Art Deco Ceramic Sculpture

Majolica Italian grey hound. Mid-20th century.

Italian ceramic terrier. 1950s. Very Hollywood Regency.

Exceptional and expressively carved solid walnut near life Size statue of nude woman raised on attached fluted column pedestal base in overall beautifully aged original rich surface ...

Bronze art deco ram sculpture by Paul A. Lobel from the RKO Roxy Theater, Rockefeller Center, New York. Hand wrought. Provenance: RKO, Roxy Center Theatre; Mr. Eugene Lee Schoen; Mr. Neal Prince & Mr. Herbert Wade Hemphill Jr.; Mr. Neal Prince; The Trust of the above; Heritage Auctions. Presented by Joseph Dasta Antiques Paul Lobel (1899 - 1983): The accomplishments of Paul A. Lobel, industrial designer, metalsmith, sculptor and cartoonist/illustrator, may be viewed as the quintessential American success story. Born in Romania, at the turn of the century, he emigrated to the United States while an infant, and, from humble beginnings on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, grew up to attain a one-man show in Paris in 1925, win two awards at the International Exposition of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1932, be the subject of two exhibitions at the American Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He also founded an innovative jewelry and metals studio/shop in New York’s Greenwich Village. Furthermore, his contemporaries regarded him with awe and almost everything he attempted came to fruition. In the summer of 1926 Lobel exhibited 35 works, including drawings, etchings, paintings, metalwork and sculpture, in a one-man show at the Grande Librairie Universelle in Paris. During the next year, he toured London, Rome, Florence, Rotterdam, Brussels and Berlin, then, broke, returned to America where he again rented desk space and tried to resume his advertising career. But he was haunted by the modern design that he had been exposed to in Paris. So, after borrowing money to open a metalwork studio on Lexington Avenue, he sought out architect Eugene Schoen, an enthusiast of modern design, whom he had formerly been introduced to by Boardman Robinson. Schoen was in the process of opening a gallery devoted to showing the work of designers and craftsmen imbued with the spirit of modernism...

Hand-painted art pottery bowl by Herman Kähler, Denmark. HAK. Circa 1930's.

A striking metal sculpture of a fish. Iron with gold gilt decoration. Probably Asian.

Rare and important French Art Deco ceramic sculpture by Marcel Renard (1893-1974), circa 1920s of a woman modeled in robes with a baby. Made of earthenware with a soft crackled glaze...

Strikingly stylized and abstracted, yet sumptuously finished in lustrous glazes, this long, lean sculpture is the perfect embodiment of Art Deco design. This piece was hand-formed, ...

A Stunning and beautiful Hand Painted ceramic Barzoi sculpture made in Austria by Goldscheider in the 1930s. This very decorative ceramic barzoi figurine by the renowned company of Friedrich Goldscheider in Vienna - Austria. The manufactory of Goldscheider, one of the most successful companies in European ceramic history, was founded 1885 and is world famous for their outstanding figurines and amazing shaped busts. This beautiful crafted early 20th century prowling ceramic barzoi dogs impresses with its realistic depiction. The timeless beauty and quality of this Goldscheider dogs sculpture makes...

Stags by Lejan, France, 1930s. Ceramic. Successful aesthetic shape, for a model that very rarely appears on the marketplace. Measures: Width: 24"(60.7cm), height: 13"(33cm), depth: 5...

Lovely glazed ceramic representation of a nude woman reclining on a dolphin's back. Craquelure finish on the woman. Signed and dated "GN, 1946."

One of the rarest and most important sculptures eminating from the ARKO ceramic school established by Alexander Archipenko in Woodstock, New York, this stylized group of praying figu...