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Leeds Pottery Creamware Pottery Venus and Cupid Figure Group
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A good quality Leeds Pottery creamware figure group depicting Venus and Cupid with a large fish believed to date from the latter 19th century. The molded figure group stands raised on a square shaped base and is well modelled with nice detail with Venus dressed...
Category
Late 19th Century English Greco Roman Antique Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Creamware, Pottery
Set of 1980s Hand Painted Glazed Terracotta Quirky Couple
Located in Tarrytown, NY
Pair of 1980s Hand Painted Terracotta Quirky Couple - Hand Painted Glaze
When you flip the woman figure, there’s another design of her
“The Executive” D Manninrostoisdoih1 Mammone
W...
Category
1980s Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Knabstrup Danish Midcentury Art Pottery Girl and Swan Figure
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stylish vintage Danish Knabstrup Keramiek pottery sculpture of a nude maiden with a swan seated on an oval pedestal base and decorated in white glazes with...
Category
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pottery
$343 Sale Price
35% Off
Eric James Mellon Hand-Crafted Studio Pottery Head Sculpture Dated 1963
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare and unusual studio pottery head sculpted by renowned ceramic artist Eric James Mellon (British, 1925-2014) and dated 1963. Trained at the Central S...
Category
1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pottery
19th Century Staffordshire Cottage Bank
Located in High Point, NC
19th century Staffordshire pottery penny bank from England in the form of a cottage with flocked details. The coin slot has a few nicks from age and use.
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pottery
Ceramic Statuette Representing Immortal Li Tieguai Yellow Blue China 19thCentury
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Ceramic statuette from Shiwan partially glazed in yellow and blue representing Li Tieguai standing leaning on a stick, his hat behind his back.
Under the foot is still the piece o...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Terracotta
Bing & Grøndahl, Denmark. Porcelain figurine of reading children.
Located in København, Copenhagen
Bing & Grøndahl, Denmark.
Porcelain figurine of reading children.
Model no. 1567.
Approximately 1930s.
Second factory quality.
In perfect condition.
Dimensions: B 10.0 cm x D 10.0 cm...
Category
1930s Danish Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Henry Dean, Belgian glass artist. Tall and slender art glass vase. Orange glass.
Located in København, Copenhagen
Bengt Wall, Sweden.
Tall figurine of a Bali girl in raw and glazed ceramic.
1950s.
In excellent condition, with minimal signs of use.
Signed.
Measures: H 32.0 cm. x W 12.0 cm.
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Abstract Family Sculpture in Black Glaze by Elie Van Damme, Belgium, 1960s
Located in Antwerp, BE
Abstract mother, father and child sculpture hand molded in black glaze by Elie Van Damme manufactured by Amphora Belgium, 1960s.
Category
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
$451 Sale Price
20% Off
Early 20th Century Hand Painted / Gilt Decorated Porcelain Decorative Sculpture
Located in Tarry Town, NY
This exquisite early 20th-century porcelain sculpture by Royal Dux showcases the fine craftsmanship and artistic detail characteristic of the renowned Czech manufacturer. The sculptu...
Category
Early 20th Century Czech Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold
Art Deco Wiener Werkstätte Porcelain Madonna Ida Schwetz Lehmann 1923 Austria
By Ida Schwetz-Lehmann 1
Located in Vienna, AT
Wiener Werkstätte figure Madonna from white glazed porcelain by
Ida Schwetz-Lehmann for Wiener Werkstätte 1923, Vienna.
A high quality and lovely figure Madonna with Jesus
represen...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Capodimonte White Glaze Porcelain Statue Male and Female Figurines
Located in Firenze, IT
A pair of late 18th century Naples, real Fabbrica Ferdinandea, white porcelain figures of a lady and a man are hand modeled in the round. This lovely couple of statuettes in the white feature a fruit vendor and a peasant. The man, modelled in a theatrical pose against a tree stump, wears a hat and a scarf. His right hand in his breeches pocket, he is leaning on the tree with his left hand.
The woman wears a skirt and a low necked jacket and holds a basket of fruit in her arms, the hair gathered with a bow on her head.
This two little statues...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Life-Size Raku Ceramic Female Sculpture by Eva Stettner
Located in Palm Springs, CA
1980s life-size Raku-fired ceramic female nude sculpture by American sculptor Eva Stettner.
Constructed of ceramic that is low fired glazed, the stool is...
