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Period: Early 20th Century
Early 20th Century Natural Chinese Scholar Stone on Custom Wood Base
Located in Stamford, CT
Early 20th Century natural Chinese scholar rock or stone on custom wood base. Scholar rocks, also known as viewing stones or 'gongshi', are natural stones that have been appreciated ...
Category
Chinese Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
Sawtooth fish bill
Located in Winnetka, IL
This is a fish bill from a predatory fish which is characterized by the long rostrum or bill
With teeth on each side
Category
Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Muslin, Teeth
$1,500
Small Size Antique Alabaster Bald Eagle Sculpture w. Glass Eyes
Located in Lisse, NL
Magnificent hand-carved eagle on a rock sculpture.
This beautifully hand-carved alabaster eagle possesses the strong, streamlined frame, sharp eyes, a...
Category
European Arts and Crafts Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Alabaster
Gigas Tridacna Large Shell
Located in Winnetka, IL
This is a wonderful Gigas Tridacna (clam) shell.
It has a wonderful intact shape with a very white interior
This shell came from an estate that had in its collection for many years.
Category
North American Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
Antique Pressed Botanicals Grouping of (24) More Available 125-Years Old French
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
Antique Pressed Botanicals, Grouping of (24) many more still available. The pressed botanical are roughly 125-Years Old and were found in an old French Monastery School that opened i...
Category
French Country Antique Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Organic Material, Paper
Antique Italian Alabaster Pendant Light with Impressive Hand Carved Putti Decor
Located in Lisse, NL
Large early 1900s handcrafted, natural mineral stone with bronze hardware light fixture.
It is difficult to understand how they created such a perfect, circular shape pendant out of...
Category
Italian Neoclassical Revival Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Alabaster, Bronze
Large Italian Clam Shell
Located in New York, NY
Large Italian clam shell. Large sculptural shell in Scagliola with natural patina, Italy, early 20th century.
Dimensions: 32" W x 20" D x 9.5" H.
Category
Italian Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Scagliola
$2,980
Gigas Tridacna shell
Located in Winnetka, IL
This is a wonderful Gigas Tridacna also known as clam shell from the ocean in great condition
Category
American Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
Black Forest Woodcarving
Men with pipe
1923
Located in Den Haag, NL
Beautiful handmade Black Forest Woodcarving . Tiroler men with Pipe .
Very nice quality carving . signed with a monogram M O . and underneath
the place where it was made . and dated...
Category
German Black Forest Vintage Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Pearwood
Italian Pietra Dura, Semi-Precious, Still Life Stones Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is an amazing work in semi precious stones in Hardstones or Pietra Dura work. Framed measures 21 x 24 inches. In back has a partial detail of stones and also origin of art work.
Category
Italian Neoclassical Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Precious Stone
Vintage Taxidermy Trumpeter Swan on Marble
Mahogany Base (UK Sale Only)
Located in London, GB
Vintage C. 1930's Taxidermy Swan on Marble and Mahogany Display Base.
Beautiful vintage taxidermy Swan presented on a marble topped serpentine shaped mahogany base.
Good condition ...
Category
British Romantic Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Marble
Antique Monumental Clam Shell Resting On Antique Wrought Iron Plant Stand
Located in Kennesaw, GA
This a monumental clam shell displayed on a Victorian black wrought iron plant stand. Both are very heavy and in very good condition. Plant stand: 12” triangle x 39.75”H.
Category
European Victorian Antique Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Iron
Rare
Beautifully Hand-Carved Antique Dutch Arts
Crafts Beveled Wall Mirror
Located in Lisse, NL
Striking wall mirror with handcarved geometrical 'flowers' and trefoil symbols.
Via one of our foreign contacts we recently purchased this perfectly fine and deeply handcarved, sc...
Category
European Gothic Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Set of four vintage Deer Antlers 1900 on Hand-Carved Wood, Blackforest-Austia
Located in Vienna, AT
Set of four vintage deer antlers from 1900, incorporated into a carved wooden plaque, elegantly flanked by oak leaves. A fine example of traditional Central European craftsmanship, c...
Category
Austrian Folk Art Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Antler, Nutwood
Nature’s Sculpture / Japanese Old Object / Display stand
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This slab of ancient Japanese solid wood was cut from a single, enormous tree that grew over many years.
The powerful, intricately undulating grain, the intricate overlapping of tre...
Category
Japanese Showa Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Wood
Unique Antique Hand Carved Dutch Arts
Crafts Wall Mirror with Lion Sculpture
Located in Lisse, NL
Striking, geometrical design wall mirror with handcarved lion / cat carving.
Via one of our trade contacts we recently purchased this perfectly hand carve...
Category
Dutch Arts and Crafts Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Natural Malachite Specimen – 7.7 kg – 21 cm High
Located in Bilzen, BE
Natural Malachite Specimen – 7.7 kg – 21 cm High
An impressive natural malachite formation featuring striking stalagmite-like structures and rich deep-green hues. This large specime...
