Ancient Figurines and Artifacts

Artifacts including ancient figurines from different cultures, showcasing craftsmanship in pottery, with varied representations of human forms.

Mayan ceramic figurine of an old man playing a tambourine. From Jaina, Campeche, Mexico 600-900 AD

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Female Figurine 500 BCE-300 BCE Guanajuato state. Ceramic and pigment . Chupícuaro

Male Figurine, 400-100 BC. Mexico, Guanajuato, Chupícuaro. Pottery with traces of white and red pigment; overall: 9.2 x 4.8 x 1.9 cm (3 5/8 x 1 7/8 x 3/4 in.).

Pregnant Female Figure

Prisoner Vessel. Culture: Colima. Dimensions: H x W x D: 21 x 10 5/8 x 16 1/8in. (53.3 x 27 x 40.9cm). Date: 2nd century B.C.-A.D. 3rd century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

female statuette, from Ibiza, clay, 4th cent. BCE, Madrid museo arqueologico nacional, The Coliseum , Rome, Lazio, Italy ,.

Female Figure Carrying a Basket. Egypt, 1st century BCE - 2nd century CE. Sculpture. Terracotta

Mayan ceramic figurine of an old man playing a tambourine. From Jaina, Campeche, Mexico 600-900 AD

Bahia Culture (Mahia, Ecuador). 300 BC-500 AD. Figure sitting cross-legged. 24 x 15 cm. From Ecuador. Period of Regional Development. Private collection.

Seated Figure. Culture: Olmec. Dimensions: Height 3-9/16 in. (9.2 cm). Date: 12th-9th century B.C.. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Female Figurine, c. 400-100 BC. Mexico, Guanajuato or Michoacán, Chupícuaro. Ceramic, pigment; overall: 22.5 x 10.5 cm (8 7/8 x 4 1/8 in.).

Terracotta statuette of a seated woman early 5th century B.C. Greek, Rhodian The figure represents a well-established type in both the small-scale terracottas and large stone sculpture of Eastern Greece. Her seated pose and the garment covering the back of her head and body suggest that she may be a goddess.. Terracotta statuette of a seated woman. Greek, Rhodian. early 5th century B.C.. Terracotta. Late Archaic. Terracottas

Female Figure and Child. Mexico, Jalisco, 200 BCE-500 CE. Ceramics. Slip-painted ceramic

Funerary Sculpture of a Kneeling Entertainer

Kubera, the God of Riches. India, Uttar Pradesh, 5th century. Sculpture. Reddish brown terracotta with traces of black and white paint

Seated Female Figure with Cooking Utensils and aDog. Maker: Unknown

Lebanon, Sidon, Statuette representing a divinity from the holy place of Sidon, bronze

Horse-Headed Incarnation of God Vishnu (Hayagriva) 601 CE-800 CE Cambodia. Sandstone .

Female Bust. Indonesia, Eastern Java, 12th century. Sculpture. Terracotta

Seated Figure. Honduras, Ulúa Valley, Playa de los Muertos, 900-600 BCE. Ceramics. Compacted clay

Plaque Fragment: Warrior Chief. Culture: Edo peoples. Dimensions: H. 17 3/4 x W. 6 1/4 in. (45.1 x 15.9 cm). Date: 16th-17th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Isis and Horus 664-30 B.C. Late Period-Ptolemaic Period Isis name is first attested in the fifth dynasty in the Pyramid texts. She was the wife of Osiris and the mother of Horus, and thus was symbolically mother to the pharaoh. In the Late Period, the popularity of this important goddess dramatically increased. She is nearly always depicted in anthropomorphic form, standing or seated on a throne. This statuette shows the goddess in her most beloved pose, nursing her son Horus (known also as the lactans pose). Other goddesses sometimes nurse Horus or other child gods, but Isis is preeminent among them in this role. She wears the horned crown that by the Late Period she had adopted from the goddess Hathor, and armlets on her upper arms. Faint markings on Horuss chest suggest that he wore an amulet, a common feature for child gods.The abundance of statuettes in this particular pose demonstrate some of the qualities for which Isis was most valued in the first millennium BC: her role as a

Figure of Mother Holding Child. Culture: Moche. Dimensions: Overall: 5 1/2 in. (13.97 cm). Date: 3rd-5th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Barbarian bearer of offerings, glazed terracotta statue, China. Chinese Civilisation, Tang Dynasty, 7th century.

