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Medium: Ceramic
Quatre Poissons Polychromes (Four Polychrome Fishes)
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Picasso Quatre Poissons Polychromes (Four Polychrome Fishes), 1947 is a wondrous mixture of color and charm. In the center of the dish are three fish, e...
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1940s Modern Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Clay, Earthenware, Glaze

Service Poisson Plate R (“Fish” Service Plate)
Located in Palo Alto, CA
A whimsical fish sits placidly in the center of Pablo Picasso ceramic Service Poisson Plate R (“Fish” Service Plate), 1947 A.R. 3. A sweeping blue back and a orange belly make up the...
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1940s Modern Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Clay, Glaze

World-tree IV by Cécile Raynal - Smoke-fired stoneware sculpture, nature, branch
Located in Paris, FR
World-tree IV is a unique Smoke-fired stoneware and pigments sculpture by French contemporary artist Cécile Raynal, dimensions are 90 × 70 × 55 cm (35.4 × 27.6 × 21.7 in). With the...
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2010s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Stoneware, Pigment

20th Century Terracotta French Sculpture Centrepiece Signed Flamand, 1920s
Located in Vicoforte, IT
French centerpiece from the first half of the 20th century. Finely chiseled terracotta object with masks (faces with different expressions, see photo) and figures of lateral cherubs ...
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1920s Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Terracotta

"Water, Tears and Turtles" Contemporary Ceramic and Fiber Wall Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
This contemporary ceramic wall sculpture is composed of a figure surrounded by turtles and a wolf with fire, and blue droplets woven into a geometric web, similar to a modern-day dre...
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2010s Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Cotton

ROBY DWI ANTONO - KIRA SCULPTURE (BLACK). Limited edition Contemporary Modern
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Roby Dwi Antono - KIRA SCULPTURE (BLACK) Date of creation: 2021 Medium: Bronze sculpture with black patina finish and crystal resin tears Edition: 75 + AP Size: 31 x 26 x 23 cm Cond...
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2010s Modern Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Glaze

Longtemps, au loin, l’Iran (with Émilien) by Cécile Raynal - Stoneware sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Longtemps, au loin, l’Iran (with Émilien) is a unique smoke-fired stoneware sculpture by French contemporary artist Cécile Raynal, dimensions are 160 × 52 × 45 cm (63 × 20.5 × 17.7 i...
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2010s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Stoneware

Hundertwasser's St. Barbara Church Ceramic Miniature Including Certificate
Located in Palm Desert, CA
St. Barbara Church Baernbach by Friedensreich Hundertwasser Ceramic miniature in the scale 1:140 size 12 x 9 x 12 cm Each ceramic object is individually handmade, hand-painted and b...
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Early 2000s Post-Modern Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Porcelain

Woman and Child, Early 20th Century Ceramic, Female Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Thelma Frazier Winter (American, 1903-1977) Woman and Child, c. 1935 Glazed stoneware, painted plaster 14 x 7 x 5.875 inches Thelma Frazier Wint...
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1930s Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Stoneware, Plaster, Glaze

Expressive Abstract Figurative Ceramic and Iron Sculptural Bust Learner Three
Located in FISTERRA, ES
Expressive ceramic bust with forged-iron structure exploring the idea of lifelong learning through a fragile yet resilient human figure. This sculptural bust combines ceramic head an...
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2010s Surrealist Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Iron

Large wall sculpture: 'Baby Ghost'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
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2010s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wire

Chouette, Picasso, Pitcher, Design, 1950's, Ceramic, Black and white, Animal
Located in Geneva, CH
Chouette, Picasso, Pitcher, Design, 1950's, Ceramic, Black and white, Animal Chouette femme Ed. 500 pcs 1951 Earthenware ceramic vase with engobe and ...
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1950s Post-War Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Earthenware, Terracotta

Ceramic abstract face with hat, Original Ceramic Sculpture
Located in Boston, MA
Ceramic abstract face with hat 8.5 x 19.6 x 8.0, 2.2 lbs Ceramic Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "Project 'Iliad.' The artworks in this section are influenced by the H...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

Face, Pablo Picasso, 1950's, Earthenware, Decorative Art, Design, Interior,
Located in Geneva, CH
Face, Pablo Picasso, 1950's, Earthenware, Decorative Art, Design, Interior, Ed. 500 pcs 1955 White earthenware clay, decoration in engobe, glaze inside Inscribed and stamped on the...
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1950s Post-War Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Clay, Earthenware, Glaze

