Salvatore Melani Sculpture Accent Lamp Woman France 1920s Art Deco Terracotta

Art Nouveau Inspired Metal Sculptural Lotus Lamp with Stained Glass Shade DIMENSIONS: 28" TALL x 16" WIDE This marvelous lotus themed lamp with sculptured metal flowers and leaves in a metal container with a wood base. These are illuminated by a single socket on an adjustable "stem" permitting an inch or two adjustment of the magnificent glass shade which continues the floral theme! The cameo glass shade is green hued when unlit, matching the metal sculptured lotus plant, but transforms to a lovely golden hue when lit, casting a carefully crafted "sunlight" upon the metal blossoms! Absolutely marvelous in conception and execution! This lamp is in fine vintage condition with incredible patina to the alloy. The metal was tailored in composition to create a more green-hued, brass alloy, fitting for the lotus leaves! Newer glass shade. Lamp wiring from the fifties, including cord with inline switch and socket. This is an incredibly beautiful and rare treasure from a graceful era of thoughtful elegance! A superb addition to your NY penthouse, Cupertino estate or West Palm Beach mansion!

MAGNIFICENT ! ITALIAN CAST METAL FLORENTINE TABLE LAMP CUSTOM MANUFACTURED BY MEDICI LTD. DIMENSIONS: 33: TALL This glorious Italian Florentine lamp...

MUSEUM PERFECTION ! AZTEC INFLUENCED LATIN AMERICAN COLONIAL ART AMAZINGLY RARE PIECE ! Approx. 14" x 8" x 2 1/2" After Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztec empire, painting and sculpture schools were set up within missions to produce art for Roman Catholic worship in Spanish America to promote Christian evangelization. The works that emerge from this period are great historic treasures and tell us much about this time in history. Icons were important in this conversion process. Here is an Imagene that was likely employed in a church from the 17th century. It features 5 elaborately carved faces and figures depicting angels and saints. This piece is magnificent for many reasons, but the most important reason is that this piece illustrates the bridge between the Spanish and Aztec art schools. The Aztecs had developed the most splendid feather art in the world. Feather mosaics (arte plumario in Spanish, amantecayotl in Nahuatl), were created by specially trained and talented Aztec nobles. The blue green iridescent color of hummingbird feathers had made them a regular form of tribute to Aztec rulers and art that featured these feathers were incomparable. The Spanish art instructors adopted feathers into traditional Catholic imagery and this piece shows the result of such hybrid. Here feathers are prominently sculpted into the background and were polychromed with sensational hues to reflect the native love and cultural appreciation for feather art. Few feather mosaics survive because of their temporal frailty, but the wood worked feathers in this piece give scholars and collectors a lasting indication of how Aztecs stylistically used the feathers in their pieces. Aztec religious leaders wore headdresses and garments made of feathers - and here these saints appear to be wearing feather headdresses! Even after centuries, the colors of this piece are incredibly compelling. Fragments of the rich blue green pigment that was applied to mimic the hummingbird feathers are still present. The golds, yellows and browns display spectacular understanding of complementary colors. What's more this piece also shows Aztec sun imagery incorporated into the design! On the reverse side of the Saints' faces we see a vivid blue sun burst type design which clearly was an Aztec motif of the period and has no comparable counterpart in Catholic holy treasures...

SUMPTUOUS! TONY PAUL FOR WESTWOOD FUTURES MID CENTURY MARVELOUS! ONLY SOLD TO DECORATORS! DIMENSIONS: APPROX. 32" TALL BY 18" WIDE Westwood lamps were some of the Mid Centur...

- Material terracotta, hand painted, about 100 years old - Author August Otto was born in 1868 in Oeslau near Coburg, he died in 1947. From 1891 to 1915 he was a modeller in the ter...

Woman Figure Art Deco Italy, 1940 White Pottery Pink and Gold Finishing Perfect Condiction Mark signed under the base

Mid-20th century Torino ceramic semi-nude woman sculpture 'Portatrice Africana' by C.I.A. Manna By: C.I.A. Manna Material: ceramic, paint Technique: gilt, glazed, hand-crafted, molded, painted, pressed, unglazed Dimensions: 6 in x 22 in Date: mid-20th century Style: Mid-Century Modern, Space Age Place of origin: Italy This mid-20th century Italian ceramic sculpture titled 'Portatrice Africana' was handcrafted by C.I.A. Manna in Torino, Italy. Molded from ceramic clay and meticulously hand-painted, it depicts a semi-nude african woman carrying a large clay vessel...

Large 20th Century French Art Deco statue lamp in plaster. Standing lady holding a glass ball. Signed by M Lowy and D Daussat, Paris. Big and decorative one off piece. Circa 1930. Si...