Terracotta plank-shaped figurine. Culture: Cypriot. Dimensions: H. 6 15/16 in. (17.6 cm). Date: ca. 1900-1800 B.C..A straight sided slab with rounded ends and details in low relief.A turban, now detached, was probably worn on the head, leaving a different coloration on the surface. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Wrestler. Japan. Date: 300 AD-522 AD. Dimensions: 63.4 × 38.4 × 22 cm (25 × 15 1/8 × 8 5/8 in.). Earthenware. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Seated Figure 12th-9th century B.C. Olmec The figure, modeled of solid clay, is shown sitting in a comfortably relaxed posture, left leg tucked under right. Most of the surface of the figure is covered with a cream-color slip; only the top of the head and the waist area are left unpolished probably indicating cap and garment worn by the figure.The right arm and hand are extended, resting on the right foot. The left arm rests on the ground next to the left thigh. Four grooves on the feet and hands indicate toes and fingers. The narrow, elongated, artificially deformed head has long ear flanges and tilts slightly to the left; the facial features with almond-shaped, puffy eyes, thick upper lip and half-open mouth with down-turned corners are typical of Olmec supernaturals. The eyebrows are drawn in a faint black; traces of red and white pigment remain in the eyes.This figure is a fine example of type of small three-dimensional solid clay figures found at such sites as Las Bocas, Tlatilco,

Female Figure, 400-799, 9 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (23.5 x 9.53 cm), Earthenware, Mexico, 5th-8th century

Seated Figure, before 1921. Colombia, Pre-Columbian. Earthenware; overall: 27.5 x 14 cm (10 13/16 x 5 1/2 in.).

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Male figure, 17th-18th century, 19 3/4 x 5 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. (50.17 x 13.34 x 12.07 cm), Wood, Mali, 17th-18th century, This musician has been playing his xylophone for more than 250 years. Among the oldest woodcarvings in these galleries, it was created by the Dogon people from Mali, who have a very old art tradition. Its dry surface and lack of a thick crust of offerings suggest that it was not used as an altarpiece, as many Dogon figures are. Instead, it was probably made as a reference to migrations long ago, when the ancestors of the Dogon left the Mali Empire around the 14th century.

Terracotta statuette of a woman mid-5th century B.C. Greek, Attic The woman appears to be walking and, possibly, holding a flower.. Terracotta statuette of a woman 255027 Greek, Attic, Terracotta statuette of a woman, mid-5th century B.C., Terracotta, H.: 6 13/16 in. (17.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Ernest Brummer, 1959 (59.48.7)

Terracotta aryballos (perfume vase) in the form of a boy ca. 540-530 B.C. East Greek Vase in the form of a fat boy with his eyes shut, hands holding his belly.. Terracotta aryballos (perfume vase) in the form of a boy. East Greek. ca. 540-530 B.C.. Terracotta. Archaic. Vases

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Limestone head of a warrior wearing a crested helmet 5th century B.C. Cypriot Warrior wearing a crested helmet.A helmet of Chalcidian type with a crest covers the small head, which has a smiling face, pointed nose, very large eyes with thick eyelids, and smooth hair under the helmet.. Limestone head of a warrior wearing a crested helmet. Cypriot. 5th century B.C.. Limestone. Classical. Stone Sculpture

Nature Divinity (Yakshi), c. AD 75. India, Mathura, Kshatrapa period (c. 20 BC-AD 114). Mottled red sandstone; overall: 127.6 x 49 x 25.4 cm (50 1/4 x 19 5/16 x 10 in.).

Magical figure of captive. Dimensions: H. 11.4 × W. 7.3 × D. 5.2 cm (4 1/2 × 2 7/8 × 2 1/16 in.). Dynasty: Dynasty 12-13. Date: ca. 1981-1650 B.C.. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Statue of Isis andHorus

Statuette (usual name), 1400. Covered sandstone. Cernuschi Museum, Asia Museum of Asia in the city of Paris.

Pendant: Female Holding a Child (Kourotrophos); Italy; 600 - 550 B.C; Amber; 130 × 45 × 18 mm, 55.2 g (5 1,8 × 1 3,4 × 11,16 in., 0.1217 lb.);

Terracotta statuette of a dwarf 2nd century B.C. Greek Figure of a grotesque with fragmentary arms outstretched.. Terracotta statuette of a dwarf 257558

Court Official (Tomb Figure), 1st quarter of 6th Century. China, Six Dynasties period (317-581), Northern Wei dynasty (386-534). Gray earthenware with traces of polychrome; overall: 36 cm (14 3/16 in.).

