Continental Europe Figurative Sculptures

Limited edition Disney princess sculpture of Cinderella and her carriage, decorated with handmade gloss finish porcelain flowers. Designed and handmade in Spain. Unique pieces by the...

Leda armchair designed by Dali manufactured by BD. Structure in polished cast brass varnish. Measures: 47 x 60 x 92 H. cm Year: 1935-1937 Taken from ...

Sculpture representing the “deconstructed” Statue of Liberty by Arman (Armand Fernandez). Bronze with blue-grey patina and polished bronze. The Statue of Liberty is a recurring motif...

Born in 1992 in Macerata in the Marche region, the Italian artist carried out a path that between studies of Surveyor and Architecture led him to a long collaboration with a craft co...

German Santa Claus figure made in papier-mâché with a hand painted detailed face. Holding a nicholas sack and decorated with golden glitter details....

Born in 1992 in Macerata in the Marche region, the Italian artist carried out a path that between studies of Surveyor and Architecture led him to a long collaboration with a craft co...

The Miraculous Catch - (Pesca Miracolosa) Contemporary Glass Sculpture by Simone Crestani Unique Piece Pesca Miracolosa captures a moment of rare grace—a fisherman’s dream made real...

A unique statue of a confident flamingo posing. It is made in bronze completely chiseled by hand by masters of the profession. The shiny visual effect is...

Beautiful metal weathervane representing a rooster or cockerel, France, 1850-1900. Weathered and small losses. Measurement here below is inclusive the wooden base.

Entirely handmade sculpture with a mixture of cements and volcanic sands from Etna and rose quartz. The deliberately-made porous texture and uneven colour is the result of a pigmenta...

Beautiful and exceptionally rare pair of bronze sculptures with a magnificent gilding, France early 20th century. Signature on the base of each sculpture "G. Flamand". By the artis...

An exceptional 18th-century Spanish Baroque sculpture of the Immaculate Conception, carved in chestnut wood and richly polychromed and crowned. The sculpture retains its vibrant pi...

Impressive Art Deco figural table lamp of a standing nude holding a glass shade, CLarté, Lumina. Measures: H. 65 cm or 25.6 inch tall. Designed by Max Le Verrier in France, 1928. Ori...

Beautiful set of antique wooden display hands for gloves. These display hands date from around the 1950s and they come from a glove store. Look carefully at the photos, they are all ...

Bronze sculpture of a Gaulish chief, signed FREMIET. Bronze sculpture signed FREMIET, representing a Gaulish chief, 19th century, Napoleon III period. H: 37cm, W: 26cm, D: 8,5cm

An Industrial robot made in the 1970s. This unique object was traditionally an exercise given to a novice machinist to test their knowledge and skill at operating their machine. It r...

19th C. Large Fruit Wooden Statues of young Bacchus the God of wine 2 statues of almost human height circa 140 cm high The statues is one standing on a wine bag...

Born in 1992 in Macerata in the Marche region, the Italian artist carried out a path that between studies of Surveyor and Architecture led him to a long collaboration with a craft co...

Art Deco sculpture nude disc dancer by Derenne. Pseudonym used by Marcel Bouraine for his art metal sculptures cast by the Max Le Verrier foundry. The sculpture is executed in Art me...

carved foot, Roman footwear, marble foot, ancient Roman foot, Roman foot sculpture, Foot sculpture with footwear in ancient Rome style. Sculpture valuable and highly original Materi...

Set of 10 hand carved wooden fruits with bowl. High level of craftsmanship, executed in a handful of different hardwoods.

20th century Japanese sculpture. Chiseled bronze work depicting a pipe smoker, an oriental farmer with a hoe, of beautiful quality. Small-sized sculpture, for antique dealers and col...

This is a bronze sculpture, in the style of the antique statues and figures of the Etruscans is a gorgeous interior furnishing item. it is an incredibly stylized Etruscan horse with ...

A superb example of a 1960s oval sommerso (submerged glass) blue and yellow Murano glass bowl by the Venetian furnace Cenedese. In good condition with the original stickers intact.

Born in 1992 in Macerata in the Marche region, the Italian artist carried out a path that between studies of Surveyor and Architecture led him to a long collaboration with a craft co...

Belonging to the period 1603-1867, most likely between the end of 17th and the beginning of 18th Century, this beautiful armour is a 32-plate suji kabuto made of brown-lacquered iron...

