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Place of Origin: British
Antique Stone Lion Mask Pedestal
Located in Sheffield, MA
19th century English Romanesque antique stone pedestal has protruding lion mask carved on pedestal.
Base measurement: 9.25" x 9.25"
Top meas...
Category
Early 19th Century Classical Roman Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Figure: David Garrick and the Shoeshine Boy, Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fashionably dressed gentleman, almost certainly the actor David Garrick: he wears a white frockcoat, pink waistcoat and red breeches, all with embroide...
Category
Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Doctor, from the Commedia Dell'arte, Bow Porcelain, circa 1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Il Dottore from the Commedia dell’Arte, in the white.
He stands in an histrionic pose against a tree stump and wears a high brimmed hat (presumably a black academic bonnet), long-buttoned coat over frilled cuffs, falling jabeaux, breeches, boots and a cloak; his right hand on hip, his left arm and hand raised. Slightly grey-white porcelain; even, unctuous glaze. Straw translucency. Underside wiped; air hole at centre. Square hole at rear for mount. Measure: H 6.3 in (16 cm).
Provenance: Taylor Collection, from Stockspring Antiques, London, 1998. The Miss G...
Category
Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
English Staffordshire Figure of Napoleon, circa 1875
Located in New York, NY
English Staffordshire figure of Napoleon, circa 1875. With a traditional pose.
Category
1870s Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Figure of The Vintner's Companion, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Moulded in a dense body in typical muses modeller style and with slightly drab glaze. She stands by a fruiting vinestock and carries an open basket of grapes in her right hand, her e...
Category
Mid-18th Century Neoclassical Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Large Sculpture Ceramic Figurative in Terracotta
Located in London, GB
Large hand formed sculpture of torso in figurative abstraction in sand color Terracotta by unknown British artist.
Category
1980s Vintage British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of English Porcelain Figures of Shakespeare and Milton, Derby, circa 1820
Located in New York, NY
Pair of English porcelain figures of Shakespeare and Milton, Derby, circa 1820.
Category
1820s Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of English Regency Neoclassical Patinated and Gilt Bronze Figures
Located in New York, NY
Pair of English Regency neoclassical patinated and gilt bronze figures.
Category
1810s Regency Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
English Silver Hand, London, 1909
Located in New York, NY
English silver hand, London, 1909. Maker: Henry and Albert Batsy.
Category
Early 1900s Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Silver
Harlequin and Columbine Dancing, Chelsea, circa 1755
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of the best: Harlequin & Columbine Dancing, after the Meissen figure, from the series of characters from the Commedia dell'Arte.
Category
Mid-18th Century Neoclassical Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Large Pair of Pearlware 'Prudence & Fortitude' Figures
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Pair of wood family Staffordshire pottery pearlware figures with a classical theme which feature Prudence, holding a snake in one hand, an aperture for a mirror in the other hand. Fo...
Category
Early 1800s Folk Art Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Pair of Black Glass Sphinxes, Molineaux & Webb, circa 1875
By Molineaux & Webb
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pair of sphinxes in black glass. Little is known of this Manchester glassworks, but they had a very successful line in neoclassical pieces of which these are a fine example.
Category
1870s Neoclassical Revival Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Bronze Cherub and Vulture Fountain Head Sculpture, 18th Century
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very rare antique bronze fountain fitting mounted on a later purpose made wooden base with a detachable winged cherub seated on the back of a...
Category
Late 18th Century Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pearlware Figure of Aphrodite & Eros, 'Venus and Cupid' Figure, circa 1790
By Neale & Co.
Located in Downingtown, PA
Great Pearlware Figure of Aphrodite & Eros, 'Venus and Cupid' Figure attributed to Neale & Co,
circa 1790.
The large pearlware early English pearl...
Category
Late 18th Century Georgian Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pottery, Pearlware
Pair of Itinerant Ballad Singer figures. Bow porcelain C1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Flemish man and wife, in the white. He wears an open coat, waistcoat, breeches and tricorn hat, and plays a hurdy-gurdy. She wears a sleeved dress, long apron and linen cap and carri...
Category
1740s Neoclassical Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Elkington Antique Silver Plated Charger by Morel-Ladeuil
By Léonard Morel-Ladeuil
Located in London, GB
The silver charger mounted on a velvet board, of circular form in the Neo-Grec manner, depicting a classical figural scene of a semi-clad maiden surrounded by three female attendants with an exotic colonnaded interior, within a florally decorated border with a Grotesque bust to the top and two dragons to the bottom, signed and dated to the lower left 'morel-ladeuil inv e fecit 1876' and to the lower right 'Elkington & Co.'
The importance of this Victorian period silver plated charger...
