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Sculpture/Statuary — Philips Auctions Australia
Auction House:
| Philips Auctions Australia | |
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| Number of lots recorded: | 96 |
| Lots with images: | 96 |
| Prices available: | 96 |
Category:
Sculpture/Statuary
- Animals & Birds (253)
- Busts/Heads (57)
- Equestrian (12)
| Lot | Description | Price | Image |
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| *** | A bronze figural candlestick, a female figure holding the stem of a lotus bud serving as the candle holder, her hair entwined with the holder, on a graduated black marble base, facsimile signature. Height 34 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A signed Art Deco spelter gazelle, circa 1920s, signed Limousin, a dramatically posed leaping gazelle in lustrous copper and bronze colours, raised on a cream marble base faced with brown and cream onyx, intaglio signature to spelter base, height 24.5 cm,… | *** |  |
| *** | A gilded spelter eagle by Charles Theodore Perron (1862-1934), 19th century, the spread winged eagle upon a globe and a waisted plinth above a green flecked marble base with canted corners; inscribed mark of Ch Perron to spelter base, height 23 cm, width… | *** |  |
| *** | Moreau, Auguste a (1834-1917). Water carrier, a bronze figure of a jovial young boy struggling under the weight of a broken water jar spilling its contents; inscribed signature of Aug Moreau to the base and raised upon a creamy green stepped circular… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter figure of a woman, circa 1930s, a modishly clad part kneeling woman with arms outstretched and holding a bird, in bronze and verdigris colours, raised on a mottled oatmeal marble base, signed indistinctly to hem of dress, height 17.5… | *** |  |
| *** | A spelter model of a stag, circa 1930s, an eight point stag in verdigris colours grazing at his foreleg, raised on a veined black marble base, height 14.5 cm, length 23 cm, width 9 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter Panther on a marble base, circa 1930s, a walking growling panther in deep chocolate colours upon a veined light grey marble rectangular base with rounded ends, height 18 cm, width 38 cm, depth 12 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A gilt bronze figure on a marble stand, fashioned as a running semi-clad Grecian lady, poised upon a ball and holding a small ewer in one hand, a cup in the other, upon a cylindrical marble base, height 25.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A cast iron horse with a distressed painted finish, the naturalistic model of a galloping horse with a verdigris, deep green and distressed gilt finish, height 21.5 cm, width 30 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A spelter deer and gazelle group, circa 1920s-30s, a recumbent deer and a recumbent gazelle in lustrous gold and brown colours, raised upon a two-tone marble base faced with contrasting tiles, height 22.5 cm, length 55 cm, width 12.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter deer figural group, circa 1920s, signed Leduc, comprising a recumbent and a standing deer flanking a fawn, in chocolate, bronze colours upon a mid grey marble base, incised signature to the short, end, height 29 cm, length 65 cm, width… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of French spelter figures by Rousseau, 19th century, 'Retour De Peche', and 'Pecheuse De Crevettes', male and female figures with baskets of seafood, in bronze colours upon shaped circular faux red marble bases, incised signatures to bases and… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco elephant photograph stand, circa 1930s, a pair of trumpeting spelter elephants in bronze colours, flanking a photograph stand with clear glass panes, raised on a long black marble and two tone onyx base in pale celadon and cream colours, total… | *** |  |
| *** | Chiparus, Demetre (1886-1947), after, in bronze, an exotically clad dancer affecting a reclining dance pose with one leg outstretched, an arm above her head, inscribed signature to base of bronze and raised on an elongated black marble plinth. Height 26… | *** |  |
| *** | A carved ivory cherub musician figure, late 19th to early 20th century the finely carved ivory Continental figure of a seated cherub playing the banjo. Height 5.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter Alsatian group, circa 1930 one sitting and one recumbent dog with stylised features, in gold and bronze lustre colours, raised upon a piano-style plinth with alternating veined black and white marble tiles to the top and front. Height… | *** |  |
| *** | A French bronze seal bust of satyr on base, circa 1900, the patinated bronze bust of satyr raised on a tall tapering pedestal, a nymph wrapped around his neck embracing him adoringly, seated on rounded square stepped base, the seal uncut, incised… | *** |  |
