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Sculpture/Statuary — Philips Auctions Australia
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| Number of lots recorded: | 96 |
| Lots with images: | 96 |
| Prices available: | 96 |
Category:
Sculpture/Statuary
- Animals & Birds (246)
- Busts/Heads (56)
- Equestrian (10)
| Lot | Description | Price | Image |
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| *** | A Demetre Chiparus bronze and ivory figural group 'Les Amis de Toujours', Demetre H. Chiparus (1886-1947), circa 1925, the impressive cold painted, parcel-gilt and silvered bronze and ivory figural group, modelled as a lady standing, her two faithful… | *** |  |
| *** | A Gerdago Art Deco bronze and ivory figure of an exotic dancer by Gerdago, Gerda Gottstein aka Gerdago (1906-2004), circa 1930s modelled posing on one foot, dressed in a colourful cold painted costume inspired by the ballet Russe, mounted on an oval green… | *** |  |
| *** | Maas, Christian (French, B. 1951), 'Valse au clair de lune' (Dancing in the Moonlight), 2007 Patinated Bronze. Signed 'Christian Mass' to the base and with his foundry stamp. Comes with a hardcover copy of his Catalogue Raisonn (Volume II: Sculptures… | *** |  |
| *** | An exotic 'Gerdago' bronze & ivory dancer (Gerda Iro 1906-2004), 1930s, Vienna, Arthur Rubinstein foundry monogram, signed Gerdago, Austria, a futuristic dancing figure of elongated stylised form wearing a billowing, gown with pointed collar and tall hat,… | *** |  |
| *** | Inge King (1915-2016), untitled patinated bronze sculpture. Signed 'Ik' to base height 33 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An antique ivory covered tankard with classical decoration, Second half 19th century, probably German, richly carved throughout with a continuous Bacchanalian scene to the body with male and female figures, putti and lecherous fawns between ornate… | *** |  |
| *** | A fine cold painted spelter and Ivoreen Art Deco figural group by Demetre Chiparus (1886-1947), a woman in a flowing green dress and a modish cloche, with ivoreen arms and painted face, accompanied by three goats nibbling at flowers, raised on a long… | *** |  |
| *** | An exotic 'Gerdago' bronze & ivory dancer (Gerda Iro 1906-2004), 1930s, Vienna, Arthur Rubinstein foundry, signed Gerdago, an animated stylised dancing figure wearing a handkerchief point blue dress, with cape and a feather pointed hat, cold painted with… | *** |  |
| *** | A superb wood and gesso blackamoor, circa 1870. A shop fixture in Buckley & Nunn, Melbourne, the large life size figure fashioned in the style of a blackamoor dressed in a Moorish costume of turban, waistcoat and slippers embellished with gilt and… | *** |  |
| *** | A green marble figure of mercury with matching pedestal. 19th century, the figure of Roman god mercury wearing winged talaria and petasos, holds in his arms a child as he strides purposefully ahead, mounted on a rectangular plinth and complete with a… | *** |  |
| *** | A substantial Victorian classical marble statue with pedestal. Late 19th century, the figure depicts a classical Roman maiden draped and set upon a circular base. Statue. Height 101 cm. Pedestal. Height 52 cm. Width 37 cm Depth 38 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Signed bronze female nude sculpture, by Lenore Boyd | *** |  |
| *** | A carved two-tone marble figure of a classical maiden, early 20th century, the finely carved two-tone marble semi-nude figure kneeling with one knee, wearing Egyptian-style beaded headband and drapery around her waist, raised on a square marble plinth,… | *** |  |
| *** | Philippe, Paul (1870-1930), early 20th century, French. a fine ivory figurine of a standing nude female figure her arms crossed, raised upon a chocolate toned and shaped onyx base; with inscribed signature, P. Philippe to base. Height 31.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A polychrome and giltwood blackamoor floor lamp, early 20th century, the figure supporting a rococo style eight branch candelabrum with electric, lights and raised on an ornate waisted and carved giltwood base, height 202 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A fine Art Deco figural group, 'The Guardians' by G. Gori, circa 1920s, in patinated spelter, featuring an elegantly clad woman in a flowing medieval inspired dress with a jewelled hem, matching drop sleeves and a cloche, with ivorine hands and face, and… | *** |  |
| *** | A signed Art Deco spelter figure of a woman with a goat, circa 1920s-30s, signed D.H. Chiparus, a woman in a beaded and scroll patterned gown and a textured cloche, with hands and face in ivorine, teasing a goat with a bouquet of flowers, raised on a… | *** |  |
