ANTIQUE PERSONAGE SCULPTURE PG 1  
 



H.Porlach? Circa 1918 "Christ and the Cross"signed, bronze plaque
Dimensions: 26"long x18"high
 
Alfredo Pina ( Italian 1883 - 1966 ) "Adam " signed  Alfredo Pina, Carrara Marble Circa 1910
Dimensions: height 25inches, length 24 inches, width 16 inches
Unsigned (American? Art Deco / Art Moderne Circa 1935)" Corpus" A bronze corpus mounted on a black painted metal crucifix affixed to a bronze crucifix back plate
Dimensions:Total height 22 inches high by 18 inches wide
       
     
   
 
Marius Mars-Vallet (French 1869-1957) "Sarah Bernhardt as Theodora " Circa 1900 bronze sculpture with multi coloured polychrome patinas, signed and with the foundry seal for Frederic Goldscheider Paris, cire perdue
Dimensions: Total height 13&3/4 inches by  7&1/2 inches in width and 4 &1/2 inches in depth
     
       
         
     
   
   
   
Hinko Juhn (Croatian 1891-1940) "Diana" Bronze unsigned sculpture circa 1917.
Dimensions: Height 14 inches by 18 inches in length
Manolis Tzobanakis (Greek 20th Century) "Alexander, the King of Macedonia", Bronze Signed and dated Roma '71 and cast numbered 2/6
Dimensions:Total height 18 inches by 15 inches in width, height of marble
base alone 3 inches
Benedetto Civiletti (Italian 1846-1899) "The  Canaris brothers". Famous Greek naval heroes. Superb Chiurazzi Foundry bronze cast circa 1880. Original marble at the Via Turati entrance to the Politeama Theatre in Palermo. Konstantine Kanaris 1790-1877, Greek patriot, admiral, and politician. He distinguished himself in the Greek War of Independence, notably at Tenedos, where he destroyed in 1822 the flagship of the Turkish admiral. Kanaris served several terms as minister of the navy and as premier in 1848-49, and he became increasingly active in political life. In 1862 he was a leader in the revolution that ousted King Otto and put George I on the Greek throne.
Dimensions: Total Height 17&3/4 inches, by 13&1/2 inches in length, by 7 &1/2 inches in width
     
     
Maurice LeBlanc (French, 19th & early 20th century) A bronze bust of Sarah Bernhardt as the Princess Lointaine, with contrasting brown patination, circa 1900, signed and stamped France.
Dimensions: Total height 16&1/2 inches by 16&1/2 inches in width
 
     
     
Ivan Mestrovic (Yugoslavian/American 1883-1962) "Saint Jerome" Bronze
with black patination unsigned. Provenance:The Estate of the writer Clement Stone Oaks Manor, Lakeforest Chicago, gift from Ivan Mestrovic while he was teaching at Notre Dame University.

Dimensions: Height 17&1/2 by 16 inches in width by 24 inches in length
A fine and rare LouisXVI style French onyx marble mantel clock from the late 18 th century or early 19 th century." Diane chasseresse au repos." The onyx clock inset with ormolu plaques cast with playful putti, the edges with scrolling gilded acanthus leaves and pine cones and other gilded bronze devises. foliate mounts, raised on bun feet. The onyx dial carved and gilded incised Roman numerals, with the maker Maison Marnyhac 48 Blvd de l'Opera further incised on the dial. The Marnyhac foundry (founded circa 1850) worked closely with Jean-Baptiste Clesinger (1814-1883). The bronze sculpture of Diana rests atop the clock latching her sandal with the crescent moon in her hair is quite possibly a sculpture by this artist, although unsigned.
Dimensions. Total height 21 inches, by19 &1/2 inches in length by 9 &1/2 inches in width
 
Expressionist Bronze Corpus, possibly German, Circa 1930
Dimensions: Height 22 inches by 15 inches in width
 
     
     
 
Therese Caillaux (Quinquaud) ( French early 20 th century) "Sigmund
Freud" Bronze with Valsuani foundry seal. Therese Caillaux (Quinquaud) was a pupil of Rodin and the mother of Anna Quinquaud -the well known Art Deco sculptor. Provenance
: From the estate of Sigmund Kramer,West Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Dimensions:Height 8 &1/2 inches by 12 &1/2 inches in length by 6&1/2 inches in width
 
     
     
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
A carved walnut relief memorial sculpture to a German First World War flying ace Herbert Mausz "Am 8 August an der Somme verschollen nach sie gr eichem luetkampf " (Herbert Mausz lost on the morning of the 8 th of August after a victorious air combat over the Somme. )The sculpture dates to 1916. Signed lower right GG, possibly Gustav Gurschner (Austrian 1873-1971)
Dimensions: Height 22 inches by 12 inches in wifth by 5 inches in depth
Jacques Louis Gautier (French, 1831 ) "Mephistopheles” Bronze and Metal signed sculpture cast in 1855.
Dimensions: Total Height 36 inches
Vienna Bronze character entitled “Rafaelli" Circa 1910
Dimensions: Total height 7&1/4 inches.
 

     
     
After Francesco Fanelli, (Italian 1605- 1661) Inkwell in the form of a Triton, early 18th century bronze, cast after a model by Francesco Fanelli .During the period of 1605-1661 he worked in London and it was at this time he designed the Triton Inkwell, The oldest version is in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, and is illustrated on pages 248 - 251 of the book of the same title .During the 17th Century many of these inkwells were cast and altered in one way or another. Francesco  Fanelli was dead by 1675 and It seems likely that John Bank, his pupil, still living in 1718 had removed some of the original casts from the studio and had an expert foundry cast them in London.
Dimensions:Total height7 inches, height of bronze alone 5&3/4 inches
   
     
   
   
   
   
   
Oscar Bodin (German 1868-?) "Diana"Bronze, signed on marble base.
Dimensions: Total height 26&1/2 inches, Height of figure alone 18&3/4
inches.
 
