Sculpture, Carvings & Other
Browse our stock of antique sculpture and carvings including a wide range of busts, stone sculpture, plaques and key stones in a range of materials like stone, wood, cast iron and terracotta.
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Stock: 15724
A large and finely carved 19th century Italian marble lidded urn, decorated with trailing grape vines and and dramatic handles, modelled as grinning and horned satyrs. The body of the urn is carved with two cartouches, one depicting a nymph bathing in a pool whilst a satyr observes, hidden by bullrushes. The other depicts an a satyr and a goat in an amorous and playful embrace. After the antique.
Italian, c.1850.
Could be situated in a sheltered spot in a garden or courtyard, but equally suited to an interior setting.
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71 cms |
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101.5 cms |
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50 cms |
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Stock: 15641
A large and finely carved alabaster figure of a water carrier in classical drapery. The figure is very much after the antique, but more naturalistic than the earlier, grand tour alabaster figures.
English, c.1860.
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Stock: 15646
A life size Victorian lead statue depicting a putto carrying a mask, perhaps tragedy.
English, mid-19th century.
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12 3⁄16"
31 cms |
31 7⁄8"
81 cms |
9 13⁄16"
25 cms |
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Listed Price: £1,400 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 15622
A pair of large and decorative Victorian cast iron seated lions holding polished brass blank armorial shields. These would look fabulous as decorative objects on a surface, or on a hearth to dress the interior of a fireplace. The shields could even be engraved with a monogram.
English, c.1870
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5 3⁄16"
13.2 cms |
13 13⁄16"
35 cms |
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14.5 cms |
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Stock: 15558
An exceptionally finely carved and very large alabaster group of the Judgement of Paris, depicting Paris seated and wearing his Phrygian cap, offering the Hesperidean apple to a lightly draped Venus, whilst the jealous figures of Hera and Athena consol each other. The scene is mounted on a rectangular plinth. Italian, mid 19th century.
Photograph before restoration.
Provenance: A collection within a fine Wiltshire Townhouse.
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15 3⁄8"
39 cms |
21 11⁄16"
55 cms |
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17 cms |
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Stock: 15536
A large Regency plaster figure, by Humphrey Hopper, painted with a simulated bronze patina, on a circular base and holding the fitting for a torchere. The figure is mostly likely to be a depiction of a Vestal Virgin given her hooded robes.
English, early 19th century. Unsigned.
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43 1⁄4"
110 cms |
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9 13⁄16"
25 cms |
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Listed Price: £3,200 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 15594
A pair of bronze twin handled campana urns in the classical style, with a low relief decoration reminiscent of a Greek Vase. Italian, 20th century.
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31 cms |
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23 cms |
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Listed Price: £1,250 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 15559
A pair of very finely carved 19th century alabaster figures of muses, in classical dress, each standing on circular pedestals intricately carved with flowers and beading. The figures after after Antonio Canova's, Dancers, or his Danzatrice con le manu sui fianchi and his danzatrie col dito al mento.
Italian, c.1850.
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Listed Price: £2,800 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 15552
An elegant bronze study of a female dancer with a cold painted green dress, by the French sculptor George Charles Coudray (1883-1932). Impressed with the Société des Bronzes de Paris pastille mark and stamped by the retailer, Tiffany & Co.
French, c.1900.
Notes: La Société des Bronzes de Paris (The Paris Art Bronzes Society) was active between 1875 -1930. This foundry was located in Paris.
Listed Price: £2,800 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 15390
A small Statuary marble Regency style lion paw sculpture almost certainly once part of a fireplace. English, circa 1860.
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15.8 cms |
4 13⁄16"
12.3 cms |
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12 cms |
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Stock: 4196
A pair of small decorative, Statuary marble Regency carved ionic capitals with their original patina. a/f English, early 19th century.
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28 cms |
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25.5 cms |
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26.5 cms |
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Stock: 11449
A massive sculpture of a Buddhist Deity carved in teak in the form of a mask head surmounted by a small carving of Ganesh. It is believed to be a representation of a Buddhist Door Guardian such sculptures would have been placed at an entrance or doorway of a building, a temple or home, to ward off evil. This sculpture is carved in six separate sections and is a splendid example of such works of art. He came to us from a large restaurant in East London.
Indian, 19th century.
PS: If anyone can shed more light on this sculpture we would be delighted to hear from you.
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47 13⁄16"
121.5 cms |
78 11⁄16"
200 cms |
8 1⁄4"
21 cms |
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Listed Price: £4,500 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 9862
A pair of George III carved pine chimneypiece jambs. The garlanded figures are of Bacchus, God of the Grape Harvest, who enjoyed, riotous ,Bacchanalian celebrations, and Ceres, Goddess of Agriculture specifically the cultivation of wheat, grains and corn. Appropriately, abundant, trailing festoons of grapes on one and wheat and grains on the other, descend the tapering, volute columns. Photos before restoration.
