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Period: 20th Century
Decorative Palm Tree Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A brass palm tree sculpture by Luciano Benevello.
Engraved signature on the base.
Category
Italian Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Metal, Brass
1980s Ruzzetti & Gow Italian Sterling Silver Spingle Tibia Fusus Shell
Located in San Diego, CA
Stunning vintage 1980s original Ruzzetti & Gow Italian sterling silver wrapped spindle tibia shell is 8.5" long. Has the original tag inside. Excellent table top decorative object. G...
Category
Italian Vintage 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Sterling Silver
Natural Rock Crystal Sphere on a Neoclassical Polished and Patinated Bronze Base
Located in Hudson, NY
This natural rock crystal sphere containing expected color changes and inclusions is a gem from nature. The sphere is 9 inches in diameter and runs from clear to crazed inclusions th...
Category
Neoclassical 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal, Bronze
Pair of Ostrich Eggs on Male and Female Modernist Metal Figures
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A pair of Ostrich Eggs on a pair of Modernist metal figures. The metal could be Aluminum or iron - the high concept pieces take an Organic, yet stunning, element and pair them with ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Metal
Shell Currency Yua Bride's Price, Papua New Guinea
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Yua Shell Currency, Bride’s Price
Sepik River Region, Papua New Guinea
Hand carved from a clam shell
Measures: 7 x 7.5 in / 18 x 19 cm
Height on cus...
Category
Papua New Guinean Other 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
Great Vintage School Teaching Display of Household pests
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Great Vintage School Teaching Display of Household pests
A vintage school teaching showcase with household pests specimen behind glass. Used as teaching material in German schools c...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Glass, Wood
Nautilus on 18th Century Fragment Stand
Located in New Orleans, LA
Natural shell mounted on antique fragment. One side of shell has been damaged.
Category
French 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell, Wood
Lladro Porcelain Sculpture with Doves
Located in Madrid, ES
Lladro porcelain sculpture with doves.
Elegant lladro porcelain sculpture with doves made in the 1970s. Discontinued. Perfect condition. Measures: 55x40x30 cm
The Lladró factory is...
Category
Vintage 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Porcelain
Solid Driftwood Root Sculpture Organic Jewerly Display Nice Patina & Shape Mint!
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Solid driftwood root sculpture organic jewerly display nice patina & shape mint!
Category
American Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Driftwood
Large-Scale Teak Apple Sculpture on Carrara Marble Pedestal
Located in New York, NY
Decorative, large-scale teak apple sculpture on a Carrara marble pedestal. Has a solid brass connector which holds the apple to the marble. The apple is mad...
Category
Modern Vintage 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Carrara Marble
Midcentury Iron Sculpture with Amethyst Stone
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1960's Italian sculpture.
Measurements:
Height:47"
Width: 24"
Depth: 20"
Base: 11" x 17".
Category
Italian Vintage 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Iron
Very Big cattle’s horns, Stanta Fè, NM, 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
A stage of long horns of cattle, mounted on a wooden support, covered in saddle leather, hand-printed on the surface with a design in relief, depicting a head of cattle with horns.
S...
Category
American 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Horn, Leather
A natural specimen of fish, Italy 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
A natural specimen of Gattuccio (Scyllum Catulus), preserved in formaldehyde and sealed on cylindric shape glass vase. Italiy early 20th century.
Category
Italian 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Glass
Mid-Century Modern Hand Carved Grisaille Granite Sculpture on Custom Swivel Base
Located in New York, NY
This dynamic and refined Mid-Century Modern sculpture was realized in the United States, circa 1970. It features a TOTEM hand carved form consisting of various tiers of grisaille granite- replete with a rich and organic innate texture. The granite form, suggesting an abstracted corkscrew, is both austere (suggesting the highly reductive forms of Constantin Brancusi) and dynamic, full of verve and energy. The piece sits on a custom swivel...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Granite
Antique Teaching Aid Modell of an Ear - Somso ca. 1900
By Somso
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Antique Teaching Aid Modell of an Ear - Somso ca. 1900
A folding model of an ear. It was used as teaching material in German schools ca. 1900. It is made of wood and paper mache by ...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Paper
Antique Austrian Cold Painted Figural Bronze Of Children Dancing By Bergmann
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
Dimensions - H: 3 1/2 in W: 7 3/4 in D: 5 1/2 in
This antique 19th century Austrian cold painted bronze of children playing by Bergman Foundry is made of the highest quality! Bronze...
