Carved Decorative Objects

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 ...

20th century handmade two handled vase, Spain This impressive late 20th century terracotta water jar was found in Sevilla, Spain. In excellent condition and great character, featuring the Classic "wavy line" design of particularly Fine pottery...

Exceptional hand wood carving of a woman probably African queen, beautiful face showing grace and resolute looking forward, white color finish and clear wax restoration. Professional...

Six pieces of stone fruit, more than likely from Italy, including: Green banana, 6" L, minor wear at ends Two tone peach, wood stem, 3 1/4" x 2 1/2" W, minor dings, wear Gourd, with...

Available now. Custom Design by Studio Chora, Biomorphic Series, current production. One-of-a-kind light fixture; the item shown is the item that will ship. The Biomorphic series...

Antique Head of a Sicilian puppet, ca. 1900s Antique Head of a Sicilian puppet depicting a knight. Made of handcarved and handpainted wood with handfo...

In the style of Barbara Hepworth large organic biomorphic form hand-carved white marble garden - landscape sculpture with beautiful natural moss patina This sculpture also resembles ...

Artfully carved from amber colored marble this figurative Chinese statue or sculpture stands 4 1/8" H x 1 3/4" w x 1 1/8" D. Although this piece shows age appropriate wear, it ...

4640-5320 - Rectangular tray with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamels on guilloché, cm. 9 x 17.5. For fountain pen (4568-5201) with two-tone st...

18th Century or Older Italian Renaissance Style Carved Verdigris Marble Table Box  This exquisite 18th-century or older carved Verdigris marble table box epitomizes Italian Renaissa...

20th Century Mid-Century Modern handmade 14 inches veined white Carrara marble bowl, plate, centerpiece made in Italy. This Bowl is amazingly crafted, very heavy and decorative on a ...

NALENIK TEMELA (1939-2003) Stone Walrus, Lake Harbour / Kimmirut - Signed Nalenik Temela was a Canadian Postwar & Contemporary sculptor who was born i...

This listing features a pair of brass fighting roosters. These brass rooster figurines add a touch of country charm to any space. Handcrafted f...

Once used on a provincial Chinese farm to hold water or animal feed, this 19th-century stone trough is celebrated today for its organic form and rustic authenticity. Hand-carved from...

Large photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with painted fire enamels like lapis lazuli stone. Shaping taken from the tiles of the North Door of the Baptistery of the F...

Batak tribe ceremonial bowl from jackfruit wood, early 20th century. The Batak Tribes are ethnic groups predominantly found in North Sumatra, Indonesia....

Once used on a provincial Chinese farm to hold water or animal feed, this early 19th-century stone trough is celebrated today for its organic form and rustic authenticity. Hand-chise...

Organic midcentury modern muted olive, sage green Rörstrand pitcher bottle vase from the Zenit series. Designed by acclaimed artist Gunnar Nylund in the 1960s. Chamotte clay with han...

Constantin III is a simple but charming candleholder with a geometric shape with rhombus. The body is in solid Canaletto walnut with natural finishing, emphasizing the wooden veins. The cylinder in natural brass on the top is the place where to put an 18 mm candle. In the same collection 3 different models of candlesticks in wood or in marble. A perfect set for a present. Constantin collection owes its name to its inspirer. It is in fact the modern art of Constantin Brancusi that has guided the designer’s hand to conceive candelabra, bookends, containers and centre pieces...

18th century Carved Wood Buddha. Chinese antique Buddha Statue of carved wood. Gesso like coating to wooden surface, with pigments and gilding. ...

Pill Box Yellow floral miniature in Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni.Round pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent...

Pair of Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and rock crystal five-light candelabra. Each segmented stem with finial above pierced scroll-cast candle arms hung with pear-shaped prisms and con...

Striking pair of 19th century Chinese swan garnitures or sculptures hand carved in hardwood with an ebonized and gilt finish.

Massive lapis lazuki elephants sculpture from Greece, circa 1990s. The piece is well detailed, nicely veined and has an absolutely stunning pallet of blue shades. The entire sculpt...

Reminiscent of the Elemental sculpture of Constantin Brancusi, this Hardwood African Mortar and Pestle has a fantastic paper smooth age patin...

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...

This beautiful, colorful hand painted Majolica antique set was sculpted in Montigny sur Loing, France, circa 1870. Each ceramic vase including the mat...

We are delighted to offer for sale this exceptionally rare, Musical, original circa 1880 Swiss made Black Forest wood, Fox whip hook with glass eyes These...

