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Antique French Bronze Sculpture Plaque of Leopard by Antoine-Louis Barye
Located in Shippensburg, PA
ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE
France, 1796-1875
"WALKING LEOPARD" (conceived 1831, cast after 1875)
Patinated bronze bas-relief plaque on walnut backing Signed "BARYE"
Item # 109VKQ16P
A beautifully textured and well-preserved bas-relief plaque of Walking Leopard mounted...
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19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Slate, Bronze
Paul Louchet, Cigarette Holder and Ashtray, France 19th Century
By Paul Louchet
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb small ashtray in gilt bronze with intricately carved decorations of roses by Paul Louchet (1854-1936), France Romantic/Art Nouveau Period late 19th century. Signed "Louchet Ci...
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19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Antoine-Louis Barye '1795-1875' Signed Bronze of Lion Crushing a Snake ca. 1870
Located in CH
Antoine-Louis Barye (Paris, 1795-1875). Lion crushing a Snake. Bronze with a brown patina signed Barye on the left hand side of the base. The bronze sculpture is sitting on a black m...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Stunning Royal Bonn Antique Vases, Ceramic, Germany, 1890s
By Royal Bonn
Located in Bastogne, BE
Gorgeous pair of large German Royal Bonn hand-painted vases with floral motif, late 19th-early 20th century.
Made by Franz Anton Mehlem, these impressive vases...
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1890s German Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Vienna Bronze, Red Robin, Austria Late-1800s
By Geschutzt
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb red robin Vienna bronze with beautiful polychrome colours, Austria 19th century. Stamped Geschützt.
In good condition.
Dimensions in cm ( H x L x l ) : 7 x 11 x 4...
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Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Artist's Pallette Huntley & Palmer's Biscuit Tin
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
A wonderful & very rare Huntley & Palmer's Biscuit Tin in the form of an Artist's Pallette. We have never seen this example in England and, in fact, discovered it in the South of Fra...
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20th Century Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Tin
French Majolica Pair of Vases with Painted Edouard Gilles, circa 1880
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica pair of vases with flowers signed Edouard Gilles, circa 1880.
Category
1880s French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Italian 19th Century Marble Bust of a Girl by Pugi of Firenze
Located in New York, NY
Marble Bust of a Girl Signed F'lli Pugi, Firenze (Florence).
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble
Prof. Giuseppe Bessi, Bust of Crowned Woman, Italy 19th Century
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb patinated marble and alabaster bust of a veiled woman crowned with laurel by Professore Giuseppe Bessi, Italy 19th century. Signed "Prof. G. Bessi".
Excellent condition.
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19th Century Italian Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Alabaster, Marble
Vienna Bronze, Lizard, Late 19th Century
By Geschutzt
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb and large 19th century Vienna bronze of a lizard by the Geschütz manufacture. Not signed.
Dimensions in cm ( H x L x L ) : 4 x 28 x 9.
Secure shipping.
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Louis Vidal (1831-1892), Roaring Lion, France
By Louis Vidal
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful roaring lion in gold patinated bronze by the artist and sculptor Louis Vidal (1831-1892) of the Romantic period, France 19th century.
Dimensions in cm ( H x L x l ) : 17 x 36 x 9
Secure shipping.
Louis Vidal, Vidal the blind or Vidal-Navatel is a French sculptor born on December 6, 1831 in Nîmes and who passed on May 9th, 1892 in the 12th district of Paris.
Born to an unknown father and Sophie Vidal-Navatel, he grew up in a family of artists, having for stepfather the painter Alexandre Colin who married his mother in second marriage and for half-brother Paul-Alfred Colin. He studied anatomy but became blind around 1853, which prevented him from pursuing this path.
He studied with the animal sculptors Antoine-Louis Barye and Pierre Louis Rouillard and became an animal sculptor himself by replacing sight with touch. This faculty enabled him to create portraits, he perceived the shape of faces by touching them and sculpted them in clay, and remains known as the author of a sculpture representing a roaring lion, as well as that of a bull in bronze, donated by the State to the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes in 1867.
Louis Vidal worked in particular with Alfred Barye, son of his master Antoine-Louis Barye. He became a professor of modeling in 1888 at the École Braille in Paris.
A portrait of the artist taken by the photographer Étienne Carjat...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
French 19th Century Bronze Sculpture After Paul Dubois Entitled La Charité
Located in New York, NY
La Charité Bronze Sculpture After Paul Dubois (1829-1905).
