Amourette
Decorative Antiques
Busts, faces and heads
Marble, wood, alabaster, metal and even wax, these are generally 19th or early 20th century objects. Eclectic, bizarre, tactile and beautiful.
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These beautiful and desirable objects are hard to find and only become available rarely.
Busts and heads
Good busts are very hard to find, non-repro ones, anyway.
Shown here is a detail from Le Genie de la Danse by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. Strictly speaking, this one is 'after' Carpeaux as it's a copy made in wax.
It's part of the 'lost wax casting' or 'cire perdue' method, in which molten wax has been poured into a mould, and the end result - as you see here - is a pre-cursor used to make the final mould and repro models, probably in bronze.
They are delicate and rare. And they have a beautiful glossy and tactile, skin-like quality, which makes them uniquely appealing.
