Rococo Figurative Sculptures
ROCOCO STYLE
Rococo was an aesthetic movement in the fine and decorative arts in the 18th century that found its inspiration in nature and fostered an overall lightness and delicacy of form, construction and ornament in interior design. Rococo furniture, while greatly influenced by trends in Italy and Germany, is often called Louis XV style — the movement having reached its best expression during that sybaritic French king’s reign.
The term “rococo” is thought to be a portmanteau of the French words rocaille and coquilles — “rock” and “shells” — organic motifs frequently used in architecture and design of the style.
When it comes to authentic Rococo furniture's characteristics, it is above all sensuous and social. The furniture of earlier eras in Europe had been heavy in every sense; the Rococo period saw the appearance of light-framed upholstered armchairs, side chairs and occasional tables that could easily be moved to form conversational circles.
The signal detail of Rococo furniture design is the gently curved cabriole, or S-shaped chair-, table-, and cabinet-leg. It imitates the bend of a tree limb or a flower stem. In a further reference to nature, furnishings were often asymmetrical and painted white, or in soft, pastel shades. Rococo has become a timeless style, and as the furniture pieces presented on 1stDibs demonstrate, its playful, sculptural forms can provide visual excitement to contemporary, clean-lined spaces.
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Style: Rococo
Antique Meissen Porcelain Commedia dell' Arte Figurine Masked Advocato No. 64536
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique German porcelain figurine.
By the Royal Meissen Porcelain Manufactory.
Depicting the Advocato with Mask.
Model Number 64536.
Depicting a masked character in a yell...
Category
20th Century German Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Derby Exceptional Pair of Porcelain Figures of the Garland Shepherds, ca 1765
By Derby
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful pair of Derby figures called the "Garland Shepherds", made in about 1765. The pair is one of Derby's most famous figure pairs and it bears the catalogue number E2...
Category
1760s English Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
$1,160 Sale Price / set
20% Off
18th Century Italian Gilded Tabernacle with a Hand-Carved Chalice Fragment
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian gilded and hand-carved tabernacle adorned with an 18th century Italian gilt chalice and Sabina Faye Braxton gaufrage fabric. This tabernacle once belonged in a h...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
Rococó Porcelain Figural Cherub Jardinière or Centerpiece Bowl by Meissen
Located in Miami, FL
19th century Austrian porcelain centerpiece bowl or jardinière beautifully enameled in rich colors with floral sprays and gilt highlig...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
$2,920 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century Italian Gilded Bird with Calcite Crystal in a Sphalerite Matrix
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian hand-carved and gilded bird on a cut phantom calcite crystal base. The missing wing of the bird has been replicated with a rare coordinating calcite crystal clus...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Crystal, Gold Leaf
Meissen Porcelain Bacchus and Attendants Figural Group
Located in Bradenton, FL
Superb example of 19th Century Meissen Porcelain. Bacchus and Attendants Figural Group modeled by Ernst August Leuteritz. The porcelain group depicts a youthful Bacchus, leopard skin...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Bow Pair of Porcelain Figures of Liberty & Matrimony, Rococo 1760-1764
Located in London, GB
This is a fabulous pair of figures of Liberty and Matrimony made by the Bow Porcelain factory between 1760 and 1764. These figures were a popular pair portraying marriage.
The bow...
Category
1760s English Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
$2,960 Sale Price / set
20% Off
18th Century Italian Silver and Gold Crucifix with Mica and Calcite Crystal
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian silver and gold leaf crucifix adorned with baroque pearls and mounted on a mica cluster and a calcite crystal. The mica specimen is from the Great Smoky Mountain...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
Lladró Limited Edition one of 1500 Cinderella's Arrival Sculpture 1994
By Lladro
Located in BILBAO, ES
Limited edition Disney princess sculpture of Cinderella and her carriage, decorated with handmade gloss finish porcelain flowers.
Designed and handmade in Spain.
Unique pieces by the...
Category
1990s Spanish Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
17th Century Italian Hand-Carved and Gilded Crown with Himalayan Diamonds
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
17th century Italian hand-carved and gilded crown adorned with herkimer diamonds and mounted on an antique gold base.
This was original from a historical Italian church and would ha...
Category
17th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf, Metal
Royal Dux, Rococo Couple in Hand Painted Porcelain, 1940s
Located in København, Copenhagen
Royal Dux. Rococo couple in hand painted porcelain, 1940s.
Stamped.
In very good condition.
