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

Ancient Egypt, 18th dynasty. Carved head of king Akhenaton.

Tusk with Figurative Relief Kongo artist ca. 1880-1890 The scenes carved on this tusk correspond to recurrent imagery of nineteenth-century Western illustrations, including depictions of Roman gods in the bottom four registers of the tusk. Coupled with images of enslavement, colonial splendor, and trade, this diverse imagery has been interpreted as a narrative of progress. Slavery is portrayed as a brutal and uncivilized historical practice, eliminated through colonial development. On the second register from the top, an African man is threatened with a sword, choked, and detained while two women look on with distress at the capture of their loved one. Juxtaposed against the sale of textiles in the third register, slavery is positioned as a bi-product of African greed. As an object produced for export, it was carved with a European clientele in mind. The narratives reinforce the Belgian colonial mission as a civilizing force. Despite these representations, Belgian colonialism is rememb

Europe, Greece, Cyclades, Delos. Delos Archaeological Museum, artifacts found on Delos. (Editorial Usage Only)

Sandstein-Stele mit abgeschnittenem Kopf Cut-head sandstone stele, III B.C., San Esteban de Mesterika, Menaka, Arkeologi Museoa, museo aqueologico, Bilbao, Bizkaia, Pais Vasco, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 22845411

Soldiers Head IV. Dame Elisabeth Frink (1930-1993). Bronze with a dark brown patina. Cast in 1965 in an edition of 6. 35.6cm high.

Campania Napoli Naples S. Lorenzo Maggiore58. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Sculpture, architecture, architectural sculpture (including Roman spolia) 13-14th century Chapter house; sarcophagi, gravestones; wall painting. Fragment of mosaic; sculptural fragments in the Sala Capitolare. Post-medieval: Architecture, architectural sculpture, ceiling painting fresco cycle; prints depicting Venice c. 1845 (4), sculpture; life-size creche figures dressed in original Neapolitan costume Church restored in 1882, 1926, 1944; excavations under the transept undertaken between 1958-1962, and in the cloister in 1976, have revealed remains of a Roman macellum (market), street, and the paleochristian basilica of the 6th c. AD. Antiquities: Pottery: black-glazed, archaic banded, domestic wares, bucchero; architectural terracottas, statuettes, lamps, sculpture fragments Object Notes: 3 color negatives with no prints at the end. General Notes: Most objects/paintings/frescoes unidentified. Three batches

CAPITEL PROJONICO DE LA GALETA - ARTE FENICIO. Location: MUSEO DE CADIZ-ARQUEOLOGIA. SPAIN.

Fragmentary marble torso of a man ca. 450-400 B.C. Greek, Attic The elevated shoulder and turned position suggest that the figure was sitting or partly reclining within the pediment of a temple. Bone, musculature, and flesh are articulated with particular sensitivity and skill.. Fragmentary marble torso of a man. Greek, Attic. ca. 450-400 B.C.. Marble, Pentelic . Classical. Stone Sculpture

Female Ancestor Figure - Matakau, Mid to Late 19th Century. Carved wood. From Viti Levu, Fiji Islands. Maker unknown

Lady of Baza. Sculpture and goods from the Grave 155 of Baza. Iberian female sculpture sitting on a winged chair and holding a pigeon in her hand. 4th century BC. Polychrome sandstone. Found in the Cerro del Santuario (Basti, Baza, province of Granada, Andalusia, Spain). National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain.

Bronze statuette of Hercules ca. 1st-2nd century A.D. Roman Weight on right leg, right arm extended, left hand holds club. Figure is nude with lion's skin draped over left forearm; solid cast.. Bronze statuette of Hercules 256650

VENECIANA - 1934. Author: ENRIQUE PEREZ COMENDADOR (1900-1981). Location: MUSEO PEREZ COMENDADOR-LEROUX. HERVAS. CACERES. SPAIN.