Category
Late 19th Century Classical Greek Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Silver Plate
Monumental Pair of Early 19th Century Stone Statues of Saints
Located in London, GB
A stunning and monumental pair of carved stone statues, depicting Saint Mark and Saint Luke
English, circa 1820
The statues stand 2 meters tall, they were originally housed in the e...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
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 Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Scottish Brass and Nickel Silver Horse Hobble, Bide A Blink, Circa 1830
Located in Hollywood, SC
Scottish brass and nickel silver horse hobble with an eagle heads horse shoe handle and resting on the faithful servant creature Bide a Blink. Signature...
Category
1830s Folk Art Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron, Nickel, Brass
Exotic Victorian Candelabrum
By Royal Worcester
Located in Litchfield, CT
Circa 1870s, by Worchester Porcelain Co. England. This porcelain candelabrum depicts a surreal landscape where the lilies have left the water to colonize the forest. They reach for...
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Terracotta Scottie Dog
Located in New York, NY
Unusual 19th century English terracotta Scottie or mixed terrier dog in a seated position. Charming copy of a particular dog with a sweet expression and demeanour.
Category
19th Century Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Odysseus, a unique black hand-blown glass sculpture by Cathryn Shilling
By Cathryn Shilling
Located in London, GB
Odysseus, is a unique black glass sculpture by the British artist Cathryn Shilling. A handblown and free-form shaped glass sculpture with 'glass fabric' decoration worked onto the glass body while hot. A spectacular fusion of blown and kiln formed glass techniques incorporating Cathryn Shilling's signature woven glass. With her Cloaked Collection, Shilling takes mythical tragic figures as her inspiration. This piece is based on Odysseus.
Cathryn Shilling began her arts career as a graphic designer but went on to study glass after moving to Connecticut with her family. On returning to the UK she studied kiln-formed glass at Kensington and Chelsea College and blown glass with Peter Layton at the London Glassblowing Workshop. She set up studio in London in 2007 from where she has gone on to create a huge body and variety of work.
Shilling experiments with colour and technique to produce beautiful one off sculptures. Her innovative pieces push the glass beyond our usual comfort zones. With some sculptures, glass rods are woven together like fabric, mimicking the flexibility and movement of cloth. The apparent frailty of the glass is balanced by the strong dynamic forms, differing levels of light picking out layers of colour. With other works, bubbles are trapped in swathes of watery hues. Her colour palette and choice of forms are very much informed by the various natural states in which water is found: icebergs, waterfalls and whirlpools for example.
Shilling’s work has been collected and widely exhibited internationally including: Ireland Glass Biennale 2019 at Dublin Castle The 3rd Session of China·Hejian Craft Glass Design & Creation Exhibition and Competition, Ming Shangde Glass Museum, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, China 2019 TACTILE at Glazenhuis, Lommel, Belgium New Aquisitions 2017 at Glasmuseum Lette, Coesfield, Germany Peter Bremers...
Category
2010s Modern British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass
English Pottery, Charles Vyse, 'Tug of War, ' 1924
Located in New York, NY
English pottery, Charles Vyse, 'Tug of War,' 1924.
Category
Early 20th Century British Figurative Sculptures
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 Vintage British Figurative Sculptures
19th Century Bronze Figural Novelty Wax Stamp
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
19th century bronze figural novelty wax stamp.
Shipping within the United States and Canada is free.
Category
Early 19th Century Georgian Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Holdcroft Heron Flower Stand
By Holdcroft Pottery
Located in New York, NY
Large size Holdcroft heron flower stand. The heron with gray fish in his beak, chest with brown and white coloring. Standing on a gray rock with a green and brown wide rocky base. Im...
Category
19th Century Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Fine Attractive Multi colour Murano vase Vintage Decorative Art
Located in London, GB
A attractive pair of original vintage decorative female dancing wall figures
Hand crafted with pottery heads and hands the costumes of shiny Gold Organza...
Category
1970s Arts and Crafts Vintage British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
Antique Grand Tour Classical Regency Carved Marble Plaque Battle Travalgar 1805
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Superb and quite rare example of an exquisitely hand carved in really seldom seen high relief rectangular Marble Plaque depicting the “Battle of Trafalgar” scene of generous size, ea...
Category
19th Century Grand Tour Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Vintage Blue Metal Letter - Medium R
Located in Hook, Hampshire
Vintage Blue Metal Letter – Medium R
Vintage Blue Metal Letter. Good sized metal signage letter with faded original blue paint. Size 5x27x27 – D/H/W all cm.
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Category
20th Century British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Bust of Mercury in Black Basalt. Wedgwood C1820.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Wedgwood produced a very successful line of Library Busts, of which Minerva and Mercury were the longest in production, running right up into the 20th century - they make a good pair...
