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Item Ships From: Australia
Tragic Couple Antony and Cleopatra, Creamware, Ralph & Enoch Wood, circa 1780
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Cleopatra and Mark Antony, in enamelled creamware. After a model by Ralph and Enoch Wood, and quite likely made by this important partnership. The figur...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia Figurative Sculptures

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Creamware

Jasperware Portrait Medallion, Marc Antony, Wedgwood, circa 1778
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An important early portrait medallion of Marc Antony in plain white jasper, probably predating the invention of the ‘dip’ process, which is why it i...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia Figurative Sculptures

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Stoneware

A Lion, passant gardant, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
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...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

19th Century Copeland Parian Statue, 'Storm' by William Brodie, circa 1858
By Copeland Spode
Located in Pymble, NSW
A Copeland [Spode] parian statue from a model by William Brodie, ARSA. SC, designed in 1858, fully stamped as shown. 'STORM' is stamped in a cartouche on...
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1850s English Early Victorian Antique Australia Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Kitty Clive Figure
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of Bow's theatrical figures. The actress Mrs Catherine (Kitty) Clive, 1711-1785, as Mrs Riot, the Fine Lady, introduced, with The Fine Gentleman, into David Garrick...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Figure Columbine with her Hurdy Gurdy, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1756
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
From the Commedia dell’arte, shown seated on a tree stump and playing her favourite instrument. Probably after Kandler, who described the model as a Tyrolean maiden playing a lyre. ...
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Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Australia Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Figure: Female Pedlar, Possibly Peg Woffington, Bow Porcelain, circa 1758
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
On a mound base decorated with painted floral sprigs. She wears a pale pink-mauve washed shift with iron-red sleeves and cloak, pale mauve and pink stomacher and a sprigged white shi...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Bust of Sir Isaac Newton, Pearlware, Ralph & Enoch Wood, circa 1790
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pearlware bust of Sir Isaac Newton, by Enoch Wood. The oak pedestal adds dignity to an attractive rendering of this great man of science. A handwrit...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia Figurative Sculptures

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Pearlware

Autumn, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
From a series of figures representing The Four Seasons, Autumn is shown as a young man squeezing grapes into a cup, symbolic of harvest time, and recalling classical representations ...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Cradle with Infant, Bovey Tracey, circa 1790
By Bovey Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A very fine example in creamware of an infant swaddled and lying in its crib. These miniature representations served various purposes: Decorative objects: Miniature models of infa...
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Late 18th Century English Primitive Antique Australia Figurative Sculptures

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Earthenware

Winter, from the Four Seasons, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A personification of Winter, from The Four Seasons. Unusually fine condition for a figure of this period.
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Pair of figures: Jupiter and Juno, or Zeus and Hera. Bow Porcelain C1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
She stands barefoot, wearing a long-sleeved robe in white, deep pink and washed pale yellow and partly edged with gold; a red and gilt-topped sceptre in her right hand, an outsize pe...
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1750s English Neoclassical Antique Australia Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Vase by Michael Gittings
By Michael Gittings
Located in Geneve, CH
Vase by Michael Gittings Dimensions: d 23 x w 23 x h 53 cm. Materials: Stainless steel, Glass. Michael Gittings Michael Gittings imagines with his hands. Since establishing his...
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2010s Australian Post-Modern Australia Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel

Basalt Portrait Medallion, Edward Bourne, Wedgwood, circa 1780
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Portrait Medallion of Edward Bourne, bricklayer at the Wedgwood factory. A bricklayer was kept on staff in order to maintain the kilns. This was modelled by Hackwood as an excercise...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia Figurative Sculptures

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Stoneware

Seal, I Still Hope, Derby Porcelain Works, circa 1760
By Derby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A delightul porcelain seal, depicting a young lady, seated on a mound. It is painted with the motto J'ESPRE ENCORE, or I Still Hope. No doubt this was intended as a gift, to be given...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

A Figure of a 1st Century CE Roman ‘Narcissus’, 20th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Figure of a 1st Century CE Roman ‘Narcissus’, 20th Century Description: The contrapposto male figure modelled from the So-Called Narcissus uncovered in Pompeii in 1862. The youth...
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20th Century Italian Grand Tour Australia Figurative Sculptures

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Plaster

Pair of Itinerant Ballad Singer figures. Bow porcelain C1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Flemish man and wife, in the white. He wears an open coat, waistcoat, breeches and tricorn hat, and plays a hurdy-gurdy. She wears a sleeved dress, long apron and linen cap and carri...
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1740s English Neoclassical Antique Australia Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Doctor, from the Commedia Dell'arte, Bow Porcelain, circa 1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Il Dottore from the Commedia dell’Arte, in the white. He stands in an histrionic pose against a tree stump and wears a high brimmed hat (presumably a black academic bonnet), long-buttoned coat over frilled cuffs, falling jabeaux, breeches, boots and a cloak; his right hand on hip, his left arm and hand raised. Slightly grey-white porcelain; even, unctuous glaze. Straw translucency. Underside wiped; air hole at centre. Square hole at rear for mount. Measure: H 6.3 in (16 cm). Provenance: Taylor Collection, from Stockspring Antiques, London, 1998. The Miss G...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Figure of The Vintner's Companion, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Moulded in a dense body in typical muses modeller style and with slightly drab glaze. She stands by a fruiting vinestock and carries an open basket of grapes in her right hand, her e...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Porcelain

Figure, Sportsman Toper, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Probably an early prototype, the largely open base showing an apparently unique structure described by Watney as ‘a favourite primitive buttressed by a strong overall cone-shape and further strengthened by a cut-out additional layer inside the base in the manner of pastry making.’ (Freeman Collection, Forward, 1982). Toper is an old English word for a drunk. Annulet Mark. Prov: Taylor Coll, Albert Amor...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Figure: David Garrick and the Shoeshine Boy, Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fashionably dressed gentleman, almost certainly the actor David Garrick: he wears a white frockcoat, pink waistcoat and red breeches, all with embroide...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Figure of Pointing Boy by Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Presumably based on the work of the Flemish sculptor François Duquesnoy (1597-1643), also known as Il Fiammingo. A small series of Chelsea figures from the late 1740s was also ba...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Porcelain

Mazer 350 Sculpture by Tom Fereday
By Tom Fereday
Located in Geneve, CH
Mazer 350 Sculpture by Tom Fereday Dimensions: W 35 x D 35 x H 55 cm Materials: Solid Travertine. Weight: 76 Kg. MAZER COLLECTION: Mazer represents a series of geometric sculptures...
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2010s Australian Post-Modern Australia Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Travertine

Jug for Water Vase by Michael Gittings
By Michael Gittings
Located in Geneve, CH
Jug for water vase by Michael Gittings Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 46 cm. Materials: Stainless steel, glass. Michael Gittings Michael Gittings imagine...
Category

2010s Australian Post-Modern Australia Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel

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