Anthroposophical frame, carved natural wood. Desk frame Monogram engraved on the back of the support The frame is independent and can be hung on a wall or placed on its support. Perf...

Gorgeous Italian Bagni Pottery Sphinx Cat. Signed, "Italy", On The Bottom.

Salta province is called the beautiful, and this adjective introduces us to its profound beauty. Its fertile valleys, windy desert, colorful mountains and blue sky are the images tha...

Salta province is called the beautiful, and this adjective introduces us to its profound beauty. Its fertile valleys, windy desert, colorful mountains and blue sky are the images tha...

Galle cameo glass 'blowout vase' C1920 decorated with yellow hyacinths. This vase is normally found with red hyacinths and brown foliage. Yellow with green foliage is rare to find. ...

Add a touch of elegance to your home with this striking gilt wood sunburst clock, hand-carved in Spain circa 1970. This vintage piece features a ce...

Beautifully stylized figurine with a great balance of harmony stood, portraying the inner world's beauty through pure beauty. This Valuable unique art piece is a great chance to bring your office or home decor and interior an artistic characteristic. Ancient-style Egyptian Dolphin...

A carefully hand-carved male marble torso, with defined muscles. Beautifully realised, this piece would look great as part of a collection, or on its own.

17th Century Italian church vase decorated with fossil agate coral, red phantom quartz crystals, and chalcedony rosettes on polished agate base. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the historic flooding of the Arno River in 1966. Fossil agate coral is mounted on top of the artifact. Fossil agate coral is Florida's state stone and is known for its unique formation that can take place over 20 million years. It's a natural gemstone that is created when prehistoric coral is gradually replaced with agate. It is adorned with coordinating red phantom crystals and chalcedony rosettes that resemble the color and texture of the piece. The piece has been naturally distressed from the flood. It has been preserved and transformed by Jean O'Reilly Barlow, the creative director of Interi. The date of manufacture reflects when she created the piece and the period shows that the Italian fragment is originally 17th century. The story and history of this piece and Interi's collection of Florence fragments...

A hand-crafted mango wood bowl. The bowl was cut from a much larger slab of mango wood and features wonderful mix of wood textures. To achieve the rich...

Sea monster Carrara marble mouth fountain Italy, late 16th century It measures 13.8 x 31.5 x 18.9 in (35 x 80 x 48 cm) State of conservation: some small evident gaps and widespread signs of wear due to outdoor exposure. The gray marks crossing it do not come from restoration, but are rather the natural veins of the marble. This work has some morphological characteristics typically associated with the iconography of the sea monster: an elongated muzzle, sharp teeth, protruding eyes, elongated ears, and a coiled serpent's tail. An in-depth series of studies on artistic depictions of the sea monster attempted to verify how this symbol evolved in antiquity in the European and Mediterranean contexts and how it gradually changed its image and function over time. The iconography itself is mutable and imaginative and its history is rich with cultural and artistic exchange, as well as the overlapping of ideas. This occurred so much that it is difficult to accurately pinpoint the "types" that satisfactorily represent its various developments. However, we can try to summarize the main figures, starting from the biblical Leviathan and the marine creature that swallowed Jonah (in the Christian version, this figure was to become a whale or a "big fish", the “ketos mega”, translation of the Hebrew “dag gadol”). Other specimens ranged from the dragons mentioned in the Iliad (which were winged and had legs) to "ketos” (also from Greek mythology), the terrifying being from whose Latinized name (“cetus”) derives the word "cetacean". See J. Boardman, “Very Like a Whale” - Classical Sea Monsters, in Monsters and Demons in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds, in Papers presented in Honor of Edith Porada, Mainz am Rhein 1987, pp. 73-84). In Italy the monster underwent yet further variations: it can be found in Etruscan art on the front of some sarcophagi representing the companion of souls, while among the Romans we find the “Pistrice” (cited by Plinio in Naturalis Historia PLIN., Nat., II 9, 8 and by Virgilio in Eneide: VERG., Aen., III, 427), which appeared in the shape of a stylized hippocampus or a very large monstrous cetacean and evolved into a hideous being with a dragon's head and long webbed fins. During the Middle Ages, the sea monster was the object of new transformations: at this time, it is often winged, the head is stretched like a crocodile, the front legs are often very sharp fins - sometimes real paws - until the image merges with dragons, the typical figures of medieval visionary spirituality widely found throughout Europe (on this topic and much more, see: Baltrušaitis, J., Il Medioevo fantastico. Antichità ed esotismi nell’arte gotica, Gli Adelphi 1997). In Italy during the 15th and 16th centuries, the revival of classicism - representative of the humanistic and Renaissance periods - led to a different reading of these "creatures". Indeed, the sea monster was also to find widespread use as an isolated decorative motif, especially in numerous fountains and sculptures where dolphins or sea monsters were used as a characterizing element linked to water (on this theme see: Chet Van Duzer, Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps, London, The British library, 2013). From the morphological point of view, the "sea monsters" of this period are mostly depicted as hybrid figures, in which the body of a mythological or real being (a hippocampus, a sea snake, a dolphin), is joined to a head with a rather indistinct appearance. It was usually characterized by large upright ears, an elongated snout, sharp teeth and globular, protruding eyes; a complex and indefinite figure, both from the symbolic point of view and from that of its genesis. The work we are examining is placed as a cross between the medieval sea serpent and the Renaissance dolphin, with stylistic features which recall the snake as often used in heraldry (such as the "snake" depicted in the coat of arms of the Visconti - the lords and then dukes of Milan between 1277 and 1447 - and which, for some, may be derived from the representations of the “Pistrice” that swallowed Jonah). In the search for sources, Renaissance cartography and in particular woodcuts should not be neglected. See for example the monsters of Olaus Magnus, from the editions of the “Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus” (“History of the peoples of the north”) and the natural histories of Conrad Gesner, Ulisse...