The woman measures: 21 x 13 cm.
The man measures: 22 x 9 cm.
Category
1940s Czech Vintage Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Terracotta Bacchanale Sculpture with Faun and Putti - After Clodion
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A fine quality French mythological terracotta sculpture, after Clodion (Claude Michel Clodion 1738 - 1814), depicting a young female faun/satyr playing with two Bacchante cherubs, on...
Category
1890s French Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Bloor Derby Pair of Porcelain Figures, Stag and Doe, circa 1765-1820
By Bloor Derby, Derby
Located in London, GB
This is a very charming pair of porcelain figures of a stag and a doe, probably cast by Derby in about 1760 and decorated by Bloor Derby in 1820. The figures are a simple white porce...
Category
1760s English Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
$668 Sale Price / set
20% Off
18th Century Italian Cross with Fossil Agate Coral and Mounted on Fossil Coral
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian cross with fossil agate coral and mounted on fossil coral.
The fossil agate coral and fossil coral are put together with the 18th century cross to lo...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Rock Crystal, Agate, Coral
1860 Meissen Porcelain Figurine Waiter
Located in Vienna, AT
For sale in this ad you can find the prettiest little porcelain figurine. It was manufactured by Meissen Porcelain in the 1860s. The figurine depicts a water carrying a tray with foo...
Category
19th Century German Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold Plate
Sculptural 18th Century Italian Crucifix Mounted on Jasper with Crystal Points
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian crucifix mounted on jasper with crystal points. The crystal points create more sunrays around the halo of the crucifix. The reddish tips of the crysta...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Agate, Coral, Rock Crystal
Patinated Bronze "Bacchanalia" after Claude Michel Clodion
Located in San Diego, CA
Patinated bronze "Bacchanalia" after the celebrated 1762 model by Claude Michel Clodion (French, 1738-1814), circa late 19th century. #1555
The figural group of two female figures...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$3,360 Sale Price
20% Off
Meissen Splendid Element Vase 'Air', by J.J. Kaendler, Germany, ca 1860/80
Located in Vienna, AT
Large, ornate vase in the shape of a jug with highly embossed, partially three-dimensional decoration: on a separate oval base with colourful, diagonal feather trim, bulbous body nes...
Category
1860s German Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Italian Bronze-Gold Crucifix Mounted on a Crystal Geode
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian bronze-gold crucifix with coordinating gold leaf shells and crystal points mounted on a crystal geode. The gold leaf shells adorn the crucifix and the base of th...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Bronze, Gold Leaf
Sculptural 18th Century Italian Figure of Christ on Red and White Crystal Quartz
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian figure of Christ and metal sword with large red and white crystal quartz clusters and phantom quartz.
The figure of Christ was originally part of a c...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Crystal, Rock Crystal, Metal
Sculptural 18th Century Italian Cross with Smoky Quartz Crystals and Pyrite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian cross mounted on smoky quartz crystals in matrix with pyrite formations. The center of the cross has an abstract figure of Christ created from acrylic crystals. The missing sunrays are replaced with the smoky quartz crystal points...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Agate, Coral, Rock Crystal
$4,125 Sale Price
25% Off
Antique 18th Century Meissen Porcelain Figurine of a Gallant - Trumpeter No. 12
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique 18th German porcelain figurine.
By the Royal Meissen Porcelain Manufactory.
Model Number 12.
Depicting a Trumpeter from the 'Gallant Orchestra' series created b...
Category
18th Century German Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Important pair of 19th Century, ormolu mounted Meissen Parrots. 49cm
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A rare pair of 19th-century Meissen porcelain Parrots with ornate gilded ormolu mounts, highlighting their luxurious craftsmanship and potential royal associations. The mounts, chara...
Category
19th Century German Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Glazed Terracotta Bust of Countess du Barry after Augustin Pajou
By Augustin Pajou
Located in Vero Beach, FL
This large bust, depicting the Countess du Barry, was made after the 18th century original by Augustin Pajou. It is in the Louvre collection. He was ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
18th Century Italian Hand-Carved Bird with Calcite Crystal in Matrix
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian hand-carved and gilded bird with a hand-carved wood head with calcite crystals in matrix on a cut optical calcite crystal base.