Jean Jacques Pradier(French 1792-1852)"Pandora" 19th century finely cast unsigned bronze
Dimensions Height 16&1/4 inches

Jaroslav Horejc (Czech, 1886-1983) "Medusa", Circa 1920, signed, bronze
Dimensions: 20 inches high with black marble base
   
     
Leon Pilet,(French 1840-1916) "Diana", Signed bronze on Belgian marble base
Dimensions: Total height 23 inches by 19&1/2 inches in length. Height of the base alone is 3&1/2 inches
   
     
     
Leon Pilet (French 1840-1916) "Antiope" Bronze sculpture circa 1900, signed
Dimensions: Total height 16 inches.
   
     
     
 
 
 
 
Louis Tuaillon (German 1862-1919) "Hercules wrestling the Erymanthian Boar". Early circa 1901 bronze sculpture from the plaster sketch. Similar versions in The Kunsthale Museum Bremen and in The Darmstadt Museum for the life size version that stands today in the Lutzowplatz Berlin.
Signed and with foundry marks for Martin & Piltzing Berlin, the first foundry to cast this sculpture in bronze.
Dimensions: Total height 19&1/4 inches by 16 inches in length by 7&1/2 inches in width
Antoine Coysevox (After)( French 1640-1720). Late 19th century bronze sculpture of Pan with an oak-leaf crown seated on a stump playing a flute with a small satyr behind him, inscribed Coysevox sculp and G.Sandoz Edit ( foundry ).The present sculpure a bronze reduction of the marble statue executed by Antoine Coysevox in 1708 for the Appartements Verts in the Gardens of Marly (today in the Louvre).
Dimensions:Height 27&1/2 inches by 12 &1/2 inches in width and depth
Giovan Battista Amendola ( Italian 1848-1887 ) " Maitre Musique".Possibly the last sculpture by this Italian master who died at the age of 41. A superlative bronze cast 1887 .
Dimensions: Total height 21&3/4 inches
 
     
       
Maximilian Sandoz (Austrian Circa 1900)"Beethoven" bronze on marble base, signed
Dimensions: Total height 9 &1/2 inches by 4 &3/4 inches wide, height of bronze 7 inches
 
     
     
 
T. Curts, (Austrian, 1895-1929) "Ezra Meeker Old OregonTrail Expedition", signed T. Curts (thought to be a psuedonym for Carl Kauba) polychromed bronze, stamped Austria
Dimensions: 16&1/4 inches high by 6 inches wide
   
     
     
     
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Vincenzo Alfano (Italian 1854-1918) "David". Bronze sculpture signed, dated 1887 and inscribed Napoli. Another identical example was Exhibited in Venice in 1887 and was bought by the National Gallery of Rome for their permanent collection. The sculpture also won The Prix du Concours of Naples 1901. Alfano is recognised as the most important sculptor of The Italian Realist School.
In 1902 he moved to New York and his stone sculptures can be seen on buildings in New York, Coney Island, Maine and also in Philadelphia. Superb quality lost wax casting.
Dimensions: Total height 27 inches. Length of the spectacular sword 14 inches.


Karel Gabriel (Czech 1884 -?) "Jan Hus" (Czech Philosopher) Bronze cast circa 1910 with dedication. plaque on the marble base.
Dimensions: Total height 24 inches. Height of bronze alone 15 inches.
Czech circa 1928 iron sculpture of the violin player Paganini similar to the work of Roland Paris, with CKD foundry stamp.
Dimensions: Height 15 &1/2 inches.
   
   
   
   


Louis Ernest Barrias (French, 1841-1905) " Mozart" signed, Barbedienne Foundry, gilded bronze
Dimensions: 11& 1/2 inches high
French bronze circa 1880 of Charmian (Cleopatra's servant)Finely cast bronze,apparently unsigned, on a black Belgian marble base
Dimensions: Total height 21 &1/2 inches


 
Laszlo Janos Beszedes (Hungarian 1874 -1922) "Joseph the Slave of Arimathea", Circa 1908, signed, bronze  
Dimensions: 20 inches high



Franz Iffland (German 1862-1935) "Bat Girl" or Niddy Impekoven. Bronze on Belgian marble base.
Dimensions: Total height 9&1/4 inches, height of bronze alone 6 &3/4 inches.
Josef Mullner (Austrian1879-1968) "Kronos and Philyra", monumental bronze sculpture signed and dated 1919. Foundry mark Erzgiesserei A.G. Wein
Dimensions: 37inches in height by 20inches in width by 11&1/2inches in depth
Rochel (German? dated 1880) Carrara marble signed and inscribed Raphael Enfant
Dimensions: 24 & 1/2 inches high
 
   
     
 
 
 
 
German circa 1930 "Hercules" unsigned, gilded bronze on anvil shaped marble base
Dimensions: 24 7 1/2 inches high total, marble base alone 6 inches high
Guyla Donath (Hungarian 1850-1909) "Leukothea" Signed bronze Circa 1900
Dimensions: Height 38 inches by 35 inches in width, base is 12 inches in diameter
Karl Fiala  (Austrian,1885-?) "Eve and the Serpent", signed, bronze, foundry mark Erzgiesserei Wein
Dimensions: 23 inches high