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Period: 18th Century
Antique Spanish-Colonial Santo
Located in Atlanta, GA
An very well weathered Spanish-colonial Santo, likely depicting St Michael or St Miguel. Carved from the wood, the statue displays historical loss on both limbs and also the wings on...
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Mexican Spanish Colonial Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

Continental Bronze Figure of Gagged Justice, 18th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
Continental bronze figure of Gagged Justice, 18th century. Bronze on marble base.
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European Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Kitty Clive Figure
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of Bow's theatrical figures. The actress Mrs Catherine (Kitty) Clive, 1711-1785, as Mrs Riot, the Fine Lady, introduced, with The Fine Gentleman, into David Garrick...
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English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

18th Century Meissen Figures "Children Dancing"
Located in Basildon, GB
A Pair of 18th Century Meissen Figures "Children Dancing", modelled in the commedia dell'arte style as a young girl and boy dancing. Raised over simple rococo bases with applied flow...
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German Rococo Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Pair of Bronze Cherubs on Marble Bases
Located in London, by appointment only
A fine pair of mid-18th century French bronze cherubs standing contrapposto, one playing an instrument and the other holding a knife opening a oyster shell. Both standing besides tre...
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French Louis XV Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

Meissen Tall Motto Child Je Les Mets a Calme G 29 Acier Marcolini Period
Located in Vienna, AT
MEISSEN VERY LOVELY FIGURINE: MOTTO CHILD BY M.V.ACIER / JE LES METS A CALME ( = I'M CONCILIATING AND I'M SOOTHING ) Manufactory: Meissen Hallmarked: Blue Meissen Sword Mark (...
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German Rococo Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

END OF THE 18th CENTURY ABDUCTION OF EUROPE SCULPTURE
Located in Firenze, FI
Splendide sculpture en porcelaine polychrome représentant l'enlèvement d'Europe. Cette œuvre s'inspire du mythe classique dans lequel le dieu olympien Zeus se transforme en taureau p...
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Austrian Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Rare 18th C Wooden Statue of St. John the Baptist
Located in Chicago, IL
This exceptionally life-like antique sculpture is carved from linden wood and once decorated a French church or cathedral. The figure stands authoritatively, with right arm raised and index finger extended toward heaven. It probably stood on a base in a side chapel. According to Christian iconography of the period, this gesture signifies that salvation comes only through baptism. The figure wears a girdle of animal fir, probably from a bear, making symbolic reference to St. John the Baptist's life in the wilderness of Judea, between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea. The elegantly carved robe is a baroque element that adds a sense of motion and energy to the artwork. Originally, the sculpture was polychromed, but the original pigments have weathered away and been replaced with whitewash. Repairs, losses, and insect damage are minor and expected due to great age. many vintage and antique religious sculptures...
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French Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

French 18th Century Terra Cotta Statue from Paris
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking and extremely charming French 18th century terra cotta statue from Paris. The high-quality statue is raised by a circular etched base. The base is decorated with a rocky t...
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French Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

Fortune Teller Figure. Bow Porcelain C1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A young woman standing with the remains of a staff in her left hand, and in apparent apprehension as her future and fortune is being read by an exotic, enigmatic, bearded figure, app...
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English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Pair of 18th Century Carved Walnut Putti, Twin Caryatid
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Pair of 18th Century Carved Walnut Putti, Twin Caryatid A very fine pair of 18th Century Cherub figures, the detail of these charming angelic lit...
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Baroque Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Walnut

Eros Sleeping
Located in London, GB
After Francois Duquesnoy. EROS SLEEPING, STATUARY MARBLE ON A PORTOR MARBLE BASE, 18TH CENTURY.
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Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Statuary Marble

Large Bronze Monk, 18th Century, Ayuttheya Period, Thailand
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Rare Monk of the 18th century-Ayutthaya-Thailand Superb large lacquered and gilded bronze monks of large size Very beautiful face In superb condition an...
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Thai Other Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Mahogany

18th Century Famille Rose Statue
Located in Tampa, FL
An 18th century Famille Rose figurine with a child sitting on a custom rosewood stand. The stand is from the 1920s to 1930s and is two inches tall...
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Chinese Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain, Rosewood

