Bronze Animal Sculptures

This powerful 20th Century Swiss Bronze Bird Sculpture is the work of French artist Charles Reussner (1886-1961). Reussner was well known and highly sought out for his sculptures. Th...

This is a beautifully cast sculpture of a roaring Bengal tiger that was most probably created in the early 20th century. The bronze is not signed and does not display a foundry mark;...

Rare french Art Déco bronze sculpture "Cat" on a black belgian marble base by Lucien Charles Edouard Alliot. (1877-1967). Signed LUC on the black marble base. Beautiful original blac...

This is a very fine example of a detailed casting of a bull. Nicely factory patinated in a warm brown finish bring this guy to life. Done in the manner of the noted Vienna bronze mak...

A Curtis Jere pair of bronze cranes on stone table sculpture. This wonderful vintage mid century table sculpture features a very dynamic composition of cranes stand on a stone. Each ...

A fine pair of French 19th century Rouge-Royal marble and figural gilt bronze-mounted flambeaux urns surmounted with four ormolu figures of dolphins supporting the center urn with th...

Karl Hagenauer, Art Deco bronze horse sculpture, 1930s Elegant Art Deco sculpture of a prancing horse, cast in bronze with a warm patina. The piece features a stylized and minimalist...

A very fine French 19th century Patinated bronze Figure of "Milo of Croton and the Lion" after the marble sculpture of Milon de Crotone by renown French...

Pair of finely chaste bronze and dore bronze of dog and cat. Very life like.

Art Deco bronze circus elephant figure / sculpture designed by Chales Paillet, France, 1920s. Perfect desk piece. Nice and heavy bronze sculptur...

This vintage early 20th century patinated sculpted bronze inkwell is designed in an American "Old West" theme. The oversized inkwell features a landscape with a rocky terrain. A pair...

A rare and fabulous French Art Deco large bronze signed sculpture of a bunting panther by Andre Vincent Becquerel, French, 1893-1981 This lovely cast, in a warm dark brown patina with green undertones is sculpted with highly stylized anatomical details. The sculpture rests on self base. Becquerel's favorite subject matter was cats. He often captured them in a natural setting, stretching, stalking, clawing at a tree stump or walking in tandem. The model offered here with the panther bunting/rubbing against a stump of a tree is a rare version. This innate feline behavior is seen as a sign of affection, or of a transfer of their scent to claim territory or marking you as a friend. Becquerel was born in northern France. He attended the École des Beaux-arts in Paris and studied in the ateliers of Hector Lemaître and Prosper Lecourtier, the Animalier sculptor. He also worked with Charles Valton, who had studied under both Barye and Fremiet, two other renown animalier sculptors. He began exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1914 and continued to do so for the rest of his career. In 1944 Becquerel was awarded a bronze medal by The ‘Artistes Français’ and a gold medal in 1945. In 1952 he won the Prix de l’Yser, which made him hors concours and thus above the future competition process. Cubist, Impressionism, Expressionism, Futurism, Modernism, Realism, Cubism, Piero Palazzolo...

Beautiful representation of a polychromed hare Vienna bronze, Austria 1900s. The back is encrusted with boar hair and was used to clean writing quills. In excellent condition. Sligh...

19th century cast bronze figure of a hunting dog pointing by Pierre Jules Mene. This is a lovely bronze which has acquired a gorgeous patina over the years. The figure is a beautif...

An endearing late 19th Century Animalier bronze study of a reclining doe with excellent rich brown, black and green patina and very fine hand chased surface detail. Raised on an inte...

A wonderful and finely detailed French turn of the century Patinated Bronze statue of a parrot. This lovely statue of a parrot perched on a tree is supported on a root shaped base wi...

'Gladiator' a standing bronze racehorse by Pierre Lenordez (1814-1892). Signed to the base and inscribed 'Gladiateur né en 1862. Par Monarque et Miss Gladiator. Gagnant en 1864 du Cl...

Maitland Smith Cast Bronze Monkey w/ Lidded Basket Planter Pot Statue Sculpture. Item features a cast bronze construction, lid to basket, gr...