Art Deco bronze sculpture bust of Achilles signed by Constant Roux. Foundry Susse Frères, Paris. On a green marble base. France 1920. This model is illustrated in two books: Const...

Beautiful large Baroque angel-wing with its original color and gilding. Extremely rare to find in this size. Very decorative item placed on a wooden base. Italy, circa 1750. Weathere...

Superb and rare art déco sculpture by Géo Maxim (1885-1940) representing a woman running after her greyhounds. Beautiful green patina on the regula affixed to a superb black and oran...

Measurements and infos: Type: figurine of boy and fish. Height: Approximately 21 cm (8.5 inches). Base diameter: Approximately 9 cm (3.75 inches). Material: terracotta w...

Pierre Le Faguays, Dancer "Lysis", Art Deco Bronserad Metal Sculpture for Max Le Verrier, Paris Designed by Pierre Le Faguays, pseudonym "Fayral", ca. 1930 in dark-green Patina. Ol...

Rose blossom sculpted entirely by hand starting from a solid block of white statuary marble. Dimensions: D 12 x H 12 cm. Available in different marbles, ...

PLAY BALL Unique and poetic work. Bird and Humans sculpture ceramic. Made by a French sculptor, painter and ceramist, Pierre KOPPE. Greige and cobalt blue color. Signed on the back...

French Art Deco table amp, 1930s. Egyptian woman with snakes in her arms. Spelter, glass and marble. Glass shade by Georges Leleu (Paris). Height : 16"(40.5cm), Diameter : 6.4"(16.2c...

The Niobe Glass Vase was originally designed by Ettore Sottsass in 1986. The vase is made out of blown glass and signed on the base. For further information please see authenticity i...

Unique table crucifix and a wonderful work of religious art. For us the most powerful statement will always be 'the truth will set you free'. It is what we have learned most from th...

Lot of Four Tiny Terracotta Garden Gnomes, Germany ca. 1950s Item e7222 A whimsy set of four tiny garden gnomes made in Germany ca. 1950s probably by Heissner. They are made of terra...

Stunning handcarved wooden head fragment with beautiful expression and glass eyes, Italy, circa 1750-1800. Beautiful example of 18th century craftsmanship. Weathered Measurement ...

A striking French Art Deco sculpture of a man by Campbell, created in France ca.1920. Crafted from spelter, marble, and onyx, this impressive piece showcases the bold, dynamic style ...

Amazing and extremely rare to find zinc bull head . This piece was originally used as a trade sign for a butcher shop. It even still has its original gilding. France circa 1850-1900...

Sculpture in resin and marble powder, representing the sculpture of Fragment of Apollo's foot. A fine reproduction of an imposing fragment of a foot, almost certainly the remains of...

Born in 1992 in Macerata in the Marche region, the Italian artist carried out a path that between studies of Surveyor and Architecture led him to a long collaboration with a craft co...

Art Deco sculpture in silvered bronze signed M.Bouraine. Black marble base (Belgian surfin). In very good condition. Total height: 30 cm Width: 23.5 cm Base width: 11 cm Base depth:...

A superb addition to a personal collection or a magnificent gift for a lover of antiquity, this mask reproduces in stunning detail the iconography of the Greek god Apollo...

Art Deco style sculpture of a dancer with ball Jeu signed by Max Le Verrier. With the Le Verrier foundry mark. Design 1930. Posthumous contemporary cast of the Le Verrier foundry. ...

Precious bronze medal designed by the master sculptor Godefroid Devreese and made by Fonson & Cie in Belgium in 1939, equal to the one acquired by the British Museum in 2003, in whic...

A truly beautiful hand-blown Murano glass transparent bowl blown in an uneven 'wobbly' shape with beautiful folds and curves. This bowl is in good condition.

This late 17th-century Portuguese Baroque sculpture in polychromed wood depicts the Madonna holding the Christ Child, carved with exquisite detail and spiritual grace. The Virgin is...

Sculpture amethyst flower I on marble base with metal gold finish leaves, with minerals stones sticks and with amethyst stone in the heart of the flower.