Category
Austrian Other 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Bronze
1970’s Capiz Shell Flower Display
Located in Charleston, SC
I really do love these capiz faux flower arrangements. You usually find these hand crafted displays in a shell being used as the vase. But thi...
Category
American Hollywood Regency Vintage 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
$217 Sale Price
24% Off
Clear Crystal Quartz Obelisk
Located in Bradenton, FL
Beautiful clear quartz crystal obelisk. Clear quartz is thought to amplify energy and thought. Obelisk contains natural occlusions, which is normal and does not indicate a defect.
Category
Organic Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Quartz
Great Vintage School Teaching Display of the Insects of the Heath
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Great Vintage School Teaching Display of the Insects of the Heath
A vintage school teaching showcase with specimen illustrating the insects of the heath. Us...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Glass, Wood
Maitland Smith Vintage Tessellated Stone Travertine Boxes 1970s Set of Two
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Tessellated round shape decorative lidded marble boxes by Maitland Smith Set of Two.
Dimensions: Shorter: 4" diameter x 6" height
Longer: 5" diameter x 7.75" height.
Maitland Smith 1970s tessellated travertine table...
Category
Philippine Post-Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone, Travertine, Marble, Brass
Amber Colored Natural Stone with Wood Stand
Located in Miami, FL
Natural amber stone found in Corsica on a wooden stand painted black.
Makes a lovely gift.
Will enhance any shelf, table or countertop.
Category
Corsican 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
$160 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Boho Lucite Giant Clothes Pin
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Bold, whimsical, and undeniably chic, this oversized Lucite clothes pin sculpture blends pop art playfulness with sleek modern design. Crafted from crystal-clear acrylic with a gleam...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Metal
$220 Sale Price
20% Off
Opened Mouth Barracuda Weather Vane
Located in Sheffield, MA
A fantastic 20th century copper barracuda was a part of a weather vane but now lacking the directional and the post but will make a wonderful sculpture with weathered verdigris patin...
Category
20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Copper
Modernist Chrome on Black Marble Stacked Pears Sculpture
Located in San Diego, CA
Modernist chrome on black marble stacked pears sculpture, circa 1980s.
The piece is very well crafted and in excellent vintage condition with no chips or cracks; it measures 6"W x 6...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Marble, Chrome
Vintage Teaching Aid Modell of An Ear - Somso ca. 1960
By Somso
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Vintage Teaching Aid Modell of An Ear - Somso ca. 1960
A folding model of an ear. Used as teaching material in German schools ca. 1960. Made of wood and plastic by Somso, Germany.
...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Paper
Italian Glazed Terracotta Baby Leopard Figure
Located in Miami, FL
1920, Italian glazed terracotta baby leopard figure.
Category
Italian Art Deco 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage School Teaching Display of Usefull Insects
Located in Berghuelen, DE
A classical vintage school teaching showcase with specimen illustrating usefull insects (insects as producers, insects pollinating flowers, insect sanitary police and insects annihil...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Glass, Wood
Showcase with Stone Specimen, Decomposition of Rocks, circa 1930
Located in Berghuelen, DE
The vintage natural scientific specimen diorama shows the decomposition of rocks behind glass in a wooden case. It was used for class, circa 1930.
