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Item Ships From: Philadelphia
"Triumphant Man, " Spectacular Gilded Bronze Trophy Cup w/ Male Nude, Christofle
By Christofle
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large and spectacular, this gilded bronze trophy cup in the Art Nouveau style was sculpted by Eugène Bourgouin for Christofle, and is richly decorated wi...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$13,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Le Fumeur French Spelter Statue Sculpture of Young Man Smoking by Charles Masse
By Charles Masse
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Le Fumeur French Spelter Statue Sculpture of Young Man Smoking by Charles Masse. Item featured brass plaque reads " Le Fumeur par Ch. Masse", spelter construction, by Charles Masse (...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Victorian Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Spelter
"Sigrid", Exceedingly Rare Art Deco Sculpture, Forest Green, Bopp Pottery
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A striking example of Art Deco ceramic sculpture, this female head was made by David Seyler for the Harold Bopp Pottery in northern Kentucky, in the brief period before it became the...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
"Polo Player, " Classic and Rare Art Deco Sculpture in Caramel Hue by Gregory
By Waylande Gregory
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the rarest and most classic Art Deco sculptures ever produced in 1930s America, this striking Polo Player, complete with his original polo mallet, was sculpted by Waylande Gre...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
"Smelling the Rose, " Classic Art Deco Sculpture with Female Nude, France
By Onnaing
Located in Philadelphia, PA
With a basket of roses in her lap, more roses at her feet, and another at her nose, this lovely sculpture of a female nude with a very modern hair style is a classic example of Art Deco design. The sculpture was produced by the famed Onnaing pottery, established in 1821 and best known for a long line of Majolica ware...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
"African Drummer, " Fabulous Cubist Bronze Sculpture, France, 1920s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A brilliant example of early French cubist sculpture, this depiction of an African drummer, her hands beating the two-sided drum and her head looking up as she sings or chants to the music, illustrates the fractured, reinvented reality that Picasso and Braque invented just ten or twenty years before. The abstracted breasts of the figure bring to mind the mature Cubism of Ossip Zadkine, Jean Souverbie...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Murano Style Handblown Art Glass Brown Bald Eagle Bird Figurine - a Pair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Murano Style Handblown Art Glass Brown Bald Eagle Bird Figurines - a Pair. Circa Late 20th Century. Measurements: 10" H x 4.25" W x 5" D.
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
"Two Women, " Large, Lovely Mid-Century Sculpture by Lore Friedrich-Gronau
By Lore Friedrich-Gronau
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of movement and grace, this entrancing sculpture was designed by Lore Friedrich-Gronau for the famous Karlsruhe ceramic works in Germany in the ...
Category
1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay
"Mother and Child, " Brilliantly-Glazed Ceramic Sculpture by Wiener Werkstätte
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Glazed in the gorgeous, brilliant glazes characteristic of the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop), and adopting a long, lean, almost Mannerist pose, this lovely sculpture of a mothe...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Chenille
Bronze Cup with Race Cars and Motorcycles by Etling, France
By Etling Paris
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Rare, perhaps unique, this beautifully sculpted and cast bronze cup features a frieze of racing cars and motorcycles in the heat of the race, above a series of garlands with oaks lea...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"in the Forest, " Midcentury Églomisé Painting with Woman and Dog in Red and Blue
By Marianna von Allesch
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A magnificent example of midcentury reverse-painted glass, this piece by Marianna von Allesch depicts a woman and her square-jawed dog, possibly a boxer, amidst a grove of trees and ...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
"Forest Nymphs, " Pair of Large Art Deco Female Nude Sculptures, Alabaster
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully sculpted and highly dramatic, this pair of large Art Deco sculptures in creamy alabaster depict two female nude figures resting on leafy tree boughs, their hair streaming...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
$9,200 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Gladiator and Jester, Brutalist Sculptures in Mixed Metal, 1966-1967
By B. O
Byrne
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Superlative examples of welded, Brutalist sculptures from the 1960s, this pairing of Gladiator and "King's Clown" were executed in steel, brass and slate by B. O'Byrne. The sculptor ...
