Emile-Andre Boisseau (French, 1842-1923)
A Gilt Bronze and Ivory Figure, late 19th/early 20th century
A young woman in medieval dress who is reading a book, mounted on a circular marble base
37cm high
Private collection
Sold for £1,250 in November 2015
Emile-André Boisseau, (1842 - 1923) was a French sculptor. A pupil of Auguste Dumont and Jean-Marie Bonnassieux at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, h. His works include a statue of Pierre Beaumarchais on the facade of Paris' City Hall.
Ferdinand Preiss (German, 1892-1943)
'Salome Dancing', circa 1920
Cold-Painted Bronze and Carved Ivory Figure
Modelled bare-chested, wearing a long flowing skirt, arm bangles and head-dress, one arm is out-stretched, raised on a rectangular green onyx base
32cm high
Private collection
Sold for £12,500 in November 2015
Johann Philipp Ferdinand Preiss (February 13, 1882 – July 29, 1943) was a German sculptor. He was one of the leading sculptors of the Art Deco period. He was born in Erbach im Odenwald and attended schools in Michelstadt. Both of his parents died within a short time span when he was 15 and shortly thereafter he was apprenticed to the ivory carver Philipp Willmann . In 1901 he traveled to Rome and Paris. He became a friend and acquaintance of Arthur Kassler in Baden-Baden, which led to the founding of the company Preiss & Kassler operating from Berlin. Kassler became the business-minded partner and Preiss controlled artistic production.
Initially the company created small ivory carvings of children and statuettes of classical form, often carved from old ivory billiard balls. From 1910 the firm grew to specialize in limited edition Art Deco cabinet sculptures that used painted bronze with ivory on plinths of onyx and marble, with an occasional foray into mantelpiece clocks and lampstands. He revolutionized the production of chryselephantine statues with his use of a dental drill for more precise and expeditious carving of the ivory. Preiss designed nearly all the firm's models and many of his most famous works depict modern, naturalistic 20th century women from the sports and theatrical world.
Ferdinand Preiss has sometimes been incorrectly called Fritz Preiss. His works, along with those of Demetre H. Chiparus, are regarded as the pinnacle of Art Deco sculpture and are greatly valued by modern collectors.
The firm closed with Preiss's death from a brain tumor on July 29, 1943. More on Johann Philipp Ferdinand Preiss
Henry Fugère (French, 1872-1944)
'Salome', late 19th/early 20th century
Gilt Bronze and Carved Ivory Figure
38cm high,
Private collection
Sold for £3,750 in November 2015
Bare-chested with wind swept hair, her revealing dress with long flowing skirt and intricate belt, she balances on one leg, both hands held behind her head, raised on a stepped ebonised wooden base.
Salome (c. AD 14 – between 62 and 71) was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. According to Flavius Josephus's Jewish Antiquities, Salome was first married to Philip the Tetrarch of Ituraea and Trakonitis. After Philip's death in 34 AD she married Aristobulus of Chalcis and became queen of Chalcis and Armenia Minor. They had three children. Three coins with portraits of Aristobulus and Salome have been found
Salome is often identified with the dancing woman from the New Testament, where, however, her name is not given. Christian traditions depict her as an icon of dangerous female seductiveness, notably in regard to the dance mentioned in the New Testament, which is thought to have had an erotic element to it, and in some later transformations it has further been iconized as the Dance of the Seven Veils. Other elements of Christian tradition concentrate on her lighthearted and cold foolishness that, according to the gospels, led to John the Baptist's death. More on Salome
Henri Fugère ( 1872 Saint -Mandé , France - 1944 Paris , France) was a French sculptor and medal engraver .
Fugère studied sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Jules Cavalier , Louis-Ernest Barrias and Denys Puech .
He turned predominantly to the Art Deco style , initially specializing in playful bronzes of idealized beauties such as his figure Salome. Other works show realistic representations of soldiers or workers. For his chryselephantine works he used materials such as bronze, ivory and stone. He also worked as a medal engraver.
From 1893 he exhibited regularly at the salons of the Société des Artistes Français , of which he was eventually elected deputy chairman. In 1927 he received a mention honorable. More on Henri Fugère
Unknown artist
Madonna and Child, Italy, 15th c.,
ITALIAN MARBLE SCULPTURE
Roughly 19 3/4" x 5 3/4" x 4 1/4".
Private collection
Possibly from Genoa, Italian white marble, a standing figure holding her child in the crook of her right arm, atop a carved plinth with a Latin inscription that translates as "Pure, chaste, pious Maria, have mercy upon us". Roman letters FGF appear inverted on one side of the plinth.