Important Sculpture of Saint James in Polychromed Oak – 18th century
Located in HÉRIC, FR
Important oak sculpture depicting James, son of Zebedee, commonly known as Saint James, brother of John, both among the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ. Legend has it that James went...
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French Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

18th Century, Italian Bronze Sculpture with Venus Removing Her Sandal
Located in IT
18th Century, Italian Bronze Sculpture with Venus Removing Her Sandal This bronze sculpture represents Venus as she takes off her sandal. Made in the neoclassical era in Italy, it consists of the bronze sculpture of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, Venus for the Romans. The naked goddess, getting ready for the bath, makes the very human gesture of loosing a sandal. The left arm is raised, as if to compensate the position while maintaining the balance. Next to her, wrapped around a rocky spur, is a dolphin, an animal iconographically linked to the goddess because of his birth from the foam of the sea. The figure rests on a cylindrical and concave bronze base, with finely chiselled reserves. The bronze element is in turn resting on a africano marble cylinder with black of Belgium marble base. Venus is one of the major Roman goddesses primarily associated with eros and beauty. It is traditionally understood as the equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, goddess of beauty, physical and passionate love, among the major deities of Olympus. His birth is due to a dramatic event: Uranus, Heaven, is mutilated by his son Cronus, who punishes him for the wrongs inflicted on his mother. The torn limbs of Uranus fall into the sea and fertilize the foam of the waves of the island of Cyprus. From the waves emerges in all its splendor Aphrodite. Since the 4th century, Aphrodite begins to be represented with characters more human and less heroic. Praxiteles with the 'Aphrodite Cnidia,' for the first time in the history of sculpture, depicts her naked, as she prepares to take a ritual bath. From the Pressitele’s model descend the Capitoline Venus (Capitoline Museums of Rome) and the Venus de’ Medici (Uffizi Museum of Florence) accompanied by Eros on the back of a dolphin. This vein also includes a subject frequently attested in the Hellenistic and then Roman Ages, with examples in bronze, marble and terracotta: the Aphrodite who fastens the sandal. The luck that this type of representation had in the following centuries is demonstrated by the vast number of sculptures that represent it. In this bronze work the goddess resumes the position of Oplontis’s Naked Venus: here Venus holds an apple in her left hand, a reminder of her victory in the beauty contest in which she prevailed over Minerva and Juno by judgment of Paris. In our bronze instead, the hand seems to want to shake the apple, which however has not been molded. Perhaps the bronze is inspired by another work, such as the bronzes kept in the archaeological museum of Padua. Another example is the famous 'Venus in bikini" found in Pompeii, so-called because it depicts the goddess in the same pose, but with the breasts and hips covered by bands painted in gold. The dolphin depicted next to it could be inspired instead to the Medici Venus...
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Italian Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Belgian Black Marble, Bronze

Bust of Sir Isaac Newton, Pearlware, Ralph & Enoch Wood, circa 1790
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pearlware bust of Sir Isaac Newton, by Enoch Wood. The oak pedestal adds dignity to an attractive rendering of this great man of science. A handwrit...
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English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Pearlware

Fine Pair of Venetian Figures in Giltwood, circa 1700
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Used to support chandeliers or flowers. They represent personages of de New World, very in vogue in that time.  
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Italian Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Giltwood

Early Meissen Cherub Group Allegory Summer & Autumn, by J.J. Kaendler, C 1750
Located in Vienna, AT
Meissen Porcelain Group From The Time Of Origin: Two naked cupids and a ram on a rocaille rock, depicting the seasons of summer and autumn: Summer bedded on a bundle of ears of cor...
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German Rococo Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

18th C Wooden Sculpture of Francis of Paola
Located in Leuven , BE
Francis of Paola, O.M., (or: Francesco di Paola or Francis the Fire Handler; 27 March 1416 – 2 April 1507) was an Italian mendicant friar and the founder of the Roman Catholic Order ...
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European Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

Figure: Female Pedlar, Possibly Peg Woffington, Bow Porcelain, circa 1758
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
On a mound base decorated with painted floral sprigs. She wears a pale pink-mauve washed shift with iron-red sleeves and cloak, pale mauve and pink stomacher and a sprigged white shi...
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English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

