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Item Ships From: Vienna
Decorative Kokeshi Doll Sculpture from Northern Japan, Hand-Painted, Signed
Located in Vienna, AT
A beautiful and exceptionally 19 inches tall classic traditional Kokeshi doll from Northern Japan. Handcrafted of wood and hand-painted in the early 20th century, covered with a layer of wax. Signed by the artist on its underneath. In good condition with charming patina. A classic traditional doll with a simple but lovely design, a decorative piece. In Japan these dolls symbolize love, friendship and believed to be a lucky charm. We offer more large Kokeshi...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Edo Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Decorative Kokeshi Doll Sculpture from Northern Japan, Hand-Painted
Located in Vienna, AT
A beautiful and exceptionally 18 inches tall Classic traditional Kokeshi doll from Northern Japan. Handcrafted of wood and hand-painted in the the early 20th century. In good conditi...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Edo Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Original and Unique Ceramic Fountain by Otto Prutscher and Michael Powolny, 1914
By Otto Prutscher, Wiener Keramik Werkstätte, Michael Powolny
Located in Vienna, AT
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Jugendstil Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Rosenthal Porcelain Figurine, No 295, the Kiss, Richard Aigner Munic
By Rosenthal
Located in Vienna, AT
Rosenthal Porcelain Figurine, No 295 "Liebesfrühling, Der Kuss / Spring of Love, The Kiss",
by Richard Aigner München.
A kissing couple - a sitting woman k...
Category
20th Century German Belle Époque Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Crocodile Walter Bosse figurines brass patinated new Vienna Austria
By Walter Bosse
Located in Vienna, AT
This crocodile figurine was produced in Austria and is signed at the bottom: Bosse Austria. The piece comes together with a fabric pouch, including a certificate, too.
Model N° BO 6...
Category
2010s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Red Blue Yellow Murano Glass Clown, Italy, 1950s
Located in Vienna, AT
Murano glass clown in the colors blue, red, yellow white and orange.
Amazing glass clown sculpture designed and manufactured in the Mid-Century Modern era in Murano, Italy.
Very goo...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Murano Glass
1920s Golf Player Harry Vardon Bronze Statue, Richard Thuss, Argentor Vienna
By Argentor of Vienna
Located in Vienna, AT
A stunning antique early 20th-century Austrian Art Nouveau bronze portrait figurine / sculpture depicting the renowned golfer Harry Vardon, titled "Joueur au Golf". This piece is dat...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Nouveau Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Iconic Carl Auböck Handcrafted Eye Bottle Stopper #4538, Cork & Brass, Austria
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
An attention-grabbing bottle stopper „Eye", model #4538, designed by Carl Aubock II back in the early 1950s. A charming object, handcrafted by Werkstätte Auböck in Vienna / Austria. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Meissen Pair Of Figurine Groups 'Tailor & Tailor's Wife On Goats', Ca. 1860
By Johann Friedrich Eberlein, Meissen Porcelain, Johann Joachim Kaendler
Located in Vienna, AT
An impressive, extravagant work of art in ideas, richness of detail and craftsmanship, based on a legend according to which the court tailor longed to be allowed to sit at the table ...
Category
1860s German Baroque Antique Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Large Seated Meissen Porcelain Wiggling Pagoda, By J.J. Kaendler, Circa 1860
By Meissen Porcelain, Johann Joachim Kaendler
Located in Vienna, AT
Depiction of a seated, laughing female Buddha figure from a series of folk types. Full-figured body with the hair tied back tightly and the robe tightly fitting the body with wide sl...
Category
1860s German Other Antique Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Walter Bosse Thermometer, circa 1950s
By Herta Baller, Walter Bosse
Located in Wien, AT
Walter Bosse Thermometer, circa 1950s
Original condition
Category
1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Shiva Statue Nataraja Dancing Bronze Sculpture
By Shiva Lingam
Located in Vienna, AT
Shiva is one of the main gods of Hinduism. In Shivism, he is considered to the believers as the most important manifestation of the Supreme. As part of the "Houtuistic Trinity" (Trim...