Category
Congolese Other Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Malachite
Seashell
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful natural seashell from the sea, circa ealry-20th century or earlier. Shell appears to be what is called a 'great rapa chank', with origin off the cost of Sri Lanka. A beau...
Category
Unknown Organic Modern Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
$475
Fossilized Organic Natural Red Sea Coral Specimen / Sculpture
Located in San Diego, CA
A rare fossilized organic natural red sea coral specimen, circa 1930s. The piece is in great condition and measures 2.75"W x 1.75"D x 6.5"H. Gorgeous and rare! #4355
Category
Chinese Hollywood Regency Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Coral
Qing Dynasty Antique Chinese Red Coral Specimen
Located in London, GB
This red coral specimen, with flowing lines and organic form, is a beautiful example of how the work of nature can be, and has been, celebrated as a...
Category
Chinese Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Coral
Pair of Chinese Buddha Belly Bamboo Pipes, circa 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
These unusually sinuous lengths of bamboo are known as "Buddha belly bamboo" for each segment's resemblance to the ample gut of the Chinese monk Budai, o...
Category
Chinese Qing Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Steel
1920s Czech Taxidermy Cow Tur Domácí Bos Taurus Hind Leg Bone Classroom Study
Located in Haarlem, NL
Very interesting early 20th Century Czech made taxidermy cow "Tur Domácí Bos Taurus" hind leg for classroom study, probably used at a University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.
The leg is at least a hundred years old, you can see by the way it is fixed together (the curly iron thread) and the surface ware of the real bones, it is smooth and yellowish.
The iron and wood holder however is probably aded very recently (my guess is in the 80s 90s).
Tur Domácí Bos Taurus (which is Czech and Latin for domestic bovine, or domestic cow) is an even-toed ungulate from the genus Bos of the bovine family...
Category
Czech Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Iron
$1,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Agate Geode Brown White Natural Specimen Decorative Object
Located in New York, NY
A substantial white and brown agate geode natural specimen sculpture piece. A nice standalone decorative object on a cocktail table, shelf, on top of books, etc. Dimensions: 4.5" Dep...
Category
Organic Modern Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Onyx, Marble, Agate
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
Natural Rock Crystal Sphere on a Neoclassical Polished and Patinated Bronze Base
Located in Hudson, NY
This natural rock crystal sphere containing expected color changes and inclusions is a gem from nature. The sphere is 9 inches in diameter and runs from clear to crazed inclusions th...
Category
Neoclassical Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal, Bronze
Large Red Calcite Stone on Wooden Base, Early 20th Century. Morocco.
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An impressive large red calcite stone displayed on a custom wooden base, showcasing the natural beauty of this richly hued mineral. The calcite features striking patterns and a deep ...
Category
Moroccan Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
Antique under the Water School Specimen
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Antique under the water school specimen.
An antique natural wunderkammer glass display with marine life in the depths of the sea. The specimen is set ...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Glass, Wood
Early 20th Century Hand-Carved Palm Screen
Located in Hilversum, NL
This exquisite early 20th century hand-carved screen is sculpted from a 200-year-old Sumatra palm trunk, showcasing the rich natural beauty and craftsmanship of the period. The scree...
Category
Asian Arts and Crafts Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Palmwood, Reclaimed Wood
$7,116 / item
Art Deco Sculpture of Woman with Greyhounds 1920/30s France
By Ugo Cipriani
Located in Den Haag, NL
This striking original Art Deco sculpture depicts a graceful woman walking two sleek Borzois,, a motif that exemplifies the elegance and glamour of the 1920s and 1930s. The figure is...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Pewter
Late 19th-Early 20th White Bailer Shell Pectoral, Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Late 19th-early 20th Bailer shell pectoral, Highlands, possibly Mendi People, Papua New Guinea
These large shell pectorals were worn ceremonially by men and women in Papua New Guine...
Category
Papua New Guinean Tribal Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
An ostrich egg from a wunderkammer, with an ebonized wooden base, Italy 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
A specimen of Naturalia an ostrich egg (Struthio camelus) mounted on an ebonized wooden base. The upper part, mounted on the summit, in the shape of a pinnacle, always of the same w...
Category
Italian Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Ostrich Eggshell, Wood
Antique Teaching Model Stages of the Appendix, Ca. 1900
Located in Berghuelen, DE
A great antique hand-painted anatomical model of the appendix in different stages. It is made of plaster and mounted on a wooden base. Manufactured most probably by SOMSO or PHYWE, G...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Paper
Antique Teaching Model of the Adipose Spleen, ca. 1900
Located in Berghuelen, DE
A great antique hand-painted anatomical model of the adipose spleen. Made of papier maché and plaster, mounted on a turned wooden base. Manufactured most probably by SOMSO or PHYWE, ...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Paper
Single Yua Wenga Currency from the Early 20th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
A single Yua Wenga currency from the early 20th century on custom iron stand. This antique tribal currency piece from Papua New Guinea has been carved ...