Measures: Width 14.37" (36.5cm)
Hei...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
Vintage Massive Live Edge Tree Root Sculpture
Located in Annville, PA
A Vintage Massive live edge tree root sculpture. An absolute masterpiece from every angle this naturally occurring sculpture is a beauty to behold ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Wood
Antique Teaching Model Longitudinal Profile of the Grain
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Antique Teaching Model Longitudinal Profile of the Grain
A great antique hand-painted model of the grain with removable germ. Made of papier ma...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Paper
Vintage Coastal Plaster Shell Bust of Woman
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exceptional vintage Coastal bust of woman. A beautiful profile of a serene woman. A beautiful collection of shells wrap around her head and neck. Acqu...
Category
North American 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell, Plaster
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
Great Vintage School Teaching Display Vermins in the Garden and Forest
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Great Vintage School Teaching Display Vermins in the Garden and Forest
A vintage school teaching showcase with specimen illustrating the pests in the garden and in the forest. Used ...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Glass, Wood
Set of 3: Vintage ceramic mushroom centerpiece + Ceramic brown fungi candle hold
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This set includes three charming pieces, each adding a touch of natural elegance to your decor, perfect for creating a cozy atmosphere while bringing a natural element into your spac...
Category
Unknown Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Ceramic
Natural Driftwood Dragon Head Sculpture on Black Base
Located in North Palm Beach, FL
A unique driftwood sculpture that showcases the captivating, majestic form of a dragon's head. The driftwood's rich, varied textures and warm, natural hues highlight the material's i...
Category
American Vintage 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Driftwood
Natural Rock Crystal Tower Obelisk
Located in Bradenton, FL
Natural rock crystal Tower Obelisk
Natural rock crystal on carved wood base.
Category
Chinese Organic Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
Unique Artist Made Abstract Copper Sculptures
By Maria Jarreau Heller
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Created by multi disciplinary artist Yvette Jarreau.
Artist made molten copper cold dropped sculptures in Abstract Organic form. Various shapes, sizes and textures. Some pieces show ...
Category
American Organic Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Copper, Wire
Antique Teaching Model Stages of the Appendix, Ca. 1900
Located in Berghuelen, DE
A great antique hand-painted anatomical model of the appendix in different stages. It is made of plaster and mounted on a wooden base. Manufactured most probably by SOMSO or PHYWE, G...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Paper
Tall French Midcentury Cattail Sculpture Mounted on a Black Base
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large French metal cattail sculpture from the mid 20th century, with square base. Created in France during the midcentury period, this tall cattail...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Metal
Vintage School Teaching Display Wheat Corn and its Products
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Vintage School Teaching Display Wheat Corn and its Products
A vintage glass showcase illustrating the wheat corn and products made out of wheat...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Glass, Wood
Jar, Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty, Foundry: Eug. Blot Paris, Design: JOUANT
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Design: Jules Jouant (1863-1921)
Pitcher sign: Foundry: Eug. Blot Paris / Design: Jouant
Material: Silver plated
Biography
Auguste Jules Alphonse Jouant was born in Paris, Cité Fénelon, in the 9th arrondissement, on June 19, 18632, son of Étienne Alphonse Jouant, carpenter, and Louise Carré.
A student of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris3, Jules Jouant was one of Auguste Rodin's practitioners. He exhibited the Bust of Prince Gedroyc at the Salon of 1883 and sculpted busts of musicians such as Richard Wagner, Frédéric Chopin or Ludwig van Beethoven. He obtained an honorable mention at the Salon of 1913.
Jules Jouant is renowned for his works of art (vases, dishes, lamp bases, pitchers, candlesticks, table bells, trinket bowls, etc.) typical of the Art Nouveau style, produced in pewter by the Barbedienne founders This link leads to a disambiguation page, Eugène Blot and Ettlinger Frères. He also collaborates with the workshops of the Daum brothers This link returns
He was appointed professor at the Ecole Boulle in Paris.
He is buried in the Cimetière de Passy (2nd division).
