103. Girl with Water Lilies (1928) A Very Large and Rare Bronze Sculpture by Herbert Adams (American, 1858-1945)

Inscribed Herbert Adams [Copyright] SC. MCMXXVIII, and with the foundry mark Gorham Co. Founders.

A Florentine Renaissance style maiden with her hair parted in the center and held by a ribbon, striding forward, clutching the drapery of her robe to her breast as it falls in folds around her body, forming deep folds around her back, her left arm bent at the waist where she holds her draped robe and a small bunch of water lilies (some open, some still buds), her sandaled feet emerging from beneath the drapery. Raised on a squared base. Bronze with green/black patination.

63" h.

Provenance:
Lawrence Collection, Cleveland, Ohio (late 1920s);
Collection of Morris "Mushy" Wexler, Cleveland, Ohio;
Collection of Rudolph Khol, Cleveland, Ohio
Thence by descent in the family

20,000/40,000     

104. A Fantastic German Carved Travertine Bust of a Woman, circa 1910-1925

A long necked beauty, her hair falling in plaits over her shoulder, her face delicately carved.
24" h., 14 1/2" w.

7,000/10,000     

105. Jef (Joseph Maria Thomas) Lambeaux (Belgian 1852-1908)

"De Held Brabo, de Legende van Antwerpen", signed Jef Lambeaux, raised on a green marble plinth with an inscribed plaque, "Le Personnel de la Francibank Anver a son Directeur, September 1915/1925".
42" h., total.

5,000/8,000     

106. An Italian Carved Marble Figure of a Young Child, 19th Century

The standing figure partialy draped with a cloth holding a grape vine wreath to his head.
36" h.

5,000/8,000     

107. A French Painted Cast Iron Sculpture of a Cherub, After Houdon, Late 18th/Early 19th Century

The sweet faced winged youth seated on a rocky base holding his finger to his lips as if to quiet, raised on a squarred cement cube.
Cherub: 35" h., total 47" h.

4,000/6,000     

108. A Very Unusual Lead Garden Sculpture

Cast as an oversize bundle of large and pendulous blossoms issuing from an urn form, in verdigrio patina.
25" h., 20" w.

3,000/5,000     

109. A Cast and Carved Stone Bas-Relief Panel, French, Late 19th/Early 20th Century

The rectangular form in low to high relief with four putti sitting upon and around a lion, draping him with fruit swags, feeding him fruit in a forest setting.
22 1/4" x 40".

800/1,200     

110. A Bronze Figural Group After Clodion, Late 19th/Early 20th Century

Modeled as a Bacchic satyr and a cherub drunken and in revelry. Raised on an onyx base bronze with blackish gold patination, signed "Clodion Scpt."
10" h.

600/800     

111. A Bronze Figure Group by Auguste Moreau, (French 1861-1910)

Entitled "Desarme!", modeled as a winged cupid whispering to a young girl as she steals an arrow from his quiver, raised on a green veined marble plinth, fitted with a bronze banner inscribed with the title, bronze with greenish patination, signed Aug. Moreau with impressed initials EM.
11 1/2" h.

1,000/2,000     

112. A Composition Figural Group

Comprising; two cherubs in conference with a quiver of arrows between them.
17" h., 20" l.

200/400