{"title":"Animal Sculptures","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnimal sculptures in lost-wax bronze and hand-carved marble: prowling, walking and seated panthers, bronze lions after Canova, a cheetah at full stretch, Art Deco horses and cats, playing bears, a hamadryas baboon, a young deer, a marble lion, rhinoceroses and centaurs, and bookends with elephants, lions or parrots. All are new works in the tradition of the great animaliers; each product page gives dimensions and price.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bronzen-olifanten-boekensteunen","title":"Bronze Elephant Bookends, Art Deco Pair","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese bronze elephant bookends pair two contrasting poses: one elephant strides forward with its trunk curled low, the other sits back on its haunches with the trunk raised straight up. A blue-green verdigris patina covers both animals, and the golden-brown bronze shows through on the high points of the hide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach elephant stands on a stepped, profiled base with a flat vertical back plate, finished in warm golden-brown rather than green; the books are held between the two plates. The seated elephant is the larger, 27 cm high, the striding one 17.5 cm. Wrinkled hide, tusks and a flared ear are modelled in detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth are new pieces cast by hand in lost wax (\u003cem\u003ecire perdue\u003c\/em\u003e). Every casting starts from a wax of its own, which leaves small differences from one pair to the next, and the patina is then applied by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePairs of animals in contrasting poses, made to stand at the two ends of a row of books, belong to the Art Deco decorative-bronze trade of the 1920s and 1930s, and the elephant, long a sign of strength and steadiness, was one of its favoured motifs. On a library table, at either end of a run of large-format art books, the taller seated elephant takes the heavier end.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kuzco Art Maison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48772838555995,"sku":"KB0009","price":1195.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0863\/6540\/5531\/files\/Kuzco-bronze-sculpture-bookends-elephant-blue-green-patina-3.jpg?v=1763224157"},{"product_id":"art-deco-lamp-zeehond-brons","title":"Art Deco Bronze Seal Table Lamp – 'Le Phoque'","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Le Phoque' is an Art Deco seal lamp in bronze: a seal stretches its neck straight up and balances a white glass globe on the tip of its snout. The body is one smooth, unbroken volume, without fur, folds or incised detail, so nothing interrupts the curve that rises from the fore-flippers to the nose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe seal is lost-wax cast (\u003cem\u003ecire perdue\u003c\/em\u003e), a new wax model for every lamp, and the dark brown patina, applied by hand afterwards, reads almost black and has a soft sheen. It rests on a solid block of black marble with grey veining, square in plan and taller than it is wide, and its straight edges set off the rounded animal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reduced form is in the manner of François Pompon (1855–1933), who took detail away step by step until only the essential volumes of the animal remained – the method behind his \u003cem\u003eOurs blanc\u003c\/em\u003e in the Musée d'Orsay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 76 cm high, placed at one end of a sideboard, the lamp lifts the lit globe to about eye level; on a desk or beside an armchair it reads first as a sculpture. Switched off, the white globe and the black marble frame the dark bronze between them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kuzco Art Maison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48772863263067,"sku":"KB0010","price":1125.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0863\/6540\/5531\/files\/art-deco-bronze-seal-lamp-marble-base.jpg?v=1751286568"},{"product_id":"bronzen-panter-zwart","title":"Art Deco Bronze Panther Sculpture – Walking Black Panther","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis bronze panther sculpture moves in one long, low line, the head carried below the ridge of the back and the tail falling almost to the plinth before it hooks up at the tip. The gait is slow; the pose balances calm against tension.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe coat is modelled loosely, in short touches that break the near-black patina into small planes of light; in raking light the shoulder and haunch muscles stand out. This new bronze is hand-cast using the lost-wax method (\u003cem\u003ecire perdue\u003c\/em\u003e), so no two casts are quite alike. The narrow rectangular bronze plinth, irregular on top, extends the horizontal of the stride.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sculpture is inspired by the work of Rembrandt Bugatti (1884–1916), who modelled animals from life; his plaster \u003cem\u003ePanthère marchant\u003c\/em\u003e (c. 1904), now in the Musée d'Orsay, has the terse, lively manner this piece follows. The striding big cat was a classic animalier subject; in the 1920s and 1930s the panther became an emblem of Art Deco.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 49 cm long, 18.5 cm high and 7 cm wide, the panther fits a single shelf of an open bookcase, its profile running along the spines at eye level. From the side, the hooked tail at one end answers the lowered head at the other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kuzco Art Maison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48772878860635,"sku":"KB0030","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0863\/6540\/5531\/files\/Kuzco_bronze_sculpture_of_panther_bronzen_beeld_rembrandt_bugatti_replica.jpg?v=1727073227"},{"product_id":"bronzen-papegaaien-boekensteunen","title":"Bronze Parrot Bookends, Art Deco Pair","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo stylised parrots, each perched on a tall rectangular block, make up these bronze parrot bookends. The birds are turned towards each other but not mirrored: the left one lowers its head and tucks the hooked beak against its breast, while the right one holds its head up and turned away, its long pointed tail running down the front of the block.