Sculpture of hare on wood base with mask on: 'Children 11'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
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2010s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wire

Animal in play position, sculpture: 'Prepare Thyself to Follow Me'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
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2010s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wire

Figural Terracotta Sculpture, Alexander Ney, 'Disciple', 2008
Located in New York, NY
The ‘Disciple’ by visionary artist Alexander Ney was handcrafted using Italian white terra cotta in 2008. Ney began his professional career as a highly productive visual artist, as a...
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2010s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Terracotta

Bélier aux cornes jaunes
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau ( 1889 - 1963 ) " Bélier aux cornes jaunes " vase cylindrique . Hauteur 24cm Année 1958 . ouverture 11 cm . Tirage à 15 exemplaires N° 13 / 15 . signé Jean Coc...
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1950s Art Deco Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

"Poppy №5" 2023
Located in New York, NY
Anneke Bogardus "Poppy №5" 2023 Entirely hand sculpted. Raku fired. 5 1/4” tall, 13" around the widest point. Raku firing is an ancient Japanese ceramics technique. The Raku tech...
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2010s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Clay

Puppy
Located in Toronto, Ontario
We’re big fans of Jeff Koon’s famously optimistic, kitschy and celebratory approach to contemporary pop art. We’ve offered a number of Koon’s humorous and playful works before, and...
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1990s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Porcelain

Ceramic Standing Sculpture: 'Candy'
Located in New York, NY
The main theme of Kitade’s artwork is focused on questioning. The sources of the ideas are picked up from his own life experiences, starting from personal experiences and expanding ...
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2010s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Clay, Glaze

Goat Head sculpture in Wood box: 'Jersey Devil II'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
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2010s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wire

Akan Ashanti Memorial Portrait Head of a Noble Tribal African Art Sculpture
Located in Norwich, GB
This elegant terracotta head is a memorial portrait (nsodie) of an Akan nobleman from the part of Africa which is today southern Ghana and southeastern Cô...
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19th Century Tribal Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Terracotta, Clay

Puño Azul/ Blue Fist
Located in New Orleans, LA
ESPERANZA CORTÉS is a Colombian born contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Cortés has exhibited in the United States in solo and group exhibitions in venues ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Clay, Glass

Serpent
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ross Redmon Title: Serpent Ceramic, Post Fire Surfaces Year: 2014 Size: 84 x 26 x 19 inches Signed COA provided Ross Redmon is a Kansas City based artist, originally from Greer, So...
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2010s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Paint

Serpent
Serpent
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Sculpture of Rabbit and Dog on wood block, earth tone: 'Sisters'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Brown...
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2010s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wire

Life Size Sculpture of Female Head in White Terracotta Clay "Yasmina"
Located in New York, NY
Gypsum-based white terracotta life-size female head. Sculpted and kiln fired in Florence Italy, this work is now kept in Rushton's studio in central Manhattan. Rushton sculpts all ...
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2010s Realist Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Terracotta

Six Sculptures From The In Light of Her Series Porcelain with handpainted detail
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The three series that make up her thesis show all center around the woman as an art historical trope who becomes a contemporary archetype of tenderness and tenacity with her own narrative. The tradition of the woman as muse or object is questioned and turned upside down as she gives her women the position of subject, i.e., the position of power. The jars, which uphold pairs of women, are the ultimate overturn of male dominance as she removes and replaces all male characters from famous artworks with women...
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2010s Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Gold

Vestibule des pommes (with Martin) by Cécile Raynal - Stoneware sculpture, man
Located in Paris, FR
Vestibule des pommes (with Martin) is a unique smoke-fired stoneware sculpture by French contemporary artist Cécile Raynal, dimensions are 46 × 57 × 19 cm (18.1 × 22.4 × 7.5 in). Dim...
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2010s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Stoneware

Tête de faune, Picasso, Tile, Ceramic, Sculpture, Design, Postwar, Mythological
Located in Geneva, CH
Tête de faune, Picasso, Tile,Ceramic,Sculpture, Design, Postwar, Mythological Tête de faune Unique work circa 1968 Painted and partially glazed ceramic, square tile 15.2 x 15.2 cm C...
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1960s Post-War Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Earthenware

The ride Nili Pincas Contemporary art sculpture terracotta pastel couple woman
Located in Paris, FR
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...
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2010s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Terracotta