| *** | A French spelter figure after Moreau mounted as a lamp, late 19th century after the original by Auguste Moreau, the allegorical figure of a maiden walking on top of a cloud-like base, one of her outstretched hands fitted with a flame frosted glass shade,… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter gazelle group, circa 1920s, a pair of male and female recumbent gazelles, in satin brown colours and raised upon a boldly veined grey black marble base, height 20 cm, length 50 cm, width 12.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter figure of a huntress, circa 1930s, in bronzed spelter depicting a classical maiden in draping attire, her left hand holding a bow and poised on one knee ready to shoot, raised on an onyx and black marble plinth; unmarked, height 44 cm,… | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze stag figure on a marble stand after Louis-Albert Carvin, a recumbent stag upon a veined brown black marble plinth, impressed mark of L. Carvin to rear, height 17.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Somme, Th (working early 20th century), 1906, a spelter female figurine in the Art Nouveau manner, 'Inspiration,' in gold and subtle colours playing an ancient harp, with inscribed signature to base, plaque and also dedicatory inscription plaque; also… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco figural group after Balleste, Enrique Molins Balleste (1893-1958), circa 1930 depicting a kneeling maiden with deer, lustrous bronze and gold colours, upon a mottled pink and cream marble layer over a flecked black rounded marble base fronted… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter elephant group, circa 1930 the trumpeting elephant followed by calf, realistically modelled and decorated in modulating bronze tones upon an elongated two-tone marble base with alternating green and cream onyx trims. Height 21 cm,… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter pheasant, circa 1930 with fine stylised plumage and in lustrous bronze, gold and shot colours, raised upon on a two toned, pink veined and black marble base fronted with contrasting white onyx tile trims. Height 25 cm, length 50.5 cm,… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter seagull group by Limousin, circa 1930, the pair of seagulls dramatically flying above cresting waves in deep bronze tones, on a variegated marble plinth faced with black marble and a contrasting onyx tile, signed 'G. Limousin' to the… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter deer group, circa 1930s, the recumbent stag and doe with one foreleg slightly raised, in lustrous bronze and gold colours, raised upon a dark veined cream marble plinth faced with black marble punctuated with onyx inserts. Height 25 cm… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter figure of a whippet, circa 1930s, the elegant reclining whippet raising his long pointy head, in patinated dark brown and bronze tones, raised upon a rectangular veined black marble base. Height 12 cm, length 26.5 cm, width 12 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Nouveau alabaster bust, circa 1900, the finely carved head and shoulders of a serene young woman in a reflective pose wearing a floral loose tunic dress on an integral base, height 19 cm, width 17.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter pheasant, circa 1920s, an elegantly plumed and walking pheasant in muted bronze colours raised on a black marble base, height 25.5 cm, width 50.5 cm, depth 15 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A Victorian cast iron figure of a pointer, 19th century, the naturalistic and alert figure of a pointer upon a cast rectangular base. Height 12.5 cm. Width 16.5 cm. Depth 8 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze Ballerina statue, after Degas, a small version of the 'Little fourteen year old dancer' circa 1881 with a patinated and verdigris finish upon a bronze base with inscribed artist's signature upon a black marble plinth. Height 27 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter antelope, circa 1920s, an elegant stylised recumbent antelope raised upon a veined black marble rectangular base with canted corners, height 32 cm, width 45 cm, depth 15 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A spelter pheasant, circa 1920s, a splendidly plumed and proud pheasant in gold lustre colours upon a veined, marble base faced with contrasting black and cream curved marble trims, height 31 cm, length 49.5 cm, width 13.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter dog group, circa 1930, the Alsatian pair, one standing, the other recumbent, in bronze and gun metal grey lustre colours, raised on a flecked grey marble base, height 19.5 cm, length 48 cm, width 12 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter pheasant lamp, French, circa 1930s, the walking male and female pheasants in rich bronze colour with their plumage picked out in gilt, surrounding a globe shade in mottled pearl tones, upon a long rectangular peach marble base, height… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco cold painted spelter model of an elephant, circa 1930s, the commanding elephant naturalistically modelled walking, raised upon a rectangular white and pink veined marble base. Height 14.5 cm, length 22.5 cm, width 7 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A cold painted bronze animalier group, 20th century, probably German, with maker's mark for Ge Schutze, pattern 2114, the cast image of two small naturalistic little parrots in colours upon a multi lobed leaf; impressed marks underside. Height 14 cm.… | *** |  |