This very nice pair of cobra candlesticks is made of a finely chiseled bronze. This is a French work. Circa 1940

A fine original, French, early 20th century bronze statue of a walking wolf "Loup qui Marche" signed by Antoine-Louis Barye, Henry Bonnard foundry Co NY ...

Inspired by many years in the bush spent in close study of my Africa's magnificent wildlife, my sculpture endeavours to pay tribute to Africa's wildlife. This elephant sculpture was...

Vintage oversized bronze sculpture of a parrot with green bronze patina after J. Moigniez. This sculpture is meticulously decorated with de...

PIERRE-JULES MÊNE French, 1810-1879 "Chien Limier" (1869) Patinated bronze signed in cast "P.J. MÊNE" almost certainly cast in Mêne's personal atelier circa 1875 Item # 309MWP02...

Graceful even when standing still the Bronze Bird Dog on Marble Base is a striking addition to any setting. Using traditional lost wax casting methods the Bronze Bird Dog statue is c...

Bofill silvered bronze owl - Hibou Desk Paperweight / Car Mascot / Hood Ornament. France 1910-15. Silver plated bronze, signed. Excellent original conditions. HIBOU Par Antoine Bofi...

A large patinated bronze statue of a jungle cat by designer Phyllis Morris.  

Exceptional Art Deco sculpture/lamp by Max Le Verrier (1891-1973) representing a monkey under an umbrella. It is titled "The Rain" or "Monkey with an Umbrella". Model created around 1925-1927...

Greyhound Bronze Figurehead On Plinth Ideal For Desk Paperweight Or Decoration. Good Christmas Gift

A striking pair of Japanese gilt bronze komainu by the renowned Japanese sculptor, Ishikawa Komei (1852-1913), Meiji period, Japan. The pair well cast, and robustly modeled. They ar...

Vienna bronze, three high-quality bronze figurines. Duck, chicken, and bat. Presumably by Franz Bergmann. In excellent condition with a nice patina. Austria, circa 1900-1910s. Dimens...

Enchanting Art Deco bronze sculpture depicting a deer standing gracefully on a two-tone marble plinth base. The texture and tone of the bronze bring this majestic creature to life, e...