Category
Papua New Guinean Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Bone
Vintage Boho Cast Concrete Four Seasons “Spring” Statue
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An extraordinary vintage Boho cast concrete sculpture. A beautiful composition of one of the Four Seasons “Spring”. Perfect indoors or outside. Monumental in size and drama. Acquired...
Category
American Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Concrete
Antique Large
Impressive Alabaster Harpy Eagle Sculpture with Spreads Wings
Located in Lisse, NL
Magnificent alabaster sculpture of what we believe is the Harpy eagle.
Carving anything even remotely realistic out of a mineral stone rock like alabaster...
Category
European Arts and Crafts Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Alabaster
An ostrich egg from a wunderkammer, with a red painted wooden base, Italy 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
A specimen of Naturalia an ostrich egg (Struthio camelus) mounted on a wooden base painted red. The upper part, mounted on the summit, in the shape of a pinnacle, always of the same ...
Category
Italian Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Ostrich Eggshell, Wood
Pair Of Large Mounted Black Forest Chamois Taxidermy
Located in London, GB
A Pair of Large Mounted Black Forest Chamois Taxidermy – Male & Female
This impressive pair of chamois taxidermy features both a male and female, beautifully preserved and displayed...
Category
German Black Forest Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Wood
Pair of Antique Horse Skulls
Located in Kent, Dover
A pair of antique adult horse skulls.
Category
English Antique Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Bone
$2,274 / set
Early 20th Century Chinese Lingbi Scholar
s Rock with a Carved Wooden Stand.
Located in Stamford, CT
Early 20th century Chinese lingbi scholar's rock on a custom carved wooden stand. Scholar's rocks, also known as 'gongshi' or 'lingbi stones,' are naturally occurring stones that hav...
Category
Chinese Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
Pair of Italian 1930s Tôle Calla Lillies Sculptures in Red and Gold Containers
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of Italian vintage painted tôle Calla Lilies sculptures from the early 20th century, with white, yellow and green tones, in red containers. Created in Italy during the second ...
Category
Italian Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Tôle
Early 20th Century Edwardian Travelling Tradesman Salesman
s Soap Sampler
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A unusual travelling tradesman's soap display case, early 20th century in age likely Edwardian.
A segmented internal draw hidden via the sliding cover,...
Category
English Edwardian Antique Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Natural Fiber, Glass, Pine
Ethno Design early 20th Century, Drc, Selection of Three Bark Cloth Beaters
Located in Leuven , BE
Three old and well used bark cloth beater made out of a wooden shaft with a cross-hatched blackened tip which is lashed into position by a strip of cane. These grooved wooden beater were tools used to pound and soften tree bark, for the processing of bark cloth used as clothing. This tool has many different variations that are seen in indigenous cultures worldwide, yet all for a similar purpose. They vary in size, shapes, and materials. They are carved with parallel striations. Some bark beaters...
Category
Congolese Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Wood
Vienna Bronze Seated Writer Sculpture with Black Marble Base
Located in Lisse, NL
Vienna bronze young writer on black marble, a moment of quiet creation.
This early-20th-century Vienna bronze captures a beautifully intimate scene: a seated figure, legs folded ben...
Category
Austrian Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Coco de Mer On Custom Stand
Located in Dallas, TX
A Coco de Mer nut on custom made lucite stand. The Coco de Mer seed nut is the largest in the world and only found in th Seychelles islands. Circa early 20...
Category
Seychellois Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Coconut
Marble Ball On Stand
Located in Tampa, FL
A turn of the century, Italian marble ball on a small black wooden base. The marble is polished and it is in great condition.
Category
Italian Antique Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Marble
Jar, Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty, Foundry: Eug. Blot Paris, Design: JOUANT
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Design: Jules Jouant (1863-1921)
Pitcher sign: Foundry: Eug. Blot Paris / Design: Jouant
Material: Silver plated
Biography
Auguste Jules Alphonse Jouant was born in Paris, Cité Fénelon, in the 9th arrondissement, on June 19, 18632, son of Étienne Alphonse Jouant, carpenter, and Louise Carré.
A student of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris3, Jules Jouant was one of Auguste Rodin's practitioners. He exhibited the Bust of Prince Gedroyc at the Salon of 1883 and sculpted busts of musicians such as Richard Wagner, Frédéric Chopin or Ludwig van Beethoven. He obtained an honorable mention at the Salon of 1913.