Category
Early 19th Century Neoclassical Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Bust of Minverva in Black Basalt. Wedgwood C1880.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Wedgwood produced a very successful line of Library Busts, of which Minerva and Mercury were the longest in production, running right up into the 20th century - they make a good pair...
Category
Late 19th Century Neoclassical Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Basalt Portrait Medallion, Tiberius Augustus, Wedgwood, circa 1775
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine large self-framing portrait medallion of the Emperor Tiberius Augustus, second emperor of Rome.
Unmarked, as were many of these medallions.
Category
Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
E.M - Modern, Cast Metal Skull, Sculpture, Blue Glazed Finished - Memento Mori
Located in Glasgow, GB
"E.M's Enamelled Cast Metal Skull: A Lapis-Like Reverie"
Crafted in 2012, this cast metal skull sculpture by artist E.M marries the existential allure of memento mori with the seren...
Category
2010s Other British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
English Bronze Sculpture “Mercy on Battlefield” (1856), Edward Bowring Stephens
Located in Shippensburg, PA
EDWARD BOWRING STEPHENS A.R.A.England, 1815-1882"Mercy on the Battlefield" (1856)Patinated bronze on cararra marble signed in cast "E.B. Stephans Sc 18(?)6" and marking for "ART UNI...
Category
19th Century Romantic Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique Oversized Chelsea or Vion Bisque Porcelain Figure of a Young Man, 19th C
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique and large English figure by Chelsea or Vion et Baury, Paris offers porcelain construction in the form a a young man in countryside setting, hand painted with gilt highligh...
Category
19th Century Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Brass William Shakespeare Portrait Shoehorn English, circa 1820
Located in Rochester, NY
English brass shoehorn with the portrait of William Shakespeare, circa 1820.
Category
Early 19th Century Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Return of History, a Colourful Boat Glass Sculpture by Baldwin & Guggisberg
By Monica Guggisberg & Philip Baldwin
Located in London, GB
'The Return of History' is a unique artwork by the American and Swiss artists, Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg.
Combining Scandinavian and Venetian glass making techniques, their sculptural boat centrepieces are made from smaller blown and cut glass components nestled (in sand) inside a metallic hull.
''We are migratory creatures; the history of our species is about journeys, departures, leaving and arriving, starting over. And none more so than ourselves. Our new work is both culturally and personally inclined. An autobiographical touch in civilizational reflection. Wherever man goes he builds, laying down cultural lines which gradually transform into relics and artefacts over time''s inevitable march. Urban landscapes and complex designs grow and expand, deteriorate and decay. And on again we move, taking the memories of our exploits with us to use in the next story.'' B&G
Baldwin (1947, New York) and Guggisberg (1955, Bern) have been a collaborative team for over forty years. They share an instinctive appreciation for the subtle blending of art and design, functionality and abstract expression, combined with a love of material – especially glass.
The list of museums and collections which have acquired their works is long and impressive. Individual showings, as well as participation in group shows, have given them opportunities to present their works at leading galleries and in major museums in Europe, Japan and the United States and their works rank among the best to be found in the international glass art scene. Working freelance, they have also designed successful products for international glass manufacturers since 1985. Their clients have included renowned firms like Rosenthal, Steuben, Corning and Venini.
Over time their work has developed its own distinctive signature, based in Italian cold-working (battuto) combined with the Swedish overlay process for layering colours. They have been pioneers in adapting these techniques and in creating a distinct expression of their own. Colour, light, texture, pattern, and shape together reveal an undercurrent of meaning and value, adhering to the simplest of forms and clear lines.
Over the years they have become more sculptural in focus, while seeking to imbue their work with a deep connection to archetypal forms and shapes, and striving for the highest level of craftsmanship. They address eternal symbols of human culture and history, while embracing contemporary evolution in form and meaning.
In recent years large installations and major exhibitions in public spaces, such as Canterbury Cathedral...
Category
2010s Organic Modern British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Strange Fruit - The Congregation V, a unique mixed media sculpture by Chris Day
By Chris Day
Located in London, GB
'Strange Fruit - The Congregation V' is a unique sculpture by the British artist, Chris Day, created from handblown & sculpted glass with terracotta, micro bore copper pipe and coppe...
Category
2010s Organic Modern British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Orestes, a Clear, Blue & Grey Figurative Glass Sculpture by Cathryn Shilling
By Cathryn Shilling
Located in London, GB
'Orestes' is a unique glass sculpture by the British artist Cathryn Shilling. The interior figure is free-blown glass which is wrapped in kiln-formed glass cane 'fabric' which is app...
