Sculpture, Carvings & Other

Stock: 15641

A large and finely carved alabaster figure of a water carrier in classical drapery. The figure is very much after the antique, but more naturalistic than the earlier, grand tour alabaster figures.
English, c.1860.

		Height
		20 11⁄16" 52.5 cms

Stock: 15646

A life size Victorian lead statue depicting a putto carrying a mask, perhaps tragedy.
English, mid-19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	12 3⁄16" 31 cms	31 7⁄8" 81 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms

Stock: 15622

A pair of large and decorative Victorian cast iron seated lions holding polished brass blank armorial shields. These would look fabulous as decorative objects on a surface, or on a hearth to dress the interior of a fireplace. The shields could even be engraved with a monogram.

English, c.1870

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	Width	Height	Depth
	5 3⁄16" 13.2 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms	5 11⁄16" 14.5 cms

Stock: 15558

An exceptionally finely carved and very large alabaster group of the Judgement of Paris, depicting Paris seated and wearing his Phrygian cap, offering the Hesperidean apple to a lightly draped Venus, whilst the jealous figures of Hera and Athena consol each other. The scene is mounted on a rectangular plinth. Italian, mid 19th century.

Photograph before restoration.

Provenance: A collection within a fine Wiltshire Townhouse.

	Width	Height	Depth
	15 3⁄8" 39 cms	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	6 11⁄16" 17 cms

Stock: 15536

A large Regency plaster figure, by Humphrey Hopper, painted with a simulated bronze patina, on a circular base and holding the fitting for a torchere. The figure is mostly likely to be a depiction of a Vestal Virgin given her hooded robes.
English, early 19th century. Unsigned.

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		Height
		43 1⁄4" 110 cms
		9 13⁄16" 25 cms

Stock: 15594

A pair of bronze twin handled campana urns in the classical style, with a low relief decoration reminiscent of a Greek Vase. Italian, 20th century.

		Height
		12 3⁄16" 31 cms
		9 1⁄8" 23 cms

Stock: 15559

A pair of very finely carved 19th century alabaster figures of muses, in classical dress, each standing on circular pedestals intricately carved with flowers and beading. The figures after after Antonio Canova's, Dancers, or his Danzatrice con le manu sui fianchi and his danzatrie col dito al mento. Italian, c.1850.

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		Height
		19 11⁄16" 50 cms

Stock: 15552

An elegant bronze study of a female dancer with a cold painted green dress, by the French sculptor George Charles Coudray (1883-1932). Impressed with the Société des Bronzes de Paris pastille mark and stamped by the retailer, Tiffany & Co.

French, c.1900.

Notes: La Société des Bronzes de Paris (The Paris Art Bronzes Society) was active between 1875 -1930. This foundry was located in Paris.

		Height
		27 5⁄8" 70 cms

Stock: 15390

A small Statuary marble Regency style lion paw sculpture almost certainly once part of a fireplace. English, circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	6 3⁄16" 15.8 cms	4 13⁄16" 12.3 cms	4 11⁄16" 12 cms

Stock: 4196

A pair of small decorative, Statuary marble Regency carved ionic capitals with their original patina. a/f English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	11" 28 cms	10" 25.5 cms	10 3⁄8" 26.5 cms

Stock: 11449

A massive sculpture of a Buddhist Deity carved in teak in the form of a mask head surmounted by a small carving of Ganesh. It is believed to be a representation of a Buddhist Door Guardian such sculptures would have been placed at an entrance or doorway of a building, a temple or home, to ward off evil. This sculpture is carved in six separate sections and is a splendid example of such works of art. He came to us from a large restaurant in East London.
Indian, 19th century.

PS: If anyone can shed more light on this sculpture we would be delighted to hear from you.


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	width	height	depth
	47 13⁄16" 121.5 cms	78 11⁄16" 200 cms	8 1⁄4" 21 cms

Stock: 9862

A pair of George III carved pine chimneypiece jambs. The garlanded figures are of Bacchus, God of the Grape Harvest, who enjoyed, riotous ,Bacchanalian celebrations, and Ceres, Goddess of Agriculture specifically the cultivation of wheat, grains and corn. Appropriately, abundant, trailing festoons of grapes on one and wheat and grains on the other, descend the tapering, volute columns. Photos before restoration.
English, circa 1810.

