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Pair Chinese ceramic palace foo dogs c1950 Item # 7372 Click HERE to inquire about this item Pair Chinese ceramic palace foo dogs c1950. Each foo dog measures 29 inches high, 25 inches wide and 10 inches deep. Very good condition. This item is in our online price guide and is not available for sale

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Cheryl Farber Smith abstract wall sculpture brown enameled steel Item # 7378 Click HERE to inquire about this item Cheryl Farber Smith abstract wall sculpture brown enameled steel. Measures 34 inches high.Signed C F S on base. This item is in our online price guide and is not available for sale

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Cheryl Farber Smith abstract wall sculpture red enameled steel Item # 7379 Click HERE to inquire about this item Cheryl Farber Smith abstract wall sculpture red enameled steel. Measures 34 inches high.Signed C F S on base. There are some minor scratches on the top of the center rod which we show in one of the pictures we have provided. This item is in our online price guide and is not available for sale

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Ruth Trobe hand forged bronze sculpture of man and woman Item # 7416 Click HERE to inquire about this item Ruth Trobe hand forged bronze sculpture of a man and a woman. Born 1913 D 2009. The daughter of Samuel and Rose Weiner, Russian-Jewish immigrants,she was born In 1913 in the tiny Jewish community of Beaver Falls PA. In 1936, she married Harold Trobe, also of Beaver Falls. The Weiner and Trobe families knew each other well, although the Weiners were secular socialists and Harold Trobe's father was the town rabbi. In 1947, Ruth and Harold and their two sons, aged 4 and 2, moved to Vienna, Austria where Harold was in charge of displaced persons camps that housed the survivors of the Holocaust. Ruth opened a sculpture studio and soon began to exhibit her work. Harold's social service work on behalf of worldwide Jewry later took the family to Geneva, Rome, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, and Jerusalem, over a 33-year period of living abroad. With access to a glittering international society, Ruth hosted artists, musicians, composers, writers, journalists, Fulbright scholars, and ambassadors. For these peripatetic expatriates, who gathered in her salon, she made critical personal connections and found the best buys. She claimed that she could often identify the undercover CIA agents among them and sometimes even pry out their secrets. Her sculptures, mostly semi-abstract figures of men and women, were displayed in galleries around the world. Among the owners of her work were Golda Meir, past prime minister of Israel, and Leon Fleisher, the noted pianist. This information was obtained from her obituary at http://obits.mlive.com/obituaries/annarbor/obituary.aspx?n=ruth-trobe&pid=130738556 . The sculpture measures 16 inches high by 9.5 inches wide by 3.5 inches deep. The rosewood base measures 11.25 by 4.25 inches. Very few sculptors have the skill to forge a piece by hand to this degree of detail. This item is in our online price guide and is not available for sale

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Gothic water god iron sculpture from Samuel Yellin collection Item # 7426 Click HERE to inquire about this item Rare and important Italian 14th century iron sculpture of a mythological figure holding a snake (water god) from the Samuel Yellin collection. This very early European sculpture was documented in the catalog (page 16) for the "Made of Iron" exhibit held at the University of St Thomas Art Department, in Houston, TX, in 1966. Pieces were loaned to this exhibit by many important collectors and institutions, including among others J D Rockefeller lll and the New York Historical Society. Noted Philadelphia, PA, metal artist Samuel Yellin collected fine and rare examples of ironwork. He donated several pieces to the Metropolitan Museum of Art which are in its permanent collection. This is a museum quality example of Gothic period sculpture. It measures 6 inches high. To learn more about Samuel Yellin, please go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Yellin Samuel Yellin (1885-1940) This item is in our online price guide and is not available for sale

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