El Bien contra el Mal / Ceramics Mexican Folk Art Clay
By Enedina Vasquez Cruz
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
Artisan: Enedina Vaszquez Cruz MASTERPIECE Made with natural clay. Hand-modeled technique and cooked in a wood-fired oven.  - Dimensions: 19" x 19" x 13" in or 47 x 49 x 34 cm - ...
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2010s Folk Art Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Clay

Stoneware Fired in Reduction with Embedded Barbed Wire, Sculpture "Testa N.14"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
Testa 14 is a large-format work from the Testas series, a sculptural project dedicated to the exploration of the human head as a universal and timeless form. Crafted in refractory st...
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2010s Expressionist Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Iron

Tulips Coupe Plate by Jeff Koons, Limoges Porcelain, Contemporary Art
Located in Zug, CH
Exploring ideas of commodity, spectacle, celebrity, and consumption, Koons Coupe Plates embody his gleeful, tongue-in-cheek oeuvre. Jeff Koons Tulips Coupe Plate - Jeff Koons, 21st...
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2010s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

original ceramic pendant " Chêvre-pied & Double Masque "
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) céramiques originales de Jean Cocteau . Pendentifs : "Chèvre-pied " 1958. pendentif ovale (9cm x7cm) . variante terre blanche en relief. " double masque " 1...
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1950s Surrealist Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic

Wall Decor - a silver mask Porcelain, silver, h 26 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Wall Decor - a silver mask Porcelain, silver, h 26 cm by Ilona Romule, leading sculptor in Latvia The "Wall Decor - Silver Mask" is a decorative piece made of ...
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2010s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Hare by Cécile Raynal - Animal smoke-fired stoneware sculpture, fable, clay
Located in Paris, FR
Hare is a unique smoke-fired stoneware, resin, plaster and clay sculpture by French contemporary artist Cécile Raynal, dimensions are 84 × 30 × 52 cm (33 × 11.8 × 20.4 in). This scul...
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2010s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Clay, Stoneware, Resin, Plaster

Blue Diamond Sculpture by Jeff Koons, Porcelain, Luxury Objects, Contemporary
Located in Zug, CH
With the Celebration series, Koons offers a reimagined iconography of the gemstone found in nature, which takes billions of years to form, in a brand new colour. The Diamond becomes ...
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2010s Pop Art Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Sculpture in the Form of a Bicycle Saddle Claes Oldenburg surreal pop sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Playful, surreal Claes Oldenburg sculpture re-contextualizing a ceramic bicycle seat as a small mountain or geological feature, sitting on a bed of sand atop a square mahogany base. ...
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1970s Pop Art Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Mahogany

BALLOON DOG (YELLOW)
Located in Aventura, FL
Porcelain sculpture with metallic finish. Signed and numbered (signature and edition number are fired onto the back of edition). Edition of 2300. Published by the Museum of Contem...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Porcelain

BALLOON DOG (YELLOW)
BALLOON DOG (YELLOW)
$9,200 Sale Price
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JAVIER CALLEJA Pot Pop Top' White Flower Vase (Blue Eyes) Limited Modern Design
Located in Madrid, Madrid
JAVIER CALLEJA - Pot Pop Top' White Flower Vase (Blue Eyes) Date of creation: 2021 Medium: Ceramic, crystal Edition: 100 Size: 24 x 21 x 18 cm Condition: In perfect conditions, brand...
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2010s Pop Art Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Glass

JAVIER CALLEJA - Pop Top' Planter Pot (Pink Eyes) Limited edition Modern Design
Located in Madrid, Madrid
JAVIER CALLEJA - Pop Top' Planter Pot (Pink Eyes) Date of creation: 2021 Medium: Ceramic, crystal Edition: 100 Size: 17 x 21 x 18 cm Condition: In perfect conditions, brand new Condi...
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2010s Pop Art Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Glass

JAVIER CALLEJA - Pop Top' Planter Pot (White Eyes) Limited edition Modern Design
Located in Madrid, Madrid
JAVIER CALLEJA - Pop Top' Planter Pot (White Eyes) Date of creation: 2021 Medium: Ceramic, crystal Edition: 100 Size: 17 x 21 x 18 cm Condition: In perfect conditions, brand new The ...
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2010s Pop Art Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Glass

unknown
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A classic terra cotta sculpture of Mercury signed Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714-1785).
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18th Century Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

"Alhambra Facade Model", Early 20th Century Polychromed Stucco Plaque by R. Rus
Located in Madrid, ES
RAFAEL RUS ACOSTA Spanish, Early 20th Century ALHAMBRA FACADE MODEL PLAQUE signed "Rafael Rus Acosta" (lower left), and inscribed "Granada" (lower righ...
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1920s Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Gesso

