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.

  • Stock: 10307

    A Regency statuary marble tablet representing the marriage of Cupid and Psyche. The couple is veiled and Cupid holds a dove whilst they are accompanied by three putti, holding a torch, a basket of fruit and a stool for their wedding ceremony. This is based on the onyx cameo made by Tryphon during the Roman Late Republican or Early Imperial Period (50–25 B.C.). This cameo once belonged to Peter Paul Rubens and was inventoried in both the collection of the Duke of Arundel and the Duke of Malborough in the 18th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    20 12"
    52 cms
    8 78"
    22.6 cms
    1 38"
    3.5 cms

    Listed Price: £5,950 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 7546

    'The Choice of Heracles'. A carved Statuary Marble chimneypiece tablet or plaque depicting the Greek hero Heracles (Roman Hercules) at the moment in which he was offered to choose an easy peaceful life or a turbulent glorious life by the two allegorical figures Vice and Virtue. He chose the latter.
    English, late 18th early.

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    Width Height Depth
    18 18"
    46 cms
    8 78"
    22.6 cms
    1 38"
    3.5 cms

    Listed Price: £5,600 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 14105

    A fine neoclassical style antique bronze figure of a muse holding a lyre in one hand and a small musical scroll in the other, standing on a break bowfront base signed with the name Magnan Paris 1867. French late 19th century.

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    width height depth
    9 38"
    24 cms
    22"
    56 cms
    7 18"
    18 cms

    Listed Price: £2,500 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 14387

    A 20th century bronze of a beautiful young gypsy maiden with a tambourine after the model by Claudius Marioton (1844-1919). The name Marioton and the number 126 are enscribed on the back. The original would have been made in Paris at the art foundry - Fondeur, Siot-Decauville active in the 19th and early 20th century and whose workshops and stores were in Villehardouin Street, Paris. French early to mid 20th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    5 12"
    14 cms
    17 14"
    44 cms
    5 78"
    15 cms

    Listed Price: £2,200 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 14383

    An antique carved beech wood plaque depicting the Coat of Arms of the City of Manchester which was granted to the City in 1842. The City's motto is inscribed on the plaque and reads "Concilio et Labore" which loosely translated means "Wisdom and Effort".

    The Coat of Arms depicts the Heraldic Antelope with its chain, a symbol of peace and harmony, extreme courage and discipline also representing the engineering industries; and the Heraldic Lion a symbol of bravery and strength, his crown, a castle is a reference to the ancient Roman fort of Castlefield. Each wears the Red Rose of Lancaster on their shoulders. They flank a central cabuchon depicting a ship representing the trading relationships of Manchester, and a globe covered in bees which in heraldic terms is a symbol of efficient industry. To this day the bee is often used as a shorthand emblem of Manchester.

    English, late 19th century.

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    width height
    28 1116"
    73 cms
    11 14"
    28.8 cms
  • Stock: 13871

    A patinated antique bronze of Lorenzo de Medici, the 15th century Italian Statesman and the powerful ruler of the Florentine Republic. He was well known for his patronage of Renaissance scholarship. poetry and art most notably that of Botticello and Michaelangelo. He is depicted deep in thought, this figure is deserving of its nickname "Pensieroso" or "The thoughtful one" and is after the original by Michelangelo on the tomb of Lorenzo de Medici in the Chapel of San Lorenzo in Florence. Italian, possibly French late 19th century.

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    width height depth
    6 1116"
    17 cms
    15 1116"
    40 cms
    7 78"
    20 cms

    Listed Price: £2,200 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 13747

    A Coalbrookdale lamp stand modelled as an allegory of Europe, from a series of four cast-iron standards representing the continents. This series was designed by the celebrated British sculptor John Bell in the 1860s.

    It was Francis Darby's interest in the possibilities of statue casting that led to the foundry’s partnership with Bell, who allowed the foundry to take a mold from his celebrated statue, The Eagle Slayer. Once they had successfully completed this task, Bell went on to design a number of fine cast items for them, including pieces for the Great Exhibition and the Paris Exposition.

    John Bell (1811–1895) was a British sculptor perhaps most famous for his statue, The Eagle Slayer.

    English, c.1860

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    Base diameter Height
    13"
    33 cms
    58 14"
    148 cms

    Listed Price: £5,500 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 13742

    A grand and finely modelled life size bronze figure of a prowling tiger.
    Powerful and Regal.
    Probably 20th Century Japanese.

    Weight: 90kg

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    length height
    77 316"
    196 cms
    26 58"
    67.5 cms
  • Stock: 4351

    A pair of rare stone roundels in the Renaissance manner, each with a carved head; one depicting Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571), Florentine sculptor, goldsmith and amorist; the other depicts Giulio Romano (1499-1546), painter and architect, one of the creators of Mannerism, from 1515 until Raphael's death in 1520, his chief assistant.
    Italian 19th century, circa 1850.