Standing Ceramic Figure. Culture: Moche. Dimensions: H x W: 4 5/8 x 2 3/4in. (11.7 x 7cm). Date: 3rd-5th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Mortuary Figure of the Zodiac Sign: Horse (Libra), 500s. China, Northern Wei dynasty (386-534). Gray earthenware with traces of slip; overall: 22.6 cm (8 7/8 in.).

Female Figure. Tlatilco, Preclassic period; Valley of Mexico, Mexico. Date: 500 BC-300 BC. Dimensions: H. 16.8 cm (6 5/8 in.). Ceramic and pigment. Origin: Mexico. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Statuette (usual name), 1400. Covered sandstone. Cernuschi Museum, Asia Museum of Asia in the city of Paris.

Romanesque art in the National Art Museum of Catalonia,Barcrelona,bases of the Ripoll baldachin (XII century AC).Santa Maria in Ripoll monastery.

Figurine of a Human Worshipping. probably Late Period (664 - 332 BCE). Sculpture. Bronze

Maker: Unknown, Seated Female Figure with Cooking Utensils and aDog, A.D.600-900, Ceramic with pigment, 19.1 cm (7 1/2in.), A seated noble Maya woman prepares tamales, or steamed maize cakes, while an eager little dog sits at her side. She wears a huipil, or upper body garment, that exposes her breasts, and her hair is bound into a turban similar to those worn by Maya women in Guatemalatoday. , Made in Mexico, Mexico, probably Campeche, Jaina Island,Maya, Late ClassicPeriod, Sculpture

Warrior in bronze, from Brolio (Tuscany). Etruscan civilization, ca 550 BC.

'Woman with a Flower'. Cyprus, Last third of the 6th - early 5th century BC. Dimensions: h. 21 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Figure: Male Attendant. Culture: Edo peoples. Dimensions: H x W: 7 x 2in. (17.8 x 5.1cm). Date: 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Sandstone statuette of the female figure from Mali, West Africa. Dated 280 AD.

Female Figure 500 B.C.-A.D. 250 Xochipala. Female Figure. Xochipala. 500 B.C.-A.D. 250. Ceramic. Mexico, Mesoamerica, Guerrero. Ceramics-Sculpture

Mingqi Barbare ". Terracotta. China, Tang dynasty. Paris, Cernuschi museum. 74944-18 Tang dynasty, barbaric mingqi, character, terracotta

Standing Female Figure

Female Figure 10th century B.C. Tlatilco This solid, hand-modeled ceramic figurine is nude except for a headband that continues around to the back of the head. It has long, loose hair indicated down the back to waist level, with breasts and buttocks only faintly indicated. The clay is yellow-tan in color and painted red. Sculpted some three millennia ago in the Valley of Mexico, this figurine belongs to a group of ceramic effigies known collectively as the Tlatilco "pretty ladies." Depicting females with large heads, small waists, and prominent hips, these handheld sculptures present a fairly standardized body type and are typically fired to red, buff, or brown tones. As the popular embodiments of an ideal feminine form, the Tlatilco "pretty ladies" are part of a centuries-long tradition in which eccentricities and religious imagery predominate. Featuring hunchbacks, dwarfs, contorted acrobats, two-headed women, and conjoined twins, the corpus of Tlatilco figurines encompasses the full

Funerary Sculpture of a Pair of Soldiers

Figure of Entertainer China. Figure of Entertainer 62950

Horned Figure, Shaman () 2nd century B.C.-A.D. 3rd century Colima The sculpture of Colima is as stytistically distinctive as that of the neighboring regions of Jalisco and Nayarit. Round, smooth forms with little variation in the warm red-brown surface color characterize Colima work. The wide array of postures and expressions often make the sculptures particularly pleasing to modern tastes. Seated male figures that have a horn strapped to their heads, as here, were a favored depiction. The strapped horn has recently been interpreted as a stylized conch shell, meaningful because of its relation to rulership. The horned figures, however, have also been interpreted as warriors or shamans (ritual specialists). Conjecture might suggest that the figure, with its twisting, dramatic pose, pugnacious expression, and upraised right hand clenched in a fist, was protecting the tomb into which it had been placed as a guardian.. Horned Figure, Shaman () 312688

