palm Beach, FL
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Other Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
"Beach-Combed Mochaware" Memory Jug by Michael Thompson
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life.
Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars, memory jugs are African American folk art objects that honor a loved one who has recently passed. Small tokens and mementos of the deceased are gathered and affixed to the exterior of a jug or vase, an abundance of memories that celebrates a life lived to the fullest.
Michael Thompson applies this tradition to his own practice, creating tactile assemblages of this and that. Formed in the manner of collage, each jug honors the lost memories of generations past and his own memories of personally discovering each item. With varied sources for materials including Kyoto, Turkey, and Mexico, a great number of the found shards are 18th and 19th century ceramics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
"Full F'in Day" - Stoneware Sculpture by Eric Serritella
Located in Palm Beach, FL
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Other Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
"Remnants" - Stoneware Sculpture by Eric Serritella
Located in Palm Beach, FL
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Other Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
'Stoneware Sculpture of a Man' by Albert Thiry (circa 1990s)
By Albert Thiry
Located in London, GB
Vintage French earthenware sculpture of a man, by Albert Thiry (circa 1990s). Not one of his usual subjects, ceramicist Thiry created this figure wearing the garb and cap of a mediev...
Category
1990s French Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$2,092 Sale Price
35% Off
Basalt Portrait Medallion, Oliver Cromwell, Wedgwood, circa 1775
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A self-framing portrait medallion of Oliver Cromwell, MP: rebel, regicide, suppressor of Ireland, persecutor of Catholics, and Dictator. He was posthum...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$975 Sale Price
25% Off
"Agony & Ecstasy" - Stoneware Sculpture by Eric Serritella
Located in Palm Beach, FL
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Other Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
G. Cacciapuoti Art Deco Red Porcelain Stoneware and Wood Woman Profile, 1930s
Located in Meda, MB
This Art Deco sculpture was produced in Italy and more precisely in Milan, by Guido Cacciapuoti in the 1930s.
The base is in ebonized wood and the sculpture, a typical Art Deco sty...
Category
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware, Wood
"Bouquet" Memory Jug by Michael Thompson
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life.
Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars, memory jugs are African American folk art objects that honor a loved one who has recently passed. Small tokens and mementos of the deceased are gathered and affixed to the exterior of a jug or vase, an abundance of memories that celebrates a life lived to the fullest.
Michael Thompson applies this tradition to his own practice, creating tactile assemblages of this and that. Formed in the manner of collage, each jug honors the lost memories of generations past and his own memories of personally discovering each item. With varied sources for materials including Kyoto, Turkey, and Mexico, a great number of the found shards are 18th and 19th century ceramics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
3 Rectangular Ovals on Short Angled Legs, Metallic Black-Glaze Clay Sculpture #2
Located in New York, NY
This tall "Modern Totem" sculpture consists of softly rectangular rings stacked one on top of the other, on short angled feet. Another smaller angled foot shape is replicated above u...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
"Let Yourself Go" - Stoneware Sculpture by Eric Serritella
Located in Palm Beach, FL
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21st Century and Contemporary American Other Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
"Man with Bowler Hat" Stoneware Sculpture by David Gil for Bennington Pottery
By David Gil
Located in San Diego, CA
Vintage "Man with the Bowler Hat" stoneware sculpture by David Gil for Bennington Pottery of Vermont, circa 1960s. The piece features a stonew...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
Open Crimped Curve Top, Elongated Center, Tripod Legs, Black Ceramic TOTEM
Located in New York, NY
Hand built ceramic sculpture in mottled black glaze. This piece, one in a series of Modern TOTEMS has a crimped curve open top, an elongated center form, tripod legs and a luscious b...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Mottled Deep Blue Hand Built Ceramic Totem, Wide Oval on Curved Foot
Located in New York, NY
Mottled deep blue with light and dark areas, this amazing matte glaze surface was the result of a mistake in glaze chemistry and boy am I glad! Hopefully I can repeat it and you will...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Scent, or Perfume, Bottle, in Pale Blue Jasperware, Wedgwood C1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A scent bottle in pale blue jasperware, with original silver cap with chain, surmounted by a wonderfully wrought squirrel.
Note the way the beads hav...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$2,200 Sale Price
20% Off
"Entwined" - Stoneware Sculpture by Eric Serritella
Located in Palm Beach, FL
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21st Century and Contemporary American Other Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Marco Celotti Mid Century Modern Sculpture Group
Located in New York, NY
Wonderful group of sculptures by Italian American artist Marco Celotti.
Created circumnineteen 70 this highly animated group of characters can only bring to mind thoughts of storyt...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
Greenlandica. Hand Painted Unique Stoneware Figure, Inuit in Traditional Clothes
Located in København, Copenhagen
Greenlandica. Hand painted unique stoneware figure.
Inuit in traditional hunting clothes.
circa. 1970s.
In perfect condition.
Signed illegibly.