Standing Female 1st-7th century Huastec. Standing Female 313277

Painted vessel with a figure of Scylla, made in Canosa. Dated 310 BC

Cow's Head from a frontal representation of a cow emerging from a wall 664-610 B.C. Late Period, Saite Recent work at the tomb of Nespekashuty (see 23.3.468) has shown that this cow head, excavated by the Museum in the 1920s, stood over a statue of a wrapped figure. The cow was rendered as if emerging from the north wall false-door niche in the second room of the tomb and the wrapped figure, representing the tomb owner Nespekashuty, stood against its breast.Cow statues protecting the king were associated with the worship of Hathor in the mountain at Deir el-Bahri in Thebes since the Middle Kingdom. In the Ramesside Period such statues of Hathor protecting the king were included in a few non-royal tombs at Saqqara, and by the late Ramesside Period an example is known that depicts the cow protecting a non-royal person. Hathoric imagery remained popular during the Third Intermediate Period, but decorated tombs only resumed with the Kushite-Saite Period. With that, cow statues appeared aga

FIGURAS EN BARRO (ALFARERO "TITO"). Location: ALFARERIA. SPAIN.

Working Model for UNESCO Reclining Figure. Henry Spencer Moore; English, 1898-1986. Date: 1957. Dimensions: 139.7 × 238.8 × 121.9 cm (55 × 94 × 48 in.). Bronze, cast in 1957, from an edition of five plus one. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Statue of Pharaoh Akhenaten wearing the double crown of upper and Lower Egypt. Akhenaten introduced monotheism by exclusive worship of the Sun God Aten. 18th dynasty, Egyptian 1334 BC

Jorge Oteiza, stone with light modules, 1957, limestone, Casa Milà-La Pedrera, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Statuette of the god ancient Egyptian God Osiris. Bronze. Late Period (715-332 BC). In a bloody battle, Seth dismembered Osiris and spread his remains all around Egypt. Isis searched for the fragments to make a mummy and thus bring her beloved husband to life once again

China, Shanghai, Shanghai Museum. Ancient china and porcelain collection. Glazed pottery horse and rider, Tang Dynasty circa AD 618-907.

Sculpture from the gable of the temple of Aegina, around 570 BC, glyptotheque, Munich, Upper Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Terracotta head of a man. Culture: Greek, Asia Minor. Dimensions: H. 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm). Date: 2nd century B.C..Head and back of the neck preserved. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Greek art. Archaic style. Lion. About 520 BC. Funeray figure or votive offering in a sanctuary. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany.

Figure Fragment: Leopard Head early 17th century () Edo peoples At its origins, the centralized city-state of Benin was founded by Edo-speaking peoples. The accounts by official court historians and descriptions provided by visitors evoke a vibrant cultural center continually redefined by its leadership through shifting internal and external power dynamics. According to oral tradition, circa 1300, Edo chiefs are reputed to have reached out to the leader of neighboring Ife, Oranmiyan, to establish a new divinely sanctioned royal dynasty. Since then, the investiture of Benin’s rulers to the title of obas has conferred upon them at once a role of chief priest officiating in important religious ceremonies and presiding over an elaborate structure of palace officials. During the fifteenth century reign of Oba Ewuare, Benin’s armies were formed and the fortification of its capital with a massive wall undertaken. In parallel, delegations of Portuguese traders assiduously sought to secure exc

Remains of Hypogeum 1 Lleo street, Ibiza and Formentera Archeological Museum, Patrimonio de la Humanidad «Ibiza, biodiversidad y cultura», Ibiza, Bale...

Lazio Latina Terracina Museo Archeologico53. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Antiquities: Stone figures, both full-length and busts; ancient altars, sarcophagi, inscriptions and stone fragments from the Temple of Giove Anxur and from the ancient town. Object Notes: Hutzel campaign notes are undated. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Carved wooden portrait of a woman, Bischofsheim, Rhoen, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

The Sarcophagus of the Spouses is a masterpiece of Etruscan art. It is a late 6th century BC Etruscan anthropoid sarcophagus from Caere and is in the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome. made of terracotta which was once brightly painted. It depicts a married couple reclining at a banquet together in the afterlife and was found in 19th century excavations at the necropolis of Cerveteri (ancient Caere). Etruscan culture practiced cremation, so the tomb housed ashes rather than body rem

Pointçon: Buste d'Homme (Peut-Others félix Violo Bolchi) (Tititude FACTTICE) Anonymous. Westmin: Assamed in Berse (maybe Felix Violator). Steel. Paris, Carnavalet museum.

