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Ancient Sculptural Artifacts

Artifacts including clay and ceramic figures from various ancient cultures, illustrating ritualistic, funerary, and everyday themes in sculptural form.

Santa Cruz Figure, Munge-Dukera Pre-Columbian Mixed Media Christie's Images, London, England
Santa Cruz Figure, Munge-Dukera Pre-Columbian Mixed Media Christie's Images, London, England
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Christ, Lombardy, 12th century, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, ("Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian"), Lisbon, Portugal.
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Ceramic Urn, Archaeological Museum, Maya City, Copan, Honduras, Central America
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Skull covered in turquoise mosaic, Mixtec, southern Mexico, 1400-1521. Artist: Unknown
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Vishnu, bronze image of the Sukhothai period, bangkok National Museum, Thailand
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Schädelmaske lor aus Neu-Pommern. Artefakt aus Ozeanien und Australien. Veröffentlichung der Meyers Enzyklopädie Skull mask lor from New Pomerania. Artifact of Oceania and Australia. Publication of the Meyers encyclopedia, Vol. 7, Leipzig, Germany, 1910. LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/SergeyxKohlx 23196709
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Xochicalco Museum. State of Morelos.Mexico.
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Antefix with Satyr Face, 370-330 BC. Italy, mid-4th Century BC. Terracotta; overall: 17.1 cm (6 3/4 in.).
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Engraved Scarab with Head of a Gorgon. Unknown
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Head of Monster on Pot, from Ecuador, Pre Columbian. Artist: Unknown.
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Armored Guardian King (Tianwang) Trampling Demon. China. Date: 701 AD-750 AD. Dimensions: H. 37 in. Earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glazes and traces of pigments. Origin: China. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Mask, 1920s-1930s, 20 3/4 x 9 9/16 x 6 7/8 in. (52.71 x 24.29 x 17.46 cm), Wood, pigments, plant fibers, Papua New Guinea, 20th century, This mask, with its deep set eyes and strong, hooked nose, is the embodiment of an ancestor spirit from Manam Island, located at the mouth of the Ramu River just off the northern coast of New Guinea. It used to be adorned with shell jewelry in its pierced ears and nose, demonstrating respect for the ancestor. Worn as part of a larger fiber costume, the mask was held in front of the face with a bite stick, still present on this example, which was clamped in the wearer's teeth.
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Glazed jug with woman's face in relief and graffito decoration, by Unknown, 15th Century, vitrified pottery graffite. Italy, Veneto, Venice, Ca d'Oro. Whole artwork. Fragmented jug lip neck tin-glazed pottery with female figure face head-on nose cheeks in relief high-necked dress headgear colors yellow green stains.
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Female Figure, one of a pair, 1900-1925, 13 7/8 x 4 1/16 x 3 3/4 in. (35.24 x 10.32 x 9.53 cm), Wood, pigment, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 20th century
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Lisbon, Portugal. Antique Asian mask. (Editorial Use Only)
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L'obséquieux (The Obsequious One)-Comte Auguste Hilarion de Kératry 1831 Honore Daumier (1808-1879 French) Oil-painted unbaked clay Musee D'Orsay, Paris
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Figure of sitting woman, female figure ('Pretty woman') and pregnant woman sitting. Ceramics. Middle Preclassic Period (1200-400 BC). Central Mexico. Museum of the Americas. Madrid, Spain.
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BUSTO DE CARLOS V EN BRONCE - 1550 - MANIERISMO ITALIANO - 112 CM ALTURA. Author: LEONE LEONI (1509-92). Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-ESCULTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. CARLOS V (CARLOS I). Charles I (V of the Holly Roman Empire).
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UK, England, London, Euston, The Wellcome Collection Museum, Japanese Paper-Mache Acupuncture Figure
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Mexico: (above) a bust of an Aztec priestess or divinity, belonging to Mr. Dupé in Mexico; (below) an Aztec statuette of basalt deposited by Humboldt in Berlin. Coloured aquatint by G. Gallina ca. 1820.
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Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547-59). Culture: French, possibly Paris. Designer: Part of the decoration design by Jean Cousin the Elder (French, Souci () ca. 1490-ca. 1560 Paris ()); Part of the decoration design possibly by Baptiste Pellerin (French, documented in Étampes 1542-75 Paris). Dimensions: H. 74 in. (187.96 cm); Wt. 53 lb. 4 oz. (24.20 kg). Date: ca. 1555.This is one of the most elaborate and complete French parade armors, and it retains much of its original coloring. The surfaces are covered by dense foliate scrolls inhabited by human figures and a variety of fabulous creatures that derive from the Italian grotesque. The decoration includes, at the center of the breast, a Roman warrior receiving tribute of arms from two kneeling females and, on the shoulders, Apollo chasing the nymph Daphne (front) and Apollo with the slain monster Python (back). The crescent moon, one of the badges of Henry II (reigned 1547-59), appears in several places.Twenty original
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Seated genius (Sennin) 1780 Japan. Seated genius (Sennin). Japan. 1780. Stoneware covered with thin glaze (Bizen ware). Edo period (1615-1868). Ceramics
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Figure of a Servant. Culture: China. Dimensions: H. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Terra-Cotta Warriors
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Plate with schematic and geometric decoration. Painted ceramic. Mixtec-Puebla style. Late Postclassic Period (1350-1500 AD). Mexico. Museum of the Americas. Madrid, Spain.
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Shadow Puppet (Wayang Kulit) of a Boxer orTinju. Maker: Ki Enthus Susmono, Indonesian, 1966-2018
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Museum of Man, Balboa Park, San Diego, California, USA