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	width	height	depth
	12 3⁄16" 31 cms	47 3⁄8" 120.5 cms	15" 38 cms

Stock: 13433

A finely carved, silvered pine and gesso headboard or overdoor panel. in the English Regency manner. Shaped in the stele style with scrolling shoulders and surmounted by a pierced akroter crest. It is centred by a floral and foliate decorated oval set amid rosette and leaf spay motifs. English, early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	66 7⁄8" 170 cms	22" 56 cms

Stock: 11271

A pair of small stone 16th century style heads, one perhaps representing an Ottoman figure, the other wearing a Tudor bonnet associated with academic tradition, and worn by Thomas Cromwell. They may have once been mounted on the walls of a manor house. There is damage to the back of the scholar's head. English, late 18th century or later.

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	width	height
	9 1⁄8" 23 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms

Stock: 15393

A limestone architectural capital with acanthus and scrolled carving in the Neoclassical manner. English, 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	15" 38 cms	10" 25.5 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms

Stock: 12744

A pair of architectural Portland Stone c scroll corbels. English, 18th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	10 3⁄16" 26 cms	17 1⁄4" 44 cms	11" 28 cms

Stock: 13641

A pair of beautiful, heavy bronze, tapering pilasters of female warriors with dragon crested helmets, ornate breast plates, and draped robes terminating in clawed feet. They are most probably depictions of Athena the Greek Goddess of warfare but also of wisdom, courage, justice, strength and the arts, and are possibly by the French sculptor Provin Serres(1840 - ).
French, circa 1860.

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	width	height	depth
	8 13⁄16" 22.3 cms	32 1⁄8" 81.5 cms	5" 12.7 cms

Stock: 13006

An Edwardian, near pair of large oak wall brackets each with three carved, reversed games birds, possibly stylised partridge, above bunched nuts in a bed of leaves.
Early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	15 3⁄8" 39 cms	21 1⁄8" 53.5 cms	9 1⁄4" 23.5 cms

Stock: 15391

A near pair of ornamental statuary marble ionic capitals with scrolled shell cartouche in the Georgian style. Probably once part of the columns on a fireplace surround.
English, circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Left	11" 28 cms	5 3⁄8" 13.6 cms	5 1⁄2" 14 cms
Right	11" 28 cms	5 13⁄16" 14.8 cms

Stock: 11140

A pair of ornamental Statuary marble collars or plinths in the Jacobean style with strapwork and lozenge carving. Probably once part of a pair of chimneypiece columns.
English, mid 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	7 1⁄8" 18 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms	5 11⁄16" 14.5 cms

Stock: 7159

A pair of charming Georgian parcel-gilt female terms or caryatids, mounted above tapering shafts with carved anthemion decoration. Possibly once part of a fireplace or equally they may have been a wall decoration framing a doorway in a salon.
English, circa 1770.

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	Width	Height
	9" 22.9 cms	72" 182.9 cms

Stock: 7237

A single Statuary marble ornamental Corinthian capital in the Neoclassical style with carved rosettes and acanthus leaf detail.
English, 19th century.

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	Width	Height
	6 1⁄4" 16 cms	5 1⁄8" 13 cms

Stock: 4270

A fine, large Victorian roundel of a Golden Eagle perched on a rocky crag, carved from solid oak.
English circa 1890.

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	diameter
	27" 68.6 cms

Stock: 4922

A pair of small, carved oak Jacobean heads of a noble man and woman probably once the figure heads on a pair of chimneypiece caryatids. Some wear and splits in the wood commensurate with age - a/f.
English, late 17th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	5 1⁄8" 13 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms

Stock: 15298

A large and beautiful antique giltwood sunburst centred by a carved mask, mounted on a trompe l'oeil roundel, of the Greek God Apollo as a personification of the Sun. Radiating out from the mask are twenty two sun rays linked to a giltwood framed circle of further trompe l'oeil set with four giltwood bosses. It is likely to have once been a ceiling adornment in a grand Italian palazzo.
Italian, 18th century or earlier.

Photos before restoration.

