Ancient Terracotta Figurines

A collection of ancient terracotta figures, including winged puttos and Eros caricatures, showcasing diverse forms and styles from various cultures.

Anonymous, dancer (usual name), 0025. CERUNUSCHI museum, Asia Museum of Asia in the city of Paris. Standing dancer, slightly signing up. Traces of the mold in two visible parts. Is part of a set of MC 09832 funeral statuettes at 09837

Winged putto, whistling.

Terracotta caricature of Eros as an old man 2nd-1st century B.C. Greek, Asia Minor, Smyrna Statuette of Eros.. Terracotta caricature of Eros as an old man 250583 Greek, Asia Minor, Smyrna, Terracotta caricature of Eros as an old man, 2nd1st century B.C., Terracotta, H. 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1917 (17.230.50)

Standing male figurine. Culture: Cypriot. Dimensions: H. 6 1/16 in. (15.4 cm). Date: ca. 600-480 B.C..The cylindrical body, the lower part of which is missing, is handmade and solid. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Human-headed cat ca. 945-525 B.C. Third Intermediate Period-Late Period This figure is part of a repertoire of figures created in a distinctive spotted faience from dynasty 22 into dynasty 26. The center of production was the eastern Delta, in particular Bubastis and Tanis; this was an area where Near Eastern peoples had long been interwoven in the population; at this time it was also a center for the settlement of Libyan tribal peoples. Possibly these conditions influenced this particular production. Through their appearance, the figures all allude to the goddess Bastet. In particular, many details evoke the myth termed "The Return of the Faraway Goddess." The feline / leonine Bastet was angry with the god Re and left Egypt for Nubia. Re wanted her back again, so he sent the god Thoth, who, taking the form of a monkey, lured her back with fables. Bes, musicians and dancers accompanied the train of the returning goddess, whose arrival brought the return of good fortune to Egypt. Figure

Anonymous, dancer (usual name), 0025. CERUNUSCHI museum, Asia Museum of Asia in the city of Paris. Standing dancer, slightly signing up. Traces of the mold in two visible parts. Is part of a set of MC 09832 funeral statuettes at 09837

ESCULTURA DE ARCILLA. Author: ANTONIO BALLESTER BALLESTER.

Guardian Figure. Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura period, circa 9th century. Sculpture. Copper alloy

Jean-Pierre Dantan (1800-1869) said Dantan the young. Caricature of the wine merchant in Dijon, Maldent. Patinated plaster, terracotta. 1833. Paris, Carnavalet museum. Drunk, wine merchant, patina patina, terracotta, caricature

Standing male figurine ca. 600-480 B.C. Cypriot The cylindrical body, the lower part of which is missing, is handmade and solid.. Standing male figurine 241184

Standing Ceramic Female Figure 3rd-7th century Panuco. Standing Ceramic Female Figure. Panuco. 3rd-7th century. Ceramic, slip, pigment. Mexico, Mesoamerica, Veracruz. Ceramics-Sculpture

Seated Yaksha, AD 300s. Northern India, Uttar Pradesh, probably Kaushambi. Terracotta; overall: 47.3 x 26 cm (18 5/8 x 10 1/4 in.).

Terracotta female idol, from Piskokephaloi, Crete, Greece

Ntadi' figure, 19th century, 23 1/8 × 10 3/4 × 6 in. (58.74 × 27.31 × 15.24 cm), Stone, Democratic Republic of Congo, 19th century, The stone used for this sculpture is relatively soft, so the artist could carve it almost as easily as wood. The figure was placed outside to demarcate the land of a clan, embellish the grave of a chief, and celebrate the legacy of the past. It represents a chief, recognizable by his hat, which once displayed four leopard claws (now missing), and his pensive poseknown as fumani, or 'thinker of sad things'which symbolizes wisdom, thoughtfulness, and authority.