Unknown artist
Madonna and Child, Italy, 15th c.,
A near pair of Spanish or Portuguese polychrome decorated carved wooden heads of Christ
18cm wide, 16cm deep, 41cm high (7in wide, 6in deep, 16in high)
Private collection
Sold for £562.50 November 2015
These carved and painted heads are likely to be from processional figures often used with crudely carved bodies but wearing decorative robes.
Unknown artist
MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS SCULPTURE
Swabian or Franconian Polychrome Limewood Figure of the Virgin, her head hooded, her hands clasped in prayer, Mid to late 15th century
35 3/4" tall
Private collection
Sold for $16,000 in August 2015
Swabians (Schwaben) are an ethnic German people, native to or have ancestral roots in the cultural and linguistic region of Swabia, which is now in southwest Germany.
Franconia (Franken) commonly refers to the eastern part of the historic Duchy of Franconia in Germany, mainly represented by the Bavarian districts of Lower Franconia , Middle Franconia, and Upper Franconia.
Unknown artist
Coptic marble relief depicting saints
Egypt, c. 9th - 12th Century
10 ½ in x 9 ½ in x 2 in (26.8 x 24.2 x 5 cm).
Private Collection
Unknown artist
Apostle's head
Limestone with traces of polychrome
French School of the fifteenth century
Hight: 14 cm
Private Collection
Sculpture developed in the provincial centres after the decline of the Paris workshops, which were ruined by the Hundred Years' War. The influence of Sluter, which was very widespread, was felt first in Dijon and Burgundy. Sluter's influence was also seen in productions of a more discreet realism and works of tender expression and worldly grace. The cult of saints inspired many works commissioned by brotherhoods and corporations. The feeling for pathos was expressed in monumental groups of the Entombment. More French School of the fifteenth century
Unknown artist
Apostle's head
limestone with traces of polychrome
French School of the fifteenth century
Hight : 14 cm
Private Collection
Unknown artist
Large Christ
carved polychromed walnut
Rhone Valley
Early sixteenth century
H. 157 cm
Private Collection
Head surrounded by a crown of thorns intertwined, inclined to the right shoulder, long wavy locks of hair resting on the top of the shoulders, lying face expression appeased with half-closed eyes. Perizonium (a type of loincloth that originated with the Minoan civilization in Crete) retained by a cord with a pan falling on the front and a turbulent on the back of the right hip, legs straight with feet stacked based on a suppedaneum
Unknown artist
Descent from the Cross
Private Collection
The body of Jesus, still held by one arm is lifted by two men - probably Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus - and supported by two others - including Saint Jean, standing on two profile scales; above three holy women surrounding the fainting Virgin. The bottom having Jerusalem. Low and high reliefs carved walnut. Epoque late sixteenth century. H .: 67 cm - Width .: 36.7 cm.
Joseph of Arimathea was, according to all four canonical Gospels, the man who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus after Jesus' crucifixion. A number of stories that developed during the Middle Ages connect him with both Glastonbury, where he is supposed to have founded the earliest Christian oratory, and also with the Grail legend.
Joseph of Arimathea was an "a respected member of the council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God". Matthew was a rich man and a disciple of Jesus. Upon hearing of Jesus' death, he "asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission." Joseph immediately purchased a linen shroud and proceeded to Golgotha to take the body of Jesus down from the cross. There, Joseph and Nicodemus took the body and bound it in linen cloths with the spices that Nicodemus had bought. The disciples then conveyed the prepared corpse to the place previously bought for Joseph's own tomb, a man-made cave hewn from rock in a garden of his house nearby. More on Joseph of Arimathea
Nicodemus was most notable for assisting in the burial of Jesus. He is venerated as a Christian saint.
Nicodemus appears three times in the Gospel of John. He first visits Jesus one night to discuss his teachings. The second time Nicodemus is mentioned, he reminds his colleagues in the Sanhedrin that the law requires that a person be heard before being judged. Finally, Nicodemus appears after the Crucifixion to provide the customary embalming spices, and assists Joseph of Arimathea in preparing the body of Jesus for burial. More on Nicodemus
Unknown artist
CROWNED VIRGIN WITH THE INFANT JESUS, 19TH CENTURY
SCULPTED IVORY, carved from a single tusk,
Height: 51 cm
SCULPTED IVORY, carved from a single tusk,
Height: 51 cm
Private collection
Estimated at £ 6,000 - 8,000 in Dec 2008
The crowned Virgin stood a contraposto, her long flowing drapery gilt decorated with a repeated motif in the form of a scrolling heart, the drapery falling in deep folds to the ground and revealing only her toes, the Virgin with three lilies in her right hand and the Christ Child in her left, the Christ Child with his right hand raised in blessing and golden orb in his left. More on this Sculpture
Unknown artist
St. Francis of Assisi
18th/19th c.
French Polychrome Terracotta
h. 51 in., w. 15 in., d. 14 in.