| *** | A magnificent Austrian bronze figure of an elephant with game hunters and carrying a slain tiger, circa 1900, with maker's cipher mark for Franz Bergmann (1861-1936), the realistically modelled elephant in muted cold painted colours carrying a tiger… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Nouveau marble bust of iris, signed E. Villanis, circa 1900. Fashioned as a beautiful young maiden, her flowing hair cascading around her serene face, with iris blooms swathed across her body. Height 65 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An American bronze sculpture. By Kay Worden, signed and dated 1966. Sculpted as a nude female, standing, leaning forward with her hands in her hair which is flung over her face, finished in a clay like texture surface, heavily patinated. Height 56 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of marble busts on marble columns. In, the manner of Cordier, modelled as a turbaned and bearded Arabic gentleman and his pensive female counterpart, the black marble busts contrasting with white marble head-dresses and upper garments. On black… | *** |  |
| *** | Debut, Marcel (1865-1933) 'Enlevement D'europe' patinated cast bronze, signed on the bronze base, on a white-veined black marble base. Height 33 cm. Width 44 cm (overall) | *** |  |
| *** | An Italian 'Arab and camel' figure, 19th century, signed P.C.Eidschi, Firenze, made in Italy, the alabaster figures resplendent in gilt detailed costumes, riding a spelter camel, the sculpture mounted on a marble plinth | *** |  |
| *** | A fine large bronze, 'The Wicked Pony', after Frederic Remington (1861-1909), in a limited edition from the Raphael Pealle foundry, originally cast in 1898 and depicting a rider thrown from his spirited bucking bronco, in modulating tones of bronze upon a… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco bronze figural group by Alexander Morlon (1878-1951), circa 1925, design 8776, the silvered bronze figure of a seated nude female nymph accompanied by a goat, displayed on a timber plinth, with inscribed signature of A. Morlon to base of… | *** |  |
| *** | An fine large Art Nouveau marble and granite bust, 'Mora', circa early 1920s, an exotically dressed woman with a headband and beaded adornments, the woman in white marble, her dress and embellishments in pink granite, raised on a tapering square plinth,… | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze neo classical figurative setting, circa 1890, signed A. Lemaire, the scene displays an elegant woman swathed in Hellenic costume and sandals holding a baby in one arm and supporting a small child in the other all mounted to a shaped plinth.… | *** |  |
| *** | An American bronze sculpture, circa 1970. 'Kneeling naked lady with Outstretched arms'. Initialled G.T. To foot and dated 1979. Provenance: Purchased Rockefeller gallery New York, circa 1980. Height 40 cm. Width 55 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco bronze - 'Girl with stag and Doe', depicting a running, naked maiden with a stag and doe in tow, her arms outstretched in joyous, suspended movement. Height 61 cm. Length 85 cm. Depth 19 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze exotic dancer by John Wolfgang Elischer (1891-1966), an eastern dancer in pantaloons and pointed boots striking an artistic pose, raised upon an oval bronze plate and a stepped marble plinth, incised mark of Elischer to the socle; Viennese born,… | *** |  |
| *** | A signed Art Deco cold painted spelter figure of a woman holding a baby by Uriano (Ugo Cipriani 1887-1960), the silvered female figure in a knee length tunic with train decorated with fine gold marbled swirls and raised on a stepped and decoratively tiled… | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze and ivory figurine, circa 1900, signed indistinctly to hem. A female figure in medieval attire with a bodice and draping skirt and cape, and holding a basket in her left hand, her hair scrolled in buns, and decorated with a filet, the head and… | *** |  |
| *** | Boyd, Lenore (b. 1953), a female nude, bronze, modelled kneeling with her head wrapped in a scarf and turned to her left, her arms linked behind her left hip, brown patinated with darker recesses, signed 'Lenore Boyd' under one thigh. Height 42 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A neoclassical Italian alabaster figure of a maiden, circa 1890. G. Pettini and Figli, the maiden in a full length dress decorated with scrolling vines is standing on a square plinth. Her hair adorned with consort Crown and beaded band, signed verso G.… | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze figure of a Greco-Roman woman, 19th century, marked to base, a Minosi Napoli, the figure in a serpentine pose arranging her drapery, upon a stepped circular base, height 64 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Chiparus, Demetre H. (1886-1947), 1920s-30s, an Art Deco figure of the period, but after the original, in patinated and cold painted spelter and ivorine, depicting a modish woman in a cloche hat and medieval draping attire with a well modelled ivorine… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of French bronze urns, the central sphere with pierced fleur de lys design with winged angel mounted handles and a flared and scalloped upswept spout, on a stepped circular base and black marble socle. Height 46 cm. Width 16 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter figure of a woman walking a dog, circa 1920s-30s, the glamorous figure of a woman in a medieval style long trailing gown with, bell sleeves and cold painted decoration, with ivorine face and hands, walking a greyhound and raised on a… | *** |  |
