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17th Century European Justitia Wooden Sculpture Standing on Gold Gilded Pedestal
Located in Marbella, ES
17th century "Justitia" hand carved wooden painted sculpture standing on a gold gilded baroque pedestal. Missing pieces.
Dimensions: 67 cm tall with pedestal.
Category
European Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Little Base for Statue
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Rare antique little base for statue: useful and very elegant. I'm selling it now because I'm closing the business.
Sizes for statue: lenght 41 x wide 17 .
ref. O/4820.
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fruitwood
Late 17th Century French Wall Decoration "Angel's Face"
Located in Sofia, BG
17th century wall decoration representing an angel's face made of white ceramic hand-painted in black with beautiful golden collar,
France.
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
C1600 wood carving of a cardinal
Located in Bakewell, GB
C1600 wood carving of a cardinal with good original polychrome decoration
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
A Nun, perhaps a theatrical figure. England, probably Plymouth, circa 1750
By Plymouth Porcelain Factory 1
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An interesting soft-paste porcelain figure of a Dominican Nun, perhaps the theatrical figure Heloise.
Although the Nun appears in various versions in European and English porcelain,...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
French Limestone Saint Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
This 17th century French Limestone Saint Sculpture is evidence of extraordinary artistic proficiency, expertly crafted from French Limestone in order ...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
16th Century French Oak Polychrome Statue of Saint Maudez
Located in San Francisco, CA
16th century French oak polychrome statue of Saint Maudez. A Breton saint from the 5th-6th century who founded a monastery off the coast of Brittany. Saint Maudez was said to have ba...
Category
French Gothic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gesso, Oak
16th Century Spanish Gilded Painted Wood Sculpture of Saint Roch
Located in Marbella, ES
16th century Castilian gold-leaf gilded painted wood sculpture of Saint Roch, where the quality shows in the exceptional realistic skin tone. He is represen...
Category
Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Spanish Sculpture of Saint Jerome, Late 17th Century
Located in CH
A late 17th-century Spanish wood sculpture of a penitent Saint Jerome, possibly Seville, circa 1680.
Spanish religious sculpture of the 17th cent...
Category
Spanish Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Pair of Itinerant Ballad Singer figures. Bow porcelain C1748
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
English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Trinity , Polychrome Sculpture , Germany, circa 1550
Located in PARIS, FR
Trinity in carved and polychromed wood, in the round, the back partially hollowed out.
It is represented here as a "Throne of Grace". In this original formula, which probably origina...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Doctor, from the Commedia Dell'arte, Bow Porcelain, circa 1752
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
English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Italian Limestone Venus Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
This Italian Limestone Venus Sculpture is a stunning depiction of the goddess of love, carved with incredible detail and from authentic 18th century limestone sourced from Italy. The...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
Large Cast and Chiseled Bronze Plaque - Saint Sebastian, Rome 17th century
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Large Cast and Chiseled Bronze Plaque
Saint Sebastian after the model by Guido Reni (Capitoline Museum)
Rome, 17th century
Large rectangular bronze plaque depicting the martyrdom of...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rare Danish Porcelain Group of Pig Farmer, Royal Copenhagen, circa 1780
Located in New York, NY
Depicting a well dressed farmer feeding two pigs at their trough.
Category
Danish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Excellent walnut carving of a Carlo Boccomico c1600
Located in Bakewell, GB
Excellent walnut carving of a Carlo Boccomico c1600
Visible old dead worm holes, but great condition
72 cms high 30 cms wide
Category
European Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Walnut
Carlo Marcellini 'Florence 1644 – 1713', Florentine Baroque Putto
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Carlo Marcellini (Florence 1644 – 1713)
Putto
White and green marble
41.5 x 73.5 cm
This marble putto carved in high relief, almost a tutto tondo, and set on an elegant green marble background, appears almost naked, sitting on a cloud. His peculiar pose, in adoration, suggests that the work was a part of a larger composition including other figures in devotion.
