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A Very Good 20th C. Bronze Head of Zeus After the Antique, Likely Continental
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The finely sculpted & patinated bronze head of Zeus, demonstrating excellent proportions & skillfully rendered features, with pierced eyes & hair adorned with a Kotinos, which was a ...
Category
20th Century European Hellenistic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A Fine Grand Tour Bronze Bust of a Greek Philosopher, After Mathurin Moreau
By Mathurin Moreau
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
This finely modelled Hellenistic style bronze portrait bust appears to be that of the Greek philosopher Chrysippus of Soli - regarded by scholars as the 2nd founder of the School of ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Grand Tour Busts
Materials
Bronze
Very Fine Terracotta Bust of Alexandre Brongniart, After Jean-Antoine Houdon
By Jean-Antoine Houdon
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very fine early 20th century terracotta bust of Alexandre Brongniart, after the original work by Jean-Antoine Houdon.
Demonstrating exacting proportions & finely sculpted features...
Category
Early 20th Century French Victorian Busts
Materials
Marble
A Grand Tour Style Model of a Stallion after the Antique, Italy Circa 1900
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very handsome & finely modelled, patinated antimonial lead casting of a bridled stallion. Shown rearing up on it's hind legs, the head turned slightly to the right with pricked ear...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Italian Grand Tour Animal Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Other, Lead
A Fine Grand Tour Style Bronze of Mercury Mounted as a Table Lamp, Circa 1900
By Giambologna
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The large & finely proportioned cast bronze figure of Mercury - Roman god of abundance & commercial success, shown cradling a caduceus in one hand - the other arm outstretched toward...
Category
Early 20th Century European Grand Tour Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Bronze
A Fine Orientalist Composition Bust of a Moor, Austria Circa 1920
By Friedrich Goldscheider
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A highly decorative portrait bust of a bearded Moor in profile, modelled wearing traditional garb, painted in polychrome detail in the manner of Friedrich Goldscheider, unsigned.
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Busts
Materials
Composition
A Fine Mid-20th Century Miniature Bronze Bust by Harold Pfeiffer, Circa 1960
By Harold Sampson Pfeiffer
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A finely sculpted limited edition miniature bronze bust of a Bahamian man exhibiting a fine brown/green patina overall, signed & numbered on the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Busts
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Carved Yellow Soapstone Figure of Guanyin, Chinese circa 1900
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The finely carved full length figure of 'The Goddess of Compassion, Kindness & Mercy' shown attired in flowing robes, her hair worn in high chignon with her face effecting a serene a...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Soapstone
A Fine Animalier School Bronze Figure of a Bull, After Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899)
By Rosa Bonheur
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Although there is seemingly no apparent foundry mark, this finely cast & patinated animalier bronze known as ‘Bull’ or ‘Taureau Beuglant’ is exemplary in demonstrating exceptional at...
Category
Early 20th Century French Beaux Arts Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$2,240 Sale Price
20% Off
A Fine 19th Century Egyptian Revival Figural Bronze Furniture Mount, Circa 1830
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very attractive 19th century Egyptian Revival bronze furniture mount, cast in the form of a bust of a goddess wearing a tasseled robe, and ado...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Egyptian Revival Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$900 Sale Price
25% Off
A Finely Sculpted 19th Century Alabaster Figural Group of Ariadne
The Panther
By Johann Heinrich von Dannecker 1
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A large & finely sculpted alabaster figure of Ariadne, wife of Dionysus the God of wine, shown adorned with a diadem of vine leaves while in repose atop the back of Dionysus’s stridi...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Revival Figurative Sculpt...
Materials
Alabaster
An Impressive Pair of 19th Century Orientalist Spelter Figures, After A. Waagen
By Max Arthur Waagen
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
An impressively large & well cast pair of Orientalist figures depicting a pair of Middle Eastern male & female musicians attired in traditional costume. Both figures are modelled ‘co...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Other Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Spelter
Large Pair of Signed 19th Century Relief Portrait Busts of Wellington
Napoleon
By Nathaniel Palmer
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very handsome and impressive pair of relief portrait busts in copper depicting portrait busts of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) on the left, and Napoleon Bona...
Category
Antique 1830s English William IV Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Copper
A Very Good
Large Post Modernist Bronze Nude Torso by George Foster, SSC
By George Foster
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A finely proportioned near life size bronze nude torso exhibiting a fine reddish / brown patina and supported on it's detachable base signed with the artists monogram. In very good overall condition and priced competitively in comparison to similar examples in the marketplace.
George Foster is a member of the highly regarded Sculptors Society of Canada (SSC) and has exhibited at several prestigious international venues including the Smithsonian in Washington DC, The Canadian National Museum in Ottawa and The Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal. Among his many commissions was the casting of the ‘Nellie’ - the annual ACTRA Awards...