A rare and very fine bronze corpus of Christ after a model by Michelangelo, cast ca. 1597-1600 by Juan Bautista Franconio and painted in 1600 by Francisco Pacheco in Seville, Spain. The present corpus reproduces a model attributed to Michelangelo. The best known example, lesser in quality, is one on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET). The association of this corpus with Michelangelo was first brought to light by Manuel Gomez-Moreno (1930-33) who studied the wider circulated casts identified throughout Spain. The attribution to Michelangelo was subsequently followed by John Goldsmith-Phillips (1937) of the MET and again by Michelangelo expert, Charles de Tolnay (1960). While Michelangelo is best known for his monumental works, there are four documented crucifixes he made. The best known example is the large-scale wooden crucifix for the Church of Santa Maria del Santo Spirito in Florence, made in 1492 as a gift for the Prior, Giovanni di Lap Bicchiellini, for allowing him to study the anatomy of corpses at the hospital there. In 1562, Michelangelo wrote two letters to his nephew, Lionardo, indicating his intention to carve a wooden crucifix for him. In 1563 a letter between Lionardo and the Italian sculptor Tiberio Calcagni, mentions this same crucifix (a sketch of a corpus on the verso of a sheet depicting Michelangelo’s designs for St. Peter’s Basillica [Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille] may reproduce this). That Michelangelo was working on small corpora in the last years of his life is further evidenced by the small (26.5 cm) unfinished wooden crucifix located at the Casa Buonarroti, considered his last known sculptural undertaking. Michelangelo’s contemporary biographer, Giorgio Vasari additionally cites that Michelangelo, in his later years, made a small crucifix for his friend, Menighella, as a gift. Surviving sketches also indicate Michelangelo’s study of this subject throughout his career, most notably during the end of his life but also during the 1530s-40s as he deepened his spiritual roots. The occasional cameo of crucified Christ’s throughout his sketched oeuvre have made it challenging for scholars to link such sketches to any documented commissions of importance. All the while, in consideration that such objects were made as gifts, it is unlikely they should be linked with commissions. Nonetheless, a number of theories concerning Michelangelo’s sketches of Christ crucified have been proposed and some may regard the origin of the present sculpture. It has been suggested that the corpus could have its impetus with Michelangelo’s work on the Medici Chapel, whose exclusive design was given to the master. It is sensible smaller details, like an altar cross, could have fallen under his responsibility (see for example British Museum, Inv. 1859,0625.552). Others have noted the possibility of an unrealized large marble Crucifixion group which never came to fruition but whose marble blocks had been measured according to a sheet at the Casa Buonarroti. A unique suggestion is that Michelangelo could have made the crucifix for Vittoria Colonna, of whom he was exceedingly fond and with whom he exchanged gifts along with mutual spiritual proclivities. In particular, Vittoria had an interest in the life of St. Bridget, whose vision of Christ closely resembles our sculpture, most notably with Christ’s proper-left leg and foot crossed over his right, an iconography that is incredibly scarce for crucifixes. The suggestion could add sense to Benedetto Varchi’s comment that Michelangelo made a sculpted “nude Christ…he gave to the most divine Marchesa of Pescara (Vittoria Colonna).” Of that same period, two sketches can be visually linked to our sculpture. Tolnay relates it to a sketch of a Crucified Christ at the Teylers Museum (Inv. A034) of which Paul Joannides comments on its quality as suggestive of preparations for a sculptural work. Joannides also calls attention to a related drawing attributed to Raffaello da Montelupo copying what is believed to be a lost sketch by Michelangelo. Its relationship with our sculpture is apparent. Montelupo, a pupil of Michelangelo’s, returned to Rome to serve him in 1541, assisting with the continued work on the tomb of Pope Julius II, suggesting again an origin for the corpus ca. 1540. The earliest firm date that can be given to the present corpus is 1574 where it appears as a rather crudely conceived Crucifixion panel, flanked by two mourners in low-relief and integrally cast for use as the bronze tabernacle door to a ciborium now located at the Church of San Lorenzo in Padula. Etched in wax residue on the back of the door is the date, 27 January 1574, indicating the corpus would have at least been available as a model by late 1573. The Padula tabernacle was completed by Michelangelo’s assistant, Jacopo del Duca and likely has its origins with Michelangelo’s uncompleted tabernacle for the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels in Rome. The impetus for the Padula tabernacle’s Crucifixion panel begins with a series of late Crucifixion sketches by Michelangelo, depicting a scene of Christ crucified and flanked by two mourners (see British Museum Inv. 1895.0915.510; Ashmolean Museum Inv. 1846.89, KP II 343 recto; Windsor Castle RCIN 912761 recto; and Louvre Inv. 700). A faintly traced block possibly intended for sculpting the sketch of the crucified Christ on its recto was discovered by Tolnay on a version of the composition at Windsor Castle. The Windsor sketch and those related to it appear to have served as preparatory designs for what was probably intended to become the Basilica of St. Mary’s tabernacle door. Vasari documents that the project was to be designed by Michelangelo and cast by his assistant, Jacopo del Duca. Michelangelo died before the commission was complete, though on 15 March 1565, Jacopo writes to Michelangelo’s nephew stating, “I have started making the bronze tabernacle, depending on the model of his that was in Rome, already almost half complete.” Various circumstances interrupted the completion of the tabernacle, though its concept is later revitalized by Jacopo during preparations to sell a tabernacle, after Michelangelo’s designs, to Spain for Madrid’s El Escorial almost a decade later. The El Escorial tabernacle likewise encountered problems and was aborted but Jacopo successfully sold it shortly thereafter to the Carthusians of Padula. An etched date, 30 May 1572, along the base of the Padula tabernacle indicates its framework was already cast by then. A 1573 summary of the tabernacle also describes the original format for the door and relief panels, intended to be square in dimension. However, a last minute decision to heighten them was abruptly made during Jacopo’s negotiations to sell the tabernacle to King Phillip II of Spain. Shortly thereafter the commission was aborted. Philippe Malgouyres notes that the Padula tabernacle’s final state is a mixed product of the original design intended for Spain’s El Escorial, recycling various parts that had already been cast and adding new quickly finished elements for its sale to Padula, explaining its unusually discordant quality, particularly as concerns the crudeness of the door and relief panels which were clearly made later (by January 1574). Apart from his own admission in letters to Spain, it is apparent, however, that Jacopo relied upon his deceased master’s designs while hastily realizing the Padula panels. If Michelangelo had already earlier conceived a crucifix model, and Jacopo had access to that model, its logical he could have hastily employed it for incorporation on the door panel to the tabernacle. It is worth noting some modifications he made to the model, extending Christ’s arms further up in order to fit them into the scale of the panel and further lowering his chin to his chest in order to instill physiognomic congruence. A crude panel of the Deposition also follows after Michelangelo’s late sketches and is likewise known by examples thought to be modifications by Jacopo based upon Michelangelo’s initial sculptural conception (see Malgouyres: La Deposition du Christ de Jacopo del Duca, chef-d’oeuvre posthume de Michel-Ange). Jacopo’s appropriation of an original model by Michelangelo for more than one relief on the Padula tabernacle adds further indication that the crucifix was not an object unique to Jacopo’s hand, as few scholars have posited, but rather belongs to Michelangelo’s original...

