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"Concours agricole" (1937). A French Art Deco bronze medal by Pierre-Alexandre Morlon (1878 - 1951) representing Ceres, Roman goddess of agriculture holding wheat. Signature left. The reverse is divided into panels depicting poultry: duck, goose turkey, a pigeon (with a dovecote on background) and rabbit. The central panel is blank for an eventual inscription. The edge is stamped with the horn of plenty (Paris mint) and BRONZE.
Pierre-Alexandre Morlon is a French engraver and medalist, creator of the famous "Type Morlon" on the former French franc coin currency: obverse with Marianne - allegory of the Republic - with (Phrygian) liberty cap and reverse with horns of plenty.
6.6 x 5.7 cm (2" 9/16 x 2" 1/4)
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A French Art Deco bronze octagonal medal "La pomme" (The Apple), 1930, by Pierre-Alexandre Morlon (1878 - 1951). Signature left. The edge is stamped with the horn of plenty (Paris mint) and BRONZE.
Width 5.5 cm (2" 1/8)
Pierre-Alexandre Morlon is a French engraver and medalist, creator of the famous "Type Morlon" on the former French franc coin currency: obverse with Marianne - allegory of the Republic - with (Phrygian) liberty cap and reverse with horns of plenty.
Length : 5.5 cm (2" 1/8)
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USD $300.00 |
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A three-piece garniture for a mantel clock.
The altar-shape centerpiece with fine brass fittings and two female caryatid-masks adorned with earrings, Uraeus-style headband and several ranks of beads necklaces.
The clock with circular Roman numerals dial.
The movement is signed by "Howard & Co New York".
A pair of ormolu bronze figures are framing the centerpiece as elements of the clock composition.
Signed Mage, most certainly François Mage, a 19th century French artist who died in 1910.
The figures were no doubt chosen to suggest the Day and the Night. The day is depicted by the woman pouring water over the extinguished torch of Eros and the night by the more formal veiled woman holding a butterfly over the love god this time with a lit torch.
Figures height 39.5 cm (15” 1/2)
Clock piece : 22 x 35.5 x 15 cm (8” 5/8 x 14” x 5” 7/8)
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A bronze medal by Pierre-Alexandre Morlon (1878 - 1951) depicting an Alsatian as the city of Strasbourg, her hair dress adorned with city towers. Right STRASBOURG and the Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-Strasbourg; left: Morlon signature; in ex. escutcheon. The reverse with warship, the name of Strasbourg and a blank panel for an eventual inscription between two branches of laurel leaves. The edge is stamped with the horn of plenty (Paris mint) and BRONZE.
Pierre-Alexandre Morlon is a French engraver and medalist, creator of the famous "Type Morlon" on the former French franc coin currency: obverse with Marianne - allegory of the Republic - with (Phrygian) liberty cap and reverse with horns of plenty.
Diameter : 6.8 cm (2" 11/16)
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USD $250.00 |
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Poule et ses petits (Chicken and her offspring)
A gilded bronze by Jules Moigniez (1835 - 1894) embedded on a marble plinth. Signed along the base.
Jules Moigniez was a very talented French sculptor, his most plentiful subjects were game birds and animals; his first exhibit (pointer and pheasant) was in Paris 1855 at the Exposition Universelle, he was only twenty years old.
He was successful in France, in England and especially in America where the majority of his game bird sculptures were sold.
Height x Width : 11.3 cm (4” 7/16) x 11.3 cm (4” 7/16)
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Antoine-Pierre Aubert (French 1853 -1912)
A French ormolu bronze statuette of a warrior, seated on a pedestal, signed Aubert, fixing his greave.
After a mid-18th century composition of the French sculptor J.-B. Pigalle Mercure attachant sa talonnière.
Aubert combines classical-mythological vocabulary with his warrior - dressed somehow like a roman soldier - with lion skin the traditional attribute of Heracles, better known as Hercules, the divine hero with extraordinary strenght. Two sphinxes bust emerge from his pedestal. Shield, sword and bow (?) at his feet.
The mingling of genre suggests the canon of the Second Empire taste and a date in the second half of 19th century.
Height : 28 cm (11”)
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USD $4,500.00 |
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A Japanese bronze model of a seated ape grasping a coconut with his right hand.
Signature in a cartouche.
1900's.
Height : 12.5 cm (4" 15/16)
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USD $650.00 |
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French Art Deco bronze group.
A young woman kneeling with her two-greyhound dogs.
Foundry stamp Fabrication française Paris Made in France.
Signed J. Salado.
Circa 1930.
Height x Width : 19.5 cm (7" 11/16) x 30 cm (11" 13/16)
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Art nouveau pair of bronze maiden's bust on pedestal.
Height : 33.5 cm (13" 3/16)
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USD $3,000.00 |
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A powerful striding bronze panther on a marble plinth.
