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: 11022
A large antique terracotta campana urn, possibly by Blashfield, decorated in the Greek Revival manner after Bertel Thorvaldsen and Thomas Hope. Frieze features under the anthemion motif beneath the rim show various figures of flower and fruit maidens, minstrels and an angel typical of Ancient Greek inspiration, the handles are butted by the heads of river deities. English, early 19th century.
Notes: Although not stamped the texture of the clay & the design is very similar to the work produced by J M Blashfield." There was an identical urn sold at a Sotheby's Sale on 21 Sept 1999.
Weight: 110 kg.
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30 1⁄4"
77 cms |
41 1⁄4"
105 cms |
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Stock: 12789
A carved marble Victorian figure of a girl of a girl with hand raised and head lowered leaning on a tree stump, on a circular base and associated eight sided plinth. English, 19th century
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28 cms |
39 13⁄16"
101 cms |
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28 cms |
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Stock: 12831
A 17th century Italian near life size white statuary marble sculpture head and wings of an angel carved in the Baroque manner of BERNINI, the 17th century Italian Sculptor, with the initials CB on the back of a wing. Italian, 17th century.
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13 5⁄8"
34.5 cms |
14 3⁄16"
36 cms |
7 7⁄8"
20 cms |
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Stock: 12809
British Coat of Arms of the Royal Family in painted aluminium.English, circa 1920.
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23 3⁄16"
59 cms |
31 1⁄8"
79 cms |
3 1⁄2"
9 cms |
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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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13 3⁄8"
34 cms |
17 1⁄2"
44.5 cms |
9 13⁄16"
25 cms |
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Stock: 12679
An antique large Victorian bronze figure of a Knight Crusader.
Mid 19th century.
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11 3⁄8"
29 cms |
19 1⁄4"
49 cms |
6 1⁄4"
16 cms |
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Stock: 10992
A finely carved Italian pair of walnut caryatids in the Baroque manner showing a boy and a girl symbolising Summer and Autumn, the girl with a garland of flowers symbolising Spring, the boy with vine leaves and grapes entwined with bullrushes symbolising Autumn harvest. Italian, 19th century.
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10 cms |
25 5⁄8"
65 cms |
4 1⁄4"
11 cms |
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Stock: 12632
An impressive richly carved Arts and Crafts oak eagle lectern standing on an ornately carved pedestal in the Neo Gothic manner. English, mid 19th century.
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28 1⁄4"
72 cms |
62 3⁄16"
158 cms |
22 13⁄16"
58 cms |
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Stock: 7605
A pair of unusual Art Deco terracotta stylised eagle wall lights in the manner of Salvador Dali.
Italian or Spanish, circa 1930.
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14"
35.6 cms |
19 1⁄2"
49.5 cms |
9 13⁄16"
24.8 cms |
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13"
33 cms |
18"
45.7 cms |
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Stock: 11742
A pair of life size busts in the Italian Renaissance manner of a nobleman and his lady in white terracotta stoneware. Images before restoration and cleaning.
English, 19th Century.
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16 1⁄8"
41 cms |
29 1⁄8"
74 cms |
15"
38 cms |
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Stock: 12134
A life size bronze of the self proclaimed knight-errant 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.
Fredy Balthazar Stoll, was born in Switzerland in 1869, but later settled in Paris, becoming the pupil of Auguste Rodin. He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Artistes Français and was well regarded for his sensitive depictions of the human form. Mobilized during the First World War, he was taken prisoner in the Grafenwöhr camp (Germany), where in 1917 he created a moving monument to the prisoners of war, now in the Sarrebourg national cemetery (Moselle). After the war, he created several monuments to the dead in France.
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26 13⁄16"
68 cms |
39 13⁄16"
101 cms |
18 7⁄8"
48 cms |
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Stock: 11846
A very fine pair of intricately carved oak high ranking, perhaps Royal, robed and fearsome medieval warrior figures, helmeted, heavily armed, armoured & crowned, possibly crusaders, each wearing monogramed armour, one with a fleur-de-lys on his breastplate, the other a roaring lion & each carring a shield, a sword and baton.English, 19th century. Shown with pair of wall socles, SNo 9612 also 19th century.
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13 13⁄16"
35 cms |
33 1⁄2"
85 cms |
11 3⁄8"
29 cms |
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15 3⁄8"
39 cms |
12 3⁄8"
31.5 cms |
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Stock: 11921
" THE ASCENT OF MAN "...A monumental elaborately carved stele representing creatures trhough the evolution of the earth's species. In ivory toned English alabaster, built in five sections and profusely carved in high and low relief depicting quite accurately primeval vegetation, sea-dwelling life forms, ammonites & nautilus. Further images showing extinct vertebrates, marine reptiles & shoals of fish. Main features being A Woolly Mammoth..originating in the Pliocene epoch 4.8 million years ago... a Pterodactyl...65 million years ago and so on... a giant Toad & Iguanadons. The tapering circular shaft with carved acanthus leaves said to represent the intervening evolutionary stages to the present represented by the upper section carved with three figural groups of man and woman standing on the capital of the column, supporting a crown. Designer : Phillp C Thicknesse, late 19th century who also designed the designed the zoology building at Liverpool University. English, Circa 1880.