Category
19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Salt and Pepper Shaker Holder Chinese by Richard Rohac
By Richard Rohac
Located in Wien, AT
Salt and pepper shaker holder Chinese by Richard Rohac.
Category
1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
"Cat Lady" by Bruno Zach, Bronzeskulptur, Art Deco, 1920
Located in Vienna, AT
"Cat woman" by Bruno Zach on marble base, bronze sculpture, patiniert, Art Deco 1920, good original condition.
Category
1920s Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
1950s Chinese Figurine Salt and Pepper Holder by Richard Rohac
By Richard Rohac
Located in Wien, AT
1950s Chinese figurine salt and pepper holder by Richard Rohac.
Designed and executed in the 1950s by Richard Rohac, who worked also for WHW Ha...
Category
1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Goldscheider Art Déco Dancer In Butterfly Skirt, by Josef Lorenzl, ca 1931
By Goldscheider Manufactory of Vienna, Josef Lorenzl
Located in Vienna, AT
Gracefully posing dancer in a predominantly red costume: bustier and floor-length, wide, high-slit skirt with butterfly-wing-like decoration in blue and yellow, holding it up with ou...
Category
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Meissen Art Nouveau Porcelain Group 'Indian Haunting A Buffalo', Hoesel, Germany
By Erich Hoesel, Meissen Porcelain
Located in Vienna, AT
Exquisite Large Meissen Art Nouveau Porcelain Group:
Representation of a mounted warrior with a painted face, wearing only a small loincloth and moccasins on his feet, and crowned wi...
Category
1930s German Art Nouveau Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Space Age Red Black Vintage Plastic Television Discoverer by Philips Netherlands
Located in Vienna, AT
Space Age vintage red and plastic television named discoverer, which was manufactured by Philips, Netherlands, 1980s.
Its outstanding shape makes this design piece so fascinating.
T...
Category
1980s Dutch Space Age Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Plastic
Meissen Art Nouveau Figurine, Young Lady Ball Player by Walter Schott, ca 1900
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Vienna, AT
Extremely decorative, fully sculptural representation of an Art Nouveau beauty in a softly falling robe, tilted forward to throw a golden ball, with the left forearm holding the back...
Category
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Ceramic nude women sculpture vienna around 1970s
Located in Wien, AT
Ceramic nude women sculpture vienna around 1970s
Original condition
Good condition
Category
1970s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Goldscheider Art Déco Figurine, 'Kiss', Posing Dancer, by Stephan Dakon, ca 1928
By Stefan Dakon, Goldscheider Manufactory of Vienna
Located in Vienna, AT
Very Rare and excellent Viennese Ceramic Figure from the late 1920s:
Graceful dancer, posing with her upper body bent forward and with her eyes closed, forming her mouth into a kiss,...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Dancer, designed by Josef Lorenzl, Keramos, Vienna, 1940s
By (After) Josef Lorenzl
Located in Vienna, AT
This "Art Deco" piece made of ceramic, colored in soft and light tones of white, beige, yellow. The base is in black.
A ballet dancer in her stage dress and pointe shoes in a classic...
Category
1940s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Meissen Figurine 'Estrella', Russian Ballet 'Carnival', by Paul Scheurich, 20th
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Vienna, AT
Finest Meissen Porcelain Figurine:
Dancer balancing on her toes, turning her head to the right and bringing her right hand indecisively to her chin, while with her left hand she perf...
Category
Late 20th Century German Biedermeier Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Original Meissen Heart-Squeezing Cherub Hand Painted Porcelain
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Vienna, AT
This is a beautiful figurine of a flush little cherub. He is sat on a grassy hill, squeezing two hearts together representing the merging of two people's loves and the possible agony...