Notes: Apollo was a Greek Roman deity and one of the Twelve Olympians. Recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth, healing, the Sun and light, poetry and prophecy he was the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt.

Link to: Antique sculptures, carvings, bronzes, plaques and tablets one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more. He is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Seen as the most beautiful god and the ideal of the kouros (ephebe, or a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo is considered to be the most Greek of all the gods. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu.[1]

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	Diameter	Depth
	57 7⁄8" 147 cms	3 1⁄8" 8 cms

Stock: 12105

A large pair of Neoclassical stripped pine caryatid, possibly once part of a fireplace surround. The figures appear to be female their upper bodies draped in tasseled shawls.English, late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
each jamb	59 1⁄8" 150 cms	11" 28 cms	6 7⁄8" 17.5 cms

Stock: 11475

A small, carved alabaster sculpture of a Middle Eastern gentleman possibly Saladin (the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria), raised on a black marble plinth. The figure may have been cut down from a full size figure please see the last image below.
Early 19th, possibly late 18th century.

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		height without plinth	height with plinth
		7 1⁄2" 19 cms	9 1⁄2" 24.1 cms

Stock: 7136

A small marble plaque of a imperious Roman senator carved in low relief.
Circa 1960.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	10" 25.4 cms	14 13⁄16" 37.5 cms

Stock: 2845

A large 19th century Doulton ceramic pediment plaque of a female head with two putti in the Renaissance manner. Some damage a/f .
English, circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	33 1⁄2" 85 cms	16 1⁄2" 42 cms
Internal

Stock: 9694

A large low relief antique carved Italian circular marble wall plaque of a young Florentine noble in the Renaissance manner. Italian, 18th century.

The last image shows a similar plaque of Ludovico il Moro Sfarzo, the 7th Duke of Milan (1451 - 1508) displayed at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

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	Diameter	Depth
	24 13⁄16" 63 cms	5 1⁄2" 14 cms

Stock: 12900

A small Neoclassical style terracotta garden lion in a recumbent position, rather sphinx like, raised on a rectangular base.
English, circa 1870.

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	width	height
	24" 61 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms

Stock: 7579

A finely carved, late George III or George IV Statuary Marble chimneypiece tablet, originally the centre piece of a fireplace frieze, depicting Artemis reclining on rocks with her hound before her. English, late 18th early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	17 7⁄8" 45.5 cms	7 13⁄16" 19.7 cms	2 13⁄16" 7 cms

Stock: 13597

A pair of attractive Victorian carved oak female caryatids or wall brackets in the classical style. Possibly once mounted on the jambs and supporting the shelf of an antique fireplace surround or mounted either side of a doorway. English, circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	9 1⁄8" 23 cms	33 1⁄8" 84 cms	5 1⁄8" 13 cms

Stock: 14384

A pair of Baroque style polished brass models of the Marley Horses after Guillaume Coustou the Elder (1677-1746).

English, early 20th century.

Notes: The original pair were carved in Carrara Marble and were over three meters high and were commissioned in 1739 for the park of the Chateau De Marly. They were moved in 1795 to the Place de la Concord in Paris where they remained for two centuries but were moved again in 1985 to the Marly Sculpture Courtyard at the Louvre Museum and a concrete pair replaced them in the Place de la Concord. .

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	Width	Height	Depth
	15 11⁄16" 40 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	7 11⁄16" 19.5 cms

Stock: 14286

A pair of fine marble resin relief plaques, in ornate carved giltwood frames, after the Flemish sculptor Francois Duquesnoy, (1594 to 1644). Copies of the originals made in Paris in the late 19th century. Each depicts Neoclassical scenes of nymphs and cloud-borne putti. One of the figures is probably that of Venus rising from the sea. Each is signed Francois Duquesnoy Paris 1892. The reverse of each bears a bronze medallion with the words Virges Acquirit Eundo ( which roughly translates as We gather strength as we go) and Lutet Parisi M.D. CC.XVIL. In good condition.
French, dated 1892

Notes: Medallion - A depiction of Fame, flying towards a rising sun, sounding one of her trumpets, to which is attached a banner and in her other hand she holds another trumpet.

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	width	height
	11" 28 cms	22 3⁄8" 57 cms