Appliqué 19th century European (Byzantine style). Appliqué 468224

Marble statue of a young satyr turning to look at his tail 1st or 2nd century A.D. Roman Roman version of a Greek work of the 3rd century B.C.Statues of satyrs, relaxing, dancing, pursuing nymphs, or, as here, admiring themselves proliferated during the third century B.C., as the cult of Dionysus, god of wine and the pleasures it bestows, grew in importance. Such works were both copied and adapted by the Romans to decorate their villa gardens.. Marble statue of a young satyr turning to look at his tail 250897 Roman, Marble statue of a young satyr turning to look at his tail, 1st or 2nd century A.D., Marble, H. 13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1919 (19.192.82)

Long-Haired Foreigner. Japan, 18th century. Costumes; Accessories. Tooth with staining, sumi

Standing Figure. Mezcala; Guerrero, Mexico. Date: 300 BC-100 BC. Dimensions: H. 21.6 cm (8 1/8 in.). Greenstone. Origin: Guerrero. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Young Corn Deity 8th century Maya This hand-modeled ceramic sculpture depicts the head and torso of a youthful Maize God emerging from the center of a ripe ear of corn. The young Maize God has idealized facial features and elongated head. He wears a fringed headdress, perhaps of feathers, that has flattened and turned back fringes at the top-center. He wears a beaded necklace and ear spools with projecting centers. He folds his arms across his chest, proper left under proper right, resting his forearms atop the folded down corn husk in the center of the sculpture. The ear of corn sprouts from a long, narrow stem that is unadorned except for some minor areas of extant blue pigment. A tall, almond-shaped leaf stands upright behind the figure with three vertical lines gently incised on its outer surface (the back of the sculpture); another leaf of similar shape and size folds gently down in front to reveal six grains of corn arranged in two parallel vertical rows visually separated by thr

Dancing Satyr, 500-475 BC. Greece, Boeotia, early 5th Century BC. Painted terracotta; overall: 9.5 x 8 x 5.5 cm (3 3/4 x 3 1/8 x 2 3/16 in.).

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Phoenician civilization - 6th century b.C. - Bust of a statuette

Fragmentary Head of Epikouros Worked for Insertion in a Bust. Unknown

Fragment of a Portrait Statue of a Man Made 101 CE-200 CE Roman Empire. Beginning in the 1st century A.D., it became increasingly popular among well-to-do Roman men to represent oneself in the guise of a Greek mythological hero. Such portraits, which typically paired a muscular, youthful body with a more mature, realistic portrait head, were intended to equate the individualís achievements and admirable qualities with those of the favored hero. This statue likely alluded to the Greek hero Diomedes, who played a pivotal role in the Trojan War by stealing the Palladium, a wooden image of the goddess Athena thought to protect the city of Troy from danger.. Marble . Ancient Roman

Abstraction 3, sculpture

Abruzzo, L'Aquila, S. Giuliano (L'Aquila environs), Museo, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe

Male character (common name). Cernuschi Museum, Asia Museum of Asia in the city of Paris.

Aristide Maillol (1861-1944). Young woman sitting leaning on the left arm. Round-bump, terracotta. Around 1900. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, Petit Palais. 71346-2 Press, seat, left arm, young woman, round-bump, terracotta

Bronze figure of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, beauty and Procreation, removing her sandal. Dated 200 BC

Acrobat. Mexico, Guerrero, Xochipala style, 900-500 BCE. Ceramics. Slip-painted ceramic

Kneeling Male Figure 13th-14th century Mississippian This ancestral figure was one of a male-female pair when discovered in 1895 on the banks of the Duck River in Humphreys County, Tennessee. Such figures played important roles among the more complex Mississippian societies of the Southeast during later precolonial times, when they were the focus of ancestor veneration. The figures, primarily but not exclusively male, were placed and venerated in shrine houses together with the bones of significant ancestors. The figures are known today primarily in durable stone, although examples in wood exist. They are depicted seated and are very compactlyindeed weightilymade, as illustrated by the current example. The jutting chin and well-carved eyebrow ridge accord well with the angles and plains of torso, arms, and legs. The one raised knee distinguishes him as belonging to a special group of figures, in which customarily both knees are on the ground with feet tucked under or crossed. The dra

FIGURA TERRACOTA FEMENINA. Location: MUSEO DE CADIZ-ARQUEOLOGIA. Cadiz. SPAIN.

Aimé-Jules Dalou (1838-1902). "Botteleuse". Terracotta, 1894. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. Farmer, boot, booter, bind, pick up, terracotta, peasant

Jaina Figure, 600s-700s. Maya, Late Classic, 7th-8th Century. Terracotta; overall: 18.5 x 10 cm (7 5/16 x 3 15/16 in.).