Published in 2007 by Sandro Bellesi in the monograph dedicated to Gioacchino Fortini (pg.155), this beautiful marble putto was included in the catalog of Carlo Marcellini, a prominent figure in the baroque renewal of Florentine art.
Born in Florence in 1644, Carlo Marcellini received his artistic education in the city of the lily, specializing in stone sculpture and stucco modeling under the guidance of Bartolomeo Cennini before continuing his studies in Rome in the Accademia Medicea founded by the Grand Duke Cosimo III in order to familiarize some more promising artists with the essential “ taste of Rome ”.
Under the guidance of Ercole Ferrata and Ciro Ferri, Giovan Battista Foggini...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Renaissance Marble Relief - Emilia Romagna, 1470-80
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Renaissance Marble Relief
Emilia Romagna, Faenza ? 1470-80
H 30,2 x L 33 x P 3,5 cm
The carved marble relief depicts the Virgin accompanied by a winge...
Category
Italian Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Pair of French 18th Century Louis XVI Bronze Sculpture of Faun and Bacchante
Located in Berlin, DE
Pair of French 18th Century Louis XVI Bronze Sculpture of Faun and Bacchante
Rare pair of bronze sculptures depicting Bacchante and Faun after a design by Jean-Hugues Taraval in 177...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair of angels in gilded wood Rome 17th century
Located in Milan, IT
Rome, 17th century
Pair of angels
Gilded wood, cm h 92 - Base, cm 25 x 40
The pair of putti examined is a masterpiece of the Roman Baroque period, a period of pomp and opulence w...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
17th Century Cricifix Boxwood
Located in Milan, IT
17th century
Crucifix
Measures: Boxwood, 42 cm high x 8 x 14
The sculpture depicting the crucified Christ examined here represents a refined example of seventeenth-century cabinetry in boxwood. The figure of Christ, now dead on the cross, is part of a precious artistic choreography with the structure of the cross and its pedestal, both decorated with tortoiseshell mirrors, ivory threads to emphasize the structure of the cross and elements in ebonized and carved wood to highlight the architectural structure of the pedestal.
The departure of Christ is evident from the lowered head, from the open hands...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Boxwood
Pair of figures: Jupiter and Juno, or Zeus and Hera. Bow Porcelain C1752
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
She stands barefoot, wearing a long-sleeved robe in white, deep pink and washed pale yellow and partly edged with gold; a red and gilt-topped sceptre in her right hand, an outsize pe...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Antique 18th Century Carved Oak Figures
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A pair of antique 18th century carved oak figures.
These were previously part of a panelled room in a house in Hampshire, constructed from earlier pieces of architectural salvage an...
Category
English Country Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Oak, Wood
Figure of The Vintner's Companion, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1748
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
English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Basalt Portrait Medallion, Edward Bourne, Wedgwood, circa 1780
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Portrait Medallion of Edward Bourne, bricklayer at the Wedgwood factory. A bricklayer was kept on staff in order to maintain the kilns.
This was modelled by Hackwood as an excercise...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Figure, Sportsman Toper, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Probably an early prototype, the largely open base showing an apparently unique structure described by Watney as ‘a favourite primitive buttressed by a strong overall cone-shape and further strengthened by a cut-out additional layer inside the base in the manner of pastry making.’ (Freeman Collection, Forward, 1982).
Toper is an old English word for a drunk.
Annulet Mark.
Prov: Taylor Coll, Albert Amor...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Golden Angel Head
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Rare golden angel head, to hang: in the entrance as a welcome, in the bedroom for sweet dreams. Intact, without any retouching.
Category
Italian Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
17th Century Venetian Renaissance Bronze Bust
Located in New York, NY
Bronze bust of Aretino, signed. Unidentified signature.
