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Auction House:
Gibson's Auctioneers & Valuers
Number of lots recorded:27
Lots with images:27
Prices available:27
Category:
Busts/Heads
LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** A carved kerosene shale portrait bust by John Baird, Sydney, circa 1885, reputedly an image of John Baird's Son, Lignite, 48 cm high. Provenance: J.B. Hawkins Antiques. Other Notes: John Baird (1834-1894) was an amateur sculptor who was a postman in… ***
*** A cast bronze bust of composer Gustav Mahler, after Auguste Rodin (1840-1917, with green patination, inscribed lower right, A Rodin, 1909, and inscribed verso Alexis Rudier Foundry Paris, 35.5 x 22.8 x 24.2 cm ***
*** A polychrome bust of Caesar, displayed on a ribbed plinth, 86 cm high, 65 cm wide ***
*** A large Art Nouveau marble and granite bust, 'Mora', early 20th century, an exotically dressed woman in white marble with a headband and beaded adornments, her dress and embellishments in pink granite, raised on a tapering square plinth and relief marked… ***
*** A pair of French bronze and marble mounted busts of the Apollo Belvedere and the Diana Chasseresse, circa 1880, after the antique 44 cm high ***
*** Carved marble bust of a Caesar a scagliola bust of a Caesar 88 cm high ***
*** Bust of Michelangelo, by Daniele Ricciarelli, after the antique Bronze-effect patina gypsum plaster cast from the original mould by the Gipsoteca Nazionale di Firenze ***
*** A simulated bronze bust of Bacchus, standing on a circular black marble base, 104 cm high ***
*** A carved marble and alabaster bust of a mother and child, Italian, late 19th century, 53 cm high ***
*** Yasutake Funakoshi (1912-2002) (Attrib.), bust of a woman, bronze, mounted on a white marble base, 45 cm high, 25 cm wide, 17.5 cm ***
*** An Art Deco style gilt bronze bust, in the manner of Franz Hagenauer, 20th century, 43.5 cm high ***
*** A ceramic bust of a woman, Italian, circa 1930, with signature and edition hand painted to the base, 22 cm high ***
*** A carved marble bust of a girl, late 19th century, in white marble with a waisted Carrara stepped socle, 54 cm high ***
*** A bronzed ceramic bust of Zeus, 72 cm high. Provenance: formerly installed at the top of the stairs in Fanny's Restaurant, Melbourne ***
*** A bronze wrapped bust of Apollo, 19th century 33 cm high ***
*** A collection of two marble busts and an obelisk, the obelisk 50 cm high ***
*** A bronze bust of Diana 32 cm high ***
*** Jennifer Brain (born 1954) bust of a girl polychrome glazed ceramic from the Alice in Wonderland series inscribed lower right: brain 48 cm high ***
*** A Parian porcelain bust of a young woman, circa 1900, emblematic of Summer and the harvest bearing ears of wheat to her hair and decolletage, raised on a stepped socle, blue mark underside, 50 cm high ***
*** Two bronze desk ornament figures of Napoleon Bonaparte, 19th century, comprising a small bust signed L. Chandos and a gilded standing figure on a plinth inscribed 'June 18, 1815', the largest 11 cm high ***
*** A classical bronze and marble bust of Diana, late 19th century, 25 cm high ***
*** An Italian ceramic bust of a girl, circa 1930, marked B135 123/25K and labelled 'Italy' to the inside of the base, 27 cm high ***
*** A bronzed metal bust of a man with a parrot perched on his shoulder signed illegibly to verso E.E. raised on a shaped square form black marble plinth 34.5 cm high ***
*** An Art Nouveau silvered spelter bust of Cleopatra, circa 1900, the bust with asp and title in relief to the integral base and raised on a veined grey marble plinth, 46 cm high ***
*** A French bronze bust of a girl on marble stand signed verso: vandin straeten 37 cm high ***
*** A pair of bronze busts 'Laughing Infant, crying Infant' after the originals by F. Clamard, circa 1890, 16.5 cm high ***
*** A small parian bust of Apollo, late 19th century 24 cm high ***