Private collection
St. Francis of Assisi, holding crucifix and iconic French text on the Franciscan Orders, and a skull at his feet.
Note: Skull: The transience of life, contemplation of death. It is the symbol of Hermits and Penitents, such as St. Mary Magdalene, St. Paul, St. Jerome, and St. Francis of Assisi. Hermits are usually shown with a skull to suggest their contemplation of death. When a cross is represented with the skull, it suggests their meditation upon eternal life after death.
Saint Francis of Assisi (1181/1182 – 1226) was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. Francis is one of the most venerated religious figures in history.
Francis' father was Pietro di Bernardone, a prosperous silk merchant. Francis lived the high-spirited life typical of a wealthy young man, even fighting as a soldier for Assisi. While going off to war in 1204, Francis had a vision that directed him back to Assisi, where he lost his taste for his worldly life. On a pilgrimage to Rome, he joined the poor in begging at St. Peter's Basilica. The experience moved him to live in poverty. Francis returned home, began preaching on the streets, and soon gathered followers. His Order was authorized by Pope Innocent III in 1210. He then founded the Order of Poor Clares, which became an enclosed religious order for women, as well as the Order of Brothers and Sisters of Penance (commonly called the Third Order).
In 1219, he went to Egypt in an attempt to convert the Sultan to put an end to the conflict of the Crusades. By this point, the Franciscan Order had grown to such an extent that its primitive organizational structure was no longer sufficient. He returned to Italy to organize the Order. Once his community was authorized by the Pope, he withdrew increasingly from external affairs. In 1223, Francis arranged for the first Christmas nativity scene. In 1224, he received the stigmata, making him the first recorded person to bear the wounds of Christ's Passion. He died during the evening hours of October 3, 1226.
On July 16, 1228, he was proclaimed a saint by Pope Gregory IX. He is known as the patron saint of animals and the environment, and is one of the patron saints of Italy. More on Saint Francis of Assisi
Unknown artist
St. Dominic de la Calzada, 18th/19th c.,
Continental Polychrome Carved Wood Figure
h. 26 in., w. 13 in.
Private collection
Saint Dominic de la Calzada (or Dominic of the Causeway) (Spanish: Santo Domingo de la Calzada) (1019 – 12 May 1109) was a saint from a cottage in Burgos very close to La Rioja. Born Domingo García in Viloria de Rioja, he was the son of a peasant.
Saint Dominic repeatedly tried to join the Benedictine order at Valvanera and San Millán de la Cogolla, but was turned away. He then became a hermit in the forests near Ayuela, near the present-day town of Santo Domingo de la Calzada, until 1039. In 1039, he began working with Gregory IV of Ostia (Gregorio), bishop of Ostia, who had been sent to Calahorra as a papal envoy to combat a plague of locusts that afflicted Navarre and La Rioja.
Gregory ordained Dominic a priest. They built together a wooden bridge over the Oja River to help pilgrims on the Way of St. James. Gregory died in 1044, and Dominic returned to Ayuela, where he began developing the area. He cleared trees, cultivated the earth, and began to build a paved causeway (in Spanish, calzada), which served as an alternate route to the traditional Roman causeway between Logroño and Burgos. Dominic’s causeway became the principal route between Nájera and Redecilla del Camino.
To better the conditions of the pilgrims that began to use his new causeway, he replaced the wooden bridge that he had built with Gregory with one made of stone, and constructed a building that was a hospital, well, and church, which attended to the needs of the travelers. Today, it is the Casa del Santo, which is a used as a hostel by modern day pilgrims. Due to the development of these public works he is the Patron Saint of the Spanish Civil Engineers.
Alfonso VI of Castile annexed La Rioja in 1076 and seeing that Dominic’s efforts contributed to the Castilianization of the region, decided to support him and his projects. He visited Dominic in 1090 and thereafter Dominic, assisted by his follower Juan de Ortega, began construction on a church dedicated to Christ and the Virgin Mary. This was consecrated by the bishop of Calahorra in 1106.
The town of Santo Domingo de la Calzada began as a few houses built around the hermitage of the saint in his lifetime. At this death in 1109, the village had grown in population. Dominic's church, later the Cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada, was where he was buried, and it was elevated to the rank of cathedral after being placed in the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Calahorra in the 1230s.
Miracles are attributed to Dominic. The most famous miracle concerns that of the rooster and the chicken, which is said to have taken place at Santo Domingo de la Calzada. The story goes that in the 14th century, a German 18-year-old named Hugonell, from Xanten, goes on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela with his parents. A Spanish girl at the hostel where they were staying makes sexual advances toward Hugonell; Hugonell rejects her advances. Angry at this, the girl hides a silver cup in the German’s bag and then informs the authorities that the youth had taken it. Hugonell is sentenced to the gallows, in accordance with the laws of Alfonso X of Castile.
