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Place of Origin: Italian
Modernist Travertine Marble VASE Element Fratelli Mannelli attrib., Italy, 1970s
By Fratelli Manelli
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Travertine vase object
Designer:
Fratelli Manelli attrib.
Decade:
1970s
This original vintage vase object was designed and produced by Fratelli Manelli attrib. in I...
Category
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Sculptures
Materials
Travertine
Contemporary "Picture Pink & Black XL", All Pieces Numbered, Handmade in Italy
By Mosche Bianche
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
Born in 1992 in Macerata in the Marche region, the Italian artist carried out a path that between studies of Surveyor and Architecture led him to a long collaboration with a craft co...
Category
2010s Industrial Italian Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Polyester, Wood
Elephant Table Lamp Hand Carved Wood and Copper Aldo Tura for Macabo Italy 1950s
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Rome, IT
Not many Aldo Tura pieces can be compared to this unique table lamp, hand carved from a single piece of wood. Aldo Tura lamps were done in small editions and the detail and level of ...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Scatola dei Sentimenti by Augusto Betti, 1964
By Augusto Betti
Located in Ozzano Dell'emilia, IT
A true pioneer, Italian artist and designer Augusto Betti between the 50s and the 60s began to experiment with the countless possibilities of new synthetic materials. Among his most ...
Category
1960s Vintage Italian Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Italian 19th Century Neoclassical Style Biscuit de Sèvres Statue of Venus
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful Italian 19th century neoclassical style Biscuit de Sèvres statue of Venus. The masterfully sculpted statue is raised by a square base with cu...
Category
19th Century Neoclassical Antique Italian Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Natural specimen: with amethyst, mica and desert rose crystals, Italy 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
A Naturalia mineral specimen. A druse with Amethyst, Mica and Desert rose crystals, mounted over a guild-plated wooden base on a vase shape. Italy circa 1880.
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Italian Sculptures
Materials
Amethyst, Rock Crystal
Luxury Vase #23 "Goldfinch". Porcelain. Handmade design and craft in Italy. 2020
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The heart collection is the result of the extravagant creativity of two innovative designers, who are inspired especially by the human body.
The heart collection is inspired by the ...
Category
2010s Modern Italian Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Luxury Vase #10 "Orazio". Porcelain. Handmade design and crafted in Italy. 2020.
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The heart collection is the result of the extravagant creativity of two innovative designers, who are inspired especially by the human body.
The heart collection is inspired by the ...
Category
2010s Modern Italian Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
An Italian Polychrome Figure of a Saint, 18th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
An Italian Polychrome Figure of a Saint, 18th Century
Provenance:
Private Western Australian Collection.
Description:
Clad in a double skirted gilt vestment, the figure holds a s...
Category
18th Century Antique Italian Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Pan Playing The Flutes, Neoclassical Sculpture
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A nice metal sculpture of Pan playing his pipes or flutes. neoclassical grand tour sculpture after the antique. This beautifully cast and finished example is mounted on a round marbl...
Category
20th Century Italian Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Brass
Greek Black Glazen Column Krater (4th Century BC)
Located in Soho, London, GB
Black Glazen Column Krater
mid-4th century BC, Apulia
With broad avoid body on a short echinus foot and thick mouth.
The two handles form loops around the...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Classical Greek Antique Italian Sculptures
1990s Italian Sky Blue Leaves Murano Art Glass Cactus Plant in Purple Pot
By Cosulich Interiors & Antiques, Formia Murano
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary Italian highly collectible potted glass cactus of limited edition, entirely handcrafted in Murano, with modern Minimalist design blown by Formia Murano, in a lifelike or...
Category
Late 20th Century Organic Modern Italian Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Large Bronze Sculpture of a Centaur by Giorgio Rossi (1892-1963)
Located in Stamford, CT
Large Italian Neoclassical style bronze bearded figure of a Centaur on a marble base. This is a magnificent sculpture of a Centaur a good size 37" x 28" and I believe from early 20th century. It is signed by the artist Giorgio Rossi...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Lucite Stylized Tapir Sculpture by Chief Artist Tim S. Crea for Team Guzzini
By Team Guzzini, Tim S. Crea
Located in Rome, IT
Lucite stylized tapir sculpture by chief artist Tim S. Crea for Team Guzzini.