18th Pair of Wooden Heads of Two Cherubs with Golden Wings
Located in Marbella, ES
18th Pair of Wooden Heads of Two Cherubs with Golden Wings
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Spanish Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

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...
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English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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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...
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English Country Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Oak, Wood

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...
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English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Chinese Guanyin Porcelain Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
This stunning Chinese porcelain sculpture of the deity Guanyin, the Goddess of Mercy, was crafted in China in the 1880s. Featuring intricate details and fine-tuned craftsmanship, thi...
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Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Italian Carved or Cast Stone Fruits: Final Price
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Antique Italian carved stone fruits triumph for Garden or for the top of the staircase, ref. M/108.
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Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Stone

A Bow Porcelain Figure of a Female Turkish Dancer, c1765
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
A Bow Porcelain Figure of a Female Turkish Dancer, c1765 Additional information: Date : c1765 Period : George III Marks : Unmarked Origin : Bow, ...
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English George III Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

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...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

Pair of 18th Century Italian Carved Stripped Oak Cherubs with White Wash Finish
Located in Dallas, TX
This large pair of antique putti sculptures were crafted in Italy, circa 1760. Both of the Classic figures are hand carved and feature their original pai...
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Italian Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Oak

Figure representing Matrimony, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An attractive allegorical figure of Matrimony, reprsented by a woman in her best clothing, holding a cage. The Bow Porcelain factory was the first English porcelain producer; these ...
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English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Carrara Marble Bas-Relief Depicting Apollo Italy, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
A Carrara Marble Bas-Relief depicting Apollo Italy, 18th Century 30,5 x 16,5 cm very good condition.  
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Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Carrara Marble

18th Century Sant'antonio Abate Sculpture in Wood
Located in Milan, IT
18th Century Sant’Antonio Abate Wood, cm alt. 61 Base 25 x 17.5 cm This wooden sculpture depicts Sant’Antoni Abate. Antonio was born in Come i...
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Italian Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

Cherubs Burying Their Pet, 18th Century
Located in North Miami, FL
18th century French carved-wood panel of a scene of Cherubs burying their pet, expressing that God cares about all of creation, and since pets are part of that creation, they are included in His care and attention. The piece is mounted on a Lucite panel framed with a double walnut molding...
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French Baroque Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Wood, Walnut

Indian 18th Century Teak Guardian Lion Carving with Traces of Original Paint
Located in Yonkers, NY
An Indian carved teak wood guardian lion sculpture from the mid-18th century, with traces of original paint. Handcrafted in India during the 1740s-1760s in order to take place in a monument, this teak architectural carving features a guardian lion, his teeth resting on a man's head. The sculpture shows traces of its original paint, while carving technique presents a great attention to details. The flat top suggests this was used as a column base, perhaps in a temple. With its expressive character and original paint, this Indian mid 18th century carved lion figure...
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Indian Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

Pair of Children, Polychromed Pine Wood, Spain, 18th Century and Later
Located in Madrid, ES
Couple of children. Polychrome pine wood, Century XVIII. Pair of polychrome pine wood carvings that represent two children in an attitude of playing a musical wind instrument, both seated, with their hands towards their faces, and slightly raising one leg to add some movement to a posture that, otherwise, it would be perhaps too static. Due to their postures and attitudes, they would be part of a large and quality altarpiece, judging by the size, the details, the hair, the proportions, etc., elements in which the musical angels were not something strange. Note that those present do not have wings, calling themselves in these cases "putti" and being, in the same way, figures of habitual presence in religious environments despite having emerged from Renaissance classicism and its sources from Antiquity. The proportions of the sizes, the anatomy, the symmetry, the certain plasticism of the hair, etc. are elements that speak of an influence of Neoclassicism in these sculptures. Likewise, a certain resemblance to works from the 18th century of the Castilian school can be appreciated." Size: 22 x 42 x 85 cms / c/peanas 37 x 37 x 180 cm. Weight is merely orientative. Bases and wooden instruments...
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Spanish Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Other

Joseph Charles Marin
Located in New York, NY
Cupid Holding a Bow by French Sculptor Joseph-Charles Marin (1759-1834) White Marble, signed and dated 1784 Provenance: Carl Singer, from the Estate of Charles Hitchcock Tyler, Beverly MA...
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French Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Marble