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe contrast of surfaces carries the design. The bodies are smooth, closed and glossy in a dark brown patina that is almost black, with eye and beak only lightly marked; the blocks below have a mottled, crackled texture. At the foot each block continues into the flat tongue that slides under the books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA bird reduced to one smooth, closed volume is typical of Art Deco animal sculpture of the 1920s and 1930s. François Pompon (1855–1933) removed detail step by step, reaching for ‘the very essence of the animal’, and the parrots follow that direction. Each new pair is hand-cast in bronze and patinated by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn a sideboard, with a row of folio volumes between them, the two dark birds read as one composition, the raised head on one side answering the bowed head on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kuzco Art Maison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48772884529499,"sku":"KB0012","price":6975.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0863\/6540\/5531\/files\/Kuzco_bronze_bookends_parrots_after_francois_pompon.jpg?v=1727093827"},{"product_id":"bronzen-baviaan","title":"Bronze Baboon Sculpture after Rembrandt Bugatti","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis bronze baboon is a male hamadryas standing four-square on a low rectangular plinth, his tail lifted in a high, open arc. Across the shoulders the heavy cape falls in flat, overlapping plates, each scored with fine radiating lines; around the face it opens into a broad ruff beneath a heavy brow and a long, ridged muzzle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBelow the cape the modelling changes. Flanks, rump and limbs are smooth and polished, so the light gathers there and leaves the incised mantle in shadow. The hands rest flat on the plinth with long, spread fingers, and the plinth itself has a mottled, hand-worked surface and a bevelled edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach new piece is made by lost-wax casting (\u003cem\u003ecire perdue\u003c\/em\u003e) and finished in a dark brown, almost black patina, with warm bronze showing on the raised edges of the cape. The sculpture is made in the manner of Rembrandt Bugatti (1884–1916), whom the Royal Zoological Society invited to Antwerp in 1907 to model the animals of its zoo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe plinth is only 19 cm deep, so the 60 cm sculpture fits a narrow console behind a sofa, seen side-on from the room. In profile the piece is at its clearest: the stepped mantle over the forequarters against the bare, polished line of the back.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kuzco Art Maison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48772952424795,"sku":"KB0019","price":3975.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0863\/6540\/5531\/files\/7_04f19b1d-4961-49c8-b6d3-15fc8c1549c2.jpg?v=1727092009"},{"product_id":"bronzen-ijsbeer-naar-pompon","title":"Bronze Polar Bear Sculpture after Francois Pompon","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis bronze polar bear is a museum-quality piece after François Pompon (1855-1933), whose \u003cem\u003eOurs blanc\u003c\/em\u003e (White Bear) caused a stir at the 1922 Salon d'Automne. Pompon stripped the animal back to a single smooth, walking volume, and that pared-down silhouette became one of the defining images of modern animalier sculpture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePompon trained as a stonemason and spent years as a studio assistant, including time with Rodin, before he found his own language late in life: the essence of an animal caught in simplified, expressive form. This replica follows that approach, cast in bronze with a dark brown, almost black patina across the long, clean back and raised muzzle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe minimalist shape reads beautifully from every angle and sits well on a console, shelf or plinth. A confident piece for collectors of bronze and modern sculpture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kuzco Art Maison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48772953506139,"sku":"KB0020","price":3950.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0863\/6540\/5531\/files\/bronzesculpturepolarbearafterfrancoispompon.jpg?v=1756119885"},{"product_id":"bronzen-leeuwen-boekensteun","title":"Bronze Lion Bookends - Art Deco Pair","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese bronze lion bookends form a mirrored pair of maneless cats, each on its own base against an upright plate. One rises on its haunches, a forepaw resting on the top of the plate and the head turned towards its companion; the other sits low with forelegs braced and head lowered almost to the plate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe anatomy is closely observed: raised shoulder blades, taut flanks, separately cut toes. The patina is green-blue over the heads, backs and haunches, near black in the hollows and warmer where the surface is rubbed. Each base has a moulded front edge in a warm brown tone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth lions are hand-cast in bronze using the lost-wax process (\u003cem\u003ecire perdue\u003c\/em\u003e); at about 4 kg each, the bookends keep a run of books upright. The pair is made in the manner of Georges Gardet (1863–1939), the Paris animal sculptor whose panthers are in the Musée d'Orsay. Paired lions are an old theme in sculpture: on Canova's tomb of Pope Clement XIII in St Peter's, Rome, one lion sleeps while the other keeps watch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 22 cm high and 12 cm wide, the pair can hold a set of reference books on a writing desk, the two cats facing each other across the spines as one group.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kuzco Art Maison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48772959568219,"sku":"KB0021","price":1195.