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French 18th Century Terra Cotta Signed Statue of Mother and Child
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A wonderful French 18th century terra cotta signed statue of mother and child. The statue is raised on a circular terrain designed base. The woman is barefoot donned in a traditional...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Cercle of Romano Alberti, Page, Around 1530-1540
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Cercle of Romano Alberti, dit Il Nero da Sansepolcro ( San Sepolcro, 1521-1568 )
Page
Mixed media : wood core, papier mâché, stucco, polychrome and gilded
Italy, around 1530-154...
Category
Italian Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stucco, Wood, Paper
Renaissance Era, Marble Fragment of a Leg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Chic, 15th Century, Roman marble fragment of a left foot and calf mounted on a custom iron stand.
Category
Italian Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Large 18th Century German Sculpture
Located in Madrid, ES
Large 18th century German sculpture solid wooden sculpture representing a shepherd. German work from the 18th century. Measure: height 114cm.
Good...
Category
German Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Marble Roman relief representing a Christogram
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Marble Roman relief representing a Christogram
Roman relief - 4th century
25 x 22 x 8 cm
Provenance :
Collection of the Château de B. À Nevers by Georges C.S., scholar born in 1833 and deceased in 1909
The entire castle and its collections were acquired in 1938 by the current owners of the estate
A christogram is a monogram or combination of letters that forms an abreviation for the name of Jesus Christ.
This rare fragment combines chi (X) and rho (P), the first two letters of Christ's name in Greek and it is one of the oldest and most popular early christian symbol. The monogram of Christ, or chrismon, is also a powerful symbol of imperial victory: it appeared to Emperor Constantine the Great before his battle against Maxentius in ad 312, promising victory in the name of Christ. In Plato's Timaeus, it is explained that the two bands which form the "world soul" (anima mundi...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Pair of Small Ming Dynasty Pottery Figures
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair of small Ming Dynasty (1364-1644) terracotta polychrome figures, in excellent condition.
Here's a cute little couple, looking very spry for their age. Both figures are wearing...
Category
Chinese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pottery
Pair of 18th Century Italian Putti Candles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Nice pair of Italian carved wood Putti that hold candles. The base is 7" x 7". The wing spread is 12". From a beautiful home in Santa Barbara.
Category
Italian Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
Figure: David Garrick and the Shoeshine Boy, Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
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
English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
First Half of the 18th Century Putti Pair of Sculptures in Gilded Wood
Located in Milan, IT
First half of the 18th century, Lombardy
Putti
(2) gilded wood, H 88 cm
The work is distinguished by the high artistic quality and the remarkable executive care, as eviden...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
18th Century Italian Carved Wood and Polychromed Figure Depicting Baby Jesus
Located in North Miami, FL
Presenting an extraordinary 18th-century Italian carved wood and polychromed figure, capturing the tender image of baby Jesus in a standing posture, gracefully perched upon an intric...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
Italian Painted and Lacquered Wooden Sculpture of a Kneeling Figure, Circa 1650
Located in CH
Italian Baroque painted and lacquered wooden sculpture of a kneeling figure. Circa 1650.
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Figure of a Nun, Perhaps Heloise, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A classic example of early bow porcelain.
The figure is of a Dominican Nun, and is based on a continental model, probably Meissen.
Bow produced a number of apparently religious...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Seal, I Still Hope, Derby Porcelain Works, circa 1760
By Derby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A delightul porcelain seal, depicting a young lady, seated on a mound. It is painted with the motto J'ESPRE ENCORE, or I Still Hope. No doubt this was intended as a gift, to be given...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
French Limestone Saint Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
This exquisitely crafted French limestone Saint sculpture is a historical piece from the 17th century. Exceptional workmanship makes this sculpture a ...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
18th Century Personification of the Day Alabaster Sculpture
By Michelangelo Buonarroti
Located in Milan, IT
18th century
Personification of the Day
Alabaster, cm 11.5 x 17.5 x 5
With base cm 14.5 x 20,8 x 11.7
Il Giorno is a marble sculpture (160x150 cm) that Michelangelo mad...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
Pair of early 18th century German Baroque Polychrome Sculptures of Musicians
Located in Troy, NY
Charming and rare pair of carved wood and polychrome figures of joyous youths playing instruments.