| *** | A fine marble bust of a young woman by Giovanni Brogi (1853-1919), circa 1900, a bust of a young gazing woman wearing a headscarf, in white Carrara marble, her laced outfit in contrasting rose and grey flecked marble, raised on a shaped pedestal; incised… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco cold-painted spelter figure of a huntress French, 1920s/30s, modelled in light flowing drapery, kneeling and drawing her ivory bow to shoot at two antelope, her skin green, her drapery black, silver, and gilt, the antelope black with ivory… | *** |  |
| *** | A large bronze figure 'Devoir Civique' by Eugene Marioton (1854-1925), circa 1900, the lean muscular figure of a gesturing swordsmith standing by an anvil, the tools of his trade by his feet, title incised to the square base, incised signature, Eug.… | *** |  |
| *** | A signed Art Deco spelter figural group by George Maxim, circa 1920s, an energetic group of a girl in a short tunic running with two hounds; raised on a striated dark marble base, incised signature of George Maxim to the lower right, height 45 cm, width… | *** |  |
| *** | A large Art Deco figural group by G. Arisse, circa 1925, the cold painted figural group of maiden kneeling, flanked by a recumbent hound' and pheasant, and wearing a classical style tunic with striking spotted capes flowing from her armbands, raised upon… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco ivory figurine of a woman by Louis Sasson, circa 1920s, France, a smiling semi-nude woman in a serpentine pose encircled by a loosely draped cape held behind her head and to the side, with one gold armband and decorative motifs to her coiffed… | *** |  |
| *** | A fine Art Deco dancing girl bronze figure by Limousin, circa 1925, a balletic young woman with modish bobbed hair and wearing a short tunic, posed on one leg and balancing with a large hoop, in patinated green and contrasting golden brown colours and… | *** |  |
| *** | A rare Art Deco bronze model of a panther by Georges Lavroff, circa 1925, the taut and stylised model of a patinated bronze panther crouching low across a triangular plinth above a verde antico marble base, inscribed Lavroff to the rear leg, height 20 cm,… | *** |  |
| *** | A French neo-classical bronze model of Athena, goddess of war, 19th century, wearing classical attire and holding her attributes of a spear, aegis with Medusa head, and raised upon a bronze globe above a mottled red marble pillar with a moulded wreath… | *** |  |
| *** | A fine Art Deco bronze figure, circa 1920s, a powerful study of a man pushing a raft with a pole, upon an integral base, in patinated colours and inscribed mark of Ouline to base, height 45 cm, length 63 cm, width 18 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A striking blackamoor electric candelabrum, circa 1950, the floor lamp fashioned as a Nubian styled blackamoor who kneels upon a rocky covered plinth supporting a gilded and ornate ten branched foliate encrusted candelabrum high above his head. Height:… | *** |  |
| *** | A superb bronze Orientalist figure. late 19th century, signed (Jean-Didier) Debut, the figure fashioned in the Orientalist manner depicts a Tunisian water bearer with plaque to base Prix de Rome. Signed to base and with foundry mark. Height 32 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Nardini, Mario. 'Plaque after Frederic Remington'. Bronze panel, signed lower left. Height 91 cm. Width 35 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco bronze Panther, circa 1930, the prowling cat crouches low ready to pounce, the surface painted in a faux verdigris and all mounted on a black marble plinth. Height 23 cm. Width 73 cm. Depth 16 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A marble and gilt bronze bust of a medieval woman by Georges Flamand (1862-1940), circa 1900, with foundry mark, H. Mazet-edit, Paris, no. 20, signed, a contemplative woman with medieval headdress and a one shouldered cloak with fur trim, holding an ivory… | *** |  |
| *** | Van Der Straeten, Georges (1856-1941). Belgian school. An ivory and gilded bronze figure of a young girl in a crinoline and wearing a bonnet, her face and hands in ivory, mounted upon a taupe stepped octagonal marble base, with inscribed signature, van… | *** |  |
| *** | Godet, Henri (1863-1937) 'Ophelie', patinated bronze. Height 58 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A standing rabbit bronze figure, 20th century, the adorable rabbit standing on its hind legs in an alert and playful position with a textured body and dark chocolate patina, no mark sighted, height 28.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An alabaster figure of an Egyptian maiden, late 19th century, the sculpture of a lady in costume standing beside a water source and holding a water jar. Height 60 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter and ivorine figural group signed Menneville, Ugo Cipriani (1887-1960) pseud. 'Menneville', circa 1930s modelled as a seated young woman smelling a rose, in a long gown and a textured cloche, her hands and face of moulded ivorine,… | *** |  |