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Romantic Ornate Oval Silver Picture Frame, Angels with Floral Garlands
Located in New York, NY
Fabulous European antique silver picture frame with a pair of angels on each side holding the oval of the frame amidst floral scroll decor...
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19th Century European Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Art Deco Stone Sculpture, White Color, a Women Head, France 1940
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This is an Art Deco Period, Sculpture in stone, representing an women Head.
In a white color. It has been made in France Circa 1940.
Category
1940s French Vintage Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Stone
Goebel Company Hummel Porcelain Figurine Boy “the Fiddler”
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Hummel porcelain figurine boy. It’s named “The Fiddler”. Its mark is TMK5 (1970’s). The inscription M.I. Hummel is in the back of the figurine. The trademark of Goebel comp...
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20th Century German Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Vienna Bronzes, Deer and Doe Sculptures, 19th Century
By Geschutzt
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb 19th century Vienna bronze sculptures of a stag, the doe is a late 20th century/early 21st production of Vienna bronzes. The deer sculpture is attributed to the Geschütz manuf...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Modigliani Design Murano Glass Bird Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Modigliani Design Murano Art glass sculpture in the form of a bird perched upon a colorless glass foliate base, "MADE IN MURANO ITALY" label to side, "M / Modigliani / Via Condotti /...
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Mid-20th Century Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Murano Glass
Oval Masquerade Ball Biscuit Tin , England , Mid-20th Century
Located in Antwerp, BE
Oval Biscuit Tin with Masquerade Ball. This Biscuit Cookie Tin was designed for Peek Frean and co. Ltd - England circa 1940 -1950.
This Lithographic Englis...
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Mid-20th Century British Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Tin
Antique Austrian Miniature Table Cabinet or Trinket Box with Enameled Panels
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique miniature cabinet is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from Austria and date to approximately 1880 and done in a Romanti...
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Copper, Brass
Antique 19th Enamel Box Hand Painted Pink with Flowers
By Castel Limoges
Located in BILBAO, ES
Antique 19th Jewellery Antique 19th Jewellery Hand Painted pink Porcelain Box with flowers aprox 1880
Perfect gift for decoration or keeping perso...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
19th Century French Papier Maché Snuff Box with Landscape and Figures Painting
Located in Milan, IT
French Painted Papier Maché Snuffbox 1800s. Snuff box of circular shape with fine painting on the lid depicting a mountain landscape with figures and herds crossing a river, a dove f...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Other
French, Antique Bronze Sculpture of Aberdeen Angus Bull by Isidore Bonheur
Located in Shippensburg, PA
ISIDORE JULES BONHEUR
French, 1827-1901
Taureau Aberdeen-Angus" (Standing Aberdeen-Angus Bull)
Patinated sand-cast bronze Signed to base "I. BONHEUR"
Item # 211HDB17Z
An exquisite and very rare casting of an Aberdeen-Angus bull, an unusual and distinctive breed of cattle from Scotland, this sculpture by Isidore Jules Bonheur is almost without a doubt cast by the foundry of his brother-in-law Hippolyte Peyrol and a rather early model as well in light of the distinctive construction method. In her text on the selection of 46 animal bronzes in the collection of the Georgia Museum of Art, Eleanor Luciano notes regarding this model that "Bonheur is never recorded to have been to Scotland, where he would have seen this unusual breed. Rosa Bonheur painted in Scotland, and its seems likely that Isidore would have drawn the idea for this bull either from one of her sketches or from an agricultural show in France. The animal's rich mane and strong modeling make this one of the most successful." Notable is the very fine surface patination which exhibits a glassy finish with a complex range of colors presenting in the body of the bull, overall being medium brown but augmented with an underlying reddish hue against auburn highlights. The base is signed "I. BONHEUR" in the typical manner.
Museum Collections:
* National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, acc. no. 2006.128.3
* Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia...
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19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Sculpture “Lion Assis No. 2”, Antoine Louis Barye, circa 1880
Located in Shippensburg, PA
ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE
French, 1796-1875
"Lion Assis, no. 2"
Sand-cast bronze with autumnal patina signed in cast BARYE, stamped verso "AD" surmounted by a ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Goebel Company Hummel Porcelain Group Figurines “Follow The Leader”
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Hummel porcelain group figurines of two girls and a boy. It’s named “Follow the Leader”. Its mark is TMK5 (1970’s). The inscription M.I. Hummel is in the back of the figuri...
Category
20th Century German Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Goebel Company Hummel Porcelain Large Figurine “Apple Tree Boy”
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a large Hummel porcelain figurine boy . It’s named “Apple Tree boy”. Its mark is TMK5. The inscription M.I. Hummel is in the back of the figurine. The trademark of Goebel com...