It has its original label.
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Sculptures
Materials
Lucite
Contemporary Art Bronze Sculpture Marinaio by Giampaolo Talani
By Mirabili, Giampaolo Talani
Located in Pistoia, IT
Limited Edition of 8 Pieces.
Category
Early 2000s Post-Modern Italian Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ellipse Vase by Karim Rashid
By Karim Rashid, Bitossi
Located in Milan, IT
This striking vase is white clay was designed by Karim Rashid in 2006 and it is part of a limited series of 349 objects. It is comprised of three geometric elements finished in solid...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Italian Large Bronze Relief of Madonna and Child with Saints, Circa 1850
Located in CH
Italian Large Bronze Relief of a Madonna and Child, Saint John and Saint Elizabeth, after Pierino da Vinci, Circa 1850
This 19th century bronze plaque...
Category
Mid-19th Century Renaissance Revival Antique Italian Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bear in Italian Ceramic Albisola, 1940
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Bear in Italian ceramic Albisola, 1940.
Category
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
An Italian 19th century marble statue signed Pietro Franchi, Rome
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A charming Italian 19th century white Carrara marble statue of a young boy signed Pietro Franchi, Rome. The praying boy is raised on a circular mottled pedestal and is wearing classi...
Category
19th Century Antique Italian Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Monumental Italian Brass Fish Or Koi Sculpture
By Jacques Duval Brasseur, Honoré Daumier, Henri Fernandez
Located in Houston, TX
Monumental Italian brass fish or koi sculpture. This magnificent sculptural well detailed fish or koi sculpture is heavy weight and recently professionally polished.
Perfect sculptu...
Category
1960s Hollywood Regency Vintage Italian Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Sculpture of a foot in classical style - impasto of Marmorina (marble d Brussels
By Laboratorio Todini
Located in Tarquinia, IT
scultura, piede, modello piede, piede greco, modello piede studio, modello piede classico.
Studio model for a life-size foot.
sculpture made of marmorine impasto, a binder also calle...
Category
Early 2000s Classical Greek Italian Sculptures
Materials
Other
Decorative Palm Tree Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A brass palm tree sculpture by Luciano Benevello.
Engraved signature on the base.
Category
20th Century Modern Italian Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Brass
Woman's Face, Tufa Sculpture, Italy 1960s
Located in Naples, IT
Beautiful volcanic stone sculpture typical of the Vesuvius area, Italy, Naples 1960.
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Flying Mercury in green marble copied from the famous work of Giambologna
Located in Prato, IT
Green serpentine marble sculpture
Late 19th century
Height approx. 88 cm.
The flying mercury and the bronzes
While he was still busy working on the fountain in piazza Maggiore, the papal delegate Cesi asked Giambologna for a statue to be placed in the courtyard of the Archiginnasio, seat of the ancient and prestigious Bolognese university; he should have painted a bronze depicting the god Mercury with his index finger stretched towards the sky, a symbol of the divine origin of knowledge, which would have served as a warning to all students.
The project was never completed, but Giambologna elaborated a model preserved at the Civic Museum of Bologna, which is only the first of the numerous bronzes with the same subject made by the artist, defined precisely as flying Mercury. In later versions, the sculptor transformed Mercury into a much more dynamic figure reaching upwards, as if ready to take flight, giving it an unprecedented freedom of movement and lightness. When he returned to Florence, the sculptor certainly proposed it to the Medici, who enthusiastically immediately ordered one to be sent to Emperor Maximilian II of Habsburg, as a diplomatic gift for the ongoing negotiations of the wedding between Francesco and Giovanna, sister of the sovereign.
