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A Colossal Italian Grey Marble Bust of Achilles
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A Colossal Italian Grey Marble Bust of Achilles
9578 A colossal Italian grey marble bust of Achilles, also known as The Borghese Ares, shown with a plumed helmet and looking to his right, the bust cut to show chest and shoulders, on a contemporary socle, and standing on a veined grey marble square column with a Greek inscription from the Iliad, referring to the fate of Achilles. Weathered surface.
Italian.
19th Century
Overall Height: 90 ins (228 cm)
Bust with socle Height: 42.5 ins (108 cm)
Width: 29 ins (74 cm)
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A Large Meissen Allegorical Figure of a Lady Representing Touch
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A Large Meissen Allegorical Figure of a Lady Representing Touch
9723 A large Meissen allegorical figure of a lady representing touch, her partially draped body with a striking blue cloak painted with Indian Flowers and with a parrot on her right hand, her left foot resting on a turtle on a square plinth base. Cross swords mark, faint.
German, Meissen factory.
1745
Height: 10.5 ins (26.5 cm) £2,800
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A French Wax Cast of L’Ecorche After the 1766 Model by J.A Houdon
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A French Wax Cast of L’Ecorche After the 1766 Model by J.A Houdon
9682 A French wax cast of L’Ecorche after the 1766 model by J.A Houdon, standing, looking to his right and with his right arm outstretched, resting on a tree stump and on a shaped rectangular base. Slight damage to the fingers, arm possibly reattached.
Probably a workshop reference model for a bronze foundry.
French.
Mid 19th century.
Overall Height: 73.5 cm (29 ins)
Base Dimensions: 23 cm (9 ins) x 24 cm (9.5 ins) £12,000
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Frederick Thomas Callcott (1854-1923) Bust of a child
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Frederick Thomas Callcott (1854-1923) Bust of a child
9150 Frederick Thomas Callcott (1854-1923)
Bust of a child,
Signed and dated 1883
Terracotta with bronzed patination
Possibly the bust exhibited Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1884, (2248, Childs Head, £6 6s).
A student of the Royal Academy Schools and gold medal winner (composition sculpture)1879 and member of Royal Society British sculptors (1911-1923). Regular exhibitor RA, Walker Art Gallery and Paris Salon (1898)
Overall Height: 18 ins (46 cm) SOLD
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Italian White Marble Bust of Sappho or Venus
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Italian White Marble Bust of Sappho or Venus
8397 An Italian white marble bust of Sappho or Venus, after the antique, the hair tied up, partially draped in Roman style, on original marble socle. The hair showing old repairs in imitation of Ancient sculpture.
1780-1820
Rome
Height: 23 ins (58.5 cms) £8,000
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Large English Alabaster Recumbent Bull
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Large English Alabaster Recumbent Bull
9316 A large English George IV Derbyshire alabaster model of a recumbent bull, looking to one side and with his legs tucked underneath, on a black Ashford marble base. Repair to the horns and possibly front legs. Attributed to the Joseph Hall Marble Works, Derby
English, Derbyshire
1830
Width: 16.25 ins (41.5 cms)
Depth: 9 ins (23 cms)
Height: 8 ins (20 cms) Sold
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An Italian White Marble Standing Figure of a Parthian Captive
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An Italian White Marble Standing Figure of a Parthian Captive
9557 An Italian white marble standing figure of a Parthian soldier in Roman Antique style, probably a captive, dressed in leggings and a cloak and wearing a Phrygian cap, leaning on a tree stump on a circular base.
Italian, Rome or Naples
Circa 1800-1850
Height: 48.5 ins (121 cms)
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Pair of Roman Patinated and Gilt Bronze Candelabra
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Pair of Roman Patinated and Gilt Bronze Candelabra
9544 A pair of Roman patinated and gilt bronze five light candelabra, the scrolled arms issuing from a basket supported by a patinated standing vestal figure after the Antique on a gilt plinth, and resting on a stepped square plinth base in Verdi Antico with gilt bronze masks to all sides.
Italy, Rome
1800-1810
Height: 31 ins (79 cms) £16,000
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A Large Italian Oval Bardiglio Marble Vase
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A Large Italian Oval Bardiglio Marble Vase
8607 A large Italian oval Bardiglio marble vase on a statuary marble stand, with everted rim, the body with deep gadrooning, the oval section stand with gadrooned stem and plinth base. The stand with old restoration.
Italian
c1820-40
Width: 35 ins (89 cms)
Depth: 29 ins (64 cms)
Height: 45 ins (115 cms)£7,000
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A Renaissance Style White Marble Relief Panel by the Master of the Cat
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A Renaissance Style White Marble Relief Panel by the Master of the Cat
9117 The Four Ages of Man
A Renaissance style white marble relief panel by the forger known as the ‘Master of the cat,’ ‘The Four Ages of Man’, the central figure singing and holding a swaddled cat and flanked by three other figures. Cracked and repaired and now in a wooden frame.
Ex collection; Otto Beit (1865-1930) (by repute),
Vincent Korda (1897-1979) Film director
Italian, Florence?
1850 – 1880
Width: 19ins (48cm)
Height: 15.75ins (40cm)SOLD
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