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Material: Plaster
Sculpture Signed Modernist in Wood, Metal and Plaster
Located in Ternay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Very original French sculpture, small proportions, made with a technique of assembly of wood and white lacquered metal the whole coated with plaster in a modernist style. Unknown art...
Category
1960s French Organic Modern Vintage Plaster Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Large Vintage Display Figure, English, Plaster, Decorative Ornament, Art Deco
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a large vintage display figure. An English, plasterwork decorative girl with duck ornament, dating to the Art Deco period, circa 1930.
A chaotic moment, with the unruly duck...
Category
Early 20th Century British Art Deco Plaster Folk Art
Materials
Plaster
Decorative 20th Century Faux Buffalo Skull Sculpture Art
Located in Basingstoke, Hampshire
A decorative 20th century faux painted buffalo skull sculpture, raised on a rectangular plinth stand. An extremely well-executed example with detailed painting across the surface to help create the illusion of a real skull...
Category
20th Century Plaster Folk Art
Materials
Plaster
Antique concrete sheep statue, first half of 1900s
Located in SAN PIETRO MOSEZZO, NO
Beautiful statue depicting a seated sheep, made in the first half of the 1900s or so in mixed concrete and stone grit material.
The statue was hand-painted and shows signs of the pa...
Category
1930s Italian Brutalist Vintage Plaster Folk Art
Materials
Cement
Huge 18th Century Heraldic Armorial Plaster Gesso Gilt Lion
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A large scale heraldic gilt lion off naive depiction, constructed around a pine carcass with a thick hessian and plaster/gesso skin.
The original gilt is beautifully faded, the pl...
Category
18th Century European Antique Plaster Folk Art
Materials
Gesso, Plaster
Manorial Black Forest Plaster Deer Head Adorned with Antlers- 1900s Germany
Located in Asheville, NC
Stunning 20th Century German Black Forest plaster deer head adorned with real antlers. This was likely recovered from an old German manor. Plaster has stu...
Category
Early 20th Century German Plaster Folk Art
Materials
Antler, Plaster, Wood
Rare dutch "Gaper" statue with monkey on his shoulder.
Located in Leuven , BE
A gaper is a stone or wooden figurehead, often depicting a Moor, Muslim, or North African. The figurehead first appeared in the late 16th century as a hangout sign used outside the storefronts of drug stores in the Netherlands. The meaning of gaper is the same in English; the figurehead is always displayed with an open mouth, sometimes with a pill resting on his tongue. The gaper's gaping tongue could represent the intake of medicine and grimace represents the bitter taste of the medicine. The gaper takes on various appearances that are symbolic of the origin for the pharmacist...
Category
20th Century Dutch Plaster Folk Art
Materials
Plaster
Pop Surrealist Sculpture by Robert Brock, circa 1974
Located in Buffalo, NY
Pop surrealist sculpture by Robert Brock, cirac 1974. Laminate and cast plaster
Brock was born in Tacoma, Ohio and was a graduate of the University of Dayton, Dayton Art Institute...
Category
1970s American Folk Art Vintage Plaster Folk Art
Materials
Laminate, Plaster, Wood
Pair of Quirky Plaster Figures, Signed E. Siegl
Located in Brecht, BE
A quirky pair of plaster figures, 19th century Folk Art, signed E. Siegl,
in very good vintage condition. man is 40 cm high x 43 cm wide and 24 cm deep,
woman is 40 cm high x 39 cm...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Plaster Folk Art
Materials
Plaster
Anatomical Skeletal Cast, Italy 80s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The figure’s head is slightly tilted, giving it an expressive look, and the torso is sculpted to reveal muscles and tendons, giving insight into the human body’s structure beneath th...
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plaster Folk Art
Materials
Plaster
Modernist Abstract Table Sculpture by Don Frost, after Noguchi
By Frost
Located in Buffalo, NY
Large modernist abstract table sculpture by Don Frost, one of his earlier works. Most likely a study, maquette for an eventual larger sculptur...
Category
1970s Canadian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plaster Folk Art
Materials
Rope, Plaster
Composition Mask of Mythical God
Located in Round Top, TX
Composition mask of a classic mythical face.
Category
Early 1900s Italian Antique Plaster Folk Art
Materials
Composition
Composition Maquette for a Fountain
Located in Round Top, TX
Composition maquette for a fountain. Putti/angel riding a mythical sea creature. This maquette was used to model the bronze castings for a fountain.
Category
1910s Argentine Vintage Plaster Folk Art
Materials
Plaster
Good Large Bust of a Roman Lady in the Pre-Raphealite Style
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
A good large bust of a Roman Lady in the Pre-Raphealite style
This is a good quality bust, the young woman has a fey demeanour and
long, thick, wavy hair which is tied back falli...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Plaster Folk Art
Materials
Plaster
Good Large Bust of William Shakespeare
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
A Good Large Bust of William Shakespeare
A Good Large Bust of William Shakespeare, this is a good quality bust, it is made in plaster and has a good pati...
Category
Mid-20th Century Beaux Arts Plaster Folk Art
Materials
Plaster
Naive Life-Size Simulated Bronze Plaster Head of Bearded Man, Not Signed
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Naive life-size simulated bronze plaster head of bearded Man, not signed
This is good handmade piece dating from the middle of the 20th century, it shows a three dimensional head ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Plaster Folk Art
Materials
Plaster
Large Gilded Mirror
Located in London, England
Large gilded French mirror with original plate. Circa 1930.
Category
1930s French Vintage Plaster Folk Art
Materials
Plaster, Pine
18th Century Oval Carved Wood Framed Bishop Portrait
Located in Ross, CA
Oval carved wood portrait of Casimir-Frédéric de Rathsamhausen-Wibolsheim (1698-1786). Known as Dom Léger, he was a Catholic cardinal at the Abbey of Murbarch in France's Rhine valley...
Category
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Plaster Folk Art
Materials
Plaster, Wood
Hand Study in Plaster on Oak Plinth Base, Early 20th Century
Located in Faversham, GB
Anatomical plaster study of a man’s hand, sitting on an oak plinth base. With wonderful definition to the fingers and palm.
British, early 20th cent...
Category
Early 20th Century British Art Deco Plaster Folk Art
Materials
Marble
Anatomical Skeletal Cast, Italy 80s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The figure’s head is slightly tilted, giving it an expressive look, and the torso is sculpted to reveal muscles and tendons, giving insight into the human body’s structure beneath th...
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plaster Folk Art
Materials
Plaster
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