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What is a figurative sculpture?
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A figurative, or representational, sculpture depicts a recognizable person or object.
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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
Materials
Shell, Organic Material
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Materials
Shell, Organic Material
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Materials
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
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Materials
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
Materials
Crystal, Quartz, Rock Crystal