Giambologna replied with the two bronzes preserved in Vienna and Dresden and in 1580 cast the large Mercury now exhibited in the Bargello, originally intended for the loggia of the villa of Cardinal Ferdinando dei Medici to crown a fountain placed in the center of a magnificent decorative complex; the only variant with respect to the previous examples is constituted by the head of Zephyr placed under the foot of the god and from which a breath of wind blows it upwards, accentuating the sense of immateriality. In addition to the successful invention of the flying Mercury, Giambologna acquired immense fame by making numerous other bronzes for the Florentine collectors of the time; his first patron, Bernardo Vecchietti must certainly have owned many, given to him in part by the sculptor in exchange for his protection, but around the 1880s it can be said that there was no collector who did not aspire to own a work by Giambologna, especially those of small format.
The development of this trend in Florence is largely due to the artistic passions of the Grand Duke Francesco I, who with the creation of environments such as the Studiolo in Palazzo Vecchio and the Tribuna degli Uffizi, provided new criteria for the exhibition of the works, pushing all collectors to imitate his extraordinary collection. In the Studiolo, in addition to the painted tables that decorated the doors of the cupboards filled with all kinds of things, there were 8 niches containing bronze figures of divinities; Giambologna painted the one depicting Apollo (1573-75), with the characteristic serpentine pose and beautifully finished.
The placement of the statuette in the niche was no longer an impediment to the plurality of views as Giambologna endowed it with a sort of mechanism that allowed it to rotate. For the Tribune he instead created the six Labors of Hercules (1576-1589), small silver sculptures...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Italian Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Futurist Horses, Decorative Centerpiece Handmade Italy 2020, Hand-Crafted
By Mosche Bianche
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The piece is a unique representation created by our designer.
The creations are completely made by hand.
Ceramic and paint are water resistant.
Category
2010s Modern Italian Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Luxury Vase #36 "Ensemble". Porcelain. Handmade design in Italy. 2020
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The heart collection is the result of the extravagant creativity of two innovative designers, who are inspired especially by the human body.
The heart collection is inspired by the ...
Category
2010s Modern Italian Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Italian Large Ceramic Dog and Cat Statues
Located in Stamford, CT
Whimsical ceramic dog and cat statues perched on green and white checked pillows. They are priced individually. Both animals have white fur. The dog has lon...
Category
1970s Hollywood Regency Vintage Italian Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
1990s Bust of Roman Hand Carved using Different Carrara and Alicante Marbles
Located in Marbella, ES
1990s bust of a Roman, hand carved by craftsmen using Carrara white marble for the head, Arabescato for the main toga body and Alicante red for the arms, where the veining provide re...
Category
Late 20th Century Classical Roman Italian Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Ando Set of Vases in Hand Blown Glass by Tadao Ando for Venini
By Tadao Ando, Venini
Located in murano, IT
The object made to commemorate Venini’s 90th anniversary symbolizes Venini’s esteemed creative spirit as an encounter between the 500 year old traditional Venetian glass blowing tech...
Category
2010s Italian Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Murano Salviati Bullecante Army Green and Clear Apple Glass Sculpture or Object
By Salviati
Located in North Miami, FL
This vintage Italian Murano Salviati bulbous glass apple sculpture, paperweight or object is a brilliant luscious army and green with tons of bubbles enclosed which is called bullecante. From the 1970s. The stem and leaf...
Category
1970s Modern Vintage Italian Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Pair of Murano Glass Ducks by Fratelli
By Barovier, Fratelli Toso, Salviati, Seguso, Fratelli
Located in Houston, TX
Pair of Murano glass ducks by Fratelli.
Beautiful pair of gold murano glass ducks by Fratelli. This lovely pair of murano glass ducks are a gold gl...
Category
1940s Hollywood Regency Vintage Italian Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Luxury Vase #37 "Love Hurts". Porcelain. Handmade design and crafted in Italy.
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The heart collection is the result of the extravagant creativity of two innovative designers, who are inspired especially by the human body.
The heart collection is inspired by the ...
Category
2010s Modern Italian Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Gift Santa Decorative Ceramic Piece, Handmade Italy, 2021, Hand-Crafted Design
By Mosche Bianche
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The piece is a funny revisiting of Santa Claus bringing his famous Christmas gifts.