This fragment artifact is origin...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Crystal, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
Very Fine French 19th Century White Marble Bust of a Young Beauty by René Rozet
By René Rozet 1
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine and large French 19th century white marble bust of a young beauty, purported to be a young "Marie Antoinette" (Queen of France 1755-1793), by René Rozet...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble, Siena Marble
$59,850 Sale Price
29% Off
Porcelain Group, "The noble rococo game of chess", German Manufacturer
Located in Berlin, DE
Large, decorative porcelain group, "The noble game of chess". German porcelain manufacturer.
Undamaged.
Category
20th Century German Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
$2,553 Sale Price
20% Off
Important Meissen Porcelain Groups of Caparisoned Elephants and Soldiers
Located in New York, NY
An important pair of Meissen Porcelain Groups depicting "Alexander The Great Concurring India". Modeled with Alexander the great's three warriors/soldiers riding on caparisoned eleph...
Category
1880s German Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 5 Meissen Figures Emblematic of the Senses by J.J. Kändler and Eberlein
Located in New York, NY
A magnificent and fully complete set of 5 Meissen figures emblematic of the senses: Hearing, smell, touch, taste, and sight, Modeled by J.J. Kändler and J.F. Eberlein. These figures ...
Category
1860s German Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
"Nymph and Satyr" by Claude Michel Clodion
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Sculpture "Nymph and Satyr", made by the author Claude "Clodion" Michel (1738-1814). Made of bronze and patinated in brown. Signed Clodion.
France, CIRCA 1780.
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Italian Double-Mounted Cross on Hematite with Pyrite Inclusions
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian gilded double-mounted cross on hematite with pyrite inclusions and adorned with pyrite rosettes. A matching smaller cross is mounted onto the bigger cross...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Pyrite
$1,087 Sale Price
25% Off
Exceptional Pair of Antique Meissen Porcelain Hunting Groups with Horses & Dogs
Located in New York, NY
An exceptional and quite large pair of 19th century antique Meissen porcelain hunting groups with "The Prince" and "The Princess" each riding a horse followed by a bunch of hunting d...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Italian 19th-20th Century Life-Size Marble Sculpture Titled "Searching for Love"
By Vito Pardo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine museum quality Italian 19th-20th century life-size marble sculpture titled "Searching for Love" by Vito Pardo (Italian, born in Venice in 1872) Depicting a semi-nude life...
Category
Early 1900s Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$219,600 Sale Price / set
44% Off
Antique White Porcelain Court Figurine Ludwigsburg Germany Circa 1765
Located in Katonah, NY
An antique white porcelain court figurine made by Ludwigsburg Porcelain circa 1765.
This unpainted figure represents a young man in 18th-century dress holding a lamb under one arm an...
Category
Mid-18th Century German Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Pair 19th Century Meissen Porcelain Chinoiserie Style of Nodding Pagoda Figures
Located in New York, NY
A large rare pair of 19th century Meissen Chinoiserie style Nodding Pagoda Figures with Movable Head, Hand and Tongue, known as a "Nodder'. This Unusual...
Category
1850s German Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Cesare Lapini Alabaster Sculpture Girl and Green Onyx Pedestal
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
Take a look at the sensitivity and incredibly well done piece. Loo at the contrast of the creamy alabaster sculpture of a young girl and the beautiful Green and brown onyx base. The ...
Category
1880s Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Onyx, Alabaster, Brass
18th Century Italian Cross on a Red Hematoid Quartz Heart with Baroque Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th Century Italian cross mounted on a polished red hematoid quartz heart and adorned with natural-forming baroque pearls and a cross-shaped baroque pearl. The piece is inspired by ...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Quartz, Crystal, Gold Leaf
1750 Venezia Italy Polychrome Lacquered and Wooden Engraved Sculpture
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a rare wooden sculpted man figure carved and lacquered in polychrome. This elegant piece hails from the Mid-18th Century, Venezia.
The curved shape, on the front and on the s...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Nymphenburg Porcelain Figurine of the Disturbed Slumberer/Der Gestörte Schlummer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Nymphenburg porcelain figurine.
Entitled "Der Gestörte Schlummer", which translates to English as "The Disturbed Slumber".
After the 18th Century Frankenthal Porcelain model modeled by Johann Friedrich Lück.
Depicting a sleeping gallant attended to (and being awakened by) two maidens. The gallant is sleeping on patches of grass that are supported by a stylized Rococo rocaille base.
Simply a wonderful antique Nymphenburg figurine...
Category
Early 20th Century German Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Bow Pair of Porcelain Figures, Arlecchino and Columbina, Rococo ca 1758
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful pair of figures of Arlecchino and Columbina, made by the Bow Porcelain factory in about 1758. These figures formed part of a series of the Commedia dell'Arte, a very popular series of theatrical figures that served as decoration at the dinner table in the 18th Century.
