Silla, Ltd. Decorative Objects
to
1
144
2
4
77
63
2
7
16
7
3
3
3
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
126
122
41
35
16
146
125
93
14
12
12
Height
to
Width
to
146
146
146
11
8
7
3
3
Italian Grand Tour Antique Bronze Sculpture, Bust of Julius Caesar
Located in Shippensburg, PA
A finely cast and beautifully patinated bust of Julius Caesar, it likely originates from Rome circa the third quarter of the 19th century and rests over its original violet breché ma...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Busts
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French, Antique Bronze Sculpture of Aberdeen Angus Bull by Isidore Bonheur
By Isidore Jules Bonheur
Located in Shippensburg, PA
ISIDORE JULES BONHEUR
French, 1827-1901
Taureau Aberdeen-Angus" (Standing Aberdeen-Angus Bull)
Patinated sand-cast bronze Signed to base "I. BONHEUR"
Item # 211HDB17Z
An exquisite and very rare casting of an Aberdeen-Angus bull, an unusual and distinctive breed of cattle from Scotland, this sculpture by Isidore Jules Bonheur is almost without a doubt cast by the foundry of his brother-in-law Hippolyte Peyrol and a rather early model as well in light of the distinctive construction method. In her text on the selection of 46 animal bronzes in the collection of the Georgia Museum of Art, Eleanor Luciano notes regarding this model that "Bonheur is never recorded to have been to Scotland, where he would have seen this unusual breed. Rosa Bonheur painted in Scotland, and its seems likely that Isidore would have drawn the idea for this bull either from one of her sketches or from an agricultural show in France. The animal's rich mane and strong modeling make this one of the most successful." Notable is the very fine surface patination which exhibits a glassy finish with a complex range of colors presenting in the body of the bull, overall being medium brown but augmented with an underlying reddish hue against auburn highlights. The base is signed "I. BONHEUR" in the typical manner.
Museum Collections:
* National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, acc. no. 2006.128.3
* Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Romantic Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Wrought Iron Chest Wine Storage Rack for 28 Bottles
Located in Shippensburg, PA
Item # 209GJY07K
A fantastic and rather unusual wrought-iron wine storage rack styled as a domed chest, it features wide shaped straps welded to curved and squared bar with curled iron elements throughout. The front of the chest retains an early lock and key, opening and dropping down on hanging chains to give access to the 28 bottles of wine that can be stored inside. It retains a wonderful early surface with chaotic oxidization and the effects of rust throughout the overall green and blue-ish patina. Circa the late 19th to early 20th century.
Measurements: 23" H x 14 1/2" D x 28 7/8" W
Condition Report:
In as-found rough antique...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Rustic Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wrought Iron
French Antique Bronze "La Renommée"
Fame
by Alexandre Falguiere
Susse
By Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière 1, Susse Freres
Located in Shippensburg, PA
"LA RENOMMÉE" (FAME) AFTER MODEL BY JEAN-ALEXANDRE-JOSEPH FALGUIÈRE (FRENCH, 1831-1900)
Patinated bronze; cast by Susse Freres; stamped "Copyright by Susse... J.H." and signed with f...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Romantic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Bronze Sculpture "Reclining Greyhound" by Christophe Fratin, circa 1860
By Christophe Fratin 1
Located in Shippensburg, PA
An exquisite sand-cast model of Levrier Couché cast circa 1860, the sculpture is typical of Fratin's vivid texturing and silky finish. It was executed in the foundry of Alfred Daubrée...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Romantic Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Antique Bronze Sculpture Paperweights Wounded Stag and Wild Boar
Located in Shippensburg, PA
Pair of figural bronze paperweights over cararra marble bases.