18th Century, French Giltwood Decorative Element
Located in Sofia, BG
18th century handmade giltwood decorative element representing a basket surrounded by flowering branches. France, circa 1790.
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French Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Giltwood

18th Century Japanese Hand-Carved Fully Blossomed Chrysanthemum Flower Figurine
Located in North Miami, FL
18th Century Japanese hand-carved fully blossomed chrysanthemum flower figurine made of white bone with branch and leaves painted. The flower is placed inside its original glass and ...
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Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Bone

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...
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Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Alabaster

Basalt Portrait Medallion, Oliver Cromwell, Wedgwood, circa 1775
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...
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English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Stoneware

Autumn, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
From a series of figures representing The Four Seasons, Autumn is shown as a young man squeezing grapes into a cup, symbolic of harvest time, and recalling classical representations ...
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English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

18th Century Pair of French Gilt Bronze Sculptures on Marble Base
Located in IT
18th century pair of french gilt bronze sculptures on marble base representing Chinese figures This particular and lovely pair of sculp...
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French Louis XV Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

Tragic Couple Antony and Cleopatra, Creamware, Ralph & Enoch Wood, circa 1780
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Cleopatra and Mark Antony, in enamelled creamware. After a model by Ralph and Enoch Wood, and quite likely made by this important partnership. The figur...
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English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Creamware

Figure, Mercury, Bow Porcelain, circa 1748
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
He wears a winged helmet and sandals, a loosely draped pink, white, and yellow washed cloak over a short tunic, and leans arrogantly against bales, his message sack over his left sho...
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English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

An 18th Century Baroque Period Carved Cherub, Continental Circa 1750
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very charming example of Baroque carving, depicting a hand carved cherub in what appears to be butternut. Most likely a segment of a larger religious work.
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European Baroque Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

A Superb Pair of Neapolitan Carved Figures of Dwarves
Located in London, GB
A Superb Pair of Neapolitan Carved Figures of Dwarves Attributed to Francesco Celebrano (1729 - 1814) Marble Naples, Italy 18th Century SIZE: Male: 36cm high - 14¼ ins high Fe...
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Italian Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Marble

18th Century North Spanish Polychrome Wooden Virgin Sculpture
Located in Marbella, ES
18th Century north Spanish polychrome wooden sculpture of the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus.  
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Spanish Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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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,...
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English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

CHRIST'S SUPPER in Portuguese Terracotta 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
CHRIST'S SUPPER in Portuguese Terracotta 18th Century composed of fourteen figures in polychrome terracotta. Period defects and repainting Height: (largest) 56 cm. It belonged to th...
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Portuguese Baroque Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

A Lion, passant gardant, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A lion, seated on its haunches, one paw up. Perhaps a heraldic reference; although the stump does not appear in heraldry, it is required in order to keep the paw in position during f...
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English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Sculpture Antique Marble Indian Statue
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Rare antique important marble statue of Gopi, mounted on a plexiglass base, in modern taste. Statue high 47 cm; with base cm. 71 - plexiglas base is cm. 20 x 20. Unique item! Sec...
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Indian Agra Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Marble

18th Century Italian Saint
Located in Seattle, WA
Beautifully carved wood saint , late 18th century , Italy.
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Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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...
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English George III Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Saint Apollonia of Alexandria, Patron of Dentistry, 18th Century
Located in North Miami, FL
Early 18th Century Spanish carved-wood polychromed sculpture of Saint Apollonia of Alexandria, Patron of Dentistry. This actual sculpture appears in th...
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Spanish Baroque Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Gold Leaf

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...
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English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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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...
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Italian Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

Seal, I Still Hope, Derby Porcelain Works, circa 1760
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...
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English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Stone Antique Sculpture
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Rare bas-relief sculpture in hand-carved stone in the shape of a vase. I mounted it on a simple black base, which gives stability. Simply elegant. ref. nr. 1518 -
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Indian Agra Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Stone

Figure Columbine with her Hurdy Gurdy, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1756
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
From the Commedia dell’arte, shown seated on a tree stump and playing her favourite instrument. Probably after Kandler, who described the model as a Tyrolean maiden playing a lyre. ...
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English Rococo Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

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