Public collections
-Museum of Art and History of Belfort
seaweed, pewter
The Holly, pewter
-Mignard, marble bust, Paris, Manufacture des Gobelins7. Plaster model preserved in Angers in the Maine-et-Loire prefecture8
-Léo Delibes, marble bust, National Opera of Paris9. Plaster model preserved in the town hall of Rochefort (Charente-Maritime)
-Two bas-reliefs, stone...
Category
French Art Nouveau Antique 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Metal
Selenite Sculpture on Steel Museum Mount
Located in Dallas, TX
This piece is a part of Brendan Bass’s one-of-a-kind collection, Le Monde. French for “The World”, the Le Monde collection is made up of rare and hard to find pieces curated by Brend...
Category
Organic Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
Pair of Fossil Specimens
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Pair of Orthoconic Cephalopods towers or fossilized squid specimens carefully cut from stone and polished to reveal these remarkable organic sculptures.
Category
Canadian Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
$2,550 / set
6' Brass and Copper Marsh Grass, Cattails and Driftwood Curtis Jere Style 1970s
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Camden, ME
A freestanding sculpture over six feet in height in the style of Curtis Jere from the 1970s.
An interesting marsh vignette of copper and brass seagrass with cast bronze cattails and ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Brass, Bronze, Copper
Sculptural Japanese Keyaki Wood Partition in the Style of Nakashima
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sculptural Japanese keyaki wood partition in the style of Nakashima.
Category
Japanese Organic Modern Vintage 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Hardwood
Antique Majolica Sculpture
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Antique Majolica sculpture.
Category
20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Majolica
$495 Sale Price
28% Off
Antique Teaching Model Longitudinal Profile of the Kidney, ca. 1900
Located in Berghuelen, DE
A great antique hand-painted anatomical model of the kidney. Made of papier maché and plaster, mounted on a turned wooden base. Manufactured most probably by SOMSO or PHYWE, Germany ...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Paper
Pair of Brazilian Agate Geode Crystal Bookends
Located in Pasadena, TX
This is a beautiful pair of Brazilian Agate Geode bookends. The crystal is encrusted in a beautiful dark grey rock.
The crystal has dark grey veins running through it.
A good addit...
Category
Brazilian 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Agate
1970s Large Sawtooth Sculpture
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
197s Large sawthooth sculpture monted on brass and chromed steel base.
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Brass, Steel
Pair of Sommerso Art Glass Pumpkins by Murano Glass Studios
By Murano 5
Located in San Diego, CA
Nice pair of sommerso art glass pumpkins by Murano Glass Studios, circa 1970s. The pair are in very good vintage condition with no chips or cracks and ha...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Art Glass, Sommerso
$220 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Vintage Organic Natural Form Cypress Knuckle Sculpture
Located in Ferndale, MI
Vintage coastal cypress knuckle sculpture. Large and free standing .
Naturally formed growth of Cypress wood . Works as a organic sculpture or green house element .
Category
American Organic Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Cypress
European Tole And Copper Palm Tree
Located in Essex, MA
With a painted tole planter painted to imitate a wood stave pot. The palm with copper stem and green palm fronds. Lacking the top clustered frond. Nine branches.
Category
Italian Vintage 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Copper, Tin
School Teaching Display Anthill of the Horse Ant
Located in Berghuelen, DE
School Teaching Display Anthill of the Horse Ant
A vintage school teaching glass display of the anthill of the horse ant. It shows the hill and inhabitants thereof, the life inside ...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Glass, Wood
Great Vintage School Teaching Display of the Insects of the Forest Edge
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Great Vintage School Teaching Display of the Insects of the Forest Edge
A vintage school teaching showcase with specimen illustrating the insects of the forest edge. Used as teachin...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Glass, Wood
Pair of Rock Crystal Obelisks and Sphere
Located in Hanover, MA
Beautiful grouping of clear rock crystal quarts pair of obelisks and a sphere.