Category
Late 19th Century German Neoclassical Antique Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Ceramic Vide-Poche, Grotesque At A Bowl, Walter Bosse, Austria 1924-1936
By Walter Bosse
Located in Vienna, AT
A playful combination of the functional and the decorative:
Female figure in a floor-length, loose dress with a headscarf, a simple face with pierced eyes set wide apart – a long nos...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Unique Modern Piece of Werner Schmidt, 1990 "Faltsessel" Beechwood Folding Chair
By Werner Schmidt, Woka Lamps
Located in Vienna, AT
This unique piece is a prototype, that never went in production.
Material used is beechwood.
Technical data
Width 57 cm (22.44 inch)
Height 83 cm (32.68 inch)
Depth 47 cm (18.5 inch...
Category
Late 20th Century Austrian Modern Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Beech
Goldscheider Art Deco Figurine, 'Fan Dance', by Josef Lorenzl, Around 1938
By Goldscheider Manufactory of Vienna, Josef Lorenzl
Located in Vienna, AT
Elegant Goldscheider Art Deco ceramic figure of the 1930's:
Dancer with shoulder-length hair in a long, wide, light gray skirt with floral decoration and ...
Category
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Decorative Naruko Kokeshi Doll Sculpture from Northern Japan, Hand-Painted
Located in Vienna, AT
A beautiful and exceptionally 20 1/2 inches tall classic traditional Naruko Kokeshi doll from Northern Japan. Handcrafted of wood and hand-painted ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Edo Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Goldscheider Vienna Art Déco Dancer Posing With Raised Leg And Cloth, by Lorenzl
By Josef Lorenzl, Goldscheider Manufactory of Vienna
Located in Vienna, AT
Exquisite ceramic figurine of the 1930:
Delicate dancer in a tight-fitting, dark blue costume with short legs and a pink and purple frill, on her feet gymnastic shoes, balancing on t...
Category
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Goldscheider Vienna Art Deco Dancer 'Beauty', by Stephan Dakon, Around 1939
By Stefan Dakon, Goldscheider Manufactory of Vienna
Located in Vienna, AT
Delicate Goldscheider Art Déco Ceramic Figurine of 1930s:
Gracefully posing dancer in blue costume standing next to an octagonal pedestal: dotted bustier and short front skirt with l...
Category
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Rare Goldscheider Vienna Figure, Dancer With Guitar, by Josef Lorenzl, ca 1930
By Goldscheider Manufactory of Vienna, Josef Lorenzl
Located in Vienna, AT
Rare Goldscheider Art Déco figurine of around 1930:
Dancer with brown hair pinned up at the nape of her neck in a dress flared like a fan with flounces and floral decoration, leaning...
Category
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Meissen Art Nouveau Figure, Child Sitting On Cushion, by Konrad Hentschel, 1905
By Julius Konrad Hentschel, Meissen Porcelain
Located in Vienna, AT
Art Nouveau Meissen porcelain figure from the time the model was created:
Child with brunette hair, dressed in typical children's clothing from around 1900 - apron and long-sleeved s...
Category
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Viennese Bronze, Girl Sitting On Polar Bear Skin, By Bruno Zach, ca 1925
By Viennese Manufactory
Located in Vienna, AT
Excellent Piece of Viennese Bronze Art:
Elaborately detailed bronze sculpture of a slave trader with a girl under palm trees:
Old oriental man in a long coat and turban in a stooped ...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Meissen Large Allegorical Group 'The Fire' by M.V. Acier, Germany Around, 1850
By Meissen Porcelain, Michel Victor Acier 1
Located in Vienna, AT
Excellent Meissen porcelain group of the 19th century:
Depiction of the merely cloth-covered, bearded and crowned god Hephaestus (Roman: Vulcanus) seated centrally on a rock, holding a long-handled hammer beside him and looking off to the side, surrounded by winged putti representing activities from his trade: Patronizing the entire artistic spectrum of metalworking, including the production of jewelry, weapons, sacred-ritual and profane utilitarian objects, the one helping putto to his right is busy firing a cannon made of metal, to his left another putto is forging on an anvil with the help of a hammer and tongs, in front of him, at his feet are presented ornately crafted war ornaments such as a helmet and shield, at the back a putto holds small torches in both hands.