A simple hinged wooden box with carving. The box would be ideal for 420, notes, recipes, or on the desk to hold paper clips, rubber bands, etc. or on the nightstand. A beautiful ...

Designed by Studio Chora, 2024. Biomorphic: ‘bios' meaning life and 'morphe' meaning form. The Biomorphic series of organic light sculptures are one-of-a-kind and crafted by ha...

Val Saint Lambert Cut Glass Vase in Ruby Red Val Saint Lambert cut glass vase in a ruby ​​red hue. It features oval panels carved with detailed floral motifs, alternating with areas ...

Exceptional allegory of death in carved bone. Depiction of a leper wrapped in a stole. Southern Germany, Tyrol, 18th-19th century. Superb quality of carving, showing no signs of mech...

A magnificent gilded giant statue of Amitabha Buddha, carved from a single block of solid wood. Seated dhyana asana on a high lotus throne, the Buddha's full and round face, hallmark...

Antique sterling silver pair of Art Deco solid silver candlesticks, pressed, cast, and chased. Circular, curved feet with hinged. Tested with the scratch test, height approx. 16.5 cm...

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Hollow Canada goose decoy, attributed to Ira Hudson, of Chincoteague, VA. Hollow, with original paint - in as found condition. Chip shots and age to spare. ...

This 18th-century English carved giltwood eagle, hailing from the Georgian period, is a magnificent example of artisan cabinetry from the era. The eagle carving is expertly carved from giltwood and gessoed, showcasing the skill and artistry of the period. The eagle is depicted facing left and is perched on an oblong ring, adding a sense of movement and realism to the carving. The details and intricacies of the carving highlight the craftsmanship and attention to detail that went into its creation. Mounted on a later two-tiered lucite pedestal base...

A finely Japanese Bamboo carving, early 20th century, a long rectangular convex panel carved with ripe pomegranates and a bird on a branch, lg. 36 in. ...

A 19th century French mannekin head in beech with original polychrome remains.

The mounts are similar to those by Gouthière. The one vase having more speckling of white in the porphyry than the other.

Rabbit Crystal Hand carved Crystal inclusions vary Limited Edition.          

A Pair of Artistically created birds for table decor, silver-plated roosters - ideal for a coffee table or bookends. These figures are Art Deco Sculpture! They are each unique from o...

Dimensions: 15,3 x 5,5 x 20 cm // 6" x 2,1" x 7,8" 16,5 x 24,8 cm // 6,5" x 9,8" Colors : Brown & cream onyx stone Salta province is called the beautiful, and this adjective ...

A beautiful soapstone hand-carved head of an African tribe-woman circa 1940.

1960s Hand Craved Wood Head Tiki Totem Sculpture Black highlights Carvings in the round

Set of two 16th century oak panels, one representing a character accompanied by a dog, the other a character in flames, probably saints. These ...

A marvelous 19th century Indian carved orange marble platter with a short handle, and a beautiful black vein, and a well-worn finish. Perfect on an ottoman, or on your kitchen island!

This antique handcrafted terracotta pot is a striking example of traditional pottery, featuring a beautifully aged patina and a timeless, rustic charm. Likely originating from Europe...

This late 19th Century bust was executed by French painter and sculptor Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse (1848–1913), son and pupil of renowned sculptor Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse. ...