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    diameter depth
    40"
    101.6 cms
    15"
    38 cms

    Listed Price: £25,000 pair(+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 7478

    A most attractive patinated bronzed cast-iron Baroque style figure of a small girl reminiscent of the illustration by Emile Bayard of the child Cosette from Victor Hugo's " Les Miserables". It was almost certainly made by the Coalbrookdale Foundry. There are holes in the base which point to it once being part of a larger piece and the figure of the girl is identical to the one depicted in the fourth image below of a Coalbrookdale fountain base which sold at Sothebys Billingshurst on 26th May 1987.

    English, the Diamond Foundry mark on the base indicates1854 image five attached below.

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    width height depth
    13"
    33 cms
    33"
    83.8 cms
    9"
    22.9 cms

    Listed Price: £3,500 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 13629

    A large marble plaque, or chimneypiece tablet, depicting the winged Nike, Greek Goddess of Victory, driving a chariot pulled by team of powerful horses. She is attended by a pair of winged cherubic attendants and a hunting dog can be seen running alongside the horses. English, late 19th century.

    Notes: The Greek goddess Nike personified Victory. She was the daughter of the Titan Pallas and the goddess Styx and a close companion of Zeus. She took on the role of the divine charioteer and flew around battlefields rewarding the victors with glory and fame, symbolized by a wreath of laurel leaves.

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    Width Height Depth
    27"
    68.5 cms
    14 38"
    36.5 cms
    2 316"
    5.5 cms

    Listed Price: £3,600 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 8273

    An interesting pair of Japanese street entertainers in spelter. One has its forearm missing, the other some fingertips. They would originally have supported acrobatic children as part of their act. Copies from the much earlier bronze originals
    Japanese 19th century

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    Width Height
    15 38"
    39 cms
    30 14"
    77 cms

    Listed Price: £3,500 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 11498

    A well sculpted antique statuary marble bust in the manner of a Roman Senator.
    Probably Italian, 19th century.

    Reminiscent of the Bust of Cicero, by Peter Scheemakers, 1743 (Long Room, Trinity College Library, Dublin, Ireland).

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    width height depth
    13 38"
    34 cms
    17 12"
    44.5 cms
    9 1316"
    25 cms

    Listed Price: £3,400 As Is(+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 12679

    An antique large Victorian bronze figure of a Knight Crusader.
    Mid 19th century.

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    width height depth
    External 11 38"
    29 cms
    19 14"
    49 cms
    6 14"
    16 cms

    Listed Price: £3,200 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 12134

    A life size bronze of Don Quixote of La Mancha who with his squire, Sancho Panza was the inveterate tilter at windmills. He was the creation of the early 17th century author Miguel de Cervantes.
    Sculptor: Fredy Balthazar Stoll(1869-1949).
    Early 20th century.

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    width height depth
    26 1316"
    68 cms
    39 1316"
    101 cms
    18 78"
    48 cms

    Listed Price: £9,500 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 10700

    A massive aluminium heraldic spread eagle, with three Ducal coronets on it's breasts and wings the original emblem, without the three crowns was used by the Barclays Bank Group from the early 18th century. The three crowns were added in the 1930's to differentiate it from those emblems used for centuries in varying forms by royal households, countries and other establishments.
    English, 1930's.

    Notes: When in 1728 the Barclays Bank company moved into the premises known as The Black Spread Eagle on Lombard Street in central London they adopted as their emblem the sign of a Black Spread Eagle which had been left by the previous unknown tenants of the building. The premises later became 54 Lombard Street. Barclays present day blue emblem, first introduced in the 1960's and adopted in 1970, is based on the old earlier logo as shown on the hanging Bank sign below.

    Casting of monuments and works of art in aluminium was first used by Alfred Gilbert in 1893 for his statue of Eros (famously misnamed, the figure is in fact Anteros, his twin brother), the Greek God of requited love, which is poised on top of the memorial to Lord Shaftsbury in the middle of Piccadilly Circus in London's West End.

    SCALE : Imperial .

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    Width Height Depth
    57 18"
    145 cms
    72"
    183 cms
    7 78"
    20 cms

    Listed Price: £12,500 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 11842

    A 19th century terracotta architectural corbel, with lion masks to the corners and the mask of a boy to the centre. The rest of the corbel is modelled from acanthus leaves and egg and dart mouldings. Original paint.

    English, c.1870.