| *** | A French bronze figure of the seated Moses by Barbedienne, late 19th century cast by Ferdinand Barbedienne after the original marble by Michelangelo, now in the church of S. Pietro in Vincoli, Rome., the seated figure of Moses holding the tablets of the… | *** |  |
| *** | An exotic 'Gerdago' bronze & ivory dancer (Gerda Iro 1906-2004), 1930s, Vienna, Arthur Rubinstein foundry monogram, signed Gerdago, Austria, a dramatically poised stylised dancing figure wearing a winged and flaring, cat suit with a cloche cape, cold… | *** |  |
| *** | A French Orientalist cold painted cast metal figural jardiniere by L. Hottot, Louis Hottot (French, 1834-1905), circa 1900 the cast metal figure of an exotically clad ottoman gentleman standing and holding a tray, with a bronzed jardiniere behind him,… | *** |  |
| *** | A steel figurative sculpture. Late 20th century. The life size figure depicts a young ballet dancer seated on the ground and stretching over towards one foot the surface created from individual rectangular cut steel tiles welded together. Height 45 cm,… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco small walnut buffet, circa 1935, the low rectangular form set to top with a raised grey breche marble panel and to each end a rolled corner central and below a glass door then flanked by a pair of solid doors all raised on a four footed… | *** |  |
| *** | An antique marble and alabaster statue of a maiden, circa 1900, an Edwardian 'Gibson Girl' style maiden walking with her dress blowing in the breeze accentuating her body form, raised on a gun barrel marble pedestal to an octagonal base, height 64 cm,… | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze figural group of a nymph and satyr, after Jean Michel Clodion (1738-1814), 'The Intoxication of Wine', a bacchanalian encounter featuring a naked nymph with wine glass cavorting with a satyr, and raised upon a cotton reel style plinth in black… | *** |  |
| *** | La Glaneuse' by Eugene-Antoine Aizelin (1821-1902), in bronze, a pensive female gleaner holding a sheaf of wheat and a staff over, her shoulder, mark of E. Aizelin Hors Concours to foot and plaque marked, Glaneuse d'Aizelin to circular base, height 68 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A French spelter figure of a snarling lion by Cartier, Thomas-Francois Cartier (1879-1943) Circa 1920s, the large stalking and growling male lion in gold and chocolate brown tones, upon a naturalistic tiered rockwork base, with incised signature of T.… | *** |  |
| *** | A terracotta classical figure. 9th century, signed Clodion, the scene depicts a young classical maiden holding upon her shoulder a small satyr set upon an oval base. Stamped to reverse. Height 56 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | A large Art Deco figure, circa 1930's, the reclining lady with cold painted floral patterned dress on marble and reeded chrome base, signed Urino. Height 31.5 cm. Width 59 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A French Art Deco figural group, circa 1930, in patinated bronze, a woman in a long draped gown seated on a plinth cautioning a leaping borzoi, upon a decorative and geometric multi coloured marble and onyx base. Height 41.5 cm. Width 45 cm. Depth 13 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of musical putti. Bearing signature: Clodion, 19th century, the pair each representing a musical part, one holding percussion sticks the other holding a horn both mounted on circular marble plinths. Heights: 20 cm, 18 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A signed Bi-Colour marble portrait bust of a young woman, circa 1900, the serene white marble figure of a young woman, gazing with her head inclined, a scarf tied with a band about her head and wearing a vigorously purple veined dress; faint inscribed… | *** |  |
| *** | An antique marble statue of a water carrier by Gugliemo Pugi (1850-1915), circa 1900, the serene contemplative figure of a reclining woman in classical attire with an amphora, in contrasting white and mottled grey marble and supported on an oval flecked… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco cold painted spelter figural group by Menneville, circa 1930s, the elegant figure of a seated woman in draped attire in muted colours with her seated borzoi beside her, upon a black marble ellipse base, engraved Menneville. Height 28 cm. Width… | *** |  |
| *** | A large bronze figure and dog group on a stepped marble stand, in the Art Deco style, a woman seated upon a marble wall, her gown in a waterfall drape flowing over the side, accompanied by her recumbent dog upon the lower step, both separately positioned… | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze figure, 'Allegory of Fishing' by Jean-Jacques Pradier, known as James (1790-1852), a finely cast semi-nude female figure with girdle and laureate wreath holding aloft her catch, a folded net over her left arm, and her foot upon a basket above a… | *** |  |
| *** | An alabaster and marble female bust, circa 1900. 'Sapho' (sic), the bust of the serene classical figure with a painted laurel garland about her tied hair and raised on a tapering rectangular mottled marble base marked 'Sapho' in distinctive lettering in… | *** |  |