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875). Naked woman sitting her legs crossed. Tinted plaster. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 79392-21 Sketch, model, plaster, statuette, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century

Child god standing and holding a flail Late Period-Ptolemaic Period 664-30 B.C. View more. Child god standing and holding a flail. 664-30 B.C.. Bronze or cupreous alloy. Late Period-Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt

Terracotta nude female statuette, perhaps Aphrodite. Culture: Greek, South Italian, Tarentine. Dimensions: H. 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm). Date: 3rd century B.C..Nude, wearing fillet, hair dressed high at back, right hand raised. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875). "Piéta". Terracotta, 2nd half of the 19th century. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. Catholic, Christian, Christian, Christ, Pieta, Terracotta, Virgin, 19th XIXth 19th 19th 19th 19th century

Figural study of a female nude seated late 18th-early 19th century Jacques-Edmé Dumont Jacques-Edmé Dumont was a highly accomplished Neoclassical miniaturist. His family, a dynasty of sculptors, preserved a great many of these captivating little terracottas (see 2015.378-.382a, b). This figural study shows how Dumont expertly wielded a flat-sided stick to carve the clay along rectangular planes.. Figural study of a female nude seated. Jacques-Edmé Dumont (Paris 1761-1844). French. late 18th-early 19th century. Terracotta. Sculpture-Miniature

Male Figure. Mexico, Basin of Mexico, Teotihuacan, Teotihuacan, 250-450 CE. Ceramics. Ceramic

Jean-Pierre Dantan (1800-1869) said Dantan the young. Caricature of the painter Joseph-Nicolas-Robert Fleury, dit Robert Fleury (1797-1890). Terracious patinated plaster. 1835. Paris, Carnavalet museum. French, painter, pattero patina, terracotta, caricature

Fragmentary Face of King Khafre. Dimensions: H. 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.). Dynasty: Dynasty 4. Reign: reign of Khafre. Date: ca. 2520-2494 B.C..Khafre was the son of Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid. He built his own pyramid, the Second Pyramid, at Giza just to the south of his father's. Khafre's pyramid complex included a mortuary temple on the east side of the pyramid which was connected by a long causeway to a valley temple. To the north and northwest of the valley temple he constructed the Harmakhis Temple and the Great Sphinx. Many statues and fragments of astonishing quality and in a spectrum of fine stones were recovered from these temples or in their vicinity. This fragment was found at Giza and entered the MacGregor collection; its similarity to the faces of statues of the king from his temples and the traces of a royal beard on the chin identify it as a portrait of Khafre. The surface and warmth of the stone and the sensitive indication of fine muscles around the nose and parti

Figure of a squatting cynocephalus ape 304 B.C.-A.D. 364 Ptolemaic or Roman Period. Figure of a squatting cynocephalus ape. 304 B.C.-A.D. 364. Bronze or copper alloy. Ptolemaic or Roman Period. From Egypt; Said to be from Memphite Region, Giza

Italian 15th or 16th Century, Saint Sebastian, 15th or early 16th century Saint Sebastian

Study Models of Parts of the Body.This group of small models of parts of the body are carefully copied after famous sculptures, in particular by Michelangelo, in Florence and Rome. They came from the workshop of the Nijmegen sculptor Johan Gregor van der Schardt, who had a successful career in Italy, Nuremberg, and Copenhagen. They are extremely rare examples of the, in part autograph, study material of a 16th-century sculptor.

Fragment of a marble head of a youth, 1st century. Artist: Unknown

CoiledSerpent. Artist: Unknown

Ewa Getter, Stanis AW (1876 1947)

Figure fragment 12th-9th century B.C. Olmec. Figure fragment 317883

Seated Coquero with Child. Colombia, Nariño Highlands or Ecuador, Carchi, Nariño or Carchi, 750-1600 CE. Ceramics. Resist-painted ceramic

Standing Ceramic Female Figure. Culture: Panuco. Dimensions: H. 4 1/2 x W.1 3/4 in. (11.4 x 4.5 cm). Date: 3rd-7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Statuette of a girl Greek . Statuette of a girl 248753

Jean Pierre Dantan dit Dantan young (1800-1869). "Portrait-charge of Michèle Costa (1807-1884), conductor at the King's Theater in London". Terracotta patinated plaster. 1834. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 99384-20 Portrait

Lion. Pakistan, Gandhara region, 1st century. Sculpture. Gray schist

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Tripod with female figures, 525-450 BC, Archaeological Museum of Ibiza and Formentera, Ibiza, Spain.