English, circa 1810.
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12 3⁄16"
31 cms |
47 3⁄8"
120.5 cms |
15"
38 cms |
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Listed Price: £8,500 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 13433
A finely carved, silvered pine and gesso headboard or overdoor panel. in the English Regency manner. Shaped in the stele style with scrolling shoulders and surmounted by a pierced akroter crest. It is centred by a floral and foliate decorated oval set amid rosette and leaf spay motifs. English, early 20th century.
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66 7⁄8"
170 cms |
22"
56 cms |
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Stock: 11271
A pair of small stone 16th century style heads, one perhaps representing an Ottoman figure, the other wearing a Tudor bonnet associated with academic tradition, and worn by Thomas Cromwell. They may have once been mounted on the walls of a manor house. There is damage to the back of the scholar's head. English, late 18th century or later.
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9 1⁄8"
23 cms |
9 13⁄16"
25 cms |
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Listed Price: £850 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 15393
A limestone architectural capital with acanthus and scrolled carving in the Neoclassical manner. English, 19th century.
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38 cms |
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25.5 cms |
7 7⁄8"
20 cms |
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Stock: 12744
A pair of architectural Portland Stone c scroll corbels. English, 18th century.
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26 cms |
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44 cms |
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Stock: 13641
A pair of beautiful, heavy bronze, tapering pilasters of female warriors with dragon crested helmets, ornate breast plates, and draped robes terminating in clawed feet. They are most probably depictions of Athena the Greek Goddess of warfare but also of wisdom, courage, justice, strength and the arts, and are possibly by the French sculptor Provin Serres(1840 - ).
French, circa 1860.
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8 13⁄16"
22.3 cms |
32 1⁄8"
81.5 cms |
5"
12.7 cms |
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Listed Price: £3,600 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 13006
An Edwardian, near pair of large oak wall brackets each with three carved, reversed games birds, possibly stylised partridge, above bunched nuts in a bed of leaves.
Early 20th century.
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15 3⁄8"
39 cms |
21 1⁄8"
53.5 cms |
9 1⁄4"
23.5 cms |
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Stock: 15391
A near pair of ornamental statuary marble ionic capitals with scrolled shell cartouche in the Georgian style. Probably once part of the columns on a fireplace surround.
English, circa 1860.
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28 cms |
5 3⁄8"
13.6 cms |
5 1⁄2"
14 cms |
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11"
28 cms |
5 13⁄16"
14.8 cms |
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Stock: 11140
A pair of ornamental Statuary marble collars or plinths in the Jacobean style with strapwork and lozenge carving. Probably once part of a pair of chimneypiece columns.
English, mid 19th century.
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18 cms |
10 5⁄8"
27 cms |
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Stock: 7159
A pair of charming Georgian parcel-gilt female terms or caryatids, mounted above tapering shafts with carved anthemion decoration. Possibly once part of a fireplace or equally they may have been a wall decoration framing a doorway in a salon.
English, circa 1770.
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22.9 cms |
72"
182.9 cms |
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Listed Price: £7,500 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 7237
A single Statuary marble ornamental Corinthian capital in the Neoclassical style with carved rosettes and acanthus leaf detail.
English, 19th century.
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16 cms |
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13 cms |
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Stock: 4270
A fine, large Victorian roundel of a Golden Eagle perched on a rocky crag, carved from solid oak.
English circa 1890.
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Stock: 4922
A pair of small, carved oak Jacobean heads of a noble man and woman probably once the figure heads on a pair of chimneypiece caryatids. Some wear and splits in the wood commensurate with age - a/f.
English, late 17th century.
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5 1⁄8"
13 cms |
10 5⁄8"
27 cms |
7 7⁄8"
20 cms |
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Stock: 15298
A large and beautiful antique giltwood sunburst centred by a carved mask, mounted on a trompe l'oeil roundel, of the Greek God Apollo as a personification of the Sun. Radiating out from the mask are twenty two sun rays linked to a giltwood framed circle of further trompe l'oeil set with four giltwood bosses. It is likely to have once been a ceiling adornment in a grand Italian palazzo.
Italian, 18th century or earlier.
Photos before restoration.
Notes: Apollo was a Greek Roman deity and one of the Twelve Olympians. Recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth, healing, the Sun and light, poetry and prophecy he was the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt.