| *** | Wengrow, Jacques (1928-2002), a trio of cast silvered figures applied to a cut and natural quartz crystal back, with a small silver plaque with artist's name 'J Wengrow' near base; upon a separate black marble plinth, height 22 cm, width 20.5 cm, depth 9… | *** |  |
| *** | A spelter Alsatian group, circa 1930, one seated, the other recumbent, in bronze with hints of copper lustre and raised on a veined black marble base faced with contrasting panels of onyx and marble, height 19.5 cm, length 45.5 cm, width 10 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A large spelter model of an Alsatian. circa 1930 naturalistically posed in olive and bronze colours, the Alsatian dog standing at the alert on a rock with his ears pricked, raised upon a brown flecked black marble base. Height 26 cm, length 30 cm, width… | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze figurine of an Angel trumpet player, after Moreau, the cast winged figure standing on a cloud formation playing a trumpet, raised upon a graduated black marble base, facsimile signature. Height 28 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter Alsatian group, circa 1920s-30s, two naturalistically modelled dogs, one seated, the other in a recumbent pose, in bronze and gold lustrous colours, raised on a veined marble base faced, with contrasting onyx, height 30 cm, length 58… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco bird lamp, circa 1920s, signed Limousin, a stylised flying bird in modulating gold and bronze colours beside an aqua blue mottled ball shade, raised on a veined ochre navette shaped base; with intaglio signature and European electrical… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter stag, circa 1930, a calling stag in lustrous colours mounted on an iron red and grey mottled, marble base, height 22.5 cml 30 cm, width 10 cm | *** |  |
| *** | 'Carmela', a bronze bust, after Emmanuel Villanis (1858-1914), 20th century, after the late 19th century original, the cast bronze bust of a female figure with long hair in the Art Nouveau manner, in patinated bronze and titled in relief to the integral… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter deer figural group, circa 1930s comprising a standing stag a stag, doe and a recumbent fawn in in cold painted patinated green colours, upon a long rectangular veined grey marble base. Height 20 cm, length 48 cm, width 12 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A French bronze figure of a Phalene spaniel, circa 1930, the naturalistically modelled bronze of a reclining Phalene spaniel with drop ears, the hair finely detailed, unmarked. Height 11 cm, width 21 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze stag, 20th century, a naturalistically modelled roaring stag raised on an integral bronze base, with a bronze Garanti Paris J.B Deposee stamp and raised veined black marble, plinth, height 27.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter stag, circa 1930s, a stylised and proud recumbent stag with one leg raised, in bronze and gold lustre colours, raised on a veined peach and cream marble base, height 22 cm, length 36 cm, width 10.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A small bronze figurine of a girl and a cat, early 20th century, possibly Austrian. the cast model of a small child with a large cat and supported on a square onyx base. Height 10 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter dog figure, circa 1930s, in copper and bronze lustre colours featuring an alert Alsatian dog, raised on a veined cream marble base, height 23 cm, length 28.5 cm, width 12 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An antique bronze Indian elephant model, 19th century, the cast model of a caparisoned elephant standing four square, with a marked verdigris patina, height 11.5 cm, width 15 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A vintage parian Ware bust and a parian pedestal, a contemplative bust of a Greco Roman woman with finely modelled hair and a draped garment, raised on a socle base; with a parian drum type pedestal draped with ribbon tied laureate garlands; both unmarked… | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze figure of a dancer after Colinet, the mid 20th century bronze casting of a Jeanne-Roberte Colinet dancer, featuring a free spirited bare foot dancer clad in flowing girdled robes, with an outstretched arm and lightly posing on one foot, upon an… | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze figure of a dancer after Colinet, the later 20th century bronze casting of a Jeanne-Roberte Colinet dancer, modelled as a bare foot dancer on tiptoes, clad in a flowing dress and with outstretched arms, upon an integral circular base inscribed… | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze figure of a dancer after Mirval, the later 20th century bronze casting of Claude Mirval's 1920s dancer featuring an exotically clad young woman in a short Grecian tunic her outstretched arms draped with a scarf, upon a