Ancient Figurines

A variety of historical ceramic figurines from different cultures, showcasing unique designs and craftsmanship from ancient Mexico, Egypt, and Mesoamerica.

Bust of Surya, Sri Deb Style, Cambodian Art, Sandstone, 7th-8th Century, Private Collection

Terracotta relief of a reclining youth 5th century B.C. Greek, South Italian, Tarentine The figure belongs rather early in the extensive series of Tarentine reliefs depicting reclining banqueters.. Terracotta relief of a reclining youth. Greek, South Italian, Tarentine. 5th century B.C.. Terracotta. Classical. Terracottas

King's Head with Egyptian Headdress but Greek Hair and Features 2nd century B.C. or early 1st century B.C. Ptolemaic Period This head depicts a Ptolemaic ruler in a style which combines a traditional kind of Egyptian royal image with certain markers of the Ptolemaic Greek origins - in particular Greek hair. The particular arrangement of this king's hair suggests Ptolemy VIII (170-163 and 145-116 BC) or Ptolemy X (107-88 BC) may be represented.The dark stone of the statue suggests it may relate to the series of lifesize or under-lifesize statues functioning as ritual statues in the native royal cults supported by the Ptolemies.Link to a blog about Ptolemaic Art at The MetNile and Newcomers: A Fresh Installation of Egyptian Ptolemaic Art. King's Head with Egyptian Headdress but Greek Hair and Features. 2nd century B.C. or early 1st century B.C.. Gabbro. Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt

Zodiac sign of Virgo from the former Benedictine abbey in Brauweiler. Germany, 1100-1141. Limestone. Schnu_tgen Museum. Cologne, Germany.

ARTE PRECOLOMBINO. MEXICO. FIGURAS FEMENINAS DE PIE. Periodo cerámico temprano (450-600). Región centro-sur del Estado de Veracruz. Area de El Faisán. Museo de Arte de Dallas (Dallas Museum of Art). Estado de Texas. Estados Unidos.

Capital with Adoration of the Magi second half 12th century French. Capital with Adoration of the Magi 466226

Sitting figure, anonymous, 1300 - 1499 Terracotta figure, without head and legs. The body, provided with thick bracelets and necklace, shows a somewhat twisted position and the arms hold a round, flat object. Possibly a sacrificial scale or drum East Java terracotta (clay material) Terracotta figure, without head and legs. The body, provided with thick bracelets and necklace, shows a somewhat twisted position and the arms hold a round, flat object. Possibly a sacrificial scale or drum East Java terracotta (clay material)

Male Torso 5th Century B.C. Greek

CABEZA DE BODHSATTVA-ARTE CHINO PRECLASICO. Location: FUNDACION RODRIGUEZ ACOSTA. GRANADA. SPANIEN. BODHISATTVA.

Grinning mask, from S, Sperate, clay. 6th-5th cent. BCE, Cagliari, Museo archeologico nazionale, The Coliseum, Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe

Funerary urn with depiction of the solar god Kinich Ahau. Detail of the image of the deceased on the cover. Painted ceramic. Maya culture. Late Classic Period (600-900 AD). Mesoamerica. Maya area. Museum of the Americas. Madrid, Spain.

Coatlicue, goddess of the earth, patron of life and death. Mexican art. National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Location: MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA. MEXICO CITY. CIUDAD DE MEXICO. DIOSA COATLICUE. DIOSA DE LA TIERRA.

Dancing Figure Wearing Animal Headdress and Ornate Costume. Late Classic Veracruz; South-central Veracruz, Mexico. Date: 600 AD-900 AD. Dimensions: H. 20 cm (7 7/8 in.). Ceramic and pigment. Origin: South Central Veracruz. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Limestone statuette of a temple boy 4th century B.C. Cypriot Seated figure with chain of pendants, holding a hare.. Limestone statuette of a temple boy. Cypriot. 4th century B.C.. Limestone. Hellenistic. Stone Sculpture

chewed on sandstone, 11th century, Vitoria-Gasteiz Museum of Sacred Art, María Inmaculada Cathedral, Álava, Spain

Vietnam, Danang, Danang Museum of Cham Sculpture, Stone statue of Dvarapala guarding gateway

Fragmentary plaque depicting the face of an Aramean female sphinx and Syrian figurine of a bearded man, seated and holding a sickle sword. From Syria, from the 8th century BC and the 2nd millennium BC respectively.