The Bow Porcelain Factory was one of the first potteries in Britain to make soft paste porcelain, and most probably the very first to use bone ash, which later got perfected by Josiah Spode to what is now the universally used "bone china". Bow was the main competitor of the Chelsea Porcelain Factory, but where Chelsea made very fine slipcast porcelain, Bow made a different soft paste porcelain that tended to be softer and could be pressed into moulds. Bow served a larger public generally at lower prices. The factory was only in operation between 1743 and 1774, after which the tradition got incorporated into some of the later famous potteries such as Worcester and Derby.
These figures were used to adorn the dinner table when dessert was served; groups of figures served to express something about the host, the guests, or to direct the conversation. The Italian Commedia Dell'Arte, a comical form of masked theatre, was very popular in those days and Bow copied many figures of the German Meissen series that were brought out in the decades before.
This pair dates from about 1758, which was at the height of Bow's ability to make beautiful figurines often copied from Chelsea or Meissen. The pair is modelled after a Meissen pair by Kaendler. The porcelain is translucent with a beautiful milky glaze - Bow was probably the first pottery using bone in its porcelain recipe. Arlecchino (Harlequin) is playing the bagpipes, dressed in an odd costume of mismatched chintz and playing cards and wearing a funny black trumpet...
Category
1750s English Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
$2,880 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Red Hematoid Quartz Heart with an 18th Century Italian Angel and a Baroque Pearl
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 'Sacred Heart' - 18th century Italian gilded angel mounted on a polished red hematoid quartz heart and adorned with a natural-forming baroque pearl. The piece is inspired ...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Quartz, Gold Leaf
18th Century Italian Cross on a Pink Hematoid Quartz Heart with Aurora Crystals
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian cross mounted on a polished pink hematite quartz heart and adorned with aurora (sunset) quartz and a natural-forming cross shaped baroque pearl.
The 18th centu...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
18th Century Italian Sunray on a Blue Celestite Sphere with Blue Coral
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian gold leaf sunray mounted on a blue celestite sphere and wrapped in perfectly coordinating blue preserved coral.
The 18th century gold leaf sunray was once a par...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Coral, Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
Pair of 18th Century Italian Gilt Fragment Horse Head Sculptures
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Pair of 18th century Italian gold-leaf fragment horse head sculptures.
The pair is made of 18th century Italian water-gilt fragments mounted on scroll wood bases. The fragments come...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
Gilt Bronze Figurine Young Lady with Love Letter at Fountain 19th century
Located in Sweden, SE
Step back in time with this stunning hand-chased cast bronze figurine, reminiscent of the beautiful Rococo era. Sculpture depicting a beautiful young lady in a garden by a fountain, ...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold Plate, Bronze
Meissen Porcelain Revelry Groups
Located in New Orleans, LA
This charming pair of Meissen porcelain figures celebrates the essence of Revelry. First modeled by the renowned Johann Joachim Kändler on bases by Peter Reinicke, circa 1767, these joyous groups depict musicians making merry by playing the French horn, flute, guitar and hurdy-gurdy, and gardeners carrying flowers in baskets and aprons. Two almost identical groups are featured in Meissen: Collector’s Catalogue by Laurence Mitchell.
Figures by Kändler were especially popular and served as table decorations at courtly banquets. He took the reigns of the Meissen factory in 1733 and over the following 40 years created more than 900 models, many of which were considered the most important and beautiful ever produced. Many of his designs were so timeless and classic that they continued to be used well into the 19th century. Kändler was highly regarded especially for his allegorical representations and he was certainly at his best when designing the Four Continents...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Sculptural 18th Century Italian Crucifix with Selenite Sunrays and Apophyllite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian crucifix with selenite in matrix and adorned with gem beading around the cross. The selenite in matrix creates the sunrays around the crucifix. The pi...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Rock Crystal
Pair of 18th Century Italian Dancing Angels with Baroque Pearls on Aragonite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Pair of 18th century Italian dancing angels with coordinating baroque pearls on Aragonite crystal clusters.