Limestone statuette of Herakles holding a lion late 5th or early 4th century B.C. Cypriot Figure with small lion climbing up left thigh.. Limestone statuette of Herakles holding a lion 242210

Female Figure Whistle. Mexico, Campeche, Jaina, Maya, 600-900 CE. Ceramics. Buff-slipped ceramic

Statue of a scribe with a baboon. Dimensions: H. 22 cm (8 11/16 in). Dynasty: Dynasty 19-20. Date: ca. 1295-1070 B.C..This small figure of a scribe may lack the sculptural quality of the Museum's statue of Haremhab 23.10.1, but it does also emphasize the close relation of the depicted official with the god Thoth, deity of all things scribal. While the god features in the Haremhab statue prominently in the inscriptions, Thoth is here shown as a baboon who sits on the scribe's back. The most important example of this motif is the statue representing the 20th dynasty High Priest of Amun Ramessesnakht in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo (CG 41262), found in the "Cachette" of the temple of Karnak. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Wooden carving, Dogon style, USA, Florida, Jacksonville, The Museum of Contemporary Art, African Art Collection

Izyda z Horusem. unknown, author

Funerary Effigy (TauTau)

Seated Male Figure

Coca Chewer on Bench 9th-15th century Capulí Hand modeled and hollow, Capulí style figures are found on both sides of the Colombia/Ecuador border. A common depiction is a male seated on a bench. A wad of coca leaves makes a conspicuous budge in his cheek. The figure's upper torso and hair are resist decorated in black on light brown, and black designs embellish the face and bench. The surface is well polished.Coca-chewing figures on stools are generally interpreted as shamans. The significance of coca-chewing in ancient Andean cultures is difficult to assess today. Archaeological depictions in artworks, however, and early Spanish accounts indicate that coca was widely used in the highlands of South America for thousands of years. In late pre-conquest Inka times coca use is said to have been reserved for the male nobility, religious ceremonies, and divination.. Coca Chewer on Bench. Capulí. 9th-15th century. Ceramic. Ecuador. Ceramics-Sculpture

Terracotta statuette of a woman holding a bird. Culture: East Greek. Dimensions: H. with plinth 9 7/16 in. (24 cm). Date: mid-6th century B.C..Statuette of a woman holding a dove. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Seated Hunchback 2nd century B.C.-A.D. 3rd century Colima. Seated Hunchback 310479

Double Masked Figure, 20th century, 23 x 9 5/8 x 12 9/16 in. (58.42 x 24.45 x 31.91 cm), Wood, metal, Côte d'Ivoire, 20th century

Limestone statuette of a beardless male votary in Greek dress late 6th century or early 5th century B.C. Cypriot. Limestone statuette of a beardless male votary in Greek dress 242185

Modern Imitation of an Italic Statuette; Modern; Resin, with copal and amber; 280 × 135 mm (11 × 5 5,16 in.)

Bronze statue of Etruscan god Hercle or Heracle, from sanctuary of Villa Cassarini, Emilia Romagna Region, Italy

Shield bearer ca. 600-480 B.C. Cypriot The cylindrical body, flaring at the bottom, is handmade and solid.. Shield bearer 241208

Standing Couple; Male Figure. Mexico, Nayarit, Nayarit, 200 BCE-500 CE. Ceramics. Burnished ceramic with slip, paint, and incised decoration.

Female Figure. Culture: Xochipala. Dimensions: L. 5 1/2 x W. 3 7/8 x D. 5 1/2 in. (14 x 9.8x 14 cm). Date: 15th-10th century B.C. ().This figure, made in the unusual Xochipala style, depicts a female seated with her legs crossed modeled in grey-colored clay. A full garment with horizontal stripes worked as evenly spaced grooves and a border indicated by fine incisions is draped around her body covering her shoulders and legs below her knees leaving her bare, full breasts and stomach visible. She raise one hand as if in mid-gesture. Her naturalistically rendered facial features with open eyes, large nose and thin closed lips show a serious expression. She has a full head of short hair indicated by striations parted in the center. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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Anthropomorphic Polychrome Effigy Vessel of a Woman with Child. Noth America, Southwest, Mexico, Chihuahua, Casas Grandes, 1250-1450. Ceramics. Slip-painted ceramic

tile with the representation of a Libyan prisoner, faience, 20th dynasty, reign of Remeses III, 1184-1153 BC, Tell el-Yahudiya, Egypt, collection of the British Museum.