Head of Zeus. Olympia. 5th cent. BC. GREECE.

Manzai: Comic Actor. Japan, mid-19th century. Costumes; Accessories. Ivory with staining, sumi, red pigment

Terracotta statuette of a dancing girl. Culture: Greek, Corinthian. Dimensions: H. 4 15/16 in. (12.5 cm). Date: 4th century B.C..Female dancer, toes touching base, propped up by support in back. Right foot advanced, right arm raised, left hand on hip. Wearing a flaring, striped headdress (a kalathiskos) with two fillets falling to shoulders in back. Garment is a knee length chiton. Red stripe on right leg suggests boots. Round, flat base. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

ESCULTURA ABOCETADA DE SAN MATEO (DETALLE). Author: Michelangelo. Location: GALERIA DE LA ACADEMIA. Florenz. ITALIA. SAN MATEO APOSTOL Y EVANGELISTA.

SILENO SIMPOSIASTA DE CAPILLA - S V AC - BRONCE. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Elder Figure 1st century B.C.-A.D. 1st century Tolita-Tumaco This vivid figure is representative of a well-known type of seated male figure from the Pacific coast region of northern Ecuador and southern Colombia. Low-lying and swampy--and inhospitable to the later Spanish colonists of the 1500s--the area was home at the turn of the first millennium A.D. to the people of the Tolita-Tumaco culture, who made large ceramic sculptures with great skill. These three-dimensional works of impressive size, which today are usually fragmentary, stand out within the larger corpus of Precolumbian South American ceramic works primarily for their size and their uncommonly expressive portrayal of the human face and figure. The example here has the face of old age--with wrinkles, baggy skin beneath the eyes, only a few remaining teeth, and stubble on the chin; but these features only enhance the presence and heighten the drama of the forward-thrusting figure. Clearly a man of high status, he wears brace

Etruscan Art. Italy. In honour of the ancestors. Symbolic faces were the focus and memorials held at the graveside. Symbolised Urns-face. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhage. Denmark..

Pijpenkop in the form of a bust of a Greek warrior, Matthijs Kessels, c. 1830 The gestured warrior carries a casque, the front valve consists of a lion mask. Under the comb there is a nikè at the front. Signed on the right side on the plinth: M. Kessels Fecit. Rome pipe clay The gestured warrior carries a casque, the front valve consists of a lion mask. Under the comb there is a nikè at the front. Signed on the right side on the plinth: M. Kessels Fecit. Rome pipe clay

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875). Figaro. Patinated terracotta, 1873. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 79392-5 Popular hero, man, theater character, valet, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century

Carved stonework Merman figure baptismal font, church of Saint Peter, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK - 12th century font.

Male head made of ceramic male head made of ceramic copyright: xzoonar.com/bartomeuxbalaguerxrotgerx 22556748

Head of a deity, anonymous, anonymous (rejected attribution), c. 1425 - c. 1475 Fragment (head) of Sukuh. Javaindonesia andesite Fragment (head) of Sukuh. Javaindonesia andesite

Head 16th-18th century Edo peoples Edo terracotta heads differ from comparable works cast in brass in their greater simplicity, both stylistically and in the incorporation of less regalia. Generally, they are less delicate or refined, with thicker, fuller facial features, and reflect the relative speed with which they were made. It has also been suggested that the king's coral regalia might have been stored on terracotta heads, or that they were used as molds from which to cast brass heads.. Head 316481

Bronze figurine of The God with the Golden Hand, early 2nd millenium BC. Artist: Unknown

Heads of statues of a monarch. Limestone. Middle Kingdom, mid-12th Dynasty (ca. 1900-1850 BC). Qaw el-Kebir, tomb of Ibu. Egyptian Museum of Turin. Italy.

Seated Male Figure. Culture: Quimbaya. Dimensions: H x W: 8 x 6 3/8in. (20.3 x 16.2cm). Date: 11th-12th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Manolo Hugué / "Head of the Tití de Togores", 1927, Sculpture (clay), 21 × 14 × 18 cm. Museum: Museo de Arte de Cerdanyola, Barcelona, Cataluña, España.