Dimensions: W 9.0 x H 20.5 cm.
Category
1970s Greenlandic Folk Art Vintage Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Stoneware sculpture by Vicke Lindstrand for Upsala-Ekeby, Sweden, 1950s
Located in Eskilstuna, SE
Sculpture model 81 designed by Vicke Lindstrand for Upsala-Ekeby in Sweden in 1947-48. A striking, large-scale ceramic figure of a seated woman with a dark body and vividly glazed pa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
"Weathered Solifleur" - Stoneware Sculpture by Eric Serritella
Located in Palm Beach, FL
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21st Century and Contemporary American Other Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
A Monumental Bust Sculpture of the The Holy Family, Child Jesus Christ
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Monumental Stoneware Sculpture of the The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph by Georges Wasterlain (1889-1963)
Georges WASTERLAIN (1889-1963...
Category
19th Century Unknown Antique Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Sculpted Stoneware Face Sculpture by James Kouretas
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Beautiful hand carved stoneware face sculpture by James Kouretas. Sculpture has 2 holes in the back most likely for hanging on the wall or could be dis...
Category
1970s American Modern Vintage Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Scent, or Perfume, Bottle, in Pale Blue Jasperware, Wedgwood C1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A scent bottle in pale blue jasperware, with original silver lid.
Decorated with Venus and Cupid, as allegories of Night - the one shedding poppies,...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Stoneware Clay, Ceramic Whispered Air Sculpture by Aleksandra Krasnopolska
Located in Geneve, CH
Stoneware Clay, Ceramic Whispered Air Sculpture by Aleksandra Krasnopolska
Dimensions: W 30.5 x D 17.2 x H 21.5 cm
Materials: Stoneware clay. Unglazed ceramic sulface.
Weight: 3,9 k...
Category
2010s Spanish Post-Modern Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Stoneware Clay, Body II Sculpture by Aleksandra Krasnopolska
Located in Geneve, CH
Stoneware Clay, Body II Sculpture by Aleksandra Krasnopolska
Dimensions: W 20 x D 19 x H 14 cm
Materials: Stoneware clay. Unglazed ceramic sulface.
Weight: 3 kg.
Collection: Body
...
Category
2010s Spanish Post-Modern Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Pair of Flaxman Ewers in Black Basalt. Wedgwood C1830.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of the iconic early wedgwood pieces, the pair of ewers Sacred to Neptune & Sacred to Bacchus was designed by Flaxman in the 1780s for Josiah Wedgwood. They have remained popular ...
Category
Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
"Iridescence" Memory Jug by Michael Thompson
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life.
Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars, memory jugs are African American folk art objects that honor a loved one who has recently passed. Small tokens and mementos of the deceased are gathered and affixed to the exterior of a jug or vase, an abundance of memories that celebrates a life lived to the fullest.
Michael Thompson applies this tradition to his own practice, creating tactile assemblages of this and that. Formed in the manner of collage, each jug honors the lost memories of generations past and his own memories of personally discovering each item. With varied sources for materials including Kyoto, Turkey, and Mexico, a great number of the found shards are 18th and 19th century ceramics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Wiener Werkstatte St Christopher Pottery Figure Attributed to Michael Powolny
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An unusual Austrian art pottery sculptural figure of St Christopher carrying the Christ child across a river attributed to renowned Austrian sculptor, Ceramist, designer and teacher Michael Powolny (Austrian, 1871-1954) and probably dating between 1920 and 1930. The hand-crafted figure shows St Christopher with the Christ child on his shoulder and a wooden staff...
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1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Black basalt figure of Bacchus. Wedgwood C1780.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Exceptionally rare early figure of Bacchus in black basalt. The mixed-case mark places this figure between 1780 and 1785.
He is portrayed in typical style, his head garlanded with grapes and with a wine cup to his lips.
Bacchus, also known as Dionysus in Greek mythology, is the enigmatic god of wine, fertility, and ritual madness. He symbolizes freedom, ecstasy, and the blurring of societal norms through his rituals and festivities. Bacchus is often depicted in myths as a deity who challenges the status quo, promoting an atmosphere where conventional rules do not apply, and his followers are liberated from their everyday constraints.
Born from Zeus and the mortal Semele, Bacchus is unique among gods, bridging the divide between the divine and the human. His followers included the wild and ecstatic maenads, female devotees who often reached states of divine frenzy, and the satyrs, mischievous half-man, half-goat beings. The worship of Bacchus was marked by theatrical processions, dances, and plays, reflecting his patronage of the theater and the dramatic arts.
Bacchus’s mythology...
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1780s English Neoclassical Antique Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Figure Faun with Flute, Wedgwood, circa 1870
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
After the antique “Piping Faun” now in the Louvre Museum; the result of it being bought by Napoleon from the Borghese collection.
The "Piping Faun" is...
Category
1870s English Neoclassical Antique Stoneware Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$4,000 Sale Price
20% Off