The group is based on irregular rock base with gold rim.
Designer:
MICHAEL VICTOR ACIER (1736 Versailles - 1799 Dresden)
Trained as a sculptor in Paris, he received a call to the porcelain factory in Meissen in 1762: he created a large number of groups in the Watteau style...
Category
Mid-19th Century German Baroque Antique Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Art Nouveau Figurine, Girl With Doll's Pram, by Konrad Hentschel, 1905
By Meissen Porcelain, Julius Konrad Hentschel
Located in Vienna, AT
The girl in a white dress and with a blue bow in her long hair bends over the wicker doll's pram and places the doll into the deep pillow.
Modeling and painting of the finest quality...
Category
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Art Nouveau Group 'Mother With Child', by Paul Helmig, Meissen Germany, ca 1912
By Paul Helmig, Meissen Porcelain
Located in Vienna, AT
Very rare Meissen Art Nouveau porcelain group:
Mother in a dress decorated with elaborate Art Nouveau decor sitting on a fabric-covered stool and playing with her son, who is wearin...
Category
1910s German Art Nouveau Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Large Porcelain Figurine 'Cabaret', by R. Marcuse, Rosenthal Selb Germany, 1920
By Rosenthal
Located in Vienna, AT
Art Nouveau beauty with chin-length dark brown hair, in a strapless dress with a deep neckline decorated with elaborate floral embroidery at the front and back and a softly falling, wave-like billowing skirt hem, posing bent to the side and playing a lute.
Based on a round, white, fluted plinth, artist's signature 'RUDOLF MARCUSE...
Category
1920s German Art Nouveau Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Modernist Bronze Female Torso Oskar Bottoli 1980 Austria
By Oskar Bottoli
Located in Vienna, AT
Modernist female torso hand made by sculptor Oskar Bottoli 1980 Austria.
A beautiful and expressive female torso made from patinated bronze.
Oskar Bottoli (16.11.1921 Vienna - 19.9.1995 Vienna)
Oskar Bottoli studied from 1945-1953 as first pupil by Fritz Wotruba in Vienna at the academy of Fine Arts after them he opened his own atelier in Vienna.
He reactivated ancient bronze casting processes.
He won many awards as
Premier des 2 Salon Bosio Monte Carlo 1961 or Theodor Körner award 1966
as to mention a few.
most important exhibitions:
1957 Linz, Neue Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum
1962 Secession Vienna...
Category
Late 20th Century Austrian Modern Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Meissen Porcelain Figure, Putto 'The Day', by Heinrich Schwabe, Mid-20th
By Heinrich Schwabe 1
Located in Vienna, AT
Large putto floating above the earth's atmosphere:
Day, in a bright pink robe, holding a rose blossom in his left arm, stretching upwards full of morning energy, in his right hand a ...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Rococo Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Art Nouveau Figure, Boy With Drinking Dog, by Konrad Hentschel, ca 1905
By Meissen Porcelain, Julius Konrad Hentschel
Located in Vienna, AT
Art Nouveau Meissen porcelain figure from the time the model was created:
Boy with brunette hair, dressed in typical children's clothing from around 1900 - dress with white apron, in...
Category
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen the Wave Art Nouveau Bowl Figurine Henschtel Konrad Q 169, circa 1900
By Julius Konrad Hentschel
Located in Vienna, AT
Meissen rarest Art Nouveau item: The wave
Size:
Height 3.34 inches
Depth 6.10 inches
Width 8.26 inches
Manufactory: Meissen
Hallmarked: Blue Meissen sword mark (glazed bott...