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one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more. He is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Seen as the most beautiful god and the ideal of the kouros (ephebe, or a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo is considered to be the most Greek of all the gods. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu.[1]
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Stock: 12105
A large pair of Neoclassical stripped pine caryatid, possibly once part of a fireplace surround. The figures appear to be female their upper bodies draped in tasseled shawls.English, late 19th century.
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59 1⁄8"
150 cms |
11"
28 cms |
6 7⁄8"
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Stock: 11475
A small, carved alabaster sculpture of a Middle Eastern gentleman possibly Saladin (the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria), raised on a black marble plinth. The figure may have been cut down from a full size figure please see the last image below.
Early 19th, possibly late 18th century.
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19 cms |
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Stock: 7136
A small marble plaque of a imperious Roman senator carved in low relief.
Circa 1960.
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25.4 cms |
14 13⁄16"
37.5 cms |
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Stock: 2845
A large 19th century Doulton ceramic pediment plaque of a female head with two putti in the Renaissance manner. Some damage a/f .
English, circa 1860.
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33 1⁄2"
85 cms |
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42 cms |
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Stock: 9694
A large low relief antique carved Italian circular marble wall plaque of a young Florentine noble in the Renaissance manner. Italian, 18th century.
The last image shows a similar plaque of Ludovico il Moro Sfarzo, the 7th Duke of Milan (1451 - 1508) displayed at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
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63 cms |
5 1⁄2"
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Listed Price: £2,800 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 12900
A small Neoclassical style terracotta garden lion in a recumbent position, rather sphinx like, raised on a rectangular base.
English, circa 1870.
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61 cms |
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Stock: 7579
A finely carved, late George III or George IV Statuary Marble chimneypiece tablet, originally the centre piece of a fireplace frieze, depicting Artemis reclining on rocks with her hound before her. English, late 18th early 19th century.
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45.5 cms |
7 13⁄16"
19.7 cms |
2 13⁄16"
7 cms |
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Listed Price: £6,500 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 13597
A pair of attractive Victorian carved oak female caryatids or wall brackets in the classical style. Possibly once mounted on the jambs and supporting the shelf of an antique fireplace surround or mounted either side of a doorway. English, circa 1880.
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23 cms |
33 1⁄8"
84 cms |
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Stock: 14384
A pair of Baroque style polished brass models of the Marley Horses after Guillaume Coustou the Elder (1677-1746).
English, early 20th century.
Notes: The original pair were carved in Carrara Marble and were over three meters high and were commissioned in 1739 for the park of the Chateau De Marly. They were moved in 1795 to the Place de la Concord in Paris where they remained for two centuries but were moved again in 1985 to the Marly Sculpture Courtyard at the Louvre Museum and a concrete pair replaced them in the Place de la Concord.
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40 cms |
19 11⁄16"
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Antique sculptures
Antique sculptures conjure the vision of ancient civilisations, the classical marble statues of Ancient Greece and Rome - harmonious and idealised - but they are varied in both their materials and their styles.
Antique bronze sculptures
Many ancient statues were copied by sculptors in the 18th century to sell as souvenirs for Grand Tourists. Antique bronze sculptures were popular, which may have been inspired by Greek sculptures that were cast in bronze and only later copied by the Romans in marble. Antique sculptures of this period were predominantly figurative and often represented these classical subjects.
Antique bronze sculptures also enjoyed a great revival in the Renaissance period, in Italy and France especially, the most renowned sculptor of this period being Cellini. His remarkable figurative work inspired many later sculptors to move away from classical poses and create works that were more flamboyant and dynamic. Antique bronze sculptures come in a range of sizes, so suit a variety of positions, whether a small occasional table, a plinth or a mantelpiece.
Antique marble statues
Marble statues enjoyed popularity from antiquity to the present day, from their beginnings as polychromed statues of the deities, they evolved to embody the elegance of many ages, immortalising Kings and Queens, Gods and Goddesses. The beauty of antique marble sculptures is often the way the marble has been selected to represent the form, where the veins of the stone are utilised to emphasise the curves of a body or a natural form. Marble also absorbs light, giving the statue an almost lifelike glow in a way that stone statues of the same subject can’t.
Antique wood carvings
In Europe, antique wood carvings were most commonly found in ecclesiastic settings during the medieval period, but eventually became desirable in private homes. Antique oak carvings from the Victorian period were often inspired by these medieval, 16th and 17th century carvings, and decorative adornments were added over doorways, on ceilings, staircases and wall brackets. Antique wood carvings and sculpture were sometimes polychromed, or painted, to give the carving a lifelike quality.
If you are looking for antique sculptures, London is without doubt a great place to look. From the inspiration of our great galleries and museums, to our showroom, the Capital offers a glimpse into the fascinating world of sculpture and carving.