Female Figure. Tlatilco; Tlatilco, Valley of Mexico, Mexico. Date: 500 BC-400 BC. Dimensions: H. 59.7 cm (23 1/2 in.). Ceramic and pigment. Origin: Valley of Mexico. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Squatting Figurine of Amen-Re. Egypt, Late Period (664 - 332 BCE). Sculpture. Bronze

Statuette of cat 664-30 B.C. Late Period-Ptolemaic Period Bastet was a powerful goddess of Lower Egypt, one who was protective and could bring about great prosperity. In zoomorphic form, she was represented as a cat and cats were considered sacred to her. As a cat, she is poised and alert, on guard against external forces. Like cat-headed Bastet statuettes, these seated cats often have special adornments, like earrings or broad collars. This figure wears an amulet on its chest, probably an aegis. Cat statuettes were among some of the most common zoomorphic dedications of the Late and Ptolemaic Periods. Small statuettes would have been dedicated as offerings to temples or deposited in catacombs alongside cat mummies, as at the extensive catacombs at Bubastis and Saqqara. Sometimes larger hollow examples held a cat mummy inside.. Statuette of cat 570732

Pre-Columbian era. Ceramic figurine with painted face and three hanks of huma hair. Paracas. Peru. American museum of Natural History. Ny.

Mayan ceramic figurine of an old woman carrying a baby. from Jaina, Campeche, Mexico. 600-900AD

Statuette of Seated Hercules. Unknown

Standing male figurine ca. 600-480 B.C. Cypriot The figurine is handmade and solid. His legs are shown full length and joined together.. Standing male figurine 241181

Maya terracotta filled mold, Anthropomorphic figure of woman talking, 550-900, height 22,5cm, width 17cm, thickness 11cm. Valley of Sula classical recent period 550-900. (Honduras). Mayan Civilization. Museum: Museo San Pedro de Sula, HONDURAS.

Fragmentary terracotta statuette of a woman with a kithara. Culture: Greek, South Italian, Tarentine. Dimensions: H. 4 9/16 in. (11.6 cm). Date: 3rd century B.C..Fragmented upper body of a woman holding a kithara in her left arm. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

FIGURA DE TANAGRA - MONO EN TERRACOTA - SIGLO II AC - PERIODO HELENISTICO. Location: BRITISH MUSEUM. LONDON. ENGLAND.

Statuette of a Warrior, 500-450 BC. Italy, Etruscan. Bronze; overall: 28 cm (11 in.).

Seated Male Figure 8th century Vietnam (). Seated Male Figure 39143

Limestone statuette of a male votary probably mid-6th century B.C. Cypriot The figure wears a long garment and a conical helmet.. Limestone statuette of a male votary 242127

Figure of Astarte. Unknown

Mayan ceramic figure representing a dwarf.

Ancestor Figure: Male 18th-19th century Boyo peoples Boyo communities within the Democratic Republic of Congo are renowned for their series of majestic royal ancestral representations. This figure is said to memorialize Akessa, grandson of a chief who migrated north to the current location of the Boyo peoples. It is a classic example of Boyo commemorative representations in which distinguished leaders are depicted simultaneously as serenely introspective and as an awesome, otherworldly physical presence. The prominence of the large and bulging closed eyes refers to the subjects status as a being endowed with a heightened sense of the spiritual realm. The massive spheres of the head and abdomen are kept in balance by the still tension of the arms and shoulders, which create an overall rectilinear contour to the figure. The surface of the figure is decorated with the incised patterns and ridges of the coiffure, beard, eyebrows, and bracelets. In addition, a dense inscribed motif of bold

Asia Minor. Ancient Art. Maiden in Wedding adornment. 100-50 BC. Kymi (Aeolis). The Antikensammlung Berlin (Berlin antiquities collection).

Statuette of a Standing Woman ca. 3100-2900 B.C. Early Dynastic Period. Statuette of a Standing Woman. ca. 3100-2900 B.C.. Ivory. Early Dynastic Period. From Egypt, Northern Upper Egypt, Abydos, Osiris temple. Probably Dynasty 1

Standing Figure of a Nomad 5th-3rd century B.C. China. Standing Figure of a Nomad 61766

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