Executed by Michael Powolny for the Wienerberger Keramikwerkstätten, ceramic and stoneware, ochre colored, body holding a dish in her outstretched arms standing above a three-tired C...

Leather Elephant Sculpture in the Manner of Dimitri Omersa from the 1940s. It is a gorgeous hand-made stuffed leather figurine of an elephant. Original condition. Faux ivory tusks. ...

This buddha is in Jade, in, a green color. He is sitted on his wood base. It has been done in china during the 20th century.

Giove Ammone, Zeus Hammon, Giove ceramica, mascherone ceramica Giove Hammon -mascherone da parete - modellato a mano su ceramica refrattaria, patinato bronzo. dimensioni: h cm 33 x 2...

SHIPPING POLICY: No additional costs will be added to this order. Shipping costs will be totally covered by the seller (customs duties included). A monumental Italian Capodimonte c...

Genuine tall alabaster sculpture by Guglielmo PUGI (1858-1941), Florence, Italy, 1880s. Young girl with tambourine, perhaps a gypsy. On its base. Direct carving. With base - Height...

Art Deco Rare Porcelain Figurine, Flower frog by the Porzellanfabrik Günthersfeld AG, Gehren, Germany 1930s. Rare find, this piece was made of porcelain trimmed in gold, it is in gre...

A charmingpair of mid 20th century Venetian glass figurines of a gentleman and his lady companion. Made by Franco Giancarlo Toffolo for Toffolo Venice. Venice has for centuries been ...