Category
1960s American Brutalist Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
"Exchange of Cultures, " High Style Art Deco Porcelain Lamp Base w/ Nudes by Robj
By ROBJ
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Illustrated in "Ceramiche Robj" and considered a major design by the renowned sculptor and ceramicist, this large piece was probably made in early 1930s to coincide with the debut of the Exposition Coloniale Internationale in Paris, which attracted almost 9 million visitors in less than a year. Rare and striking, this porcelain table lamp base depicts the globe surmounted by a tightly composed cluster of nude and semi-nude female figures representing cultures around the world. The women depicted here, all glazed in a gorgeous snow-white glaze highlighted in gold, are clearly representing a range of nations in Asia and Africa, probably coinciding with the nations that were part of the French Colonial Empire in the 1930s, before they won their freedom. Much like the one surviving building from the Exposition, now the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration, which features a massive bas relief mural...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Sleeping Child Bookends, Probably Viennese, with Pale Blue and Yellow Glazes
By Wiener Werkstätte
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Entirely charming and winsome, this pair of bookends depicting nude children with golden hair who are sleeping on pale blue beds, was probably executed by one of the ceramic artists associated with the Wiener Werkstätte (or Vienna Workshop) in the 1910s and 1920s. Established in 1903 by Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann, the Vienna Workshop brought together architects, artists and designers working in ceramics, fashion, silver, furniture and the graphic arts, including Michael Powolny, Berthold...
Category
1920s Austrian Arts and Crafts Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
$3,160 Sale Price / set
20% Off
"Shepherd and Shepherdess, " Monumental Art Deco Sculptures, Probably by De Vegh
By Geza De Vegh
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Monumental and dignified, this pair of Art Deco sculptures depict a shepherd and shepherdess, crisply shaped and stylized like the best of 1930s public sculpture, and painted in rich but subdued colors with an effect like sun-bleached stucco. It is our estimation that they were sculpted by Geza De Vegh, the Hungarian-American sculptor who created a range of pieces for the Lenox and Lamberton Scammell porcelain works, both in Trenton, New Jersey, as well as a group of rare ceramic pieces for the Phoenix Company. Importantly, De Vegh's work was very popular among set designers and art directors in Hollywood. His works are evident in the background of important Bette Davis films such as "The Letter," art directed by Carl Weyl; and "Now Voyager...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
$5,850 Sale Price / set
25% Off
"Mother Embracing Child, " WPA-Era Sculpture in Turquoise and Charcoal
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Stylized and reductive, this beautiful 1930s-vintage ceramic sculpture depicts a sitting mother holding her child very close, her legs crossed...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay
"Exotic Head Vases, " Unique California Pottery Sculptures, circa Late 1940s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Exotic and dramatic, this pair of tall head vases, partially molded and partially hand-formed, depict mask-like smiling heads with chocolate-brown bodies contrasting with sage-green ...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay
"African Figures", Important Art Deco Sculptures, France, for Printz Interior
By Jean Camus
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Representing the fascination that so many French and Belgian sculptors had in the people of the colonies established by their nations in West and Central Africa, culminating in the e...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
$10,000 Sale Price / set
20% Off
"Hand to Head, " Rare, Art Deco Sculpture with Female Figure in Blue and Green
By Kaiser Keramik
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully glazed in tones of pale taupe, sea blue and soft green, this rare sculpture depicting a female figure robed in Classical garb was made by Kieler Kunst-Keramic in Kiel, Ge...
Category
1920s German Art Deco Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
$2,080 Sale Price
20% Off
Figural Candlestick, Delightful 1950s-Era Ceramic Sculpture with Candleholder
By Lore Friedrich-Gronau
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Graceful and quiet, this entrancing figural candlestick was designed by Lore Friedrich-Gronau for the famous Karlsruhe ceramic works in Germany in th...