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0863\/6540\/5531\/files\/Kuzco_bronze_bookends_lions_playing.jpg?v=1727093365"},{"product_id":"bronzen-panter-art-deco","title":"Bronze Panther Sculpture - Art Deco","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis panther sculpture in Art Deco style is caught in full stride: long and low, the head pushed forward just below the line of the back, the legs spread mid-step. The bronze is smooth and polished, so broad highlights slide over shoulder, flank and croup without a single tool mark to break them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tail swings out in a wide curve and closes in a tight upward spiral, the one ornamental flourish on an otherwise spare body. The face is reduced to simple planes: small rounded ears, incised almond eyes. In changing light the patina moves between dark brown and near black; the flat black marble plinth is polished until the paws are mirrored in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween the wars, the walking panther on a black marble slab became a signature subject of Art Deco animal bronzes: the cat stood for strength and grace, held in taut, stylised lines. Each piece is new, cast by hand in bronze from its own wax model, which melts away in the process – the lost-wax technique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForty-two centimetres long and 16 cm high, it fits a floating wall shelf, where the spiral of the tail reads clearly against a plain wall. Seen from the side, the polished back gathers the light into one continuous line from head to tail.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kuzco Art Maison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48773022351707,"sku":"KB0024","price":985.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0863\/6540\/5531\/files\/2_254ea9d6-3c3e-46ea-9651-e17ca99bf180.jpg?v=1727092433"},{"product_id":"bronzen-jockey-te-paard","title":"Bronze Jockey on Horseback Sculpture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis bronze jockey on horseback is pared down to essentials: a rider in a peaked cap, without facial features, leaning forward over a horse that steps out with one foreleg raised and folded. Both arms reach forward as straight bars, the flattened hands resting on the crest of the neck – no reins, bridle or stirrups are modelled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe horse arches its neck high, head drawn in towards the chest; the cheek is cut into flat planes, the ears are small and pointed, the mane a low ridge, the legs long and slender. Lost-wax casting (\u003cem\u003ecire perdue\u003c\/em\u003e) gives the group its form; the hand-applied patina, dark brown to almost black, warms to brown on the ear rims and the high points of neck and shoulder. It stands on a low, flat bronze plinth with canted corners and a moulded edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat clear, unornamented geometry belongs to Viennese design of the early twentieth century: the Wiener Werkstätte, founded in Vienna in 1903, worked in strongly geometric forms in its early years. 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A saddle cloth in gold leaf and a row of gold spheres sit beneath the foot of each obelisk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe motif goes back to the \u003cem\u003eElefantino\u003c\/em\u003e by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), the small elephant bearing an Egyptian obelisk that was unveiled in Rome's Piazza della Minerva in 1667 for Pope Alexander VII. Its inscription reads the pairing as an emblem: it takes a strong mind to carry solid wisdom – the elephant as strength, the obelisk as the learning of ancient Egypt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth elephants are carved by hand and stand on moulded, stepped plinths of the same woodstone, so small differences left by the chisel are part of the pair. 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Each animal stands square on four legs with its head lowered and two horns rising from the snout, a carved saddle cloth and a flat-topped block across its back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe modelling is firm and simplified: folds of skin are cut as clean ridges and the heavy body becomes a compact, geometric mass, in the Art Deco manner that in the 1920s turned animal figures into stylised, powerful silhouettes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rhinoceros has a long history in European art. Albrecht Dürer's woodcut of 1515, made without his ever having seen the animal, fixed the Western image of the rhino for centuries and made it a recurring decorative motif.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach rhino rests on a low, flat plinth of the same black marble. 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Beneath the belly a tree trunk serves as a support, as is usual in marble horse sculpture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe model stands in the Sala degli Animali, the 'room of the animals' in the Museo Pio-Clementino – a stone menagerie that Pope Pius VI had fitted out in the late eighteenth century, where Carrara sculptors completed and reworked antique marble animals. The Vatican horse itself was largely composed in that period by Francesco Antonio Franzoni around an antique fragment. 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The musculature is smooth, without incised fur; the pelt is suggested by the patina instead, a glossy net of dark brown lines over ochre-gold fields. A small bronze block in the same patina carries the animal on a cube of polished black marble with a fine white vein.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe subject belongs to the \u003cem\u003eanimalier\u003c\/em\u003e tradition. Antoine-Louis Barye (1795–1875) modelled animals from life at the Jardin des Plantes menagerie in Paris, and his relief series of 1831 included a leopard and a walking panther; Rembrandt Bugatti later worked from the animals of the Antwerp zoo. This new cheetah is hand-cast, then patinated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThirty-two centimetres long and 21 cm high, it fits an alcove shelf beside a chimney breast, where the forward-thrown body has open space in front of it. 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