Jules Jouant is renowned for his works of art (vases, dishes, lamp bases, pitchers, candlesticks, table bells, trinket bowls, etc.) typical of the Art Nouveau style, produced in pewter by the Barbedienne founders This link leads to a disambiguation page, Eugène Blot and Ettlinger Frères. He also collaborates with the workshops of the Daum brothers This link returns
He was appointed professor at the Ecole Boulle in Paris.
He is buried in the Cimetière de Passy (2nd division).
Public collections
-Museum of Art and History of Belfort
seaweed, pewter
The Holly, pewter
-Mignard, marble bust, Paris, Manufacture des Gobelins7. Plaster model preserved in Angers in the Maine-et-Loire prefecture8
-Léo Delibes, marble bust, National Opera of Paris9. Plaster model preserved in the town hall of Rochefort (Charente-Maritime)
-Two bas-reliefs, stone...
Category
French Art Nouveau Antique Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Metal
Ethno Design Mbole People, DRC, Chief Scepters Collection Made of Palmtree Leaf
Located in Leuven , BE
The Sceptres are made of the Midrib of Palm tree leaves. They were uses by the members of the Lilwaa Secret Society of the Mbole Tribe that live in the ...
Category
Congolese Vintage Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Organic Material
Figurine of Thumbelina Patinated Bronze n Stone Base 19th Century Art Nouveau
Located in Sweden, SE
Wonderful bronze sculpture of Thumbelina from the fairy tale of the world Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Very fine cast bronze figure of the late 19th century in the Art Nouv...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone, Bronze
Antique Austrian Glass Leaves and Flowers Center Piece
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
8-124 Antique handmade Austrian glass center piece set on a clear glass base.
Category
Vintage Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Art Glass
$400 Sale Price
30% Off
Antique Top Quality Bronze Land Worker / Male Sower Sculpture by Max Valentin
By Max Valentin
Located in Lisse, NL
Antique museum quality bronze male sower on a marble base with signature, sculptor Max Valentin (1875-1931).
This antique is for the collectors and connoisseurs, because the quality...
Category
European Arts and Crafts Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique Fish Taxidermy Glass Showcase with Bream, ca. 1900
Located in Berghuelen, DE
A large early 20th century taxidermy of a bream. It is mounted in a setting of reeds and grasses in a wooden vitrified case. Made in Germany circa 1900.
Measures: Width: 22.24" (56....
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Glass, Wood
Frammento di Libyan Desert Glass - base anticata in Teca - Egitto/Libia ~29 mil
Located in Milano, IT
Un magnifico frammento di vetro del deserto libico (Libyan Desert Glass), dal colore giallo miele con sfumature ambrate, recuperato tra le alte dune del Grande Mare di Sabbia, tra Eg...
Category
Libyan Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Glass
Organic Modern Petrified Wood/ Fossil and Stainless Steel Mounted Sculpture
Located in North Miami, FL
This amazing petrified wood sculpture that is over 100 years old has a custom stainless steel contemporary base. It has been mounted. This fossil/petrified wood is originally from Ut...
Category
American Organic Modern Antique Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Stainless Steel
$3,575 Sale Price
35% Off
19th Century Botanic Model by Robert Brendel - Bean Seedling
Located in Berghuelen, DE
19th Century Botanic Model by Robert Brendel - Bean Seedling
A rare antique botanical model manufactured by the famous Robert Brendel manufactory for botanicals models around 1900. ...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Paper
Xl Coral on Asian stand
Located in Winnetka, IL
This is a wonderful Pacific Elkhorn coral specimen on a black Asian stand.
Category
North American Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Coral
$1,200
Monumental Neoclassical Grand Tour Ormolu Mounted Marble Obelisks on Pedestals
Located in Elkhart, IN
A stunning pair of monumental neoclassical or Grand Tour style solid marble pink, gray, brown, and black obelisks on solid marble pedestals.
Italy, Cir...
Category
Italian Grand Tour Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Marble
Primitive Turkish Wood and Stone Threshing Board
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Tall primitive threshing board.
Measures 62.5 H x 25 at top 20 D at bottom x 5 inch D
Two pieces of wood along the back. One near the top and one nea...
Category
Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
$2,304 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Foldable Anatomical Brochure Depicting Female Anatomy
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Antique Foldable Anatomical Brochure Depicting Female Anatomy
A rare 19ct anatomical brochure illustrating the female human anatomy. Very detailed multicoloured depiction of human o...
Category
German Victorian Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Paper
19th Century Botanic Model by Robert Brendel - Barley
Located in Berghuelen, DE
19th Century Botanic Model by Robert Brendel - Barley
A rare antique botanical model manufactured by the famous Robert Brendel manufactory for botanicals models around 1900. Highly ...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Paper
Antique Teaching Model Longitudinal Profile of the Grain
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Antique Teaching Model Longitudinal Profile of the Grain
A great antique hand-painted model of the grain with removable germ. Made of papier ma...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Early 20th Century Natural Specimens
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Paper
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