Category
1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
"Memorial", Large Maquette for Art Deco Memorial Monument with Male Nude
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Unique and powerful, this large plaster maquette for a major monument memorializing the dead, perhaps soldiers lost in World War I, features a trio of Art Deco angels...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
"Tashlich" by Samuel M Segal Judaism Vintage Brutalist Green Plaster Sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Tashlich" by Samuel M Segal Judaism Vintage Brutalist Green Plaster Sculpture. Item features painted plaster, brutalist form, brass plaque to base, impressive vintage sculpture. "Ta...
Category
1960s Brutalist Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Martha J Cornwell American Arts
Crafts Glazed Terracotta Elephant Sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine early 20th century sculpture of an elephant.
Attributed to Martha Jackson Cornwell.
Depicting a stoutly modeled elephant on an integral plinth with a blanket draped across its back and an Indian headdress or harness across its forehead.
Decorated in white, blue, and green glazes on a terracotta body and with inset beads or pearls to the elephant's head and forehead.
Cornwell was a student of Kenyon Cox, Arthur Dow, and Augustus Saint Gaudens at the Art League in New York City at the end of the 19th Century. She was subsequently an assistant to St. Gaudens for a decade and a half on his Shaw Memorial in Boston.
All in all, simply a wonderful, unique sculpture from one of America's important female sculptors of the early 20th Century!
Date:
Early 20th Century
Overall Condition:
It is in overall fair, as-pictured, used estate condition.
Condition Details:
With some losses to the blanket edges...
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
E. Popineau Cymbals Dancer Sculpture
By Francois Emile Popineau
Located in Philadelphia, PA
French Art Deco patinated bronze sculpture, by E. Popineau, circa 1920, cymbals dancer. Signed. Also stamped by foundry, la Stele. 36.25" high. 17" wide at hands.
Francois-Emile ...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Brutalist Mid Century Steel Metal Family Table Sculpture Signed Hardy
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Brutalist Mid Century Steel Metal Family Table Sculpture Signed Hardy. Item features a sculpture of a man, woman, and child (in the man's arms) unique brutalist design. Signe...
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Brutalist Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Sheryl C. Benjamin Female Nude Modernist Abstract Solid Carved Marble Sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Sheryl Cannold Benjamin (American, 1924 - 2023) Female Nude Abstract Modernist Solid Carved Marble Sculpture. Weighs approximately 30 pounds. Circa Late 20th Century. Measurements: 1...
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Modern Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
"Mother and Child, " Monumental Mahogany Sculpture by Zettler, Logan Medal
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large and highly affecting, this 52-inch high mahogany sculpture of a woman holding her child, looking out pensively into the world, won the Frank Logan Medal of the Arts at the 22nd Chicago Artist Exhibition in 1918. It is the greatest masterpiece of Emil Zettler, who is best known today for his architectural sculptures in collaboration with George Grant Elmslie, Perkins, Hamilton & Fellows, Holabird & Roche and other leading Chicago architects. An array of his sculptures survive, for example, on the facade of the Old Second National Bank, Aurora, Illinois, as well as two great hotels: the Palmer House...
Category
1910s American Belle Époque Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mahogany
$13,200 Sale Price
20% Off
"Whispering with the Sphynx", Stunning, Rare Art Deco Bookends, France
By Marcel Guillard
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Unusual in conception and stunning in color, this pair of bookends from France -- unlike other depictions of the sphynx which show a man straining to hear its whisper -- depict a win...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
"Apollo", Large Art Deco Bronze Sculpture w/ Male Nude for Ocean Liner, 1948
By M. Mascherini
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the great, indisputable masterpieces of Marcello Mascherini's career, and one of his relatively early works, this large bronze depicting Apollo with his lyre was made for the ...
Category
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"David with His Hound, " Unique and Important Sculpture by Paul Manship, 1914
By Paul Manship
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A dignified and poignant bronze by America's greatest sculptor of the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, this unique piece by Paul Manship depicts young David in ancient Israel...
Category
1910s American Art Deco Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Eternal Springtime, " Romantic Antique Sculpture in Marble with Nudes by Kalish
By Max Kalish 1
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Although Max Kalish is renowned for his bronze sculptures of laborers in 1930s, America, he also carved remarkable pieces in marble, often depicting idealized figures and couples in ...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Philadelphia Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
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