Campania Caserta Capua Museo Campano, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe

Balbal, exhibition in the State History Museum, interior view, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Asia

Female head, 400-300 BC, characteristic of Ibizan art, Archaeological Museum of Ibiza and Formentera, Ibiza, Spain.

Painted clay and limestone figurines of mothers with their children. From the New Kingdom, Thebes. Dated 1550 BC

Egypt, Cairo, Old Kingdom, Pharaoh Khufu, ivory statue, Egyptian Museum

Mask

Bust of Simon of Trent. Antonio Rizzo (Italian, about 1430 - after 1499)

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Singer,1913, Derby Stone, Tate Britain, National Gallery of British Art, London, England.

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

Mexico, Surroundings of Mexico City, Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl, stone statue of serpent head

figurine of a man on horseback, first century BC to third century AD, Catacombs of St. Paul, Rbat (Mdina), Republic of Malta, Europe.

Venus of Lespugues, 20 000 BC, France.

Spain, Catalonia, Barcelona, Bust of Gaudi head by Josep Maria Subirachs (1927-2014).

Head of a Bearded Brahman 1st-2nd century Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara). Head of a Bearded Brahman. Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara). 1st-2nd century. Stone. Sculpture

Jean-Pierre Dantan (1800-1869), said Dantan the young. Caricature of the painter and lithographer Eugène-Hippolyte Forest (born in 1808). Statuette. Patinated plaster, terracotta, 1833. Paris, Carnavalet museum. French, lithographer, painter, patterned patina, round-bump, statuette, terracotta, caricature

Horse. China, early Western Han dynasty, 206-100 B.C.. Sculpture. Molded earthenware with carved and painted decoration

Young Man; Tarentum (Taras), South Italy; 300 - 200 B.C; Terracotta with white slip and polychromy (brownish red, pink); 9 × 8.4 × 9 cm (3 9,16 × 3 5,16 × 3 9,16 in.)

Female Figure 3rd century B.C.-A.D. 4th century Chupicuaro. Female Figure 313190

Scratched Mask, 1999, Ceramics, Exhibition Miquel Barcelo, Vida y Muerte, Museum Kueppersmuehle, Duisburg, Germany- Editorial use only

Bull. Near East, Sumerian, 889-853 B.C.. Sculpture. Stone, gold, and lapiz lazuli

fine arts, Mesoamerica, Las Remojadas, sculpture, dignitary, terracotta, Veracruz, Mexico, 100 - 200, private collection,

aztec exhibition, royal academy of arts portrait view of carved stone shrine

Little Church of St. James At Kastelaz: Frescoes. Tramin Weinstrasse. Italy

Greywacke statue of Ramses III

Equestrian, Colored pottery, Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907, displayed at Shanghai Museum, china

Reclining Sileni figure sculptures in museum, Baelo Claudia Roman site, Cadiz Province, Spain, Europe

BODISATUA GUAYIN-DINASTIA JIN-1115/1234-MADERA PINTADA Y DORADA. Location: VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM. LONDON. ENGLAND.

Model of a funerary boat with oarsmen and a sarcophagus under a canope. Wood. Middle Kingdom (1980-1700 BC). Egypt. Egyptian Museum of Turin. Italy.

Quartzite statue of Ankhrekhu. 1850 BC. 12th Dynasty. Middle Kingdom. From Egypt. British Museum. London. United Kingdom.

Raixa, Saint John the Baptist, wooden sculpture, municipality of Bunyola, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

Celtic Stone Votive Figure of a Child. Artist: Unknown

Torso of Dionysus, marble, 2nd century, Roman Hispania,Vecilla de Valderaduey. , Valladolid Museum, Community of Castile and Leon, Spain.

