Art by Medium: Terracotta

Dorothy Mayhall's small sculptures are little monuments to be toyed with and handled. They should be picked up, fondled, and examined like a rock or shell you collect on the beach be...

Emmanuel Frémiet (1824 - 1910) Ours et Gladiateur Terre cuite H. : 28,5 cm ; L. : 15,6 cm ; P. : 13 cm Signé « E. FREMIET » La sculpture « Ours et Gladiateur » est l’une des œuv...

"Pierced Slab Top Jar" is a ceramic sculpture made with Terra Sigillata by Christine LePage. It is pierced in the neck of the jar and was made in black...

Arrigo Minerbi (Ferrara 1881 – Padua 1960), Our Lady of Sorrows (1936) Glazed terracotta sculpture, 34 x 26 x 26 cm, signed on the inside. This is a detail from the sculpture *La P...

Italian terra cotta dachshund or doggy with a white glaze and realistic form ready to be rescued.

'Guardian', 2008 Alexander Ney White Italian Terra Cotta 6 x 9.25 x 2.75 in. / 15 x 24 x 7 cm. Unique Work, Signed by the Artist underside The ‘Guardian’ by visionary artist Alexand...

Roberto Lugo Right On 2018 signed

Standout 19th century majolica pedestal handcrafted in terra cotta. In an orientalist theme with a woman and an ostrich under a palm tree, decorated and glazed. Signed G & S 1847 on ...

Mother Goddess Figurine Early Indus Valley Civilization (circa 3500 - 2800 BC) Handmade pottery, 140 mm x 45 mm, 60 g Provenance: Prince Collection, 1990s-2014; Pierre Bergé Colle...

Nicole DORAY SOULARD. Animal ceramic sculptures, works centered on the forward. Nature and the study of bodies are sources of inspiration for her. She produces animals from all over...

Opposing pair of lifesize Majolica or glazed terra cotta eagles. Executed with fine detail right down to the talons. Perched on mountainous bases these birds bring a formidable attit...

Unique terracotta sculpture Coming from the artist's studio Born in 1939, Seyni CAMARA is an African artist whose works travel the world. Senegalese, originally from Casamance, she...

Unique terracotta sculpture Hand-signed by the artist The contemplative creatures of Nili Pincas, of an extreme refinement, invite silence. This isolatio...

Eye catching wall hanging tile art, ambitiously hand crafted in terracotta with each piece cut, fired, decorated, glazed and assembled depicting a cockatoo in a lush jungle setting w...

Unique terracotta sculpture Coming from the artist's studio Born in 1939, Seyni CAMARA is an African artist whose works travel the world. Senegalese, originally from Casamance, she...

The River Allegorical figure of a river. Terracotta cast (late 19th century) after the marble model by Caffieri in the Louvre Museum in Paris, the sculptor's reception piece at the ...

Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...

Terracotta life-size male head. Rushton sculpts all of his busts using live models over the course of multiple sittings. While realistic and classical in character, his sculptures ...

Lofty wall hanging tile art, ambitiously handcrafted in terracotta with each piece cut, fired, decorated, glazed and assembled depicting a cockatoo in a lush jungle setting with bird...

Vintage Italian French bulldog statue or sculpture crafted in terra cotta with a white glaze and glass eyes.

Woman breastfeeding her child Unique terracotta sculpture Coming from the artist's studio Born in 1939, Seyni CAMARA is an African artist whose works travel the world. Senegalese, ...

Whimsical Chinese sculpture or figure crafted in terracotta and hand decorated with a thick glaze depicting a game of leap frog gone awry.

L’histoire de Poterie Serghini commence en 1832 à Fès, lorsque Mohammed Serghini (1ère génération) se fascine pour la céramique et en fait son métier. Une fascination qu’il transmet ...

Unique terracotta sculpture Coming from the artist's studio Born in 1939, Seyni CAMARA is an African artist whose works travel the world. She died in 2026. Senegalese, originally f...

Unique terracotta sculpture Coming from the artist's studio Born in 1939, Seyni CAMARA is an African artist whose works travel the world. She died in 2026. Senegalese, originally f...

Terra cotta horse sculpture or object of art decorated in holiday attire under glaze. Signed made in Italy on the bottom.

Bust of a Young girl crowned with lilies by Albert-Ernest CARRIER-BELLEUSE (1824-1887) Terracotta bust Signed on the back " A. Carrier Belleuse " Raised on a blue-glazed earthenware...

A pair of very regal seated Majolica lions, a white glaze over a terracotta base, great condition, with some of the terracotta showing through the glaze,...

Terracotta life-size male head. Rushton sculpts all of his busts using live models over the course of multiple sittings. While realistic and classical in character, his sculptures ...

