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Item Ships From: Victoria
A Large Bronze Torso
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Large Bronze Torso
A Bronze cast after original marble 4th Century BC Greek sculpture of Lysippian type, possibly depicting Agias. Including pedestal.
Provenance: Private Austral...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A Roman Marble Sculpture of Hercules, Circa 1st / 2nd Century AD Ex Sotheby's
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Roman Marble Sculpture of Hercules, Circa 1st / 2nd Century AD
The sculpture is nude except for the draped Nemean lion skin.
Provenance: Sotheby's London, December 14, 1981, lot ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Italian Classical Roman Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
A Carved Polychrome Painted Figure of the Virgin and Christ, 18th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Carved and Polychrome-Painted Group of the Virgin and Christ, 18th Century
The modelled standing in robes holding the Christ child, on a rockwork base with a seraphim mask to the ...
Category
18th Century French Baroque Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Hardwood
A Patinated Bronze Figure of Mercury, Late 19th Century
By Giambologna
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Patinated Bronze Figure of Mercury, Late 19th Century
Provenance: Private Australian Collection.
Description:
Modelled after Giambologna’s most celebrated work, the figure of Me...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Figure Faun with Flute, Wedgwood, circa 1870
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
After the antique “Piping Faun” now in the Louvre Museum; the result of it being bought by Napoleon from the Borghese collection.
The "Piping Faun" is...
Category
1870s English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Scent, or Perfume, Bottle, in Pale Blue Jasperware, Wedgwood C1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A scent bottle in pale blue jasperware, with original silver CAP and dipper.
Decorated with Cupid playing the lyre, and Cupid singing. The God of L...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
A Bronze Figure of a Faun Dancing with Clappers, 19th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Bronze Figure of a Faun Dancing with Clappers, 19th Century
Provenance: Private Victoria Collection.
Description:
The Grand Tour bronze modelled after the ‘Dancing Faun’, a Roman...
Category
19th Century French Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Plaster Figure of the Doryphoros of Polykleitos, Early 20th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
Plaster Figure of the Doryphoros of Polykleitos, Early 20th Century
Cast of 5th century Classical Greek sculpture
Description:
A splendid plaster model of the Doryphoros or ‘spear-b...
Category
Early 20th Century German Classical Greek Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Pair of Black Basalt Reclining Figures, Cleopatra and Lucretia, Neale circa 1780
By Neale & Co.
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine, rare pair of figures in black basalt from the Neale Manufactory. The Neale pottery was founded in 1778 and ran until around 1792. They made very fine wares, and were on good terms with Wedgwood, with whom they combined shipments to the continent.
For two similar figures marked for Neale & Co. see Diana Edwards, Black Basalt, Wedgwood and Contemporary Manufacturers, Suffolk, 1994, p. 208, figs. 313 & 314.
Cleopatra and Lucretia are two women from different time periods and historical contexts, but are linked by their importance in Roman history, as well as by their tragic ends.
Cleopatra was a famous queen of ancient Egypt, who ruled from 51-30 BC. She was the last pharaoh of Egypt and is remembered for her intelligence, beauty, and political savvy. Cleopatra was involved in a romantic relationship with the Roman general and statesman, Julius Caesar, and later with the Roman general and politician, Mark Antony...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
An Italian Polychrome Figure of a Saint, 18th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
An Italian Polychrome Figure of a Saint, 18th Century
Provenance:
Private Western Australian Collection.
Description:
Clad in a double skirted gilt vestment, the figure holds a s...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Pair of Black Glass Sphinxes, Molineaux & Webb, circa 1875
By Molineaux & Webb
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pair of sphinxes in black glass. Little is known of this Manchester glassworks, but they had a very successful line in neoclassical pieces of which these are a fine example.
Category
1870s English Neoclassical Revival Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
A modelled pale turquoise glazed Ushabti, Ex Sotheby's
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A finely modelled pale turquoise glazed Ushabti, Circa 26th Dynasty 664-525BC
Provenance: Sotheby’s London Lot 76 14/12/1981 for 725.00 Pounds sterling as part of a group lot.
Category
15th Century and Earlier Egyptian Egyptian Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
A Bronze of the Bronze Seated Hermes, 19th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A 19th Century bronze of the bronze Seated Hermes
Based on the life-size bronze Roman statue found at the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum in 1...
Category
19th Century Greek Classical Greek Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Figure representing Matrimony, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An attractive allegorical figure of Matrimony, reprsented by a woman in her best clothing, holding a cage.
The Bow Porcelain factory was the first English porcelain producer; these ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
A Bronze Figure of the 1st Century CE Roman ‘Fisherman’, 19th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Bronze Figure of the 1st Century CE Roman ‘Fisherman’, 19th Century
Provenance:
Private Australian Collection.
Description:
The male figure cast wearing a tunic and...