The dancing angles are hand-carved wood, polychromed and gilded, original...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
18th Century Italian Figure of Christ with Smoky Quartz Crystals in Coral
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian figure of Christ on brown, aged coral, adorned with smoky quartz crystals, mounted on a polished agate base. The figure of Christ was originally part ...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Coral
Sculptural 18th Century Italian Figure of Christ on Italian Crown Fragment
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Titled "Courage at Calvary"
18th century Italian figure of Christ mounted on an 18th century corona (crown) fragment with antique hand-forged nails and citrine points. The missing l...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Iron
Paul-Romain Chevré bronze 19th.
Located in Rio De Janeiro, RJ
Incredible french bronze "Separating the Cocks" in bronze.
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of 18th Century Italian Gilded Angels on Aragonite Crystal Clusters
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Pair of late 18th century Italian hand-carved, gilded angels with instruments on aragonite clusters with coordinating Italian hand-carved wood fragment bases.
The carved angels and ...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
19th Century, German Porcelain Horse Drawn Sedan Chair & Riders by Samson & Cie
By Samson & Cie
Located in Atlanta, GA
This charming 19th-century porcelain figurine group, created by Samson & Cie of Paris, captures the elegance and whimsy of 18th-century European decorative arts. The scene features a...
Category
19th Century German Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century Italian Gilt Sunray on a Blue Celestite Sphere with Crystal Quartz
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian gold leaf sunray on a celestite sphere and wrapped in coordinating blue crystal quartz.
The 18th century gold leaf sunray was once a halo motif as part of a cru...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
$1,387 Sale Price
25% Off
Pair of Italian Capodimonte Porcelain Figural Table Lamps by Pellati, 1970
By Giuseppe Pellati
Located in Milano, MI
Pair of polychrome Capodimonte porcelain figurines, a man with basket of grapes and a girl with a basket of flowers, both with round gil...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Silk
$945 Sale Price / set
27% Off
Large Blanc de Chine Nymphenburg Figurine of Winter by Auliczek
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Nymphenburg porcelain figurine.
By Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory.
Designed Dominikus Auliczek.
Modeled as an allegorical de...
Category
20th Century German Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Palatial French 19th-20th Century Allegorical Figural Cast Iron Group Torchere
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine and palatial French 19th-20th century allegorical figural cast-iron group torchere - sculpture - fountain - representing spring and the harvest, probably cast by Le Fonderies d'Art du Val d'Osne. The charming four-putti sculpture with a front standing putto holding a pole amongst wheat stalks, another putto kneeling and collecting wheat, a third one wearing a hat and picking flowers for a wreath and the fourth kneeling putto holding a bird's nest, all below an elongated classical stem with a glass globe (Electrified), circa: Paris, 1900.
Overall height: 84 inches (213.4 cm).
Width: 29 1/2 inches (74.9 cm).
Circular base diameter: 24 inches (61 inches).
Cast-iron had been in production during the 18th century but its inferior status to the more fashionable and delicate wrought-iron had generally confined its use to architectural work. By the early 19th century, however, rapid developments of the Industrial Revolution combined with the simultaneous burgeoning of a new middle class provided the impetus for a dramatic expansion in its application and in a short space of time a proliferation of iron foundries across Europe and America thrived on the production of everything from inkstands to railway stations. The use of cast-iron for garden ornament became particularly widespread at this time, as the possibilities for its mass-production at a fraction of the cost of bronze made it the material of choice for outdoor statuary...
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Early 1900s French Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
$34,850 Sale Price
59% Off
Derby Figure of Shepherdess with Garlanded Lamb, ca 1760
By Derby
Located in London, GB
This is a charming Derby figure of a shepherdess with a garlanded lamb, made in or shortly after 1760. The figure is one half of a set called the "Garland...
Category
1760s English Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
$836 Sale Price
57% Off
Meissen Rococo Group 'The Decisive Choice' by J.C. Schoenheit, around 1870
Located in Vienna, AT
Elaborate large porcelain group of the 19th century:
In the centre of the group of three, the chosen one, with a feathered hat and a flower garland around her hips, which also encirc...
Category
Mid-19th Century German Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Derby Porcelain Figure of Neptune and Dolphin on a Shell, ca 1785
By Derby
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning porcelain figure of Neptune with a dolphin standing on a sea shell, made by Derby around the year 1785. The figure is in beautiful original condition.
We have one other Neptune figure from 1765, please see separate listing.
The Derby Porcelain factory has its roots in the late 1740s, when Andrew Planché, a Walloon Huguenot refugee, started making simple porcelain toys shaped like animals in his back yard. In 1756 Staffordshire enameller...
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1780s English Antique Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
$1,680 Sale Price
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