Signed Secondo
Width : 45.6 cm (17" 3/4)
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USD $1,500.00 |
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Bronze statue of the Emperor Augustus.
In 1863, a Roman marble statue* of Augustus was discovered at Prima Porta, near Rome.
Our bronze statue is a remarkable copy made shortly after its discovery by A. Röhrich.
The Augustus statue shows him as a victorious general making a speech, posed in the traditional Polykleitan controposto manner.
On its breastplate, scenes of the Roman victory over the Parthians and at his feet Eros is riding a dolphin: a reminder of his naval victory over Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium or, through his adoption by Julius Caesar, that he belongs to patrician family the gens julia therefore with Venus ancestry.
*Now at the Vatican Museums - Chiaramonti Museum - Rome
Height : 91.5 cm (3 feet)
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A sculpture representing a steeplechaser jumping a brushwood fence
By Antoine Bofill (French/Spanish 1895-1921)
Signed Bofill and C. France metallurgy.
Bearing metal bronze patina
Height : 44 cm (17" 5/16)
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USD $3,500.00 |
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Pierre Le Faguays pseud. Fayral (French, Nantes 1892-1962)
Atalanta
Green patinated bronze sculpture of the huntress, wearing a chiton unfastened at one shoulder, with spreading arms in a gesture of victory and joy.
On a classic Art Deco stepped stone plinth.
Signed Fayral twice - Pierre Le Faguays pseudonym - at the bronze base and the plinth.
Tenon joint impressed with FRANCE.
In Greek mythology, Atalanta was a fleet-footed huntress who challenged her suitors to a race, and won.
Then came Hippomenes, he defeated her when she stopped to pick up the three golden apples he dropped on her way.
Height with base : 50.8 cm (20")
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Erdmann Encke (German 1843-1896)
A bronze cast in relief.
Profile of a lady with a hat and a beautiful braid crossed over her shoulder.
Signature engraved E. Encke fec. (latin fecit) and dated 1885.
31.8 x 24.5 cm (12" 1/2 x 9" 5/8)
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Arab Falconer on Horse
20th Century Solid Bronze Recast of a 19th century sculpture by Pierre Jules Mène (French 1810-1879) on marble
Signed «P.J. MÈNE»
Metal label on marble base inscribed with «FALCONER ON HORSE by Mène»
Height bronze : 71.1 cm (28")
Height with marble base : 75 cm (29" 1/2)
Bronze base : 56 x 23 cm (22" x 9")
Length marble base: 62.2 x 30.5 cm (24" 1/2 x 12")
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Antonio Grediaga Kieff (Spanish 1936)
Bronze Sculpture with golden patina attached to black marble base
Signed and inscribed 'Kieff e.a. unica' (along lower edge of the bronze)
43.5 (17" 1/8) high not including black marble base measuring 12.7 x 12.7 x 5.1 cm (5" x 5" x 2")
Kieff Antonio Grediaga was born Madrid Spain 1936. He settled in Montreal, Quebec, in 1969 and in 1975 built his own foundry in Beloeil.
He had exhibitions in various cities including Montreal, Ottawa, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles and London to name a few..
He is represented in International Museums, Commissions and Private Collections, Including Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Reagan, Rockerfeller Collection, The Carters, IBM, Philadelphia Museum, Taipei Nat' Museum, The Bronfmans, Joan Collins, Tate Galleries London.
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USD $2,300.00 |
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The Artist by E. Rousseau (French 20th century)
Art Deco Bronze with Brown Patina and Ivory
Signed
Published in « Art Deco and Other Figures » by Bryan Catley, Antique Collectors' Club Ltd., p. 312, illustrated under the title “Success”.
Height : 20 cm (7" 7/8)
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Julien Caussé (French 1869 – 1914 ?)
Nymphe, joueuse de flûte au roseau
Bronze with golden brown patina on wood pedestal
Signed «J.Caussé» in the metal base
Height bronze : 50,8 cm (20”)
Height pedestal : 7 cm (2” 3/4)
Born in Bourges, student of Alexandre Falguière, regular exhibitor of the Salon (Paris) at the age of 19, Julien Caussé works had a decidedly Art Nouveau spirit
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Sylvia Lefkovitz (Canadian 1924)
Bronze figure of a kneeling woman wrapped with a vast veil covering her head and her body
Signed and dated 61
34.6 x 23.2 x 23.2 cm (13" 5/8 x 9" 1/8 x 9" 1/8)
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A Japanese bronze model of a striding rhinoceros in combat with two tigers
Meiji period (1868-1912)
The animals naturalistically cast with finely detail and inset glass eyes; the tigers with copper red tone patina.
Condition : the rhinoceros tail was broken and has been glued
This bronze group illustrate the fascinating fusion of western form with traditional Japanese techniques and themes of the Meiji period
Height : 31.2 (12.2")
Length : 42 cm (16.5")
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