Category
Brazilian Grand Tour Vintage 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
$2,800 / set
Marie Pierre Thiebaud, Golden Bronze
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Marie Pierre Thiebaud (1933-2010)
Golden bronze
Founder's stamp: Valsuani
Draft 1 / 4
Measures: height: 21 cm
Length: 36cm
Depth: 22cm
Description
This art piece was made by Marie-Pierre Thiébaut. Her name is engraved on the side of the sculpture: « THIEBAUT », as well as the print run number: « 1 / 4 ». There is also the foundry stamp « C VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE ».
This sculpture is composed by seven individual pieces. There is a main piece on which rest bronze elements, including two spheres and three elements which are articulated around a cylinder.
Close to abstraction, the shape can remind of a sea creature. The artist conceives a sculpture with vaporous forms which plays with effects of brightness and contrasts, in particular thanks to marked undulations. As the preface of the book, Marie-Pierre Thiébaut, La forme-geste reminds us, the artist’s work can’t be dissociated of a mineral and natural world :
« Some of the pieces remind us of undulations of the sea bed, the granulated skin of a wave, the intimacy of a body. A whole universe touched, suggested with grace, fervor and present with touches of absolute. »
In addition, the writer Marguerite Duras wonders about the vision of her work in the preface of the exhibition Lanscapes in 1972 :
« Where are we? at the bottom of the sea? at the bottom of a woman? in a fruit? I believe that we are both in the sea and inside of an organ. in the primary, common environment, the marine symbiosis. »
Marie Pierre Thiebaud Biography :
Marie-Pierre Thiébaut (1933-2010) is an artist, sculptor and visual artist. She favors natural materials such as earth, wood, or paper. Bronze is also one of the mediums She uses, although rarer in her creative process.
At the beginning of the 1950’s, Marie-Pierre Thiébaut trained at the Academy of the Grande Chaumière, with Ossip Zadkine, who would say of his apprentice "that he was young, and sculpture becoming the primary concern of her life, I am sure that the sun will illuminate her work of a truly discovered world”
During this period she explores the sensuality of the female body.
Her work expresses a personal serenity, developed on the margins of any theoretical thought. The essence of her work lies in the contemplation of forms and what they can evoke for the viewer. Our work is the perfect synthesis.
Thus her gesture has consequences since Marie-Pierre Thiébaut offers the world a sensitive and dreamlike universe.
Many art personalities such as François Barré, the painter Jean Degottex...
Category
20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Bronze
Mid-Century Brazilian Modern Stained Gourd with Hot Needle Point Figures
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-Century Brazilian tribal art gourd sculpture with stained finish and hot needle point artistry, 1960s.
Category
Brazilian Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Wood
Arthur Court Geode, Agate and Brass, Signed
By Arthur Court
Located in New York, NY
Arthur Court Geode Mineral, agate and brass, Signed. Small scale agate geode displayed on a brass "Medium Mini-Claw" stand. Sold with the original Arthur...
Category
Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Agate, Brass
Crystal Lepidolite Geode w Tourmaline Vintage Mineral Specimen
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
This beautiful crystal geode is a stunning addition to any home or office. The geode is filled with vibrant green tourmaline crystals, which sparkle and glimmer in the light. The geode is also surrounded by a layer of pink lepidolite, which adds a touch of elegance.Tourmaline is a powerful healing stone that is said to promote emotional balance, physical strength, and spiritual growth. It is also said to be a powerful protection stone...
Category
20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
Mid Century Biomorphic Pottery Coral Reef
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Highly unique and sophisticated pottery sculpture of a sweeping coral reef. Brown glazed pottery with striking organic visual appeal. Two mirrors inset in the reef to depict reservoi...
Category
Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Pottery
Italian Mid-Century Modern Wooden Sculpture of a Banana Plant, 1950s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian Mid-Century Modern Wooden sculpture of a banana plant, 1950s
Sculpture of a banana plant in carved wood with interlocking leaves. Hand crafted an...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Wood
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