Our designer creates these pieces completely by hand.
Category
2010s Modern Italian Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Luxury Vase #49 "Love Key". Porcelain. Handmade design and craft in Italy. 2020
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The heart collection is the result of the extravagant creativity of two innovative designers, who are inspired especially by the human body.
The heart collection is inspired by the ...
Category
2010s Modern Italian Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
Green Parrot Sculpture Candleholder
Located in Paris, FR
Candleholder green parrot sculpture in
hand painted porcelain with brass details.
For 1 candle. Candle not included.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Art Lighting Sculpture - Amici by Marco Lodola
By Mirabili
Located in Pistoia, IT
Light sculpture
Curved acrylic sheet, Lighting with light tubes
"The intervention of an artist, citizen of the world, like Marco Lodola has created a climate of high cultural as well...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Italian Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass
Vintage Italian Brass Rooster Table Lamp on Old Iron Circular Base
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Italian vintage brass rooster table lamp on old iron base. This beautiful Italian lamp is made of a brass rooster with an incredible plumage. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Iron
American Marble Bust Sculpture of Classical Woman by Joseph Mozier ca. 1851
By Joseph Mozier
Located in Shippensburg, PA
JOSEPH MOZIER
United States, 1812-1870
Bust of a Classical Young Woman (1851)
Carved Cararra marble Signed to the reverse "J. MOZIER, Sc: ROME 1851"
Item # 406QSO30A
A stunningl...
Category
19th Century Neoclassical Antique Italian Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Antique Marble Bust of Venus
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
An antique over life-size bust of Venus. Thanks to her scale, this Neoclassical style handcarved marble sculpture of Venus, Roman goddess of love and beauty, is very striking. Charac...
Category
Early 18th Century Neoclassical Antique Italian Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Statuary Marble
Moretti Cat
By Franco Moretti
Located in Catania, IT
Cat in Murano glass by the glass master Franco Moretti.
Category
1970s Modern Vintage Italian Sculptures
Materials
Murano Glass
Italian Whippet Greyhound Terracotta Dog Statue Figurine Vintage, 1960s
By Marioni
Located in Nuernberg, DE
An outstanding Italian Greyhound statue in glazed and hand painted terracotta. Perfectly placed on a pedestal stylized as a cushion, lifelike ...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Sculptures
Materials
Majolica, Terracotta
Large Deco sculpture of a panther in Murano glass, 1940s
Located in Parma, IT
Deco' panther sculpture in blown Murano glass from the 1940s.
Transparent glass base, stylised panther sculpture in black glass, completely handmade.
In excellent condition.
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage Italian Sculptures
Materials
Murano Glass
Italian Clear Murano Glass Fish Sculpture by Seguso
By Seguso
Located in Palm Springs, CA
1970’s Italian clear murano glass fish sculpture by Seguso.
In good original vintage condition no chips,
Some scratches on the underside of base.
They might be able to be polished...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Sculptures
Materials
Murano Glass
Life Size Horse Head in Plaster on Pedestal
Located in Tilburg, NL
Wonderful large horse head in plaster. Big scale and great details and patina. The white plaster creates a beautiful interplay of light and shadows.
Shows great movement in the way the head is depicted. Reminiscent of equivalent plaster casts of horse heads from the Parthenon frieze...
Category
1960s Classical Roman Vintage Italian Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Boxwood
Murano Glass Hand Sculpture Signed Vistosi, Italy
By Vistosi
Located in Rome, IT
Big elegant sculpture in Murano glass in the shape of a human hand by the Italian artist Vistosi. His signature is engraved on the bottom of the sculpture as shown in pictures.
Category
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Sculptures
Materials
Murano Glass
Greek Black Glazen Column Krater (4th Century BC)
Located in Soho, London, GB
Black Glazen column krater,
mid-4th century BC, Apulia.
With broad avoid body on a short echinus foot and thick mouth.