Adolescent Girl. Charles Despiau; French, 1874-1946. Date: 1920. Dimensions: 12 3/4 × 3 1/8 × 3 1/16 in. (32.4 × 7.8 × 7 cm)(with base). Terracotta. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Seated figure with conch shell, 2nd century BCE - 2nd century CE, 10 1/8 x 8 x 7 1/4 in. (25.7 x 20.3 x 18.4 cm), earthenware, Mexico, 2nd century BCE - 2nd century CE

Female Figure with TwoFaces. Artist: Unknown

TALLA EN MADERA GUINEANA. Location: MUSEO ETNOLOGICO. Barcelona. SPAIN.

LEON DE ARCILLA- ARTE INDIO.

Pre-Columbian era. Oaxaca, Mexico. Human figure. Probably Period I. Pre-Colombian era. American museum of Natural History. Ny.

Babylon (Arabic: Babil) was a significant city in ancient Mesopotamia, in the fertile plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The city was built upon the Euphrates, and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks, with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods. Babylon was originally a small Semitic Akkadian city dating from the period of the Akkadian Empire c. 2300 BCE. The town attained independence as part of a small city state with the rise of the First Amorite Babylonian Dynasty in 1894 BCE. Claiming to be the successor of the more ancient Sumero-Akkadian city of Eridu, Babylon eclipsed Nippur as the 'holy city' of Mesopotamia around the time Amorite king Hammurabi created the first short lived Babylonian Empire in the 18th century BC. Babylon grew and South Mesopotamia came to be known as Babylonia. The empire quickly dissolved after Hammurabi's death and Babylon spent long periods under Assyrian, Kassite and Elamite domination. After being destroy

Warrior. Bronze votive figurine from Olympia, 6th cent. BC. GREECE.

A wooden sculpture of a hunter with an antelope. Simple yet powerful statues are among The Gambia's crafts popular with tourists.

Lady of Ibiza, clay, from the necropolis of Puig des Molins, Ibiza. IV-III B.C. Museum: Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid.

Chariot group ca. 600-480 B.C. Cypriot The handmade group is missing two of the original four horses. The chariot box held only a single charioteer.. Chariot group. Cypriot. ca. 600-480 B.C.. Terracotta; hand-made. Cypro-Archaic II. Terracottas

Standing Court Official. China. Date: 618 AD-907 AD. Dimensions: 65.8 × 19.0 × 15.9 cm (25 15/16 × 7 1/2 × 6 1/4 in.). Earthenware with painted decoration. Origin: China. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

estela de arenisca tipo cabeza cortada, III a.C., San Esteban de Mesterika, Meñaka, Arkeologi Museoa, museo aqueologico, Bilbao, Bizkaia, Pais Vasco, Spain.

Pair of identical marble kouroi depicting two heroes, Delphi Museum, Delphi, Greece

Terracotta vase in the form of an ape 4th century B.C. Greek or Etruscan In the shape of an ape, with left paw on head, right on knee.. Terracotta vase in the form of an ape 246271

Figur mit Katzengesicht Figure with feline face, Jama Coaque, Manabi, coast of Ecuador, three thousand five hundred to 400 AD, ceramic, MuEC, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 23171214

Pre-Columbian art. Mexico. Zapotec civilization. Seated figure urn, 500-800 AD. Earthenware. From Oaxaca, Mexico. Denver Art Museum. Denver, Colorado, United States.

TERRACOTAS PUNICAS ANTROPOMOFAS PROCEDENTES DE LA CUEVA DES CUYRAM (IBIZA). Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO DE CATALUÑA. Barcelona. SPAIN.

Urn with anthropomorphic effigy, red-coffee bicrome, late classic, Santa María Nebaj,museo de antropologia Maya, departamento de El Quiché, Guatemala, Central America.

Man Carrying Another Man, early 1900s. Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912). Ivory; overall: 5.1 cm (2 in.).

Roman terracotta head with headdress. Archaeological Museum of Seville. Spain.