Category
1980s American Modern Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Chrome
Wiener Werkstatte Austrian Art Pottery Dancer Figure, 20th Century
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine and stylish Austrian attributed, possibly Wiener Werkstatte, art pottery figure of semi naked dancer in the manner of Paul Gauguin. The figure is heavily and solidly pott...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pottery, Terracotta
Leeds Pottery Creamware Pottery Bacchus Figure Group
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A good quality Leeds Pottery creamware figure group depicting Bacchus holding a cup and a bunch of grapes and standing alongside a wine barrel believed to date from the latter 19th c...
Category
Late 19th Century English Greco Roman Antique Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pottery
Bengt Wall, Sweden. Figurine of a Bali girl. Raw and glazed ceramic
Located in København, Copenhagen
Bengt Wall, Sweden.
Figurine of a Bali girl in raw and glazed ceramic with gold decoration.
1950s.
In excellent condition.
Signed.
Measures: H 22.0 cm. x W 11.5 cm.
Category
1950s Swedish Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
"Riding the Currents", Rare Art Deco Sculpture of Merboy and Fish by Andersen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Joyful and full of energy, this rare -- possibly unique -- sculpture by Just Andersen depicts a merboy, complete with fins on each feet, riding a plump fish through the sea, his mout...
Category
1930s Danish Art Deco Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
$2,560 Sale Price
20% Off
Royal Copenhagen porcelain figurine of a girl with a rabbit.
Located in København, Copenhagen
Royal Copenhagen porcelain figurine of a girl with a rabbit.
Designed by Sterett Kelsey.
Model number: 5653.
Dating: 1980-1984.
In perfect condition.
First factory quality.
Dimension...
Category
1980s Danish Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Short Standing TOTEM, Rectangular Ovals on Angled Legs in Metallic Glazed Clay
Located in New York, NY
This shorter "Modern Totem" sculpture consists of softly rectangular rings stacked one on top of the other, on short angled feet. Another angled foot is replicated above under the to...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Richard Hirsch Black Marble Mortar and Glass Pestle Sculpture, 2006 - 2010
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch’s Black Marble Mortar and Glass Pestle Sculpture was made during 2006 – 2010. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, black glaze, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
19th Century Large Staffordshire Cottage
Located in High Point, NC
19th century large Staffordshire cottage with very interesting design. It has many levels and interesting architectural details, accented with h...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
"Exchange of Cultures, " High Style Art Deco Porcelain Lamp Base w/ Nudes by Robj
By ROBJ
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Illustrated in "Ceramiche Robj" and considered a major design by the renowned sculptor and ceramicist, this large piece was probably made in early 1930s to coincide with the debut of the Exposition Coloniale Internationale in Paris, which attracted almost 9 million visitors in less than a year. Rare and striking, this porcelain table lamp base depicts the globe surmounted by a tightly composed cluster of nude and semi-nude female figures representing cultures around the world. The women depicted here, all glazed in a gorgeous snow-white glaze highlighted in gold, are clearly representing a range of nations in Asia and Africa, probably coinciding with the nations that were part of the French Colonial Empire in the 1930s, before they won their freedom. Much like the one surviving building from the Exposition, now the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration, which features a massive bas relief mural...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
"Sigrid", Exceedingly Rare Art Deco Sculpture, Forest Green, Bopp Pottery
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A striking example of Art Deco ceramic sculpture, this female head was made by David Seyler for the Harold Bopp Pottery in northern Kentucky, in the brief period before it became the...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Ceramic Sculptural Ring by Andrea Salvatori Contemporary 21st Century Art Jewel
Located in London, GB
"The ring is on the table", unique piece, 2017 glazed earthenware
A Ring Thing collection
A small chair, a miniature moon, a Philipp Stark's squeezer or the anatomical details of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Victorian Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Vintage Chinese Tang Tri-Colored Glazed Tomb Ceramic Statue
Located in Pomona, CA
This magnificent Vintage Chinese Tang tri-color glazed ceramic beautify figure was hand made with famous tri-colored glaze on the ceramic. It has beautiful color and detailed carving...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
$296 Sale Price
25% Off
Lisa Larson for Gustavsberg. Rare "Johanna" figurine in glazed ceramic.
Located in København, Copenhagen
Lisa Larson for Gustavsberg. Rare "Johanna" figurine in glazed ceramic.
Late 20th century.
Marked.
In perfect condition.
Dimensions: H 15.5 cm x D 10.0 cm.
Category
Late 20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
"Buckskin Camaro" Glazed Ceramic Car Sculpture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Keith Simpson, who grew up in St. John Washington, a farming Community of about 600 people in eastern WA state, always makes the underdog models of cars. He says, "They are like the ...
Category
2010s American Modern Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Lisa Larson for Gustavsberg, Stoneware Figure from "All the World's Children."