A Fine Pair of French 19th/20th Century Gilt-Bronze Sculptures of "The Marly Horses" (Now turned into lamps) After the original by Guillaume Coustou (French, 1677-1746). The large pair of equestrian bronze sculptures, finished in a gold patina, each depicting rearing horses with their groom, both raised on oval a black slate and Bardiglio marble bases and fitted with modern electrical twin-light brass fittings and cream colored shades. The base on an ebonized wooden platform. Circa: Paris, 1900-1920. Sculpture Base Height: 31 1/4 inches (79.8 cm) Base Width: 21 3/4 inches (55.3 cm) Base Depth: 12 3/4 inches (32.4 cm) Height to top of (Adjustable) shade fitting: 48 1/4 inches (122.6 cm) Shade Height: 15 inches (38.1 cm) Shade Width: 26 inches (66.1 cm) Shade Depth: 20 inches (50.8 cm) The original Marly Horses are two 1743–1745 Carrara marble sculpted groups by Guillaume Coustou. They were commissioned by Louis XV of France for the trough at the entrance to the grounds of his château de Marly. Coustou's last works, they were intended to replace two other sculpted groups, Mercury on Pegasus and Pegasus, Renown of Horses, both by Antoine Coysevox, which had been removed to the Tuileries Gardens in 1719. Louis XV chose the modellos in 1743 and the full-size sculptures were completed in only two years, being installed at Marly in 1745. They proved highly successful in reproduction, particularly on a smaller scale, and prefigured Théodore Géricault and other Romantic artists' obsession with equestrian subjects. The Marly horses were later also used as the central motif of the monochrome 819-line RTF/ORTF test card which was used on TF1 from 1953 until 1983. The originals were moved to the place de la Concorde in Paris in 1794 and Louis-Denis Caillouette (1790–1868) restored them in 1840. In 1984 it was concluded that the annual military parades on 14 July were damaging the sculptures and they were replaced by marble copies produced by Michel Bourbon in the studio of a subsidiary of Bouygues. The latter also gained the right to an extra copy, which was placed in Bouygues's social building. The original sculptures were moved to a former courtyard in the Richelieu wing of the Louvre Museum, which was renamed the 'cour Marly' in their honour, whilst Bourbon's two main copies were moved to the originals' first site near the trough at Marly, with work overseen by the architect Serge Macel. Guillaume Coustou the Elder (29 November 1677, Lyon – 22 February 1746, Paris) was a French sculptor of the Baroque and Louis XIV style. He was a royal sculptor for Louis XIV and Louis XV and became Director of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1735. He is best known for his monumental statues of horses made for the Chateau of Marly, whose replicas now stand in the Place de la Concorde in Paris. Coustou was a member of a family of famous sculptors; his uncle, Antoine Coysevox, was a royal sculptor; his elder brother, Nicolas Coustou was a sculptor, and his son Guillaume Coustou the Younger also become a noted royal sculptor. Like his older brother, he won the (Prix de Rome) of the Royal Academy which entitled him to study for four years at the French Academy in Rome. However, he refused to accept the discipline of the academy, gave up his studies, set out to make his own career as an artist. He worked for a time in the atelier of the painter Pierre Legros, and eventually returned to Paris. Upon his return to Paris, he assisted his uncle Coysevox in making two monumental equestrian sculptures, Fame and Mercury, for the Château de Marly, the new residence of Louis XIV near the Palace of Versailles, where he went to escape the crowds and ceremony of the Palace. He later (1740–1745), made his own horses, The Horses of Marly, his most famous works, to replace them. The horses reinvent the theme of the colossal Roman marbles of the Horse Tamers in the Piazza Quirinale, Rome. They were commissioned by Louis XV in 1739 and installed in 1745 at the Abreuvoir ("Horse Trough") at Marly. The horses were considered masterpieces of the grace and expressiveness of the French Late Baroque or Rococo style. After the Revolution they were moved from Marly to the beginning of the Champs-Élysées on the Place de la Concorde. The originals were brought indoors for protection at the Louvre Museum in 1984. In 1704 Coustou was received into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. The work he made to mark his entrance was Hercules on the Pyre, now in the Louvre. It displays the special hallmark of the Baroque, a twisting and rising transverse pose, as well as highly skillful carving. He rose to become Director of the academy in 1733. Another of his major works from his later career, the statue of Maria Leszczynska, (1731)is on display at the Louvre. Coustou also created two colossal monuments, The Ocean and the Mediterranean among other sculptures for the park at Marly; the bronze Rhone, which formed part of the statue of Louis XIV at Lyons, and the sculptures at the entrance of the Hôtel des Invalides. Of these latter, the bas-relief representing Louis XIV mounted and accompanied by Justice and Prudence was destroyed during the Revolution, but was restored in 1815 by Pierre Cartellier from Coustou's model; the bronze figures of Mars and Minerva (1733–34), on either side of the doorway, were not interfered with. In 1714 for Marly he collaborated in two marble sculptures representing Apollo Chasing Daphne (both at the Louvre), in which Nicolas Coustou sculpted the Apollo and Guillaume the Daphne. About the same time he was commissioned to produce another running figure in marble, a Hippomenes designed to complement an Atalanta copied from the Antique by Pierre Lepautre...

Presenting a magnificent bronze equestrian sculpture titled "Amazon" by the renowned artist Erté, also known as Romain de Tirtoff. This exceptional piece, numbered 335 out of a limit...

Art Deco pair of panther bookends. Silvered bronze and marble. Made in France, 1920s. Both stamped France. Heavy marble bookends. In the style of Paul Jouve. They will give a chic lo...