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20th Century German Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Goebel Company Hummel Porcelain Group Figurines “School Girls”
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Hummel porcelain group figurines of three girls. It’s named “School Girls”. Its mark is TMK5 (1970’s). The inscription M.I. Hummel is in the back...
Category
20th Century German Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Goebel Company Hummel Porcelain Figurine Boy “Sensitive Hunter”
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Hummel porcelain figurine boy. It’s named “Sensitive Hunter”. Its mark is TMK5 (1970’s). The trademark of Goebel company is below the base.
Category
20th Century German Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Pierre Laparra, Sculpture of Nude Woman and Children, France, 1970s
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb 1970s modernist romantic style sculpture depicting a nude woman and two children by the artist Pierre Laparra. Sculpted plexiglas mounted on a metal base.
In good conditio...
Category
1970s French Vintage Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
French Antique Bronze Sculpture of Husky Dog by Emmanuel Fremiet
Located in Shippensburg, PA
EMMANUEL FREMIET
French, 1824-1910
Chien loulou couché
Nuanced brown patina on sand-cast bronze Signed in base "E. FREMIET" a Charles More cast numbered 213
Item # 202FPP12G
A good lifetime casting by Charles More numbered 215, it captures the entirely relaxed spirit of the recumbant husky dog...
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19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Ladies Sterling Alpaca Vanity Dressing Set with Intials M I
Located in BILBAO, ES
Four-piece vanity set in solid cut glass and silver. It includes a hand mirror with a beveled glass, one bottles, a clothes brush and a hair brush. The glass of jars and jars is soli...
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1950s Spanish Vintage Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver Plate
French Antique Bronze Sculpture of Jockey and Stallion Horse by Jules Bennes
Located in Shippensburg, PA
JULES BENNES
French, fl. late 19th to early 20th century
"The Race"
Medium-brown nuanced patina on sand-cast bronze Signed in cast "J. Bennes"
Item # 112PZE03S
A remarkable fin...
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20th Century French Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Antique Bronze Sculpture Genius and Brute Force by Cyprien Godebski
Located in Antwerp, BE
Antique bronze sculpture Genius and brute force by Cyprien Godebski, 1835-1909.
Impressive sculpture.
France 1888.
Weight 50 KG.
This sculpture is illustrated in Les bronzes de XIXe siècle, Pierre Kjellberg...
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1880s Polish Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
A. Van Kote, Seagull above Waves, Bronze Sculpture Late 19th Century Belgium
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb gold patina bronze of a seagull flying above green patina bronze waves by the sculptor A. Van Kote, signed. Belgian school, late 19th century.
Good condition with one oxida...
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Late 19th Century Belgian Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Rooster Ceramic Statuette France, circa 1900
Located in Labrit, Landes
French ceramic representing a rooster chick, very realistic
Small gap on the ridge.
Shipping:
9 / 20.5 / 16 cm 0.8 kg.
Category
Early 20th Century French Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Marble Sculpture of Saint John the Evangelist, France, 19th Century
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb sculpture in marble of Saint John the Evangelist, France 19th century.
Dimensions in cm ( H x L x l ) : 58 x 18 x 16
Secure shipping.
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble
French Barbotine Ceramic Vase and Rooster, Late 19th Century, Vallauris
Located in Labrit, Landes
French ceramic barbotine representing a rooster against a tree stump that serves as a vase.
Made circa 1890
Good condition, very few marks of use
Shipping:
23 / 35 / 51 cm 4...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Candle Stick, France, 19th Century
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb church altar candlestick of the Romantic period. Decorations in gold leaf and blue and white enamel of flowers, fleur-de-lys (symbol of the French royal house) and rams at the...
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19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Pair of French Bronze Sculptures Busts “Comedy & Tragedy” by Eugene Laurent
By Emmanuel Marcel Laurent
Located in Shippensburg, PA
EUGENE LAURENT
French, 1832-1898
"Comedy & Tragedy"
Patinated bronze on original black marble bases Unsigned, cast circa 1885
Item # 211PPA29S
A rare and exceptional pair of br...
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19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique Meissen Porcelain Figurine of Cupid Holding an Arrow & Flaming Heart
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique figurine was made by the renowned Meissen factory of Germany is approximately 1850 in the period Dresden style. The figurine is done in early paste porcelain and depicts a cherub, or Cupid seated on a stump, holding an arrow with an outstretched hand, and cradling a flaming heart...