    Width Height Depth
    External 15 58"
    39.5 cms
    17 1116"
    45 cms
    11 38"
    29 cms

    Listed Price: £900 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 9184

    A pair of terracota winged lions in the Baroque manner.
    Italian, 19th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    9 18"
    23 cms
    33 12"
    85 cms
    11"
    28 cms

    Listed Price: £3,500 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 6440

    A marble bust of a classical female with high necked draped robe.
    Italian 18th century.

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    width height Depth
    24"
    61 cms
    28 14"
    72 cms
    11 1316"
    30 cms

    Listed Price: £3,500 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 11353

    A small antique bronze bust of Dionysus set on a circular plinth, his locks intertwined with vine leaves and grapes. Dionysus was the son of Zeus and known as the Ancient Greek God of the wine harvest. In Ancient Rome he was known as Bacchus. Victorian, mid 19th century.

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    width height depth
    7 1116"
    19.5 cms
    14 58"
    37 cms
    5 78"
    15 cms

    Listed Price: £1,800 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 7134

    A plaster bust of Bacchus, Roman god of wine and fertility, formerly the Greek God Dionysius, after the original by Raux in the Louis XIV manner.
    French, 19th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    15"
    38.1 cms
    23"
    58.4 cms
    9 12"
    24.1 cms

    Listed Price: £750 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 10300

    A superb and very large painted polychrome terracotta model of a North American Bison at Bay.
    Late 19th century.

    Notes: Sometimes confused with the buffalo the American Bison is found only on the north American continent and is only distantly related to the African Cape Buffalo and the Asian Water Buffalo.

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    Length Height Width
    57 18"
    145 cms
    36 58"
    93 cms
    19 1116"
    50 cms

    Listed Price: £12,500 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 4615

    A large finely carved oak bust of a Benedictine monk in pensive mood in the Baroque manner. French, circa 1830.

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    base height depth
    15 316"
    38.7 cms
    19 1316"
    50.2 cms
    32"
    81.3 cms

    Listed Price: £4,200 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 9289

    A lifesize marble library bust in statuary marble of a gentleman in classical garbe. Photo before restoration. Signed : J C Lough.
    English circa 1830. The sculptor John Graham Lough produced a variety of portrait sculpture, and ideal male and female figures in classical style. He was born near Hexham, Northumberland, and according to Redgrave, may have worked as a farmer in his youth. However, after an apprenticeship with a stone mason, and a period at Newcastle, he came to London to study the Elgin Marbles at the British Museum. He began exhibiting ideal figures and heads at the Royal Academy from 1826. Later, from 1834-38, he spent a period in Rome.
    Among Lough's public works are a statue of Lord Collingwood in Tynemouth, and a Stephenson Memorial in Newcastle. In London, he produced the monuments to Henry Montgomery Lawrence and to Bishop Middleton in St Paul's Cathedral, and made the Queen Victoria and Prince Albert for the Royal Exchange. In Canterbury Cathedral, he was responsible for the monuments to Bishop Broughton, and to Lt Col Frederick Mackeson.
    He died in his late 80s, and is buried in Kensal Green cemetery, London.

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    width height depth
    22"
    56 cms
    31 18"
    79 cms
    9 1316"
    25 cms

    Listed Price: £5,800 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 9690

    A large high relief Victorian ceramic Keystone of the head of a weeping child possibly by Lipscombe & Co. after the model by Francois Duquesnoy ( 1597-1643).

    English 19th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    Max 12 316"
    31 cms
    17 1116"
    45 cms
    12 58"
    32 cms

    Listed Price: £2,200 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 9349

    An antique white marble sculpted bust of a child, the head turned slightly to the right, on a waisted circular socle, the rear signed J.Gall Sc.
    Scottish, 19th century.

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    width height depth
    9 1316"
    25 cms
    16 18"
    41 cms
    5 78"
    15 cms

    Listed Price: £2,600 (+VAT where applicable)

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  • Stock: 8088

    An 18th century giltwood shelf with coathooks. The moulded underside carved with acanthus leaves & a band of nulling enhanced with black paintwork defining the recesses with a row of nine scrolling acanthus corbels alternated with rosettes in black sunken panels below and nine coat hooks with open cast mounts.

    Italian, 18th century with later modifications.

    Width Height Depth
    78 1116"
    200 cms
    6 14"
    16 cms
    5 1116"
    14.5 cms
  • Stock: 4633

    A fine French carved oak Beaux Art overdoor, the central cartouche with Art Nouveau scrolls centred by a female mask with wings. Late 19th century, circa 1890 (photographed before restoration).

    width height
    72 316"
    183.5 cms
    23 14"
    59.1 cms

    Listed Price: £7,500 (+VAT where applicable)

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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.