Category
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Salt and Pepper Shaker Holder Chinese Figurine by Richard Rohac around 1950s
By Richard Rohac
Located in Wien, AT
Salt and pepper shaker holder Chinese figurine by Richard Rohac.
Original condition.
Category
1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Goldscheider Vienna Art Deco Figurine 'Traveler', by Josef Lorenzl, ca 1935
By Josef Lorenzl, Goldscheider Manufactory of Vienna
Located in Vienna, AT
Very rare Goldscheider Vienna Ceramic Figurine of the 1930s:
Depiction of an elegant blonde lady in a red and white dress and red cap standing between two black suitcases, holding a ...
Category
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Decorative Togatta Kokeshi Doll Sculpture from Northern Japan, Hand-Painted
Located in Vienna, AT
A beautiful and exceptionally 18 inches tall classic traditional Togatta Kokeshi doll from Northern Japan. Handcrafted of wood and hand-painted in the ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Edo Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
PENGUIN Walter Bosse figurines brass patinated new Vienna Austria TALISMAN
By Walter Bosse
Located in Vienna, AT
This penguin baby was produced in Austria and is signed at the bottom: Bosse Austria. The piece comes together with a fabric pouch, including a certificate, too. Each figure is speci...
Category
2010s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Goldscheider Figurine Pierrette With Balloon Skirt by Josef Lorenzl, ca 1925
By Goldscheider Manufactory of Vienna, Josef Lorenzl
Located in Vienna, AT
Very Rare Goldscheider Vienna Figurine of the 1920s:
Standing pierrette leaned forward and holding her hands together behind her back, in a white costume with a multi-layered, pine-c...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
1860 Meissen Porcelain Figurine Waiter
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Vienna, AT
For sale in this ad you can find the prettiest little porcelain figurine. It was manufactured by Meissen Porcelain in the 1860s. The figurine depicts a water carrying a tray with foo...
Category
19th Century German Rococo Antique Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold Plate
African Woman Figurine Sculpture By Leopold Anzengruber
Located in Vienna, AT
Ceramic figurine black glazed and brass earrings, designed in Austria in Vienna in the 1950s by Leopold Anzengruber.
Category
1950s Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Walter Bosse Dwarf Brass Cork Screw Bottle Opener, Herta Baller, Austria, 1950s
By Herta Baller, Walter Bosse
Located in Vienna, AT
A charming Mid-Century bottle opener/cork screw, displaying a dwarf. A humorous design by Walter Bosse, executed by Hertha Baller Austria in the 1950s. Made of black-finished brass, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Chinese Figurine Salt and Pepper Shaker Holder by Richard Rohac
By Richard Rohac
Located in Vienna, AT
Brass figurine blackened Chinese water carrier with a salt pepper Horn Shaker. Designed in the 1950s by Richard Rohac in Austria.
Excellent orig...
Category
1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Carl Auböck Optimist Pessimist Handcrafted Brass Sculpture, model #4059
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
A beautiful brass figure called "optimist / pessimist", model #4059, designed by Carl Auböck back in 1957. A very charming object, which can be positioned in two ways, as an optimist or pessimist. Please see the video.
Handmade of solid patinated brass by Werkstätte Auböck...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Goldscheider Vienna, 'Summer Evening', Elegant Lady with Wreath of Flowers, 1939
By Josef Lorenzl, Goldscheider Manufactory of Vienna
Located in Vienna, AT
Rare Goldscheider Vienna Figurine of the late 1930s:
Representation of an elegant lady in a long, close-fitting, off-the-shoulder dress with a ruffled neckline made of rose-colored ...