Category
German Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
18th Century Wood and Felt Paper Spanish Hand-Carved Polychrome Sculpture
Located in Marbella, ES
18th Century wooden hand-carved polychrome sculpture from the south of Spain. Head made from felt paper and dressed with original clothing.
Category
Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paper
A Bow Porcelain Figure of a Turkish Dancer, c1765
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
A Bow Porcelain Figure of a Turkish Dancer, c1765
Additional information:
Date : c1765
Period : George III
Marks : Unmarked. Label for Albert Amo...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Extraordinary Pair of Antique French Angels xviii Th
Located in Madrid, ES
Extraordinary Pair of Antique French Angels
PAIR OF LARGE DIMENSIONS OF 2 ANGELS IN BRONZE PATINA IN GREEN. THE QUALITY IS VERY NICE. THEY REPRESENT 2...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
18th Century, Italian Marble Relief Portrait
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Wonderful, Carrara marble relief portrait of a Cardinal in vestments, set in a 19th century, gray marble surround.
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Lamp, Table, Sculpture, Oak, Mother & Child, Naïve, Baroque
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
A Mother & Child, Naïve, Baroque, oak, sculpture, upcycled into a 25” high, table lamp
- Unusual statement & conversation piece; introducing an enduring classic theme into the int...
Category
English Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Oak
Early 1600s, Marble Bust of Athena
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Exceptional, hand carved all the way around, 17th century, Carrara marble bust of Athena in a helmet surrounded by a laurel wreath. Fabulous expression,...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Carrara Marble
Giltwood and polychrome half-relief representation of Saint Rococo. Spain, 16th
Located in PARIS, FR
Important bas-relief in carved wood with traces of gilt, in an architectural frame with two angels in the corners, representing Saint Rocco.
Considered, among other things, the Patro...
Category
Spanish Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Extremely Fine Northern European Carved Wood and Polychrome Decorated Figure
Located in North Miami, FL
The kneeling Angel portrays a loosely draped gown and is kneeling amongst clouds, with the sacred heart of Jesus in its hand. The dramatic pose and composition of this piece, along w...
Category
German Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
Figure of Pointing Boy by Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Presumably based on the work of the Flemish sculptor François Duquesnoy (1597-1643), also known as Il Fiammingo.
A small series of Chelsea figures from the late 1740s was also ba...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Jasperware Portrait Medallion, Marc Antony, Wedgwood, circa 1778
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An important early portrait medallion of Marc Antony in plain white jasper, probably predating the invention of the ‘dip’ process, which is why it i...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Italian Sitting Robed Saint With Glass Eyes
Located in Dallas, TX
An 18th century Italian carved wood and gilded, sitting robed saint with glass eyes. One hand missing otherwise and very good condition, no shrinking cracks or losses to lacquer. Can...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Wood
Hercules Holding a Coat of Arms, Flemish, XVII Century
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Hercules holding a coat of arms
Flemish, XVII century
White and black marble
Measures: 67 x 32 x 19 cm
Hercules is depicted naked, holding a coat of arms with the right hand an...
Category
Belgian Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Belgian Black Marble
Beautiful Early 1800's Medallion of Tsar Alexander II
Located in Madrid, ES
BEAUTIFUL EARLY 1800'S MEDALLION OF TSAR ALEXANDER II. IN GOOD GEMERAL CONDITION. PRESENT SLIGHT FAULTS ON THE EDGES- SEE PHOTOS. MEASURES: 10 CM DIAMET...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Winter, from the Four Seasons, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A personification of Winter, from The Four Seasons.
Unusually fine condition for a figure of this period.
Category
English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