The parents sadly decide to examine their son’s body, still hanging on the gallows, but suddenly hear his voice –he tells them that Saint Dominic has saved his life. His parents quickly make their way to Santiago de Compostela to see the magistrate. The magistrate, who is at the time eating dinner, remarks: "Your son is as alive as this rooster and chicken that I was feasting on before you interrupted me." And in that moment, the two birds jump from the plate and begin to sing and crow happily. More on Saint Dominic de la Calzada
Early 19th cent.
Spanish Colonial
49" Santo
George Tinworth for Doulton Lambeth
Two Terracotta Biblical Plaques, circa 1880
with modelled figures in relief, one titled 'Simon A Cyrenian with The Christ' and the companion titled 'Christ Healing the Sick Man'
21cm square and 22.5cm square
Spanish Colonial
49" Santo
Two Terracotta Biblical Plaques, circa 1880
with modelled figures in relief, one titled 'Simon A Cyrenian with The Christ' and the companion titled 'Christ Healing the Sick Man'
21cm square and 22.5cm square
George Tinworth (5 November 1843 – 10 September 1913) was an English ceramic artist who worked for the Doulton factory at Lambeth from 1867 until his death
Born to extreme povertyt. He had been impressed as a boy with so-called living statues who displayed themselves at fairs. He used to peek through the cracks of the tents. He started to carve butter stamps and a foreman plasterer in the next street suggested he went to art school to study anatomy. At nineteen he pawned his overcoat to pay for evening classes at the local Lambeth School of Art in Kennington Park Road.
At Lambeth he created the 'The Mocking of Christ', now on show at the Cuming Museum on the Walworth Road, Southwark.
From the Lambeth School of Art he went on to the Royal Academy Schools in 1864, winning various medals for his work. After the Royal Academy he got a job with Doulton, the Lambeth stoneware manufacturer, where he made cases for water filters, and soon moved on to making the new range of salt-glazed stoneware that became known simply as "Doulton Ware" . His father died in the same year, and he was left as the main supporter of his mother and family.
At Doulton, he produced vases, jugs, humorous figures and animals and larger pieces. Through his engagement with Doulton, Tinworth also designed an altarpiece, a pulpit and a font for St. Alban's Anglican Church which was consecrated in 1887 in Copenhagen, Denmark. They were donations from the factory to the church and manufactured in terra cotta with salt glazed details to Tinworth 's design.
Many of his pieces were shown at the Royal Academy where they were admired by John Ruskin, amongst others. The first to be exhibited there in the year he joined the school was a group of children fighting called "Peace and Wrath in Low Life". A large scale terracotta fountain, "The Fountain of Life", was donated to Kennington Park by Henry Doulton in 1872. Other pieces by Tinworth are to be found in the Museum of Garden History in Lambeth, adjacent to the main entrance of St Bede's College, Manchester, in the panel above the entrance to the former Doulton Works in Black Prince Road, Lambeth, the Baptist Chapel in Wraysbury, in Truro Cathedral, Cornwall, in St Mark's Church in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, and in St Mary's Church in Burton, Wiltshire.
The Cuming Museum has Tinworth's major independent art project in storage. This is a 4-foot-high (1.2 m) model of a project for an elaborate memorial to Southwark's connection with Shakespeare, made in 1904. Enough public donations were never achieved to realise it. Though this was Tinworth's most ambitious autonomous art project, he also made a number of complex figure compositions in relief, including The Release of Barabas and Saul attacking David. More on George Tinworth
Doulton & Co. was first and foremost a manufacturer of industrial ceramics, including water filters, drainage pipes and sanitary fittings. In the early 1860s, however, the company began the manufacture of domestic and ornamental salt glazed stoneware that became known as 'Doulton Ware'. The nearby Lambeth School of Art became associated with the Doulton business from about the same time and Henry Doulton joined the Board of the School in 1863.
Doulton & Co.'s decorative stoneware produced in association with the School of Art had enormous success at International Exhibitions in the 1860s and 1870s, culminating in acclaim at the Philadelphia Exhibition in 1886 (and also at Chicago in 1893). Public interest, and production, peaked in the late 1890s when about 370 artists were employed at Lambeth making the salt-glazed ornamental stoneware. More on Doulton & Co
George Tinworth for Doulton Lambeth
Two Biblical Panels, circa 1880
Modelled figures in relief, one glazed stoneware, the companion in terracotta
21.5cm x 10cm and 20.5cm square
George Tinworth
'Finding the Saviour in the Manger'
Painted Terracotta Panel, circa 1880
Modelled figures in relief, contained within an ebonised wooden frame with glass front
19cm x 35.5cm
MARKUS HAHN WOOD CARVING
MADONNA & CHILD, 1983
GERMANY.
Height: 45 in. by Width: 25 in. by Depth: 12 in.
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