Large Bing and Grondahl Porcelain Roaring Lion

This large and well modelled comport is of exceptionally heavy gauge, well-designed and offered by the well- known craftsman, Ugo Bellini of Firenze. Standing on a lobed octofoil ba...

This striking sculptural ewer is exuberantly modeled with sepent form handle and dragon form spout, the baluster body is carved in high relief with a mask of the young Silenus amid...

This is a wonderful example of the form. Two-handled, within sinuous border and raised on bun feet, the base is fitted with a water compartment complete with original silver plated s...

A pair of hall marked sterling silver Tazzae, each bowl of scalloped circular form, profusely pierced with stylized acanthus, raised on a circular foot marked for Sheffield 1933 by E...

A lion, seated on its haunches, one paw up. Perhaps a heraldic reference; although the stump does not appear in heraldry, it is required in order to keep the paw in position during f...

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...

Large Italian hand painted ceramic lion sculpture from the 1970’s. In beautiful vintage condition. Retains the made in Italy label. Measurements: 11” Deep, 27” Wide, 12” High.

An exquisite sculpture of a lion in white glazed earthenware, from the first half of the 20th century and originating in Italy, a sculpture with beautiful details of the mouth, the l...