SACERDOTE DE CADIZ - FIGURILLA FENICIA ENCONTRADA EN UNA NECROPOLIS DE CADIZ - VIII/VII AC. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Mother Goddess. 7th mil. -5th mil. BC. Neolithic art. Terra-cotta. TURKEY. CENTRAL ANATOLIA. Ankara. Archaeological Museum. Proc: TURKEY. EAST ANATOLIA. atalhšyŸk.

Baboon 664-332 B.C. Late Period. Baboon. 664-332 B.C.. Marble. Late Period. From Egypt. Dynasty 27-30

Nymph. From Mulva or Munigua. Villanueva de Rio y Minas, Andalusia, Spain. Archaeological Museum of Seville. Spain.

Turkey, Marash, Sculpture representing a lion used to decorate the entrance of a palace

Standing Figure, c. 900-400 BC. Mexico, Olmec, 1200-300 BC. Serpentine; overall: 10.6 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm (4 3/16 x 1 3/4 x 1 in.).

An ancient mask displayed at a museum in Chiapas Mexico. The Campeche Regional Museum displays prehispanic antiquities.

Musician plying the lute Terracota figure sui, dynasty China 581-618.

Sphinx of Tutankhamen.

Macro, Phylakopi III-iii, Pottery pane, Late Helladic IIIA perioid, Female figure, Western shrine, Greek Islands, The Lady of Phylakopi, Archaeological Museum, Plaka, Milos Island, Cyclades, Greece, Europe

Head Of Woman by Pablo Picasso, 1932, 1881-1973

Stone Altar with atlas, from Potrero Nuevo, Mexico

Sculpted Vessel with a Young Woman; Greece (Attica); about 375 B.C; Marble with polychromy; 58.1 × 29.2 cm (22 7,8 × 11 1,2 in.)

Female bust and male Carthaginian figure, 450-425 BC, Archaeological Museum of Ibiza and Formentera, Spain.

Goddess Isis and Child Horus 664-332 BCE Egyptian Art Musee du Louvre, Paris, France

TINAJA DE CERAMICA DECORADA (Nº INV. 1168), EN EL MUSEO DE SANTA CRUZ. MUDEJAR, ANDALUSI.

Apel·les Fenosa / Small torso, 1960. Museum: Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona.

Sogdia. Pre-Islamic Central Asia. Ossuary cover with a male head. Clay; carving. 7th century. Afrasiab, Uzbekistan. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.

Ceramics depicting the stages of life (3rd c. AD). Engendering. Moche or Mochica Art. PERU. LAMBAYEQUE. Sipn. Royal Tombs of Sipn Museum.

Campania Caserta Capua Museo Campano39. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Byzantine architectural fragments; parchment fragments with miniatures (12th century) from Montecassino; painted wooden crucifix (13th century); Carolingian crucifixes; Bishop's miter (11th century) of gold and silver damask; fresco (13th century). Post-medieval: Architecture (15th century). Formerly the Palazzo Antignano. Unusual Catalan/Moorish-style portal; Paintings on panel and canvas (15th-18th centuries); marble intarsia (16th century); marble sculpture: busts of Christ and Mary (17th century); sculpture of saints in marble and in wood (15th century); painted and gilded sculpture in wood; marble grave sculpture (16th century); sarcophagus with allegorical carvings; gold reliquary "Rosa d'Oro"; crucifix made of elephant tusk Specific Location: Pianterreno Antiquities: Italic sculpture (seated women holding babies); inscription. Photo campaign #1: 533 photos. Roman relief and sculpture; cinerary urns; Greek an

Seated Immortal 17th century China. Seated Immortal 45850

Brewing beer, Egyptian tomb model from Meketra, 9th Dynasty, c2160 BC. Artist: Unknown

Terracotta Maternity statue

Old statues in the Santa Giulia Museum, Unesco world heritage site Brescia, Italy, Europe

Hen 300 CE-552 CE Japan. This hen was modeled somewhat simply, but very effectively. Comb marks along her body suggest feathers, and the features of her face and comb were made with simple tools or by hand. The henís body is actually one slab of clay that was folded to form the tail section. Many other haniwa in the shape of birdsósuch as waterfowl, swans, and hensówith similar simple execution but great sensitivity and expressiveness have been excavated, largely in the KantÙ region. This piece was unearthed in Tochigi prefecture and was once in the well-known private collection of Okura Hisashi (1892ñ1960).. Earthenware .