| *** | A fine bronze sculpture of Icarus by Georges Colin (1876-1917), 'Le vol d'Icare' (1907), circa 1910. Depicting a large silvered & gilt bronze Icarus with spread wings standing on his toes, his body leaning forward to jump off a Cliff, all raised on a… | *** |  |
| *** | A large glazed earthenware elephant with figure. The hand modelled rustic figure of a harlequin style figure riding an elephant with a monkey behind him, in a mottled plum pink and greenish white glaze with exposed sections of the natural fired clay; with… | *** |  |
| *** | A French marble bust of a woman, circa 1900, the white marble bust of a serene young woman wearing a loosely tied head scarf, her laced dress and shaped plinth in contrasting mottled grey and cream marble, height 42 cm, width 31 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A marble statue of a classical maiden, circa 1900, a cool and refined model in Carrara marble of a seated nude figure upon a stony outcrop with drapery and holding an amphora, above a veined marble base with canted corners, height 38 cm, length 34 cm,… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco figure of Diana the huntress and side vases, circa 1920s, the cold painted spelter figure of a kneeling and semi clad Diana poised to shoot, from her ivorine bow upon a contrasting tiled marble and onyx base, accompanied by two green glass… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco bronze panther, circa 1920s-30s, the monumental figure of a stalking panther upon a black marble base, height 23 cm, length 68 cm, width 17 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Gori, G, an Art Deco figurine of a woman in a long flowing gown flanked by two large retrievers, upon an elliptical caramel onyx and black marble plinth, etched signature of G Gori to base lower left, circa 1920s/30s, in spelter and ivorine. Height 40 cm.… | *** |  |
| *** | A fine Victorian marble bust of a Spanish maiden, circa 1880, the long haired maiden wearing a pierced and wrapped shawl above a circular base. Height 52 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A white marble statue of a woman in Medieval dress, circa 1900, signed Gaudey, the well carved serene figure dispensing coins from a fabric pouch and attired in a brocade dress with a quilted collar and rope girdle, her coiffed hair secured beneath a hood… | *** |  |
| *** | An ormolu and bronze figure, 'Liseuse' by Albert-Ernest carrier -Belleuse (1824-1887), depicting a woman reading and dressed in medieval attire with richly decorated hems and bodice, with incised signature, carrier-Belleuse to the base, raised upon a… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco Nickel plated mantel tableaux, circa 1930's, signed P. Seca, the scene depicts a young bob haired girl befriending a small satyr all set upon an ebony base. Height 37 cm. Width 51 cm. Depth 15 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco figure with a pair of hounds, circa 1930, the elegant painted and gilded spelter lady resplendent in evening costume walking with a pair of fine hounds, mounted on an oval plinth of two coloured marbles. Height 47 cm. Width 70 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of antique European ivory figurines on silver bases, 19th century, probably German, a pair of animated male and female figures in 18th century attire, he a jaunty character with tree trunk support and she coquettishly offering a rose, raised on… | *** |  |
| *** | A French spelter figure lamp base 'Genie de la Musique' after the original by matt (Mathurin) Moreau, depicting a winged classical figure in a serpentine pose with flowing drapery holding a torch aloft, with name plaque to the faux marble base. Height 60… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco cold painted spelter figure of Diana by Demarc, circa 1920s-30s, a dynamic figure of Diana the huntress, with hair and simple girdle flying and posed on one foot having just released her arrow, in a green verdigris finish and raised on a black… | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze lion by Thomas Cartier (1879-1943), in a green patinated finish, the naturalistic model of a roaring male lion upon a craggy base, with incised mark of Cartier to base, height 36 cm, width 50 cm, depth 18 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A cold painted figural group of two girls and a bird by Demetre Chiparus (1886-1947), in a rubbed silvered and brass finish, depicting two small girls tentatively observing a stork, raised on a mottled caramel and cream onyx base, bearing inscribed… | *** |  |
| *** | A French ormolu erotic lady. Late 19th century, the dancing figure standing on a Persian rug exotically dressed twirls her skirt which is hinged to allow it to be flipped up to reveal the naked body mounted all on a circular marble plinth | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze figural group, Jean Francis, theodore Gechter, 1796-1844, early 19th century, the gilded figural bronze titled 'The Stag Hunt' set with a maiden on a horse above a stag being attacked by hounds, signed to base. Height 37 cm | *** |  |