Jean-Pierre Dantan (1800-1869), said Dantan the young. Caricature of the painter Pierre-Jules-Alexandre Duval-Lecamus (1790-1854). Terracious patinated plaster. 1832. Paris, Carnavalet museum. Exorbitite eye, French painter, patina patina, terracotta, caricature

Season, proposed by child with attribute. .

Figure of aWoman

Fragment of a Figure 4th-7th century Coptic This hand-molded object was found in Christian homes, but works like this continue a long history of Egyptian fertility figures. Decorated wall niches, thought to be domestic shrines, were found in the houses of the site. This figurine might have been used in one as a votive offering. For unknown reasons, it appears to have been deliberately destroyed.. Fragment of a Figure 478455

Torso of a Hunter. Unknown

Statuette of Diademé Venus. High Empire. Copper alloy, cast iron. Coming from: rue Saint-Jacques (348), 1902. Paris, Carnavalet Museum. Statuette de Venus Diadadee Copper alloy, Roman antiquity, Alloy, Copper, Deesse, Diademe, Diademee, Roman divinity, Roman Empire, Fonte, Goddess, Haut-Empire, High Empire, Melting, Antiquity novel, Divinity novel, Roman Empire, Statue, Tiara, Antique

Female Figure 2nd century B.C.-A.D. 3rd century Colima. Female Figure 313198

Terracotta statuette of Nike, the personification of victory. Culture: Greek. Dimensions: Overall: 7 x 2 7/8 x 2 3/4 in. (17.8 x 7.3 x 7 cm). Date: late 5th century B.C..Three-dimensional representations of Nike, the winged goddess who brought victory in both battle and athletic contests, usually attempt to evoke flight or the moment of alighting. This flying figure once had wings attached to the slots in the back. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The Ancient Jama-Coaque Culture. Northern coast of Ecuador. 500 BC-500 AD. Ceramic figure. Seated man. Mold. Style chone. 37 x 20 cm. Private collection.

Horse and rider early 4th century B.C. Cypriot The figurine, in the Kourion style, is handmade and solid. The rider's face is mold-made. The horse's head may be mold-made as well. The horse has a large head with depressions for the nostrils, a slit mouth, and a prominent forelock between the ears.. Horse and rider 241340

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875). Shipwrecked woman. Terracotta,. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 79392-20 Sketch, model, statuette, terracotta, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century

Woman sculpture, Archaeological Museum, Antalya, Turkey, Antalya, Turkey, Asia

Terracotta statuette of a youth 3rd-2nd century B.C. East Greek The figure wears a nebris on his right shoulder, a cloak on his arm, a wreath on his head, and boots. There are traces of white slip on the figure, yellow on the nebris, blue on the cloak, and pink on the boots and wreath.. Terracotta statuette of a youth 252624 East Greek, Terracotta statuette of a youth, 3rd2nd century B.C., Terracotta, H.: 9 1/8 in. (23.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926 (26.199.53)

Standing Ceramic Male Figure. Culture: Manteno. Dimensions: H. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm). Date: 6th-11th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Prehistory, Malta, Neolithic. Terracotta figure known as the Sleeping Lady. From Hal Saflieni Hypogeum.

Seated Figure, 100 BCE - 250 CE, 7 3/4 x 5 3/16 x 3 11/16 in. (19.69 x 13.18 x 9.37 cm), Ceramic, pigment, Mexico, 1st century BCE - 3rd century CE

Rock in the Form of a Fantastic Mountain. Culture: China. Dimensions: H. (with stand) 32 in. (81.3 cm); W. 21 in. (53.3 cm); D. 15 in. (38.1 cm). Date: 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Dancing dwarf. Dimensions: H. 10 cm (3 15/16 in.); W. 4.9 cm (1 15/16 in.); D. 4.2 cm (1 5/8 in.). Date: 332-150 B.C..The marble dancing dwarf with his fine features is almost certainly from Alexandria. As in so many aspects of Ptolemaic art, the dwarf represents the convergence of different trends. Although in this instance the top of the head, arms and legs are missing, bronze statuettes of dancers and dwarf-dancers often hold castanets, and the origin of the type should probably be associated with the castanet-playing dancers hired for religious or private occasions who are noted in some Ptolemaic papyri. In Greece such dancers had long been associated with ecstatic orgiastic cults like those of Dionysus or Cybele, so it could be that such cults are sometimes involved. However, the employment of such individuals certainly was adopted for private occasions and banquets. The figure, then, might have recalled a particular occasion, or been a more general evocation of festivity.This

