Vintage Decorative Candleholder
Blue-and-White Porcelain Candleholder with Aged Metal Mounts
$118.00
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Vintage Metal Sculpture
$132.00
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Visible tarnish, rubbing and losses to the silver-toned surface, scratches, and exposed joins/soldering consistent with handmade construction and age.
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Strength, patience, and grounded power.
This commanding hollow bull is shaped from worked sheet metal, its raised hump, sweeping horns, looped tail, and densely textured hide giving the figure a remarkable sense of movement. It is a substantial statement piece for a study, library, or globally collected interior.
Across South Asia, the bull is associated with endurance, fertility, agricultural abundance, and sacred strength. The hand-worked surface allows every change of light to reveal another layer of the maker’s hammer and punch work.
The construction, zebu form, open tubular legs, joined sheet sections, and repoussé-style tooling are consistent with Indian or South Asian decorative metalwork of the mid-to-late 20th century. The silver-toned finish appears to cover a copper-alloy sheet body. No maker’s mark is visible in the supplied photographs; the earlier “Republic-period European return” attribution cannot be confirmed.