Statuette of Kaemked, funerary priest of the noble Urimi 2500 BC. Egyptian, painted limestone tomb object

Fragment of a sculpture, anonymous, 1300 - 1500 Fragment of a relief with a representation of the top of two female figures. Indonesia . Fragment of a relief with a representation of the top of two female figures. Indonesia .

lion lion, limestone, 2nd-1st century BC, Iberian Museum of Jaén, Jaén province, Andalusia, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 21704883

Lion head in terracotta (from the front), ancient Greece, 4th century BC .. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, Petit Palais. 37425-1 Antiquity, classic Greece, lion, terracotta, head, ancient

Marble lion, 2nd century, comes from the convent of San Bento de Castris, Evora Museum, Evora, Alentejo, Portugal, Europe.

Temple Model. Culture: Aztec. Dimensions: H.4 7/8 x W. 2 1/4 in. (12.4 x 5. cm). Date: 1400-1521.Aztec emperors ruled over a vast portion of what is now Central Mexico and parts of Guatemala at the time Spaniards arrived in the capital of Tenochtitlan in 1519. From humble beginnings in the fourteenth century, the Mexica (as the core cultural group is properly known) formed alliances with established kingdoms and city-states, consolidating their tribute-based empire with considerable speed. Part of their imperial strategy included the dissemination of an official religion. Aztec temple models were distributed widely, functioning as tools of empire to promote the expansion of the state religion at the household level. Aztec temple models replicate key details of their full-size counterparts and may have acted as stand-ins for these buildings or served as earthly homes for deities. Some include a figure at the summit, perhaps representing a deity, a deity impersonator, or even a personi

Prehistory, Malta, Neolithic. Votive sculptural group depicting two women, with traces of ochre paint. From Brochtorff Circle at Xaghra, Gozo Island

Tripod Monument from the Town Hall (Bouleuterion) Reconstruction with original fragments Marble, 2nd century BC

Throne and figure. Dimensions: .b: 8 1/4 × 7 3/4 in. (21 × 19.7 cm).a Throne: 5 7/8 × 6 3/8 × 6 3/4 in. (14.9 × 16.2 × 17.1 cm).Vessel in shape of sitting figure; legs out straight, holding prominent penis.Chair has four legs joined by cross bars; high arm rests; painted with diamond pattern. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Gentle women; Hellenistic period (-323-00-00--30-00-00);Daszewski, Wiktor A. (1936-), Daszewski, Wiktor A. (1936-)-collection, gift (provenance)

Omphalos. Religious stone artefact. Ancient Greek. Delphi Archaeological Museum. Greece.

Colour reconstruction of a female figurine of folded arm type (Spedos variety). Based on the research of V. Brinkmann, U. Koch-Brinkmann and E Hendrix (original in the N.P. Coulandris Foundation - Museum of Cycladic Art), modern plaster cast (the marble original dates to 2800-2300 BC)

Standing Ceramic Winged Figure. Culture: Remojadas. Dimensions: H. 7 x W. 8 1/8 x D. 2 1/2 in. (17.8 x 20.6 x 6.4 cm). Date: 6th-9th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Statue of the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet.

CERAMICA IRANI-JARRO DE BARRO AMARILLO. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

China, Shaanxi, Xian. Terra Cotta warriors and pits, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Saint george cathedral, ferrara, italy

sculpture of a lady sculpture of a lady, 5th century BC, Cerro de Alcalá, Torres,, Iberian Museum of Jaén, Andalusia, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 21720680

IDOLO CICLADICO DE KEROS - FLAUTISTA DE KEROS - 3000 AC - 2000 AC. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO-ESCULTURA. ATHENS. GREECE.

Abruzzo, L'Aquila, Sulmona, Museo Civico, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe

Ancient Egypt. Figure of baboon squatting. Red quartzite. Reign of Amenhotep III. Dynasty 18. New Kingdom. British Museum.

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