The two handles form loops around t...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Classical Greek Antique Italian Sculptures
Pair of Glass Sculptures of a Fish, Murano, 20th Century.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Pair of glass sculptures of a fish, Murano, 20th century.
Pair of Murano glass sculptures of a fish, Italian work, 20th century, modern art.
H: 17cm, W: 16cm, D: 7cm
Category
20th Century Modern Italian Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Busto di Ottaviano Augusto in breccia pernice e marmo bianco Carrara -made Italy
By Laboratorio Todini
Located in Tarquinia, IT
Augusto, Ottaviano Augusto busto, Scultura, busto imperatore, Busto Ottaviano, busto Augusto, busto romano antico, arte romana, arte classica, arte greca, busto, marmo bianco Carrara...
Category
Early 2000s Classical Roman Italian Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Murano Art Glass Crane Sculpture Hand Blown Venetian Italian Crystal Glass
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage collectible Murano art glass hand blown sculpture of a crane in clear and purple colored glass.
Handcrafted beautiful Mid-Century Modern hand blown art glass Italian figurine...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Seguso Vetri d'Arte Poli Murano Art Deco Italian Art Glass Seashell Sculpture
By Flavio Poli, Seguso Vetri d'Arte
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful and rare Murano hand blown controlled bubbles in clear Italian art glass conch seashell sculpture. Documented to the Seguso Vetri d'Arte company, model # 17503. It is publi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Italian Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Sommerso
Vintage Regency Patinated Plaster Agusta Rodin “The Thinker” Bookends - a Pair
Located in west palm beach, FL
A fantastic pair of vintage Regency bookends. A reproduction of Auguste Robin’s “The Thinker”. A patinated bronze finish over plaster. Marked in back. Acquired from a Miami estate.
Category
Mid-20th Century Regency Italian Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Figurative Transavanguardist Sculpture, Naples, Italy, 1990s
Located in Naples, IT
Transavantgarde portrait in copper, wax and acrylic, wooden base, Naples 1990
Category
1990s Mid-Century Modern Italian Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Contemporary 'Gocce' Set of Three Sculptures Aquamarine Crystal by Ghirò Studio
By Ghirò Studio
Located in Pieve Emanuele, Milano
Each crystal is exclusive and unique as it has been entirely hand-worked from a block of crystal. This makes it impossible to create two perfectly identical ones. Three natural blocks of crystal was used to make this set of decorative objects .
The crystal have been processed by hand until they obtain a perfectly smooth and luminous surface. The color of the crystal is aquamarine with high transparency.
They present a modern furnishing...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Sculptures
Materials
Glass
20th Century Lorenzo Burchiellaro Sculpture mod. Cubo in Cast Alluminium, 70s
By Lorenzo Burchiellaro
Located in Turin, Turin
Lorenzo Burchiellaro (1933 – 2017) is an Italian designer and sculptor. He studied at the P. Selvatico institute in Padua and the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. He participated in t...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum
Large ceramic bust Man, Italy 1970s
By Bassano
Located in Miklavž Pri Taboru, SI
Vintage large ceramic bust Man by Bassano made in Italy in the 1970s. Bassano ceramics (also known as "Bassano del Grappa") is a traditional Italian craft produced in the city of Bas...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
19th Century Gilt Bronze Eagle Fragment on White Marble Stand, Italy
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Italian gilt bronze sculpture of an eagle on a rectangular white Carrera piece of marble. The high quality of the gilt work and the early age makes the eagl...
Category
1810s Neoclassical Antique Italian Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
Stylish Elephant Sommerso Art Glass Sculpture by Murano Glass
By Murano Glass Sommerso
Located in San Diego, CA
Stylish elephant sommerso art glass sculpture by Murano Glass, circa 1970s. The piece has a wonderful inner blue and green with gold fleck color on a clear glass body. The sculpture ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
Alfredo Barbini Bullicante Aventurine Murano Glass Pear Scupture
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Murano Bullicante Aventurine Murano glass pear sculpture by Alfredo Barbini. Each fruit-shaped sculpture features transparent and red glass, with the signature Bullicante technique c...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
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