Hand of Hanuman Carrying the Mountain of Medicinal Herbs. India, Rajasthan, 18th-19th century. Sculpture. Marble

Knielende Arowak of Caraïb, c. 1810 - in or before 1839 A loose figure from a diorama by Gerrit Schouten, representing a kneeling arowak or caribb. His left hand rests on his right knee. Both feet and right hand have been demolished. Suriname paper. glue. paint (coating) painting Native peoples of South America Suriname

Statue of an old shepherd carrying alamb

'Venus on a Shell I'. France, 1930 (model), 1954 (moulding). Dimensions: height: 31,0 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Seated female figure, 200-700, 13 1/2 x 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (34.3 x 21 x 14 cm), Earthenware, Mexico, 3rd-8th century

Terracotta female head late 3rd-2nd century B.C. Cypriot The head is mold-made and solid. The back is handmade.. Terracotta female head 241062

Kneeling Female Figure(Pomdo)

Antoine-Louis Bare (1795-1875). "Bear group". Patinated plaster. 1833. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. Statuette, 19th XIXth 19th 19th 19th 19th century, animal

Male Harp Player of the Early Spedos type; Unknown; Greece, Cyclades, Europe; 2700 - 2300 B.C.; Marble; Object: H: 35.8 x W: 9.5 x D: 28.1 cm (14 1/8 x 3 3/4 x 11 1/16 in.)

Saint John the Baptist. Catalan School. 13th-14th centuries. Carved polychromed wood. Museum of Pilgrimage and Santiago. Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.

Marble unfinished kouros torso, from Naxian workshop 565-560. The kouros type dominated Greek art of the Archaic period, representing young male aristocrats whose athletic physique underlines their virtue and calour.

Koma-inu: Guardian Lion-Dog, 1185-1333. Japan, Kamakura period (1185-1333). Wood with traces of polychromy; overall: 49.6 cm (19 1/2 in.).

Terracotta hanging lamp in the form of a comic actor. Culture: Roman. Dimensions: length 6 9/16in. (16.7cm). Date: 2nd century A.D..With two nozzles, shape of reclining comic actor wearing mask; orange clay. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Faience Figure of the God Montu-Re 702 B.C. Inscribed on the figure is the name Shabaqo.

A seated Indian. A loose figure from a Diorama from Gerrit Schouten, representing an Indian, seated to the left. His left hand rests on its right knee. Both feet and right hand have been demolished.

Terracotta statuette of a youth. Culture: East Greek. Dimensions: H.: 9 1/8 in. (23.3 cm). Date: 3rd-2nd century B.C..The figure wears a nebris on his right shoulder, a cloak on his arm, a wreath on his head, and boots. There are traces of white slip on the figure, yellow on the nebris, blue on the cloak, and pink on the boots and wreath. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ancestor Figure (AnaDeo)

Group of Pan and goat, by Unknown artist, 2nd Century - 1st Century b.C., white marble, full relief. Italy: Campania: Naples: National Archaeological Museum. Front view embrace goat Pan

Seated FemaleFigure. Artist: Unknown

DIOSA TLAZOLTEOTL PARIENDO- CULTURA MEXICANA (1325-1521) CERAMICA OLMECA. DIOSA TLAZOLTEOTL. TLAZOLTEOTL DIOSA. DIOSA DE LA BASURA.

Mlle Pogany, Version I, Constantin Brancusi, 1913,

Ancient female figure from the Neolithic period, Ukraine.

Alexandre Falguière (1831-1900). Mask by Madame Rigaud. Terracotta. 1851-1900. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. MASQUE

Jean-Pierre Dantan (1800-1869), said Dantan the young. Caricature of the novelist and dramatic author Melchior-Frédéric Soulié (1800-1847). Terracious patinated plaster. 1834. Paris, Carnavalet museum. Dramatic author, Writer, French, Patina Platre, Novelist, Terracotta, Caricature

Italy, Rome, Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Ritual female figure made of terracotta from Akita

Italy, Pisa Province, Volterra, Bronze statue depicting male figure making offering

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