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Mid-19th Century German Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Art Deco Terracotta Sculpture, White Color, Man Head, France, 1940
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This is an Art Deco Period, Sculpture in stone, representing an Man Head.
In a white color. It has been made in France circa 1940. It is very heavy Terracotta.
Category
1940s French Vintage Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
Rare French Antique Bronze Sculpture “Seated Lion No.4”After Antoine-Louis Barye
Located in Shippensburg, PA
ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE
French, 1796-1875
"Lion Assis no. 4"
Dark-green patinated sand-cast bronze Signed in cast "BARYE" cast after 1875
Item # 204XDG15S ...
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19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
French Ceramic Barbotine Chicken Family Chicken and Chicks Group, circa 1900 C
Located in Labrit, Landes
French ceramic representing a family of gallenaceae: a rooster, a hen and two chicks, barbotine.
Made circa 1900
Good condition
Shipping:
19.5 / 20.5 / 24 cm 1.6 kg.
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Early 20th Century French Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Chick Statuette Terracotta & Faience Signed J. Filmont, circa 1900 C
Located in Labrit, Landes
French Terracotta recovered of faience representing a chick
Signed by Joseph Filmont ceramicist in Caen, Normandy. He created at the end of the 19th century a pottery and architectu...
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Early 20th Century French Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta, Faience
French Antique Bronze Sculpture of Tigress at Rest by Paul Edouard Delabrierre
Located in Shippensburg, PA
PAUL EDOUARD DELABRIERRE
French, 1829-1912
Tigress at Rest
Sand-cast reddish-brown patinated bronze Signed in base "E. DELABRIERRE"
Item #...
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20th Century French Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Big Size Herons
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
We offer this pair of big size Herons made in wood metal and brass base. circa 1970.
Category
1970s Mexican Vintage Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal, Brass
Leblanc Barbedienne, Candle Holders, Late 1800s France
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb art deco candleholders by LeBlanc Barbedienne. Beautiful and intricate decorations of pigeons and swallows. In bronze and Portor black and white veined marble. France, Late 18...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Vintage White Metal Swan with Hand Chased Details, U.S.a, Mid-20th Century
By Buccellati
Located in Chatham, ON
Vintage white metal swan figurine - hand chased details throughout - cast in three pieces (the wings applied to the body) - open cavity - unsigned - U.S.A. (likely) - mid 20th centur...
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Mid-20th Century American Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
Rare French Antique Bronze Sculpture “Lion Assis no.2” after Antoine-Louis Barye
Located in Shippensburg, PA
ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE
French, 1796-1875
"Lion Assis no. 2"
Patinated bronze Signed in cast "BARYE"
Item # 109YHP24E
Initially modeled by Barye in 1846 as a commission by Louis-Phillipe for the Tuilleries Gardens at a cost of 10,000 francs, the life-size sculpture sat near to Barye's Lion au Serpent until it was later moved in 1867 to the grand entrance to Pavilion de Flore and a pair was crafted for it using a mechanical technique, a gesture which incensed Barye, as he preferred to sculpt a mate to oppose Lion Assis but the government refused on the basis of the high cost. There are similarities between Lion Assis and Barye's Lion of the July Column, both beasts with notable similarity in the multiple layers of their manes and the quiet repose and powerful presence of the motionless Lion Assis is a natural development over his violent clashing group of Lion au Serpent from thirteen years prior.
Version no. 1 was first offered in Barye's 1847 catalogue as no. 99 and due to the popularity of the sculpture it was cast in four different editions with varying dimensions. Lion Assis no. 2 was originally set over two base types: the more rare naturalistic base seen in the present model and the more common molded base (which incidentally also gives that variation some additional height). It was cast posthumously by Auguste Delafontaine, Hector Brame, Colin, Barbedienne and Graech-Marly. The same model and the original plaster and wax are held in the permanent collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (acc. no. 2007.70 & 71).
The present model is an early posthumous cast with a richly textured surface and exquisite detail finished in an overall dark brown patina with hints of reddish undertones; the surface is silky and translucent.
Artist Listings & Bibliography:
*Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures, Polleti & Richarme, 2000, p. 182, cat. A57, ill. 143
*The Founders and Editors of the Barye Bronzes, Reinis, 2007, see p. 85-88 for discussion of Delafontaine and their role in casting Lion Assis (fig. 50), see p. 79-80 (fig. 25) for discussion of Ancienne Maison Colin...
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19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Goebel Company Hummel Porcelain Group Figurines “Telling Her Secret”
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Hummel porcelain group figurines of two girls. It’s named “Telling her Secret ”. Its mark is TMK5 (1970’s). The inscription M.I. Hummel is in the back of the figurines. The...