circular base with… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco cold painted bronze figure of a dancer, circa 1920 in the manner of Lorenzl, modelled as a female dancer balanced on one leg with her arms extended, dressed in a long jacket, raised on a waisted circular onyx base, apparently unmarked. Height… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of spelter models of the Marly horse after Coustou, Guillaume Coustou (France 1677-1746), circa 1900 each depicting a rearing horse with a fleece to its back being restrained by its groom holding the bridle, on a naturalistically moulded base, with… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter greyhound group, circa 1920, the hurdling naturalistic greyhounds in lustre colour raised on metal stands and mottled grey marble base. Height 11 cm, length 17.5 cm, width 7 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of Art Deco spelter greyhound book ends, circa 1920s, pairs of hurdling naturalistic greyhounds in brown and copper lustre colours raised on metal stands and blush coloured marble bases, height 11 cm, length 15 cm, width 7.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of Art Deco spelter stag book ends, circa 1920s, a pair of stags in lustrous gold and brown tones, standing four square upon portoro marble bases, height 15.5 cm, length 14 cm, width 9 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A Mytholgical spelter male figure, 19th century, well cast, in deep patinated bronze tones depicting a classically draped figure with a wolf's mask upon his head and carrying dead game over his shoulder, upon a shaped ebonised base. Height 57 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter antelope, circa 1920s, a recumbent antelope, its head inclined to the rear, in lustrous bronze colours and raised on a pale apricot marble base faced with cream and figured brown onyx, height 18.5 cm, width 26.5 cm, depth 11 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An antique bronzed spelter figure of a girl by A.J. Scotte, 19th century, depicting the figure of a young barefoot girl holding a basket of flowers in her left arm and holding a bloom in her right, incised signature of A.J. Scotte to base and again to the… | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze figurine of a Pensive woman, after Milo, the cast seated figurine surrounded by berries and foliage, raised on a graduated black marble base, facsimile signature. Height 21 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter figure, circa 1930s, in gold and bronze lustre colours featuring a seating woman in a modish one shouldered gown cradling a bird, raised on an ellipse shaped veined black marble base, height 22.5 cm, length 35 cm, width 11.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter Wounded tiger, circa 1930s, Dramatically cast as a snarling animal trailing its leg, an arrow through its shoulder blades, in a gloss copper bronze finish upon a long black marble base with pink marble tile decoration. Height 24 cm.… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter swan lamp, circa 1920s, a stylised pewter coloured swan opposite a white crackle finish enamelled globular shade, upon a striated mushroom marble base, height 14 cm, width 28 cm, depth 9 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A cold painted spelter horse, a naturalistically modelled rearing horse upon a rocky base, in deep verdigris colours, height 42 cm, length 35 cm, approx | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of bronzed spelter classical busts, early 20th century, spelter castings of Apollo and Demeter, raised on turned timber bases, height 26 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A cold painted bronze Art Nouveau bust after Eduardo Rossi (1867-1926), depicting a young woman with flowing hair adorned with flowers, the slender, pedestal also decorated with trailing flora, upon a marble base, height 35 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter deer and gazelle group, circa 1920s-30s, in lustrous copper tones featuring a gazelle gazing back at a deer, on an onyx and contrasting marble base, height 23.5 cm, length 50 cm, width 12.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Two Oriental jade figures, a celadon jade figure of a traditionally attired lady carrying a lotus, sceptre, and a creamy jade figure of a trumpeting elephant with a corkscrew, trunk, both on fitted wooden stands, Heights 19 cm, and 11 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Nouveau spelter figure by Auguste Moreau (1834-1917), late 19th century, the allegorical figure of a classical maiden in flowing attire cradling a scroll in her left arm and holding a garland of laurel leaves in her outstretched right hand;… | *** |  |
| *** | Guillebon, late 19th century, the coloured spelter figure, 'Honneur et Gloire' of a youth bearing a sword and a standard with a flowing flag upon a rocky landscape base and mounted on a circular rose coloured marble base; plaque to base with title and… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of cast metal book-ends, identical, naturalistically modelled as a leaping goat, patinated to simulate verdigris, on a black marble base incised 'Carlier'. Height 16 cm. Width 9 cm. Depth 14 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter group of Alsatians, circa 1930, the group depicting two opposing cold painted Alsatian dogs, naturalistically posed, one seated, the other recumbent, on a rectangular red veined marble base raised on contrasting onyx and black marble… | *** |  |