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292 cms |
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Stock: 11767
A LARGE CAST IRON FIGURE OF A RECUMBENT MUSE in the Greek manner, sitting on a foliate chased rock, signed Chatrousse, Émile François Chatrousse, French sculptor (1829-1896). Many of his works, including Joan of Arc, are displayed in Parisian Public institutions such as The Tuilleries and the Hotel de Ville.
WEIGHT: 285kg
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36 5⁄8"
93 cms |
52"
132 cms |
34 1⁄4"
87 cms |
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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.
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15 5⁄8"
39.5 cms |
17 11⁄16"
45 cms |
11 3⁄8"
29 cms |
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Stock: 9320
A Fine pair of high relief carved walnut plaques depicting an officer of the Light Cavalry of the Kings Own Hussars, a British 19th century regiment ...and a Bugler of the same regiment. Both are mounted on chargers, the officer with regimental symbols on the saddle cloth. England 19th century.
TENNYSON : " Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward.........
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30.5 cms |
18 1⁄8"
45.9 cms |
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Stock: 9184
A pair of terracota winged lions in the Baroque manner.
Italian, 19th century.
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9 1⁄8"
23 cms |
33 1⁄2"
85 cms |
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28 cms |
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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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24"
61 cms |
28 1⁄4"
72 cms |
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30 cms |
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Stock: 9036
A Pre Raphaelite marble statuette of Shakespeare's tragic heroine Ophelia, lover of Hamlet. This interpretation somewhat reminiscent of the painting by Arthur Hughes in 1863. Her hands are full of dripping river weeds symbolising her death by drowning after she had been driven mad with grief at the discovery that her father had been mistakenly murdered by Hamlet.
"OPHELIA" is carved into the rectangular base.
English, circa 1890. ( photo before restoration ).
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9 1⁄8"
23 cms |
29 1⁄2"
75 cms |
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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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38.1 cms |
23"
58.4 cms |
9 1⁄2"
24.1 cms |
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Stock: 10664
A stoneware figure of a Crowned Sentinel Lion in the Baroque manner, seated holding a shield bearing the Royal Coat of Arms to his chest, on a cylindrical base.English,19th Century.
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38 cms |
41 1⁄4"
105 cms |
18 1⁄2"
47 cms |
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Stock: 10635
A rare Doulton Lambeth Cream Glazed Stoneware Garden Sundial, the square plateau with scalloped corners over a column moulded as two swans, each with upswept wings, on a raised base.
Note: The original bronze sundial plate is missing
English, late 19th century.
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15 3⁄16"
38.5 cms |
28"
71 cms |
15 3⁄16"
38.5 cms |
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Stock: 10762
A pair of heavy cast bronze Eagles purportedly from a Midlands branch of Barclays Bank. English,1930's.
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17 11⁄16"
45 cms |
20 1⁄2"
52 cms |
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Stock: 10068
An Italian mid to late 19th Century marble figure
of a child holding a nest of fledgling Sparrows, signed R Galli, Milano.
A sculptor Galli was at the Milan Academy of Art in the 1840s.
Image before restoration, cleaning and polishing. Italian, late 19th century.
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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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38.7 cms |
19 13⁄16"
50.2 cms |
32"
81.3 cms |
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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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56 cms |
31 1⁄8"
79 cms |
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Stock: 8353
A walnut bracket carved in high relief in the Renaissance manner with three female deities supporting a semicircular plinth carved with Greek Key design. 19th, century.
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24.2 cms |
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33 cms |
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Stock: 8190
A cast-iron bust of the head of Laocoon, a Trojan Priest at the time of the Trojan Wars who warned the Trojans about the Trojan Horse and died along with his two sons when the Gods, who favoured the Greeks, sent two sea serpents to kill him. After the original sculpture which was one of the major discoveries of the Italian Renaissance, found in Rome in 1506 in the ruins of Titus' palace( Shown on plinth 8172 ).
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36 cms |
23 5⁄8"
60 cms |
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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.
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200 cms |
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16 cms |
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Stock: 7263
A finely sculpted marble bust in Statuary marble of a prominent Edwardian, seated on a Sienna marble base.
Signed: A. Drury, Royal Academy, 1916.
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50.8 cms |
29 1⁄2"
74.9 cms |
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33 cms |
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Stock: 7195
A set of life size carved wood ecclesiastical figures with excellent oil painted detail inset with coloured glass cabuchons.
South German, circa 1890, (photo before restoration).
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182.9 cms |
22"
55.9 cms |
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Stock: 7133
An Egyptian head on a round base, probably of a Ptolemic Pharoah, 3rd century BC. A plaster replica made by the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.
Circa 1920.
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22.2 cms |
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50.8 cms |
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Stock: 4616
A French terracotta of a river-god, crowned with a bullrush and wearing drapery around his waist, sitting on rocks, an overturned jar issuing water at his feet on an integral round plinth.
Late 19th century.
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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.