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What is a figurative sculpture?

A figurative, or representational, sculpture depicts a recognizable person or object.

1stDibs ExpertSeptember 25, 2019
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A Stunning Knobby Ammonite Fossil Specimen, About 93 Million Years Old
Located in Warrenton, OR
A Stunning Knobby Ammonite Fossil Specimen, About 93 Million Years Old. This is a very beautiful, multicolored (to our eye, taupe-brown, peach, white, tan) ammonite with leafy patter...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier American Organic Modern Natural Specimens

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Shell, Organic Material

Conlinoceras Tarrantense Ammonite Fossil, 90-100 Million Years Old
Located in Warrenton, OR
Conlinoceras Tarrantense Ammonite Fossil, 90-100 Million Years Old. The Conlinoceras Tarrantense Ammonite is considered rare and is highly sought after as a collector's item. Thi...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier American Organic Modern Natural Specimens

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Shell, Organic Material

Vittorio Angini Silver Mounted Murano Cello Playing Clown Figure
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A delightful mid-century Italian Murano glass and silver musical clown figure by Vittorio Angini and dating from around 1960. The standing figure plays a cello held in his left hand ...
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Silver

Polished Ammonite Fossil, Cleoniceras sp, Around 110 Million Years Old
Located in Warrenton, OR
Polished Ammonite Fossil, Cleoniceras sp, Around 110 Million Years Old, with Beautiful Leafy-Like Suture Patterns. This piece will need a stand for you to display it upright unless y...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier Unknown Organic Modern Natural Specimens

Materials

Shell, Organic Material

A Free-Form MODERNIST Ceramic LYING WOMAN SCULPTURE by ACCOLAY France 1950
Located in PARIS, FR
A superb and sensual Modernist Free-Form sculpture of a stylized woman lying, a sensual body in thick black glazed ceramic, unsigned but by analogy, attributed to Accolay, France, 19...
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Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures

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Ceramic

Gorgeous Pair of Amethyst Cathedral Geodes
Located in Ametista Do Sul, BR
Spectacular Large Pair of Symmetrical Amethyst Geodes – Sculptural Cathedrals of Unmatched Beauty ▫️ Description It’s as if nature set out to carve a harmonious pair—these symmetri...
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2010s Brazilian Natural Specimens

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Crystal, Quartz, Rock Crystal

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