Category
19th Century French Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Basalt Portrait Medallion, Oliver Cromwell, Wedgwood, circa 1775
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A self-framing portrait medallion of Oliver Cromwell, MP: rebel, regicide, suppressor of Ireland, persecutor of Catholics, and Dictator. He was posthum...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Figure, Mercury, Bow Porcelain, circa 1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
He wears a winged helmet and sandals, a loosely draped pink, white, and yellow washed cloak over a short tunic, and leans arrogantly against bales, his message sack over his left sho...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
A Pair Of Late 19th Century French Bronze Allegorical Figures Of Autumn & Spring
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Pair Of Late 19th Century French Bronze Allegorical Figures Of Autumn & Spring
Each figure cast as a draped maiden, standing with one arm upraised and the other holding a basket b...
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Italian Figural Walnut Centrepiece of Dionysus, 19th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
Italian Figural Walnut Centrepiece of Dionysus
19th Century
Provenance:
Private Australian Collection.
Description:
A walnut figure modelled on the bronze ‘Narcissus’ found in N...
Category
19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Walnut
Pair of Flaxman Ewers in Black Basalt. Wedgwood C1830.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of the iconic early wedgwood pieces, the pair of ewers Sacred to Neptune & Sacred to Bacchus was designed by Flaxman in the 1780s for Josiah Wedgwood. They have remained popular ...
Category
Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Black basalt figure of Bacchus. Wedgwood C1780.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Exceptionally rare early figure of Bacchus in black basalt. The mixed-case mark places this figure between 1780 and 1785.
He is portrayed in typical style, his head garlanded with grapes and with a wine cup to his lips.
Bacchus, also known as Dionysus in Greek mythology, is the enigmatic god of wine, fertility, and ritual madness. He symbolizes freedom, ecstasy, and the blurring of societal norms through his rituals and festivities. Bacchus is often depicted in myths as a deity who challenges the status quo, promoting an atmosphere where conventional rules do not apply, and his followers are liberated from their everyday constraints.
Born from Zeus and the mortal Semele, Bacchus is unique among gods, bridging the divide between the divine and the human. His followers included the wild and ecstatic maenads, female devotees who often reached states of divine frenzy, and the satyrs, mischievous half-man, half-goat beings. The worship of Bacchus was marked by theatrical processions, dances, and plays, reflecting his patronage of the theater and the dramatic arts.
Bacchus’s mythology...
Category
1780s English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Pair of Bacchantes in Black Basalt. Wedgwood C1860.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Perhaps the most complex work in black basalt undertaken on any scale by Wedgwood, the Bacchantes, are adapted from sculptures by Clodion. A large and impressive pair, ful of vigour ...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Figure: Running Girl, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1756
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Small figure of a young woman wearing a puce-sprigged white skirt, lifted slightly with her left hand, pale pink jacket with typical Bow opaque blue collar and cuffs.
We've called...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Decorative Basket, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1760
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pierced basket standing on a well-formed rococo base. Perhaps for potpourri, although the internal decoration suggests another use. We think probably oranges, chestnuts, etc.
Pr...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
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...
Category
Late 18th Century English Primitive Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware
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.
...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Fortune Teller Figure. Bow Porcelain C1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A young woman standing with the remains of a staff in her left hand, and in apparent apprehension as her future and fortune is being read by an exotic, enigmatic, bearded figure, app...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Tree of Knowledge 2 Sculpture by Michael Gittings
By Michael Gittings
Located in Geneve, CH
Tree of Knowledge 2 sculpture by Michael Gittings
Dimensions: d 90 x w 90 x h 250 cm.
Materials: Stainless steel.
Michael Gittings
Michael Gitt...
Category
2010s Australian Post-Modern Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Scent, or Perfume, Bottle, in Pale Blue Jasperware, Wedgwood C1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A scent bottle in pale blue jasperware, with original silver lid.
Decorated with Venus and Cupid, as allegories of Night - the one shedding poppies,...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Pair of framed Roundels in Black Jasperware, Wedgwood, circa 1920
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An exceptionally fine pair of roundels in black jasperware, decorated with two images of Cupid: The first sharpening his arrows; the second, of him st...
Category
Early 20th Century English Neoclassical Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
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...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Creamware
Basalt Portrait Medallion, William of Orange, Wedgwood, circa 1785
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A self-framing portrait medallion of William of Orange. The mixed-vase mark dates this example firmly in the 1780s. Wedgwood produced a number of co...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Campana Vase, Gilt and Bronzed, Wedgwood, 1880
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An unusually large example of a scarce form of decoration. The vase is bronzed and gilded, in imitation of Japanese bronzes of the period.
Category
1870s English Neoclassical Revival Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Scent, or Perfume, Bottle, in Pale Blue Jasperware, Wedgwood C1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A scent bottle in pale blue jasperware, with original silver cap with chain, surmounted by a wonderfully wrought squirrel.
Note the way the beads hav...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
An English Lead Fountain Feature of a Bacchic Putto, Late 19th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
An English Lead Fountain Feature of a Bacchic Putto, Late 19th Century
Provenance: Private Western Australian Collection.
