What materials are antique carvings made from?

Wood dominates, with oak the most common named timber, then hardwood, walnut and the soft pale limewood used for Alpine figure carving. Stone is the other half of the category: marble and alabaster lead, with soapstone, serpentine, jade and limestone behind them. Small Japanese work here is boxwood, bone, antler or wood rather than ivory.

How old are most of these carvings?

Dealer-entered dates run from 1700 to 1950 on the listings that carry a clean year, and the largest single bucket is the 19th century. The decade buckets show a real late-Victorian to inter-war body of work, with the 1920s, 1930s, 1890s, 1910s and 1880s all well represented. Earlier pieces are a minority, though 18th-, 17th- and 16th-century carvings appear, and a handful of listings reach back further still.

Are antique carvings mostly English?

No. Nationality words in titles are led by Chinese and then Italian, so the two largest identifiable origins in this archive are Chinese work and Florentine alabaster. English carving is named only occasionally. Much of the European religious and architectural material is Continental and catalogued without a nationality at all.

Which subjects come up again and again?

Figures and busts first, then animals. Lions appear in 31 titles, bears in 27 and dogs in 21. Bears are almost a category in themselves, running from Japanese kibori kuma from Hokkaido to Black Forest examples made as double stick stands, and one lot is a set of fifteen miniature bears.

How large do antique carvings get?

Scale swings widely. The same archive carries netsuke a few centimetres across and life-size figures, some standing on their own columns. At the top end there are pieces measured at 93cm and 169cm, a marble bust on its pedestal, a 99cm pair of Kashmiri lacquered elephants and a Tibetan temple lion weighing 25kg.

Do carvings usually carry a maker's name?

Rarely. Only 44 titles say signed, and the anonymous oak and limewood religious figures are catalogued without a workshop or school attached. Just one name clears three dealers across the whole archive: Pugi, on Florentine alabaster and marble figures of women. About 109 carvings are listed on Sellingantiques in a year, and 195 different dealers have handled one, so no single specialist defines the field.

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Hand-carved sculpture in wood and stone, sold as free-standing figures, busts, animal studies, panels and architectural fragments, made for churches, houses, souvenir trades and scholars' desks.

Antique Marble Sculpture of Two Siblings 20th Century

1900 - 1920

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Antique Marble Sculpture of Two Siblings 20th Century

From Regent Antiques

£775

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16th century

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Early 16th Century Gothic Stone Carving - 'The Death of a Prelate'

From Treaders Collectables

£45,000

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18th century

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Late 18th Century Chinese Carved Wood Foo Dog

From Kendall House Antiques Ltd.

£1,000

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A 19th Century Chinese Miniature Carved Giltwood Figure Group, Circa 1900

1900 - 1920

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A 19th Century Chinese Miniature Carved Giltwood Figure Group, Circa 1900

From Robert Belcher Antiques

£745

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19th century

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A Carved Oak Cherub Head

From Oliveri Antiques Ltd

£1,200

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Large Sculpture of Mary & the Infant Christ C.1960

1920 - 1940

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Large Sculpture of Mary & the Infant Christ C.1960

From Collinge Antiques

£995

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18th century

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Rare 18th Century Bust of a Gentleman

From Spitalfields House

£8,000

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19th century

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C19th Italian Grand Tour Marble Statue

From Jake Wright Antiques Ltd.

£3,750

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19th century

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Profile of Byron on Marble from Thorvalsen Workshop

From BN Art

£60,000

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Italian Alabaster Sculpture of a Young Boy by Pugi

19th century

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Italian Alabaster Sculpture of a Young Boy by Pugi

From Judy Fox Antiques

£2,500

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Among the oldest to pass through Sellingantiques are a relief catalogued as 11th century Northern Indian sandstone and a lot of pre-16th-century Egyptian deities and scarabs.

Italian Carrara Marble Bust of a Young Boy, Signed

1900 - 1920

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Italian Carrara Marble Bust of a Young Boy, Signed

From William Rand Antiques

£900

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19th century

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Black Forest Carving of a Cow

From Ropeworks Antiques

£780

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19th century

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Carved Wooden Figure

From Midwinter Antiques

£995

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19th century

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19th Century Spanish Horses Head

From Arcadia Antiques

£3,950

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A Late 19th Century Chinese Carved Hardwood Figure with Mythical Creature.

1900 - 1920

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A Late 19th Century Chinese Carved Hardwood Figure with Mythical Creature.

From Robert Belcher Antiques

£475

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Early 20th Century Hand Carved Fairground Dragon Ride Fragment

1900 - 1920

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Early 20th Century Hand Carved Fairground Dragon Ride Fragment

From The House of Antiques

£2,995

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Antique Carvings

Antique Marble Sculpture of Two Siblings 20th Century

Early 16th Century Gothic Stone Carving - 'The Death of a Prelate'

Late 18th Century Chinese Carved Wood Foo Dog

A 19th Century Chinese Miniature Carved Giltwood Figure Group, Circa 1900

A Carved Oak Cherub Head

Large Sculpture of Mary & the Infant Christ C.1960

Rare 18th Century Bust of a Gentleman

C19th Italian Grand Tour Marble Statue

Profile of Byron on Marble from Thorvalsen Workshop

Italian Alabaster Sculpture of a Young Boy by Pugi

Italian Carrara Marble Bust of a Young Boy, Signed

Black Forest Carving of a Cow

Carved Wooden Figure

19th Century Spanish Horses Head

A Late 19th Century Chinese Carved Hardwood Figure with Mythical Creature.

Early 20th Century Hand Carved Fairground Dragon Ride Fragment

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