Category
Vintage 1980s Canadian Post-Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
An Important Mid 20th Century Brutalist Bronze Bust By Pedro Pruna O
Cerans
By Pedro Pruna
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very fine limited edition modernist bronze bust by noted Spanish artist Pedro Pruna O'Cerans, impressed with limited edition number 3 of 8, together with the artists signature, and...
Category
Mid-20th Century Spanish Brutalist Busts
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Fine Pair of Grand Tour Style Miniature Bronze Busts, Continental, circa 1900
By Gladenbeck Foundry
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very handsome pair of classical bronze busts raised on white alabaster columns decorated with gilt metal rings, atop squared rouge royal marble...
Category
Early 20th Century German Grand Tour Busts
Materials
Alabaster, Bronze
$1,350 Sale Price / set
25% Off
A Finely Cast Spelter Figure of Neptune Mounted Atop a Carved Soapstone Base
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The finely detailed & proportioned cast spelter figure of Neptune, dramatically poised with trident in hand, seated atop a realistically modelled hand carved...
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Neoclassical Revival Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Soapstone, Spelter
Early 20th Century East African Carved Headrest, Ethiopia (Kambatta People)
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Showing a crescent shaped headrest braced by flattened 'V' shaped supports rising from a cupped base, decorated overall with hand carved linear motifs and exhibiting an old rubbed su...
Category
Early 20th Century Ethiopian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
A Fine
Large 19th Century Grand Tour Serpentine Marble Socle, Italy Circa 1800
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
An impressively large mottled 'verde prato' serpentine socle of turned columnar form, rising from a stepped base to a flattened plateau above a cavetto-shaped edge. In relation to it...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Architectural Elements
Materials
Marble, Serpentine
$2,660 Sale Price
30% Off
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Located in Sleepy Hollow, NY
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Grand Tour Bronze Figure Of Bacchus
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
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Circa 1890
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After the Antique, Grand Tour Bronze of Aristotle
Located in Montreal, QC
The philosopher in oratorical pose, with an urn of his writings at his feet.
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Materials
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Classical Grand Tour Bronze Statue of Narcissus Mounted as a Lamp
Located in Rochester, NY
Grand Tour 19th century bronze sculpture of Narcissus after the original found in 1862 at Pompeii. When first found in Pompeii it was identified as Narcissus. Years later it was identified as Dionysus. Mounted as a lamp. Early 20th century. Beautiful marble finial.
Category
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Materials
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Head of David, Mid-20th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
20th Century resin decorative David head. Carved marble finish. Size: 67x50x42 cm.
Category
Vintage 1960s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
A 20th century plaster head of a Roman God.
Located in Southall, GB
A fine cast of a 20th century, plaster Roman head possibly Caesar. Standing on a contemporary metal stand.
Category
1990s Italian Greek Revival Busts
Materials
Plaster
A Grand Tour Regency bronze figure of Mercury (Hermes) on a marble column
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Grand Tour Regency bronze figure of Mercury (Hermes) on a composite marble column, the messenger of the gods is shown running on winged feet supported on a puff of wind with a torc...
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Materials
Bronze
$4,678
H 22.5 in W 4.5 in D 4.5 in
Antique French Bronze Grand Tour Model of The Arc de Triomphe 19th Century
Located in London, GB
A delightful French bronze Grand Tour model of the Arc De Triomphe, circa 1860 in date.
The beautifully realistic model is cast in high relief and is mounted on a black marble base....
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Antique 19th Century French Grand Tour Figurative Sculptures
Materials
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Terracotta Woman Bust Signed Goldscheider, Austria, circa 1900
By Friedrich Goldscheider
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Terracotta woman bust signed Goldscheider, Austria, circa 1900.
Friedrich Goldscheider (1845-1897).
Category
Antique Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Busts
Materials
Terracotta
JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON
S "SCORTICATO" IN PLASTER early 20th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON'S "SCORTICATO" IN PLASTER early 20th Century
1: 1 reproduction in plaster of the head of the Flayed by the French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon (Paris, 1741-1828).
He studied in Rome, at the French Academy...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Modern Busts
Materials
Plaster
$2,762
H 16.54 in W 9.85 in D 7.88 in
Italian Grand Tour Bronze Sculpture of Ludovisi Mars Ares after Antiquity
Located in Shippensburg, PA
GRAND TOUR
Italian, circa mid-to-late 19th century
Ludovisi Mars, After the Antique
Patinated bronze raised on an original marble plinth
13 1/2" H x 6 3/8" D x 4 3/4" W (total in...
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Antique 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Figurative Sculptures
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$4,100
H 13.5 in W 4.75 in D 6.38 in