This remarkably fluid terracotta bozetto was made in preparation for Pietro Pacilli’s most important public commission, a large-scale marble statue of San Camillo de Lellis for the nave of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Expressively modelled, this terracotta sculpture is a rare and significant work made by a major Roman sculptor at a transformative moment of European sculpture. Pacilli began his working life on the great Baroque decorative projects initiated in the seventeenth century, but he found success as a restorer of ancient sculpture working to finish antiquities for a tourist market, becoming an important figure in the emergence of an archaeologically minded Neoclassicism. Pacilli trained Vincenzo Pacetti and provided important decorative work for the Museo Pio-Clementino, at the same time he is recorded restoring some of the most celebrated antiquities excavated and exported during the period. Pacilli was born into a family of Roman craftsmen, his father Carlo was a wood carver, and Pacilli is recorded working with him on the Corsini Chapel in San Giovanni Laternao as early as 1735. In 1738 his terracotta model of Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife won the first prize in the second class of the sculpture concorso at the Accademia di San Luca, this is particularly notable as Bartolomeo Cavaceppi came third. He worked as a carver and stuccoist completing works for the churches of San Marco and SS. Trinita dei Domeniciani Spagnoli. Pacilli operated as a sculptor and restorer of antiquities from his studio at the top of the Spanish Steps, close to Santa Trinita dei Monti, where he is listed as a potential vendor to the Museo Pio-Clementino in 1770. In 1763 Pacilli completed a silver figure of San Venanzio for the treasury of San Venanzio. He is recorded as Pacetti’s first master and it was evidently through Pacilli that he began to acquire his facility as a restorer of ancient sculpture. Pacilli, at his studio ‘poco prima dell’Arco della Regina alla Trinita dei Monti,’ exercised, what the nineteenth-century scholar, Adolf Michaelis called ‘rejuvenating arts’ on several important pieces of classical sculpture, including in 1760 the group of a Satyr with a Flute for the natural brother of George III, General Wallmoden, Hanovarian minister at Vienna. In 1765, Dallaway and Michaelis record that Pacilli was responsible for the restorations, including the addition of a new head, to the Barberini Venus which he had acquired from Gavin Hamilton. The Venus was then sold to Thomas Jenkins, who in turn passed it on to William Weddell at Newby Hall. In 1767 Pacilli exported a series of ancient busts ‘al naturale’ including portraits of Antinous, Julius Ceaser and Marus Aurelius, also a statue of a Muse and a Venus. As early as 1756 Pacilli seems to have been operating as an antiquarian, helping to disperse the collection of the Villa Borrioni. Pacilli supplied sculpture to notable British collectors, including Charles Townley, who on his first trip to Italy purchased the Palazzo Giustiniani statue of Hecate from Pacilli. Pacilli was involved with the Museo Pio Clementino from its conception, supplying busts of Julius Ceaser and a Roman Woman as well as completing stucco putti surmounting the arms of Pope Bendedict XIV to signal the entrance to the new Museo Critiano. In 1750 Il Diario Ordinario del Chracas announced that Pacilli had begun work on a sculpture of San Camillo de Lellis for St Peter’s. Camillo de Lellis founded his congregation, the Camillians, with their distinctive red felt crosses stitched on black habits in 1591. Having served as a soldier in the Venetian army, Camillo de Lellis became a novitiate of the Capuchin friars, he moved to Rome and established a religious community for the purpose of caring for the sick. In 1586 Pope Sixtus V formerly recognised the Camillians and assigned them to the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena in Rome. Camillo de Lellis died in 1614 and was entombed at Santa Maria Maddalena, he was canonised by Benedict XIV on June 26, 1746. It was an occasion that prompted the Camillians to make a number of significant artistic commissions, including two canvases by Pierre Subleyras showing episodes from San Camillo’s life which they presented to Benedict XIV. In 1750 Pacilli was commissioned to fill one of the large niches on the north wall of the nave with a sculpture of San Camillo. The present terracotta bozetto presumably had two important functions, to enable Pacilli to work out his ideas for the finished sculpture and at the same time to show his design to the various commissioning bodies. In this case it would have been Cardinal Alessandro Albani and Monsignor Giovan Francesco Olivieri, the ‘economo’ or treasurer of the fabric of St Peter’s. Previously unrecorded, this terracotta relates to a smaller, less finished model which has recently been identified as being Pacilli’s first idea for his statue of San Camillo. Preserved in Palazzo Venezia, in Rome, the terracotta shows San Camillo with his left hand clutching his vestments to his breast; the pose and action more deliberate and contained than the finished sculpture. In producing the present terracotta Pacilli has expanded and energised the figure. San Camillo is shown with his left hand extended, his head turned to the right, apparently in an attempt to look east down the nave of St Peter’s. The model shows Pacilli experimenting with San Camillo’s costume; prominently on his breast is the red cross of his order, whilst a sense of animation is injected into the figure through the billowing cloak which is pulled across the saint’s projecting right leg. The power of the restrained, axial contrapposto of bent right leg and outstretched left arm, is diminished in the final sculpture where a baroque fussiness is introduced to the drapery. What Pacilli’s terracotta demonstrates, is that he conceived the figure of San Camillo very much in line with the immediate tradition of depicting single figures in St Peter’s; the rhetorical gesture of dynamic saint, arm outstretched, book in hand, head pointed upwards was perhaps borrowed from Camillo Rusconi’s 1733 sculpture of St. Ignatius...