Bronze sculpture of an elephant, circa 1940, signed Carréga. H: 8cm, W: 12cm, D: 6cm

Elegant and finely cast pair of large Italian dog sculptures in gilded bronze, made with exceptional attention to detail and form. The figures ar...

Very beautiful pair of Art Deco bronze bookends with stretching cats on a black marble base. The pair is signed by Louis Riche (1877-1949), a famous French animalier who specialized ...

Art Deco Silver Metal Bookends with Malabu by Marcel-André Bouraine These Art Deco bookends by Marcel Bouraine are playful pieces made of silvered bronze and mounted on marble, whic...

Antique French bronze sculpture of a partridge family by Jules Moigniez, 19th century. Exquisitely chiseled and cast, as is almost always the case wit...

A cast bronze sculpture signed and dated Suzanne Fiedler 1974, depicting a horse and foal on wooden base. Cast by American artist Suzanne Fiedler in 1974, this bronze sculpture touch...

"Mother and Child" an impressionist bronze sculpture of baboons by sculptor Blanca Will, American, 1881-1978, dated 1912. Works by Will are rare. Blanca Will Exhibited at the Nationa...

A charming pair of decorative silver plate geese or mallard ducks, made in Spain in the twentieth century. The geese are very finely modelled with excellent details to the faces, f...

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...

A very rare mid 19th Century Animalier bronze study of a doe drinking by the side of a lake, the bronze with fabulous rich brown patina and very fine hand chased surface detail, rais...

These chunky chenets make no bones about their Romantic lineage and exhibit all of the passion you’d expect from artisans working in the period 1830 to 1848. Here, a nice yin-and-yan...

Viennese cold-painted Orientalist bronze group by Franz Bergman Austrian, c.1900 Height 12cm, width 15cm, depth 9cm This small but intricately crafted and designed bronze group ...

Bulldog biting into the flank, cast and patinated bronze figure on a rectangular plinth. Signed and dated "Bezeredi 1887" on the plinth. Gyula Bezerédi was born in Mogyorósi in 1858...

Bruno Zach signed bronze sculpture of two fighting cowboys with daggers on rearing horses. Very nice condition. No damages. Dimensions: 15" depth x 19.5" W x 27.5" H.

Unique cast and welded bronze brutalist sculpture of a cat in the style of a mummy. Having cast bronze gause wrapping around body with welded detail to front paw, in the style of Bri...

Charming Mid Century stylized seahorse sculpture crafted in bronze in an art deco form with a custom acid washed finish.

1960s bronze bull sculpture by Spanish Sculptor Venancio Blanco, who died in 2018 and a foundation that bears his name has been set up to promote his work.

Walter Bosse (1904-1979), Austria. Three miniature bronze figurines. Elephant, squirrel, and whale. 1930s/40s. In excellent condition with a beautiful patina. Dimensions of the whale...

Vintage, beautifully rendered, bronze incense burner modelled on a dove/bird figure. Incredibly sculptural piece with verdigris and Brutalist design elements. The piece trascends its...

Hard to come by pair of African Ashanti water buffalo, each one is different than the other. Nice patina

Irénée Rochard (1906-1984), France. Colossal sculpture in patinated bronze on a marble base. Fighting deer. Mid-20th century. Measures: 75 x 28.5 x 17.5 cm. In excellent condition....

Austrian bronze cat sculpture made in Austria The bronze has small wear due to years of age. It has a small chip on the tail. (see in photos). H:...

A nice small bronze dolphins sculpture on a green marble base, circa 1990s. The piece has a wonderful patina and measures 4"W x 3"D x 5.75"H;...

Very nice and detailed hand painted bronze moose sculpture on a black marble oval base. Th piece measures 6" wide x 4" deep x 6" high. Would mak...

Wonderful pair of Italian Baroque paperweights from the 1800s. The pair is made with a truly binding Onyx base. The onyx stone has been carved to make the paperweights semi-equal. Ab...

A pair of bronze and black lacquer fisherman bookends., circa 1970s. The set are in good vintage condition and measure 10.25"W x 3.75"D x 5"H. A fun pair of bookends that would mak...