Located in København, Copenhagen
Lisa Larson for Gustavsberg. Stoneware figure from "All the world's children."
Boy with a bucket.
Measures: 13 cm x 9 cm.
In perfect condition.
Sticker.
Category
20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Rare Lisa Larson Figure in Glazed Ceramics, Japanese Mother with Child, 1970s
Located in København, Copenhagen
Rare Lisa Larson figure in glazed ceramics. Japanese mother with child. 1970s.
Measures: 29,0 x 14,0 cm.
In excellent condition.
Sticker.
Category
1970s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Royal Copenhagen, figurine of a Greenlandic boy with flowers, 1930s
Located in København, Copenhagen
Royal Copenhagen, porcelain figurine of a Greenlandic boy holding a bouquet of flowers. Overglaze.
Model: 12419.
Juliane Marie mark.
Approximately from the 1930s.
In perfect conditio...
Category
1930s Danish Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Italian Ceramic Hand Painted Collie Dog Figurine 17.5 Tall
Located in Chattanooga, TN
Hand painted, vintage Italian ceramic collie. This charming pup has a charming grin on his adorable little face. He’s painted beautifully with a gossame...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Bohemian Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Lisa Larson for Gustavsberg. Rare glazed ceramic figurine "Malin". 1970s.
Located in København, Copenhagen
Lisa Larson for Gustavsberg. Rare glazed ceramic figurine "Malin".
1970s.
In perfect condition.
Signed.
Dimensions: 18.0 cm x 12.0 cm.
Category
1970s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Lisa Larson for Gustavsberg. Stoneware figurine of a boy. "Nils"
Located in København, Copenhagen
Lisa Larson for Gustavsberg. Stoneware figurine from the "Children of the World" series. "Nils"
1970s.
Marked.
In perfect condition.
Dimensions: H 13.0 cm x W 7.0 cm.
Category
1970s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
School of Paris Majolica Palissy Fish and Reptile Platter
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
School of Paris French Palissy Majolica wall platter which features three overlapping fish on a water-effect ground, to the centre. A lizard, shellfish...
Category
19th Century French Antique Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware
French Midcentury Decorative Ceramic Plate Black Matte, Signed
Located in Miami, FL
A figurative midcentury French decorative ceramic plate. The apparent very talented artist who hand-crafted this eye catching object, depicts a woman dancing with two friends. The wonderful form and colors on the black background reflect the artist's painterly attention to detail.
A beautiful addition to a collection of mid-Century modern French pottery...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Dark Matte Brown Ceramic Sculpture, Hollow Oval on 4 Button Feet, Hand Built
Located in New York, NY
A hollow oval sculpture on 4 button feet. Part of a new series of related pieces, a sculptural "Family" of Modern Shapes as ceramic stoneware objects. This piece has a dark matte bro...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Hjorth, Bornholm, Denmark, fisherwoman figurine in glazed ceramic. Mid-20th C.
Located in København, Copenhagen
Hjorth, Bornholm, Denmark, fisherwoman figurine in glazed ceramic.
Mid-20th century.
Model 503.
Marked.
In excellent condition.
Dimensions: H 18.0 cm x D 11.5 cm.
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
"Pouring Gold", High Style Art Deco Sculpture by Lapteff for Pewabic, Detroit
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Although not as well known as Grueby, Rookwood, Cowan and other potteries that made superb vessels and sculptures in the Arts and Crafts and Art Deco eras, Pewabic pottery in Detroit...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Bernard Lombot, French ceramicist. Unique ceramic sculpture, standing blue man.
Located in København, Copenhagen
Bernard Lombot, French ceramicist.
Unique ceramic sculpture, standing blue man.
Cubist style.
Hand painted.
Circa 1980s.
In perfect condition.
Signed BL
Dimensions: H 25.0 x D 13.5 cm.