Tête de femme couronnée de fleurs (A.R. 236), Pablo Picasso, Ceramic, Design
Located in Geneva, CH
PABLO PICASSO Tête de femme couronnée de fleurs (A.R. 236), March 20th, 1954 Ed. 37/50 pcs White earthenware clay 23 x 15 x 18 cm I 9 1/8 x 5 7/8 x 7 1/8 in Signed by the artist on ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Earthenware

Untitled
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...
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2010s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Venus Nostalgia. From Venus Nostalgia series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The series "Venus Nostalgia" is a collection of sculptures inspired by the famous Venus de Milo, an emblematic work in the history of art that has had a great impact on Castello's wo...
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2010s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Glaze

Modèle de maquette de dyslexie disloquée by Cécile Raynal - stoneware sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Modèle de maquette de dyslexie disloquée is a unique smoke-fired stoneware sculpture by French contemporary artist Cécile Raynal, dimensions are 170 × 163 × 130 cm (66.9 × 64.1 × 51....
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2010s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Stoneware, Wood

Bird in Flight
Located in Washington, DC
German Romanian artist, Otto Scherer, pays homage to one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Brancusi, in his ceramic "Bird in Flight".
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2010s Modern Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Platinum

Lambeth Plate, English Delftware, Blue and White Design c. 1750
Located in London, GB
English Delftware blue and white plate, painted with a flower and bird design Diameter: 8 3/4 inches (22.25 cm) Delftware is also known as Delft Blue, was originally a general term ...
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1750s Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Delft

Femmes Fleurs (Women Pitcher)
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Pablo Picasso Ceramic Femmes Fleurs (Women Pitcher), 1948 A.R. 50 is an elegant turned pitcher highlights the graceful form of the female nude. C...
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1940s Modern Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Earthenware

Joonsang Park Ceramic Tiger Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Joonsang Park (b. 1977) Marking(s); notes: no marking(s) apparent Country of origin; materials: South Korean; ceramic Dimensions (H, W, D): 10.7...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic

Cruche aux oiseaux (A.R. 456), Pablo Picasso, Design, Ceramic, Madoura, Limited
Located in Geneva, CH
Cruche aux oiseaux (A.R. 456), 1962 Ed. 142/200 pcs H. 22 cm I H. 8 5/8 in White earthenware clay, decoration in engobes under partial brushed glaze black, white and red patina Numbe...
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20th Century Post-War Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Clay, Earthenware

Pablo Picasso, Visage Brun-Bleu (Ramie 2), White Earthenware Clay Plate 1947
Located in Long Island City, NY
Created in 1947, this early Picasso ceramic is the second that artist ever produced. It is in wonderful condition and presented in a fine black wood fra...
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1940s Modern Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Clay, Glaze

BALLOON DOG (MAGENTA)
Located in Aventura, FL
Signed and numbered (signature and edition number are fired onto the backside of the plate). Edition of 2300. Sculpture is in excellent condition. Original box and COA included.
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

BALLOON DOG (MAGENTA)
BALLOON DOG (MAGENTA)
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Roman 18th century terracotta model for the sculpture of San Camillo de Lellis
Located in London, GB
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...
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18th Century Baroque Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

Feline by Cécile Raynal - Animal smoke-fired stoneware sculpture, fable, clay
Located in Paris, FR
Feline is a unique smoke-fired stoneware, resin, plaster and clay sculpture by French contemporary artist Cécile Raynal, dimensions are 78 × 35 × 60 cm (30.7 × 13.7 × 23.6 in). This ...
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2010s Contemporary Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Clay, Stoneware, Resin, Plaster

Figurative Mixed Media Bust Sculpture in Ceramic Oxides and Carved Fir Wood
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This figurative mixed media bust sculpture in ceramic, metallic oxides and carved fir wood opens with a strong emphasis on material expression and emotional tension. The work belongs...
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2010s Surrealist Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

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Metal, Gold Leaf

Figurative Sculpture in Raku Ceramic and Carved Poplar Wood People Series
Located in FISTERRA, ES
Figurative mixed media sculpture combining raku-fired ceramic and carved black poplar wood with oil polychromy. Created by Spanish sculptor Óscar Aldonza, whose practice bridges intu...
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2010s Surrealist Ceramic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Porcelain, Poplar, Wood

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