circa early 19th century; models of "Il Porcellino" and "Wounded Stag"
Item # C104009
A superb pair of 19th century p...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
Pair of French Bronze Antique Putto Sculpture Candelabra Lamps, circa 1870-1890
Located in Shippensburg, PA
SUPERB PAIR OF DORÉ AND PATINATED BRONZE SEVEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA WITH PUTTO FIGURALS
France, circa 1870-1890
Item # 007LTX30A
An incredibly fine pair of ...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
“Walter Scott” Bronze Sculpture of Racehorse by Alfred Barye, French
By Alfred Barye
Located in Shippensburg, PA
"WALTER SCOTT: CHEVAL DE'SELLE DE L'EMPEREUR" BY ALFRED BARYE (FRENCH, 1839-82)
Patinated bronze, titled to base; signed "Barye Fils"
Item # 001ZKK18W
Orig...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Sculpture "Panther of Tunisia" After Antoine-Louis Barye, Barbedienne
By F. Barbedienne Foundry, Antoine-Louis Barye
Located in Shippensburg, PA
ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE
French, 1796-1875
"Panther of Tunisia no. 2"
Patinated sand-cast bronze signed BARYE in base, signed F. Barbedienne Fondeur to edge of base
Underside incised 2...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Romantic Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Antique Bronze Sculpture "Horse and Groom” after Emmanuel de Santa Coloma
Located in Shippensburg, PA
A good model of a young Spanish groom bracing for an intense ride on the uncontrollable Cobesse mare. It is after the model by Emmanuel de Santa Coloma that was inspired by Alfred de...
Category
20th Century French Romantic Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rare French Antique Bronze Sculpture “Seated Lion No.4”After Antoine-Louis Barye
By Antoine-Louis Barye
Located in Shippensburg, PA
Initially modeled by Barye in 1846 as a commission by Louis-Phillipe for the Tuilleries Gardens at a cost of 10,000 francs, the life-size sculpture sat near to Barye's Lion au Serpent until it was later moved in 1867 to the grand entrance to Pavilion de Flore and a pair was crafted for it using a mechanical technique, a gesture which incensed Barye, as he preferred to sculpt a mate to oppose Lion Assis...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Romantic Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Austrian Art Deco Bronze Sculpture Mantel Clock by Anton Grath circa 1925
By Anton Grath
Located in Shippensburg, PA
ART DECO FIGURAL MANTEL CLOCK
Anton Grath (Austrian, b. 1881) patinated and burnished bronze over marble signed "Anton Grath" and foundry marking monogrammed "HW" within an "H" to right side of base Circa 1925
Item # 203AXG01W
A powerful figural clock of a partially nude male and female raising offerings of a laurel wreath and an empty vessel, they face one another before the bold architectural display of the clock flanked by coned finials. They are loosely symmetrical in garb, the burnished bronze capes flowing gently around and before them.
The circular face of the clock rests on a pair of sleeping lions over a textured bronze rectangular plinth with a burnished bronze bas-relief of a young woman lying in the grasses of a setting sun raised on a variated marble base. This model was acquired formerly at the Sotheby's, New York sale on April 14th 2008, [Sale N08427, lot 155, achieved $ 5,000 USD] and the patina was enhanced at some point in the last fourteen years to include the parcel-burnished highlights in the figures. The right side of the base includes the signature and a monogrammed foundry mark (HW within an H). A very fine period example.
Artist Listings & Bibliography:
*E. Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Vol. VI, Gründ, 2006, p. 592-593
*The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze, Mackay, Baron, 1977, p. 166
*Art Bronzes...
Category
20th Century German Art Deco Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Bronze Sculpture of "Tunisian Water Carrier" by Marcel Debut
By Marcel Debut
Located in Shippensburg, PA
MARCEL DEBUT
French, 1865-1933
"Porteur d'eau arabe" (The Tunisian Water Carrier)
Medium-brown and reddish patinated bronze, burnished bronze pots, cas...
Category
20th Century French Romantic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Antique Bronze Sculpture of Tiger Carrying Gazelle by Paul-Édouard Delabr
By Paul Edouard Delabriere
Located in Shippensburg, PA
A nice early 20th century casting of Paul-Édouard Delabrierre's Tiger Carrying a Gazelle, the present model features a nice overall chiseled surface with the stripes of the tiger bro...
Category
20th Century French Romantic Animal Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Antique Bronze Sculpture of Husky Dog by Emmanuel Fremiet
By Emmanuel Fremiet
Located in Shippensburg, PA
A good lifetime casting by Charles More numbered 215, it captures the entirely relaxed spirit of the recumbant husky dog with its bushy tail bouncing and eye...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Romantic Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Antique Bronze Sculpture of Mother Bear and Cubs by Paul E. Delabrierre
By Paul Edouard Delabriere
Located in Shippensburg, PA
A very nice sand-casting of Delabrierre's Mother Bear and Her Cubs, this scarce model is perhaps his most endearing. Presumably being cast after his 1850 submission to the Paris Salo...