Category
1980s French Modern Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
18th C. Baroque/Rococo English Goat-Riding Tailor Porcelain by Chelsea Pottery
Located in North Miami, FL
18th century Baroque/Rococo english glazed painted porcelain of a goat-riding tailor by Chelsea Pottery
By: Chelsea Pottery, Meissen Porcelain (in the style of)
Material: porcelain,...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Baroque Antique Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
"Nude with Bowl, " Rare Art Deco Sculpture by Solon for Amer, Encaustic
By Leon Victor Solon
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A classic and rare example of Art Deco sculpture, this piece was designed by Leon Victor Solon, an important color theorist and designer who became the artistic director of the American Encaustic Tile...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Sancai Glazed Tang Dynasty Ceramic Slippers
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
A remarkably rare and unusual pair of sancai-glazed slippers dating from the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE). These were likely created as funerary mingqi—tomb objects made to accompany th...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Tang Antique Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay
Heavy Sancai Glazed Terra Cotta Wisdom Figure in Tang Dynasty Style
Located in Dallas, TX
Gorgeous SanCai glazed terra-cotta wisdom figurine, Crafted in the Tang Dynasty Style. The clay is coated or made into clay sheets, then placed inside the model, and pressed into for...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Pulcinella Barilla Pasta Trophy
Located in New York, NY
Pulcinella Barilla Pasta trophy. Charming and inventive white vitreous ceramic sculptural representation of the famed Pulcinella Neapolitan figure congratulating Dsèvod figure commis...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Large Green Glazed Ceramic Serene Buddha Head Bust Sculpture Custom Wood Stand
Located in Studio City, CA
A truly wonderful, one of a kind, unique artisan Buddha head sculpture beautifully drip glazed with Fall shades of green, brown and yellow colours. The Buddha's eyes appear closed in...
Category
20th Century Asian Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Large Vintage Mid-Century Glazed Pottery Saint Bernard Dog Sculpture circa 1960s
Located in Landau an der Isar, Bayern
Delightful large vintage midcentury modern quirky, whimsical sculpture of a St. Bernard dog with unusual dark eyes and bright red tongue, made circa 1960s / 1970s. Most likely made i...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pottery, Plaster
Hollywood Regency Italian Glazed Terracotta Lion
Located in Houston, TX
Hollywood Regency Italian glazed Terracotta Lion.
Great Hollywood Regency Italian glazed terracotta lion figure or statue. Realistic Italian glazed terracotta animal...
Category
1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
White Rustic Glazed Bandini Art Deco Fauns circa 1938 for Zaccagnini
By Urbano Zaccagnini, Mario Bandini
Located in Melbourne, AU
A pair of cherubic fauns, playing music. One sports a cupid's bow in one hand and blows a conch Horn. A quiver of cupid's arrows lies at his feet. The second faun accompanies on a ba...
Category
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
$1,080 Sale Price / set
20% Off
"The Water Mother, " Rare Large Rendition of Famous Sculpture by Kai Nielsen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Based on a famous, large sculpture entitled "The Water Mother" sculpted by Kai Nielsen for the Winter Garden of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, installed in 1921, this vers...
Category
1940s Danish Art Deco Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Italian Avocado Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
A playful and whimsical mid-20th century Italian porcelain sculpture with five avocados, one cut in half with the pit showing, and placed in a basket with grass, all molded in porcel...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Art Déco Porcelain mask "Portrait of a young woman" KPM Berlin, Germany 1930s.
Located in Köln, NW
Art Déco porcelain mask "Portrait of a young woman". KPM Berlin, Germany 1930.
Design: Hermann Hubatsch (1878-1940)
H.Hubatsch was a German sculptor and ceramist. Gold medal world...
Category
1930s German Art Deco Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Martha J Cornwell American Arts & Crafts Glazed Terracotta Elephant Sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine early 20th century sculpture of an elephant.
Attributed to Martha Jackson Cornwell.
Depicting a stoutly modeled elephant on an integral plinth with a blanket draped across its back and an Indian headdress or harness across its forehead.
Decorated in white, blue, and green glazes on a terracotta body and with inset beads or pearls to the elephant's head and forehead.
Cornwell was a student of Kenyon Cox, Arthur Dow, and Augustus Saint Gaudens at the Art League in New York City at the end of the 19th Century. She was subsequently an assistant to St. Gaudens for a decade and a half on his Shaw Memorial in Boston.
All in all, simply a wonderful, unique sculpture from one of America's important female sculptors of the early 20th Century!
Date:
Early 20th Century
Overall Condition:
It is in overall fair, as-pictured, used estate condition.
Condition Details:
With some losses to the blanket edges...
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Ceramic Art Deco Buste Mother and Child by Belgium Artist G.Wasterlain
Located in Antwerp, BE
Art Deco large sculpture in ceramic of a Mother and Child by Belgian sculpture, Georges Wasterlain. Glazed reddish-brown stoneware with no chips or d...
Category
1930s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
$2,566 Sale Price
20% Off
Bing & Grøndahl, Denmark. Porcelain figurine of a boy and crab.
Located in København, Copenhagen
Bing & Grøndahl, Denmark.
Porcelain figurine of a boy and crab.
Model number 1870.
Mid-20th century.
Marked.
In perfect condition.
First factory quality.
Dimensions: H 20.0 cm x W 7....
