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(A) I just love leading with a
strong hand... and this bronze muse affords me that pleasure.
Caught here dans le jardin, she's 22 inches tall, and
just resplendant in her mint-perfect verdigris patina. She's
signed MARTAUS. (e-mail
Jack for a price)
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(B) This isn't precisely
sculpture, but what else to call it, a "knick-knack?"
I don't think so! At any rate, our charmingly worn silvered bronze
vessel is signed E. Brandt, which you can see in the left-hand
corner of the business part of this otherwise all-art "vide-poche."
You'll have to vide your poche to own it, just
as I did! It's just over six inches long and 3 1/2 wide. If you
need points or want to patch something up with that "special
someone," this could be the item! (e-mail
Jack for a price)
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(C) Our coquettish 1920's muse
was executed in creamy white alabaster, on a most attractive
marble base, by A. Cipriani, a well-known sculptor in stone.
She stands 21 tall, 19 1/2 wide, 6 1/2 deep. She coyly holds
her hands over the sphinx's eyes, lest her doubtless erotic fantasies
be discovered... (e-mail
Jack for a price)
Click
here for closer views
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(D) A leaping swordfish by the
renowned animal sculpture Rochard (and signed on the black marble),
measuring 26 wide, 16 high, and made of white metal, with bronze
patina. (e-mail
Jack for a price)
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(E) An unsigned leaping gazelle,
beautifully modeled, of the quality of Le Verrier. A complex
bronze patina over white metal, mounted on carved stone, and
measuring 19 long, 10 1/2 high.
Sorry, our gazelle lept off
the page and all the way to Finland!
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(F) Monsieur Le Panthere, with
a handsome verdigris patina on white metal, measuring 26 long,
and 9 1/2 high, on onyx and marble bases. (e-mail
Jack for a price)
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(G) And why shouldn't the French
have a love affair with the seagull (they have with everyone
else)? This wonderfully patinated white metal gull measures about
20 inches across, the same high. He can be placed in one of four
positions, diving to the left or right, climbing to the left
or right. (e-mail
Jack for a price)
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(H) Mon Dieu, look what Jack's
bought now!!! This massive bronze, signed G. Ibert, is
33 inches wide by 31 inches tall! Dig that luscious verdigris
patina... among other things... (e-mail
Jack for a price)
OOoooooooooo, Monsieur MAN!!!!
Note how the textured surface lends additional authority to this...
"piece..."
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(I) Are you willing to entertain
a German bronze amongst all the French? She stands about a foot
tall, in her animal-wrap finery, so lusciously decadent. That
tight bun in the back just sends shivers down my spine. Signed
Poertzel. I believe the head and shoulders are of carved alabaster,
and the wrap is surely bronze; the plinth, of course, is marble.
(e-mail
Jack for a price)
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(J) Marked "Tinos" along
with Made in Denmark... and Arte Bronze; 11 inches across. HEAVY!
(e-mail
Jack for a price)
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(L) Signed "M. Le Verrier,"
a signature we all know and respect, one of the lions of Art
Deco sculpture. About 9 1/2 inches tall, to the top of the bow.
White metal on stone, with a verdigris patina, gold-leafed loincloth...a
handsome, well-proportioned man... (e-mail
Jack for a price)
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(M) A white metal statue on onyx
and Portoro marble base; the spear is silver-plated, the horns
an early type of plastic. Great tension in the figures! (e-mail
Jack for a price)
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(N) A bronze plaque signed and
by the noted sculptor and metalworker Henry Dropsy. The rich
patina lends to the power of the image, "Education d'Hercule."
It's dated 1924, and it stands about 8 inches high, and with
the stand is over 10 inches wide. (e-mail
Jack for a price)
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(O) Bronze sculpture signed "BE..(illegible)
.ST" It stands 7 inches tall. Let's see... could this be
an abstraction....? (e-mail
Jack for a price)
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