Featured Gilt Wood Putti/Cherubs Antique or Vintage?

I just found these yesterday. They’re very dirty… I’m not yet sure of the best way to clean them.

They're definitely carved wood with gold gilt (one has a broken thumb and one has a hole in its back where I can see the wood). Does anybody have any knowledge about the age of these and if they could be antique? They’re most likely Italian, but possibly German? The 3 smaller ones are 6-7”, and the bigger one is 9”. The bigger one is marked and it looks like a copyright symbol?

Thank you in advance for any insight you may have!

 

Look here ...
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/large-gold-gilt-cherub-angel-1836201327

and this may help with time period ...
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-...-pixie-table-lamps-pixies--1234-c-75e4a57b7f#

 

Thank you for the link. I don’t think it’s resin or plastic though. Here is a picture of the broken thumb on the marked one close up (very dusty/dirty right now). Not a very good picture but it is a very small spot. It looks wood to me?

 

So the bigger one is mid-century then.

 

Hard tellin', not knowin'.

Here's another ...
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1960s-christmas-large-gold-gilt-resin-2006625580

Next is to find out who ARP is.

 

Right. I’m trying to figure that out right now…

 

Some sellers are making an association to this company, https://www.google.com/search?q=Ate...30l2j69i60l3.459j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8, but I am not seeing it yet.

more sellers of ©ARP items ...
https://www.1stdibs.com/buy/atelier-de-recherche-plastique/

 

a copyright symbol....on wood....... I think not !

 

What do you think the material is? It does not look or feel like plastic or plaster.
Thank you for the reply.

 

And I realize that now that I know it’s definitely a copyright symbol.

 

Can mix wood sawdust with resin, like you can marble, slate, iron powders etc

 

In the auction world, we use the word 'composite' which canvases a large area of man made material.

 

I would guess a wood composite. Syroco was a company (obviously not this one) that used such in the '60s. And there were certainly many others.

 

I was wondering if they are plaster as well. I have had some Syroco items for sale and some were hard plastic and some were plaster.

Chalkware perhaps?

 

No, definitely not plaster or chalkware. Here are a few more images. The hole in the back of one of the smaller 3 looks fibrous. I wonder what causes the red? Looks kind of creepy. And another clearer close up of the broken thumb of the marked one.

 

Hmmm very interesting with those new photos.

Looks like Dr. Pimple Popper got a lipoma off that one.
Just kidding.

 

while I can't say for sure what it is....... ( good new pics , btw..) , I can say for sure that it's not wood.