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20th Century German Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
French Antique Bronze Sculpture of North African Hunter by Paul Delabrierre
Located in Shippensburg, PA
PAUL-EDOUARD DELABRIERRE
French, 1829-1912
North African Hunter on Horseback Surprised by a Caracal
Medium-brown and burnished bronze patinated sand-ca...
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19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Carrier-Belleuse Bronze Female Statue Holding a Harp, 'Harmone' 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 19th century bronze statue of a female figure holding a Harp, entitled 'Harmone'
Signed; Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Albert-Ernest Car...
Category
19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Royal Vienna Style Porcelain Charger After Angelika Kauffmann
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
A stunning hand-painted and gold gilt Royal Vienna style plate signed 'Angelica Kauffmann' with Imperial Crown China mark.
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Restauration Period Clock in Gilt Bronze, Romantic School
Located in BARSAC, FR
Superb clock in finely chiseled gilt bronze from the restoration period (circa 1830) presenting a scene characteristic of the romantic movement of the ti...
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1820s French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Ormolu
French Bronze Sculpture of "Tunisian Water Carrier" by Marcel Debut
By Marcel Debut
Located in Shippensburg, PA
MARCEL DEBUT
French, 1865-1933
"Porteur d'eau arabe" (The Tunisian Water Carrier)
Medium-brown and reddish patinated bronze, burnished bronze pots, cas...
Category
20th Century French Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Equestrian statue of William I and two candelabras with halberdiers
By Count Alfred Émilien O'Hara van Nieuwerkerke
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Mantel garniture with clock and pair of candelabras in brown patinated bronze on Statuary marble and gilt bronze pedestals.
Equestrian statue signed and dated : « E de Nieuwerkerke 1843 » on the base and bronze caster's mark « Susse Edt »
Dimensions of the clock : H. 84 cm (33”1/16) x W. 46,5 cm (18”5/16) x D. 24,5 cm (9”11/16)
Dimensions of the candelabras : H. 90,5 cm (35”5/8) x W. 25 cm (9”7/8) x D. 25 cm (9”7/8)
At the “Salon des Artistes Français” in 1843, the young Count Alfred Emile de Nieuwerkerke (1811-1892), then aged 32, presented a plaster equestrian statue entitled William I, known as the Taciturn, Prince of Orange. A great nineteenth-century sculptor, Émile de Nieuwerkerke is best known for having been Head Director of the Museums since 1849, and probably the most influential man on cultural policy in France until the end of the Second Empire. Nieuwerkerke's fervor for art began when he became passionate for sculpture, at the age of 23, and took classes with the great James Pradier and Baron Carlo Marochetti. His connections allow him to realize official commissions, including the busts of the Empress Eugenie and Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. The Count de Nieuwerkerke made a name for himself at the 1838 Salon with the exhibition of the group The Death of the Duke of Clarence that really launched his career.
Having been a pupil of Carlo Marochetti, a sculptor of Italian origin, the young Nieuwerkerke can only be strongly impressed by the equestrian statue of the Monument to Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy created by the master between 1833 and 1838 and adorning the Piazza San Carlo of Turin in Italy. There is no doubt that this monumental statue...
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19th Century French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Silver Plate Duck Table Statue Sculpture for Side Dishes Antique European
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A stunning addition to any room or table. Exquisite form and finely detailed feathers etched with precision into silver-covered metal. Combine whimsical romanticism with streamlined ...
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Early 20th Century Austrian Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver Plate, Metal
Pair of Important Porcelain Vases with Female Heads by Augustus Rex for Meissen
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
This pair of important and very beautiful vases is made of ceramic with 2 female faces and beautiful and fine decors. These vases were made for Meissen manufacture by Augustus Rex (a...
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1850s French Antique Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Original Bronze Sculpture of Frère Et Soeur Brother & Sister by Auguste Rodin
Located in New York City, NY
An important original bronze sculpture of Brother and Sister- Frère et Soeur ,
by A. Rodin (1840-1917)
signed 'A. Rodin' on the right of the base, inscribed with the foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier...
Category
Early 20th Century French Romantic Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
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Find a broad range of unique Romantic decorative objects for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage decorative objects created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, lighting and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, bronze and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Romantic decorative objects made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Italy pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original decorative objects, popular names associated with this style include Antoine-Louis Barye, Goebel Company, Pierre Jules Mêne, and F. Barbedienne Foundry. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for decorative objects differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $75 and tops out at $250,000 while the average work can sell for $3,193.
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