Neoclassical Marble Statue of Dionysus

Pair of English Regency bronze whippets or greyhounds on verdi antico marble book form bases, after a model by Thomas Weeks. Each dog sculpture is beautifully cast with their individual personalities. 6 inches high 5 wide 5 deep including bases. These whippets are resonant of the early nineteenth-century work of Thomas Weeks (d. 1834) who established a 'Royal Mechanical Museum' or emporium in Tichbourne Street in about 1797. The attractions included various animated animals and insects, ingenious clocks, musical instruments, elaborate temples, toys and other such peculiarities that appealed to the London public in the late 18th and early 19th Century (C. Gilbert, 'Some Weeks cabinets reconsidered', The Connoisseur, May 1971...

A beautifully cast bronze of an older man lifting a younger woman as she clings to a floral sheaf. An allegory of age and youth? Susannah and the Elders? It is hard to say what the allegory is in this compelling bronze. It is a fine cast done by an accomplished and talented artist. Unsigned, mounted on a white marble base. German Romantic...

A beautifully carved antique statuary Carrara marble statue of Adonis. The male figure is depicted in the nude leaning against a tree. Adonis was the mortal lover of the goddess Aph...

A Pair of Parian porcelain bisque neoclassical statues of a Greek couple. The original pair in white bisque finish with Greek key decoration at the bases, European, possibly Italian,...