Jean-Pierre Dantan (1800-1869), said Dantan the young. Mask of the German pianist and composer, Julius Benedict (1804-1885). Terracotta and plaster. Paris, Carnavalet museum. German, composer, mask, plaster, terracotta

Openwork furniture plaque showing a cow suckling a calf ca. 9th-8th century B.C. Assyrian During the early first millennium B.C., ivory carving was one of the major luxury arts that flourished throughout the ancient Near East. Elephant tusks were carved into small decorative objects such as cosmetic boxes and plaques used to adorn wooden furniture. Gold foil, paint, and semiprecious stone and glass inlay embellishments enlivened these magnificent works of art. Based on certain stylistic, formal, and technical characteristics also visible in other media, scholars have distinguished several coherent style groups of ivory carving that belong to different regional traditions including Assyrian, Phoenician, North Syrian and South Syrian (the latter also known as Intermediate).Several ivories in the Metropolitan Museums collection are from the Aramaean town of Arslan Tash, ancient Hadatu, in northern Syria just east of the Euphrates River, close to the modern Turkish border. French archaeol

1930-1931 built by Karl Wach and Heinrich Rosskotten, St., Sankt, Saint

Marble statue of a lion. Culture: Greek. Dimensions: H. 31 1/4 in. (79.4 cm)length 63 1/2 in. (161.3 cm). Date: ca. 400-390 B.C..Marble statues of lions were sometimes used as tomb monuments or as guardians at both ends of a large tomb facade. Like many classical Greek works of art, this statue was taken to Rome during the imperial period. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

cabeza femenina, 400-300 a.C, caracteristica de la plastica ibicenca, Museo arqueológico de Ibiza y Formentera, Patrimonio de la Humanidad «Ibiza, biodiversidad y cultura», Ibiza, balearic islands, Spain.

Dantan, Jean Pierre (dit Dantan young) (n.1800-12-28-D.1869-09-06), serious portrait of the child of the Duke of Wellington (dummy title), 1833. Terracotta patinum. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris. Bust of the child of the Duke of Wellington. Dressed bust. Portrait. Serious work.

Dancing Doll. Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 29.1 x 22.6 cm (11 7/16 x 8 7/8 in.) Original IAD Object: 11 1/4" high. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Mina Lowry.

ARTE ISLAMICO. " CIERVA DE BRONCE ". PROCEDENTE DE MEDINA AL ZAHARA , SIGLO X. MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL. MADRID.

Assyrian-style reproduction in white porcelain, from 1860 depicting the wife (Queen) of Sardanapalus the last king of Assyria (612-605 BC). Copied from the 7th century BC relief of the siege of Lachish at the Palace of Nineveh Iraq

Furniture element: human head ca. 18th century B.C. Old Assyrian Trading Colony This fragment belongs to a group of carved ivories, mostly furniture elements, probably found at the site of a palace at Acemhöyük in central Anatolia. Carved in the round, the piece shows a beardless human head with short but voluminous hair. The eyebrows meet in the middle above large, wide-open eyes, in which the pupils have been drilled to receive inlays in another material, now missing. The nose is prominent and the mouth is small and tight-lipped. The top of the head is flattened and drilled with a vertical hole, probably for attachment to another element. The pink staining of this piece indicates that iron oxides are present on the surface, although it is not known whether this was a deliberate decorative treatment, or a result of contact with the soil in which this and other pieces of carved ivory from Acemhöyük were buried.. Furniture element: human head 323577

Figure of the god Apollo Mithras, East Terrace, Mount Nemrut, Nemrut Dagi, Adiyaman Province, Southeastern Anatolia Region, Anatolia, Turkey, Asia

Lion Sculpture, Archaeological Museum of Athens Lion sculpture at famous archaeological musuem of athens Copyright: xZoonar.com/DanielxFerreira-LeitesxCiccarinox 17033374

Model of Two Donkeys with Drivers ca. 2030-1850 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Model of Two Donkeys with Drivers. ca. 2030-1850 B.C.. Wood, paint. Middle Kingdom. From Egypt, Middle Egypt, Meir, Khashaba excavations, 1910-11. Dynasty 11-mid 12

Mexico.Mexico city.National Museum of Antropology. Paquime culture (700-1450 AC).Representing a couple in ceramic..

Olmec jade statuette of a dwarf. Mexico.

England, London, The Wellcome Collection, Exhibit of Historical Paper-mache Japanese Acupuncture Figure

Przeszo Przyszo unknown

Prehistory, Malta, Neolithic. Large painted and engraved vase, phase Tarxien III. From Tarxien megalithic temple.

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