Category
20th Century Danish Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Mari Simmulson, large handmade ceramic sculpture of a woman. 1960s
Located in København, Copenhagen
Mari Simmulson, unique large handmade ceramic sculpture of a woman.
Deep red glaze.
From the 1960s.
In perfect condition.
Signed.
Dimensions: H 29.5 cm x D 9.7 cm.
Category
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
20th Century, Italian Sculpture by Helen König Scavini, Lenci Manufactory
By Lenci, Helen Scavini
Located in IT
Helen König Scavini, Lenci manufactory
"Nude of Woman", e.g. 1927-1936
Signed under the base "Lenci/Italy"
Glazed terracotta
sizes: H 70 cm x W front 83 cm (W back 55 cm) x D 55 cm
The important sculpture, realized in glazed terracotta, is by the famous Lenci Manufactory of Turin (Italy) on model by Helen König Scavini. Of remarkable dimensions, it represents a naked woman, covered of a single cloth to life, sitting with the legs flexed asymmetrically while it supports on the arms with the hands leaned to the plan. The woman has a hieratic expression, big eyebrow arches under which the ethereal eyes are half-closed; the open lips hide a hint of a smile. The loose hair is turned back with big waves on both the head and along the back. The staining of the glazing is on the tones of musky green, which contributes to confer to this woman the appearance of a nymph or a mythological figure.
Below the base is found, hand painted, the trademark of the manufacture "Lenci, ITALY". The brand Lenci was registered in Turin on 23 April 1919, sanctioning an activity undertaken some time before by Helen König, wife of the commercial agent Enrico Scavini. The origin of the word Lenci is still controversial today; the earliest bibliography says it derived from a endearment of Elena (Elenchen, as her father called her and that she, stunned him, pronounced Lenci) while the most recent one considers the acrostic Ludus Est Nobis Costanter Industria, perhaps invented by Ugo Ojetti or built as divertissement by the poet Ignazio Vacchetti (Alias Fantasio) on the endearment of Elena. The Lenci manufactory becomes a meeting point for artists and a forge of ideas for the development and realization of dolls and puppets, children’s furniture, and later also artistic ceramics. The first artists to take an active part in the enterprise were Giovanni Riva and Sandro Vacchetti, soon joined by other great names. The success of these felt dolls earned numerous awards to the Lenci Company during the international exhibitions in Zurich, Paris, Rome or Milan. However, the originality of Lenci’s creations was soon put to the test by numerous imitations. To cope with this type of competition, Lenci began to produce artistic ceramics, whose activity began in 1927. The ceramic figures became perhaps even more famous than the dolls in cloth. The subjects ranged from the famous "nudini", the chic little ladies and emancipated women, from fantasy characters to animals, from religious images to the most disparate vases and much more.
Many artists collaborated in the realization of the models, among which it is worth mentioning the already mentioned Sandro Vacchetti, artistic director of Lenci from 1922-1934, the same Elena König Scavini, Cläre Burchart, Lino berzoini, Giovanni Riva, Giovanni Ronzan, Deabate Theonesto, Giovanni Pietro Spertini, Marcello Dudovich, Gigi Chessa, Mario Pompei, Nillo Beltrami, Mario Sturani, Giulio Da Milano, Giovanni Grande, Ines Grande, Claudia Formica, Luigi Borione, Camillo Ghigo, Giuseppe Porcheddu, Gino Levi-Montalcini, Abele Jacopi...
Category
1930s Italian Vintage Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
$48,113 Sale Price
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Paris Porcelain Sculpture Portrait of a Woman " Grappilleuse" Signed
Located in Tarry Town, NY
French porcelain decorative sculpture by Mathurin Moreau ( French, 1822-1912). The grape harvester " La Grappilleuse" a bisque porcelain decorative sculpture. Great condition, minor ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Monumental Chinese Green Glazed Koi
Located in Chicago, IL
A visual pun for "abundance," this monumental ceramic fish sculpture brings an abundance of blessings, wealth and marital bliss. The terracotta statue depicts a large koi, or carp, j...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Jean Hastings Ceramic Figurative Sculpture in Blue White & Brown, circa 1970
By Hastings
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Jean Hastings Clothed Figurative Art Studio Glazed Ceramic Sculpture. Vase. Featuring hand constructed figurative form elements from potters wheel with separate hand built and applie...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Ceramic
Chinese Ming Dynasty Terracotta Court Official Statuette, Original Polychromy
Located in Yonkers, NY
A petite Chinese Ming dynasty green glazed terracotta court official figurine from the 15th or 16th century, with original polychromy. Attracting our eye with its vibrant polychromy,...
Category
16th Century Chinese Ming Antique Glazed Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
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