Information and price guides to Art Deco bronze items including figurines.
Bronze is widely used for casting sculptures. Common bronze alloys have the unusual and desirable property of expanding slightly just before they set, thus filling the finest details of a mould. Then, as the bronze cools, it shrinks a little, making it easier to separate from the mould.
DEMETRE CHIPARUS
Reclining female figure, circa 1925
Patinated bronze, black marble.
Length 74.5cm
Signed in cast Chiparus Etling Paris and stamped BRONZE
Sold for £ 3,825 inc. premium at Bonham’s in 2020
AN ART DECO BRONZE JARDINIERE CIRCA 1925 Cast with leaping derr in pierced panels, a copper liner 16¾ in. (42.5 cm.) wide
Sold for GBP 1,000 at Christie’s in 2008
Austrian Art Deco Cold-Painted Bronze Figural Lamp
Possibly Bergman
Modeled as a carpet seller. Height 14 inches.
Sold for $937 (includes buyer’s premium) at Doyle in 2020
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