Description:
The youthful figure with a draped animal skin...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
White Rustic Glazed Bandini Art Deco Fauns circa 1938 for Zaccagnini
By Mario Bandini, Urbano Zaccagnini
Located in Melbourne, AU
A pair of cherubic fauns, playing music. One sports a cupid's bow in one hand and blows a conch Horn. A quiver of cupid's arrows lies at his feet. The second faun accompanies on a ba...
Category
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
A Pair of Bronze Cherubs, Late 19th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Pair of Bronze Cherubs, Late 19th Century
Two cast bronze cherubs, both with holes passing through each hand, suggesting the figures are intended to be carrying or hanging from an...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cat holding a mouse, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1760
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An engaging cat, holding a mouse in its paw, while a second mouse escapes into a cheese.
These small 'toys' are scarce, being easily lost. They were largely hand made, and so were n...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
A Timber Group of Sleeping Silenus and Youth, Probably Dionysus, 17th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Timber Group of Sleeping Silenus and Youth, Probably Dionysus, 17th Century
Provenance:
Acquired from a private collection, Paris c. 1980s.
Description:
Reminiscent of Flemis...
Category
17th Century French Baroque Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
La Nourrice - Porcelain figure of breast feeding, Liverpool, circa 1759
By Richard Chaffers
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An important soft-paste porcelain figure of a nurse feeding a swaddled infant. Probably by Richard Chaffers; and taken from the Chelsea version, which in turn was from the potter Ber...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
A Bronze Figure of Vanity, Early 19th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Bronze Figure of Vanity, Early 19th Century
Provenance: Private Melbourne Collection.
Description:
Modelled after Pierre-Maximilien Delafontaine (1777-1860), the personification...
Category
Early 19th Century French Renaissance Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A Large Terracotta Statue of Discobolus, 19th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Large Terracotta Statue of Discobolus, 19th Century
A Terracotta statue of the classical Greek 'Discobolus" by Myron. This particular figure is modelled after the 2nd century Roma...
Category
19th Century Italian Classical Roman Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
A Gilt-Bronze Group of the Infant Bacchus After Clodion, Late 19th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Gilt-Bronze Group of the Infant Bacchus After Clodion, Late 19th Century
Proven...
Category
Late 19th Century French Rococo Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A Bronze Mermaid Figural Bracket, 19th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Bronze Mermaid Figural Bracket, 19th Century
Provenance: Private Australian Collection.
Dimension: Height: 33cm Depth: 19cm Width: 10cm.
Category
19th Century French Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jasperware Buckle, Wedgwood, Matthew Boulton, Circa 1795
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A jasper medallion decorated with Aphrodite, set in cut steel as a buckle, probably by Matthew Boulton. Original box.
The Greek goddess Aphrodite is often depicted in ancient art with a dolphin. In mythology, dolphins were considered sacred to Aphrodite, and they were associated with love, beauty, and fertility. According to one legend, Aphrodite emerged from the sea on a shell-borne chariot drawn by dolphins, and the creatures were said to be her faithful servants. As a result, images of Aphrodite with dolphins became a popular motif in Greek art, appearing on vases, sculptures, and other decorative objects. The association between Aphrodite and dolphins has continued through the centuries, and the image of the goddess with a dolphin remains a popular symbol of love and beauty.
Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) was an English manufacturer and entrepreneur who was best known for his contributions to the Industrial Revolution...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cut Steel
A Bronze Figure of Napoleon, 19th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Bronze Figure of Napoleon, 19th Century
Provenance:
Private Melbourne Collection.
Description:
In full military dress, his sword sheathed and arms folded over his chest, his ri...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Figure of Csikós by Hungarian Sculptor László Beszédes Early 20th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Bronze Figure of a Csikós by Hungarian Sculptor László Beszédes, Early 20th Century
...
Category
Early 20th Century Hungarian Modern Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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 ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
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...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pearlware
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...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
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...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
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...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
A Bronze Figure of a Manchurian on a Verde Marble Base, 19th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Bronze Figure of a Manchurian on a Verde Marble Base, 19th Century
Provenance:
Private Australian Collection Acquired in UK in 2006.
Description:
The figure with a long moustac...
Category
19th Century Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Harlequin and Columbine Dancing, Chelsea, circa 1755
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of the best: Harlequin & Columbine Dancing, after the Meissen figure, from the series of characters from the Commedia dell'Arte.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
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...
Category
2010s Australian Post-Modern Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
A Nun, perhaps a theatrical figure. England, probably Plymouth, circa 1750
By Plymouth Porcelain Factory 1
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An interesting soft-paste porcelain figure of a Dominican Nun, perhaps the theatrical figure Heloise.
Although the Nun appears in various versions in European and English porcelain,...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Tree of Knowledge 1 Sculpture by Michael Gittings
By Michael Gittings
Located in Geneve, CH
Tree of knowledge 1 sculpture by Michael Gittings
Dimensions: D 65 x W 65 x H 250 cm.
Materials: Stainless steel.
Michael Gittings
Michael Gitt...
Category
2010s Australian Post-Modern Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
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...
Category
1740s English Neoclassical Antique Victoria Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
