Bronze Group of Ariadne and the Leopard

Pierre-Jules Mene (French, 1810-79) "Chasse Au Lapin" An exquisite Parianware hunting group after P.J Mene. It captures a trio of dogs excitedly cong...

A good quality patinated bronze bust of Chopin rained on a square, stepped black wooden base. Well executed with good detail and rich brown patination. Measures: (Base is 7cms by 7c...

French bronze figure of a dog and a tortoise by Alfred Jaquemart, signed to the base and stamped A.D. for the A. Delafontaine foundry. With excellent deep brown and rich patination. ...

Modern cold painted bronze figure of a Hippopotamus by Anita Mandl F.R.B.S., R.W.A., born 1926, signed with monogram, with mottled brown pat...

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This is an alabaster group sculpture of the Cretan princess and daughter of the king Minos of Crete, Ariadne seated over her panther. Her left elbow is over the head of the panther a...

A nineteenth century French bronze of the Sleeping Ariadne, after the antique, the 'original' - itself a copy of an earlier Hellenistic sculpture - he...

This late Georgian antique marble statue is after the antique, depicting a scale fragment of the eminent 2nd century statue ‘Sleeping Ariadne’. C...

A large & finely sculpted alabaster figure of Ariadne, wife of Dionysus the God of wine, shown adorned with a diadem of vine leaves while in repose atop the back of Dionysus’s stridi...

Signed Clodion From our Sculpture collection, we are pleased to offer this French Belle Epoque Bronze of Ariadne cast after Clodion (Claude Michel). The sculpture of fine casting and beautiful patination is sculpted as a bust of a Ariadne in nature with her hair tied up and leaves intwined in her hair. The Bronze sits upon a circular socle with a square base signed to the right hand face Clodion. The Bronze cast after the original during the neoclassical era dating to the second half of the 19th century during the Belle Epoque era (c.1970-1914) circa 1875. Clodion was the alias of Claude Michel (1738-1814) a French born sculptor working in the Rococo style, especially noted for his works in marble, bronze, & terracotta. Many of Clodion’s works feature in museum collections around the world with some of his most pivotal works including The Intoxication of Wine and The Dance of Time. Ariadne In Greek mythology was a Cretan princess and the daughter of King Minos of Crete. Ariadne was known for aiding Theseus escape the Minotaur and then being abandoned by him on the island of Naxos. There, Dionysus saw Ariadne sleeping, fell in love with her, and later married her. Many versions of the myth recount Dionysus throwing Ariadne’s jewelled crown into the sky to create a constellation, the Corona Borealis...

Patinated bronze figure of Ariadne after Aime Millet (French, 1819-1891), mounted on circular base of carved slate stone.