Whimsical pair of Italian midcentury terracotta male and female lions with a white glaze and painted details. Although hardly ferocious these seated big ca...

Sculpture in terracotta.

Unique terracotta sculpture Hand-signed by the artist Nili PINCAS was born in 1942 in Tel Aviv, in Israel. She studied at the Avni Art Institute of Tel Aviv in Israël and at the Eco...

Unique terracotta sculpture Signed by the artist The contemplative creatures of Nili Pincas, of an extreme refinement, invite silence. This isolation of the sculpted being seizes an...

Pair of expressive, hand-painted, terracotta dogs with glass eyes from England.

Unique terracotta sculpture Coming from the artist's studio Born in 1939, Seyni CAMARA is an African artist whose works travel the world. She died in 2026. Senegalese, originally f...

Unique terracotta sculpture Coming from the artist's studio Born in 1939, Seyni CAMARA is an African artist whose works travel the world. Senegalese, originally from Casamance, she...

A signed, dated, 1855 terracotta, classical style sculpture of the robed figure of Fate holding the thread of life by listed, Austrian-born artist, Franz Melnitzky (1822-1876) whose ...

Unique terracotta sculpture Coming from the artist's studio Born in 1939, Seyni CAMARA is an African artist whose works travel the world. Senegalese, originally from Casamance, she...

Abstract terracotta sculpture

Unique terracotta sculpture Signed on the base

Jogen Chowdhury - Untitled - 12 diameter Teracotta. Signed in bengali. Always a powerful artist, Chowdhury developed his individual style after his return from France in the late '...

Jogen Chowdhury - Untitled - 12 diameter Teracotta. Signed in bengali. Always a powerful artist, Chowdhury developed his individual style after his return from France in the late '...

Unique terracotta sculpture Signed on the base

Max Blondat (1872 - 1925) Mael Figure 1915 Terracotta 30 x 21 x 14 cm Signed and dated on the neck on the left: Max Blondat 1915

Panters An imposing statue of a couple of panters by Irenée Rochard (1906-1884). A fine quality, much sought-after terracotta which was edited by Reveyrolis Paris.  Before casting, ...

'Disciple', 2008 Alexander Ney White Italian Terra Cotta 7 x 8.5 x 2.5 in. / 18 x 22 x 6 cm. Unique Work, Signed by the Artist underside The ‘Disciple’ by visionary artist Alexander...

La Rieuse napolitaine (The Laughing Neapolitan Woman) by Jean-Baptiste CARPEAUX (1827-1875) Bust in terra cotta, in "Propriété Carpeaux" Signed on the side " JBte Carpeaux " Marked...

Unique terracotta sculpture Hand-signed by the artist The contemplative creatures of Nili Pincas, of an extreme refinement, invite silence. This isolatio...

Unique terracotta sculpture Signed by the artist The contemplative creatures of Nili Pincas, of an extreme refinement, invite silence. This isolation of the sculpted being seizes an...

L’histoire de Poterie Serghini commence en 1832 à Fès, lorsque Mohammed Serghini (1ère génération) se fascine pour la céramique et en fait son métier. Une fascination qu’il transmet ...

Seated Mother And Child, Modern Pre Columbian style large sculpture edition 1/30, artist signed. Walter Bastianetto is an Italian born sculptor who moved to Mexico in the 1970s an...

Pair of 19' century Italian Marble imitation painted Terracotta . Bust of Emperor Caracalla and Cicero . Measurements : cm 71 H x 60 Available also a pair marble imitation colum...

L’histoire de Poterie Serghini commence en 1832 à Fès, lorsque Mohammed Serghini (1ère génération) se fascine pour la céramique et en fait son métier. Une fascination qu’il transmet ...

Questa statua in terracotta in eccellente stato conservativo considerata l'età e la fragilità del materiale, raffigura un putto nell'atto di soffiare, colto in una posa di intenso p...

Unique terracotta sculpture Signed by the artist The contemplative creatures of Nili Pincas, of an extreme refinement, invite silence. This isolation of the sculpted being seizes and soothes, at the same time as it questions. Are we facing the face of anguish or introspection? The white or purple flesh, with a slightly grainy matte appearance, reveals the infinite sensuality of the artist’s touch...

Contemporary terracotta sculpture Unique Signed by the artist

Contemporary animal terracotta sculpture Unique Signed by the artist

Contemporary animal terracotta sculpture Unique Signed by the artist

Contemporary animal terracotta sculpture Unique Signed by the artist