Category
2010s Organic Modern British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass
Electra, a Clear & Grey Classical Greek Inspired Sculpture by Cathryn Shilling
By Cathryn Shilling
Located in London, GB
'Electra' is a unique glass sculpture by the British artist Cathryn Shilling. The interior figure is free-blown glass which is wrapped in kiln-formed glass cane 'fabric' which is app...
Category
2010s Classical Greek British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass, Glass, Art Glass
Hester Mabel White Art Deco Bronze Oriental Children Bookends
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning pair Art Deco cold painted bronze bookends mounted with Oriental Children figures by renowned sculptor Hester Mabel White (British, 1870-1948) and dating from around 1920. This iconic pair of bookends portrays two children in Oriental dress who clearly should be studying, both with books. One portrays a young girl seated and studiously reading her book while a young boy stands leaning on the upstand of the bookend and peers over watching...
Category
1920s Art Deco Vintage British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Period 19th Century Regency Plaster Bust of a Man by Samuel Joseph
Located in Essex, MA
Period Regency Neoclassical Bust of a Man by the Sculptor, Samuel Joseph. In very good condition with a loss to patination which creates a wonderful look and presence. Hand scribed "Published by S. Joseph August 1st 1823". Cast and hand worked.
Joseph Barry...
Category
Early 19th Century Regency Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Leather Seal by Dimitri Omersa for Abercrombie & Fitch, circa 1970s
By Dimitri Omersa, Abercrombie & Fitch
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A wonderful collectors example of the 'Seal' leather animal by Dimitri Omersa for Abercrombie and Fitch, circa 1970s. This example is in beautiful lightly aged with light patina. Sturdy and structurally sound, this seal is ready to be used as a fun doorstop, a large paperweight, or use as a designer floor or tabletop sculpture / work of art or a friendly companion to an otherwise lonely house dog or cat.
Omersa's designed leather animals for Omersa Leatherworks of England, Omersa & Company, Liberties of London and Abercrombie and Fitch. Excellent early production original of this design, ideal collectors example or for an interior design client.
Omersa made his first leather animal, a pig, in 1927 and from there created a full suite of interesting and charismatic creatures. Each leather animal is of the highest quality, beautifully stained and waxed. This example is one of the earlier ones, which are rare and highly sought after by collectors therefore very few on the resale market. Incredible opportunity for a collector or design enthusiast to have an original production example in beautiful patinated condition and to keep and collect for years to come.
As you can see in our photos, we have a large collection of Omersa leather animals...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Leather
Plaster Portrait Bust of Lord Nelson after Anne Seymour Damer, England, 1802
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
This bust of Admiral Lord Nelson was probably produced by Bartholomew Papera after the 1798 marble bust by Anne Seymour Damer. The reverse is impressed, ‘Anna S. Damer Fecit’ and ‘Pub. As the Act Dir’. Incomplete paper label on the integral black base.
English, circa 1802.
The Hon. Anne Seymour Damer (1748-1828) was a sculptor and author who later inherited Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole’s famed Gothic villa in Twickenham. A friend of Sir William and Lady Hamilton, she probably met Nelson in Naples in 1798, afterwards offering a bust of the Hero to the City of London. On his return to London in 1800, Nelson gave Damer a sitting during which he presented her with his uniform coat worn at the Battle of the Nile. Although Damer’s monumental bust in marble was only delivered to the City in 1803, artist authorised copies in plaster, probably by the plaster figure maker Bartholomew Papera (c.1749-1815), were already circulating. Damer presented Napoleon Bonaparte in person with an example in plaster on her visit to Paris in 1802, whilst another reached the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle. The Wedgwood factory purchased a plaster copy of Damer’s bust from Papera in 1802 (for 12 shillings), possibly for an unrealised scheme to reproduce it in basalt pottery...
Category
Early 1800s Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Royal Doulton Porcelain Figurine, "The Mendicant"
By Royal Doulton
Located in Ferndale, MI
High glazed, finely modeled bone china with exquisite colors. One of designer, Leslie Harradine finest Royal Doulton firgurines, "The Mendicant" (1929...
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Lead Frog Fountain with Child
Located in Bloomfield Hills, MI
English lead offers a sophistication to any gardenscape or terrace. This whimsical vintage fountain is a classical scene featuring a playful frog and...
Category
20th Century British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Lead
Early 19th Century English Coade Stone Statue Torso of a "Soane" Caryatid
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Coade stone otherwise known as "Lithodipyra," was used for Fine architectural detailing and garden ornaments in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and produced by appointment to ...
Category
1810s Regency Antique British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Coade Stone
"Ecce Homo Tesco" Sculpture
By Shaun Doyle & Mally Mallinson
Located in London, GB
Cast bronze depicting the evolutionary vision of the artists Doyle and Mallinson. Ed 4/9
Category
2010s British Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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