Category
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Large Goldscheider Art Déco Odalisque 'Aida', by Josef Lorenzl, Around 1925
By Goldscheider Manufactory of Vienna, Josef Lorenzl
Located in Vienna, AT
Exceptional Goldscheider Art Deco ceramic figure of the 1920's:
Depiction of a standing lady proudly looking to the side in oriental garb, wrapped in a large blue-green cloth reachin...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
'La Sémeuse', Large Art Nouveau Bronze Figure After Oscar Roty, Vienna, Ca 1899
By Hans Schörk
Located in Vienna, AT
A young woman in a long dress with short sleeves, softly enveloping her body, with a scarf covering her hair and falling well over her face to protect her from the burning sun, walking across the field at a leisurely pace, holding out her apron with the seeds spread out in front of her with her left hand and making a sweeping gesture with her right.
On a narrow, elongated natural plinth with rounded corners, with the artist's signature ‘Schork 99’ incised on the side, as well as the Goldscheider manufactory's pressed stamp, pressed model number and incised monogram ‘AH’ on the back behind the figure.
This motif is particularly well known in France, where it adorned all French franc coins and postage stamps for many years and was continued in a stylised form on all cent coins of the euro after 2001.
Louis Oscar Roty (1846 - 1911) This sower is very familiar to the French: she was depicted on the fifty-centime coin and on the one-, two- and five-franc coins until 2001, when a stylised version of her appeared on the ten-, twenty- and fifty-centime coins of the euro. The figure dates back to 1887, when Roty designed a prize medal for the Ministry of Agriculture, a project that was not pursued. When the Minister of Finance commissioned new coins in 1896, Roty was among the selected artists. He drew on the Sower of 1887, but transformed his robust farmer into a slender Marianne, who wore the Phrygian cap of freedom. The traditional profile of the Republic was abandoned in favour of a more active, standing figure. This effigy was criticised, but generally very well received: ‘The seeds she generously throws into the earth are the countless ideas that may one day germinate and flourish when we are no longer here’ (La Liberté, 8 October 1898). The gesture is more symbolic than realistic – we do not sow against the wind, which nevertheless makes the hair behind the sower flutter – but it makes the composition more dynamic. Originally, ‘The Sower’ was used on the fifty-centime to two-franc coins introduced in 1897 and 1898, before appearing on postage stamps in 1903. It is thus the most widely circulated work of art in France. Although not included in the Musée d'Orsay's medal collection, this wax drawing on slate, typical of the technique of a medallist, is one of the most beautiful pieces and demonstrates the virtuosity of Roty. (Musée d'Orsay, The Collections)
Design by HANS SCHORK...
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Meissen Art Nouveau Group, Children Baking Sand Cakes, by Konrad Hentschel, 20th
By Julius Konrad Hentschel, Meissen Porcelain
Located in Vienna, AT
Girl with green-blue, patterned, long-sleeved dress and tied-up hair with her little brother in a white shirt, sitting at an elongated piece of driftwood and baking sand moulds with ...
Category
1980s German Art Nouveau Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Goldscheider Vienna Art Déco Figure Posing Dancer With Cloth, by Lorenzl c.1939
By Goldscheider Manufactory of Vienna, Josef Lorenzl
Located in Vienna, AT
Exquisite porcelain figurine of the 1930:
Aparte dancer in a tight-fitting red costume with short trouser legs and ruff, gymnastic shoes on her feet, balancing on the ball of her rig...
Category
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Carl Auböck Handcrafted Wall Sculpture Napoleon #4271, Brass, Austria
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
A beautiful wall sculpture „Napoleon", model #4059, designed by Carl Aubock II back in 1953. A charming object, handcrafted by Werkstätte Auböck in V...
Category
2010s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Rare Large Meissen Porcelain Figurine 'Psyche', By Rudolph Hoerl, Circa 1890
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Vienna, AT
Excellent large and rare Meissen figurine group from the 19th century:
A breathtakingly beautiful young woman with her hair tied up and large butterfly wings on her back, naked excep...
Category
1890s German Classical Roman Antique Vienna Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