| *** | A German carved wood whistling automaton figure, second quarter 20th century, in the manner of Karl Griesbaum, with key winding movement within covered recess, bellows and left-to-right head movement, in a coarsely carved and stained wood figure of a… | *** |  |
| *** | A large Art Deco spelter pheasant, c1930s the well plumed and proud walking pheasant in bronze and gold colours, upon a two-toned veined cream and black marble base fronted with black and white marble insert. Height 32 cm, length 50 cm, width 14 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of Art Deco spelter Deers, circa 1930s, the pair of standing stag and doe in lustrous bronze and gold colours, raised on veined yellow marble bases. Height 19.5 cm, length 20 cm, width 8 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A gilt bronze figure of Simhanada Avalokiteshvara, 20th century the Ming-style cast bronze bodhisattva seated in a posture of royal ease on a recumbent lion above a lotus plinth base, wearing beaded jewelry around the chest, elongated earlobes and ornate… | *** |  |
| *** | A large spelter deer table lamp, circa 1930, an impressive and well modelled prancing stag with a cold painted verdigris, finish beside a spherical green and white frosted shade with gold bands, raised on a black marble base, height 33.5 cm length 52.5 cm… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of antique Continental spelter boy and girl figures, 19th century, the rustic duo cold painted in modulating olive tones, playfully engaged trying on each other's hat and bonnet, raised on cast naturalistic bases upon waisted timber plinths, height… | *** |  |
| *** | A spelter model of a dog, circa 1920s-30s, the cold painted model of a flexed and alert dog with its forelegs positioned, on a rock, with a portoro marble sphere and raised upon a black marble, ellipse shaped base, height 27 cm, length 50 cm, width 15 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter deer group, circa 1920 depicting a recumbent doe and a stag in lustrous bronze colours upon a rectangular black marble base height 20.5 cm, length 38 cm, width 6.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A vintage cold painted spelter model of a bull, naturalistically modelled as a bull pawing the ground, in deep verdigris colours and raised on a flecked black marble base, height 11.5 cm, length 18 cm, width 7 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A French Art Nouveau terracotta female bust, circa 1900, a smiling semi-clad woman, her head inclined to one side and grapevines adorning her hair, raised on a pedestal base, height 26.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A spelter animal group, circa 1930, two Alsatian dogs, one seated, the other recumbent, in bronze lustre colours and raised on a veined black marble base faced with contrasting tiles in celadon and maroon flecked white marble, height 18 cm, length 40 cm,… | *** |  |
| *** | A spelter dog group, circa 1920s-30s, a pair of matching recumbent dogs posed on an orange veined marble base faced, with green onyx and black marble tiles, height 14 cm, length 41.5 cm, width 12.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter pheasant lamp, circa 1930s France, the walking pheasants in rich bronze colour with their plumage picked out in gilt, surrounding a frosted glass globe shade in pale pink and near white stripes with gilt bands, upon a long flecked… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco spelter pheasant group, circa 1930s depicting two well plumed and proud walking pheasants atop vegetation in bronze colours, on geometric shaped green onyx and veined black marble bases, mounted on a black marble slab. Height 16 cm, length 44… | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze Art Deco figure, after Pierre Le Faguays (1892-1938), modern, a bronze figurine, 'Tireuse a L'Arc', featuring a young Grecian woman poised on one foot releasing her bow; facsimile signature of Pierre Le Faguays to the rockwork, and mounted on a… | *** |  |
| *** | A patinated bronze figure of William Shakespeare, 20th century, a model of the bard deep in thought holding a book and quill, standing on an integral circular base inscribed 'Shakespeare, height 41.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A spelter figure of a petanque player, circa 1900, in deep bronze tones, the well patinated figure of a young man in long trousers and rolled-up shirt sleeves posed ready to execute a throw, raised on a square base, incised signature of Ruffony, relief… | *** |  |
| *** | An ivory aide memoire and an ivory-covered coin purse, late 19th/early 20th century, the aide memoire of typical form with six leaves between the covers, the expanding metal-framed purse with three compartments. Height 5 cm. Width 6.5 cm. (purse) and… | *** |  |