Category
20th Century French Romantic Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Bronze Sculpture "Chien De Chasse" by Paul-Edouard Delabrierre, c. 1870
Located in Shippensburg, PA
"CHIEN DE CHASSE (HUNTING DOG)" BY PAUL-EDOUARD DELABRIERRE (FRENCH, 1829-1912) Patinated bronze with plaster filled base; signed in rock "E. Delabrier...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Art Deco Bronze Sculpture"Leaping Stag
Hind" by André-Vincent Becquerel
By André Vincent Becquerel
Located in Shippensburg, PA
ANDRÉ-VINCENT BECQUEREL
French, 1893-1981
Leaping Stag and Hind
Verdigris patinated bronze Signed "A. BECQUEREL", "cire purdue", "Susse Fr. Edt. Paris"...
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Nouveau Bronze Sculpture of Eastern Dancer by Franz Rosse(German, 1858-1900
Located in Shippensburg, PA
FRANZ ROSSE
German, 1858-1900
"Orientalische Tänzerin mit Schalmei” (1888)
Patinated bronze over rouge marble Signed verso "F. Rosse fec. 88"
Item # 10...
Category
20th Century German Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Bronze Sculpture "Valet de Limier" by Pierre Jules Mene
Barbedienne
By F. Barbedienne Foundry
Located in Shippensburg, PA
PIERRE JULES MENE
French, 1810-1879
"Valet de Limier" (1879)
Patinated bronze Signed in cast "P.J. MÊNE", incised "F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR" to base ...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Romantic Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Antique Bronze Sculpture "Tiger Devouring Gazelle" by Antoine-Louis Barye
By Antoine-Louis Barye, F. Barbedienne Foundry
Located in Shippensburg, PA
ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE
French, 1795-1875
"Tigre Dévorant une Gazelle (second edition)"
Verde and autumnal patinated bronze Signed in cast "BARYE", incised "F. Barbedienne Fondeur" c...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Romantic Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Antique Art Nouveau Bronze Sculpture of Knight by François A. Clémencin
Located in Shippensburg, PA
FRANÇOIS ANDRÉ CLÉMENCIN
French, 1878-1950
"Celui qui fut pris" (The one that was taken)
Patinated
polychromed bronze Signed on base "A. Clemencin"
Item # 110BKP22X
An exq...
Category
20th Century French Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Antique Bronze Sculpture"Walking Tiger"by Antoine-Louis Barye, Barbedienn
By F. Barbedienne Foundry, Antoine-Louis Barye
Located in Shippensburg, PA
ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE
French, 1795-1875
"Tigre Qui Marche"
Patinated bronze Signed in base "BARYE", incised "F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR, FRANCE" conceived 1841, cast circa 1880-1900
Item # 110UGP10Q
Barye's ability to merge our romantic idealization of nature with a colder reality of nature's predator is beautifully represented in this striding cat. Originally conceived in 1841, Tigre Qui Marche (Walking Tiger...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Romantic Animal Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pierre Jules Mene French Bronze Sculpture of "Spanish Griffon Dog Seizing a Duck
By P.J. Mêne
Located in Shippensburg, PA
A very fine atelier cast executed in Mene's own foundry circa the second quarter of the nineteenth-century, this group is a portion of the larger group of Mene's Chasse au Canard exh...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Empire Period Ormolu Bronze Mantel Clock of Ceres, circa 1815
Located in Shippensburg, PA
A fine Empire period mantel clock with bun feet raising a rectangular base with a central portrait of Bacchus flanked by exquisitely chiseled motif of swirling foliage surmounted by a figure of the goddess Ceres grasping in her lowered hand a wreath woven with foliage and berries while in her garment she collects a bountiful harvest; she rests beside the clock tower with a framed lens opening to access the white enamel dial with black Roman numerals inscribed Etn. Tavernier set with Breguet style hands, raising an urn filled with fruits of the soil; against the tower rest the implements of labor, a shovel and flat rake. The movement is engraved "B". A significant clock movement maker, Etienne Tavernier (French, 1756-1839) is listed in Tardy's horology reference as working closely with the house of Abraham-Louis Breguet as well as providing clock movements...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Empire Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Austrian Art Deco Bronze Sculpture of Dancing Girl by Josef Lorenzl, circa 1920s
By Josef Lorenzl
Located in Shippensburg, PA
An exquisite cast of a dancer by Josef Lorenzl and executed in Vienna, Austria circa the 1920s, this inordinately fine model features crisp features, intricate garment work and a wonderful overall green cold-painted surface. It is situated over an original onyx plinth...
Category
20th Century Austrian Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
