Pottery Figurative Sculptures

Unique ceramic sculpture by Jack Charney Santa Fe New Mexico circa 1990 Abstract ceramic figure with elongated limbs in a dynamic contorted form Finished with a hand-painted black s...

An impressive and large glazed ceramic sculpture titled “Havtyren” (Sea Bull) by Jean René Gauguin, created at Bing & Grøndahl, Denmark, in the 1930s. This iconic work is executed in...

A very special studio art ceramic pottery sculpture of two - perhaps lesbian - mermaids sharing a secret, signed, mid twentieth century. This unique sculpture also doubles as a catch...

1970's Brutalist Studio Art Pottery sculpture depicting a Arab man, carrying a rife, riding a camel. The sculpture is signed illegibly on its base, this example is in very good, or...

Woman Sculpture Ugo Zaccagnini Italy, 1930 Earthenware Sculpture Wood Base (h7x18x15 cm)

Trio of hand made Pueblo storyteller figures including mother with baby, father figure and a large figure. Impressive Pueblo technique and forms. Al...

Brazilian Amazonian Marajoara Style Art Pottery Vessel Brazil R Cardoso An original signed work by R. Cardoso, produced in the renowned ceramic center of Icoaraci, Pará. This hand-c...

A fine antique English Staffordshire pottery figurine. Depicting a seated Spaniel. With confetti fur and painted black highlights. Simply a wonderful Staffordshire dog figurine...

Antique A wonderful late 19th century Staffordshire porcelain and gilt mantel figure depicting Scottish highland hunter dressed in kilts and traditional hunting dress with a deer dra...

Han Dynasty Rare And Large Court Attendees TL Tested A Rare and Beautiful Pair of Painted Pottery Court Attendants. Holes under arms held wood spears long deteriorated ago. Museum gr...

1892-1904 large Chinese mud man figure, an elder with staff in flowing green & yellow robe. Stamped "China". Apparent losses to feet, but possibly from kil...

Antique Staffordshire Pearlware Bocage Object Ca. 1820 depicting a seating deer on the greens.

Vintage Miniature Chinoiserie Figures. Set of six miniature glazed pottery chinoiserie figures in rich blue, green, red and yellow with various professions. China, early 20th century...

An impressive Ancient Egyptian Faience Ushabti figure, belonging to the c. 700-30 B.C. It consists of a molded pottery having a green glazed surface. The figure is wearing a royal wi...

Carlo Alberto Rossi 'Bucchero' pottery sculpture / pencil holder attributed to Giò Ponti. Mid-20th century, Italy. Manufactured by Carlo Alberto Rossi after a design attributed t...

Etie van Rees Style Studio Pottery Phantasy Creature Mid 20th Century A wonderful mid century studio pottery phantasy creature. Highly detailed and very interesting work, with a g...

English Creamware Toy Cat, Whieldon-Type Manganese Sponged Figure, English, probably Staffordshire, Circa 1760–1780 This small creamware figure of a seated cat belongs to the class ...

Staffordshire Pottery Cats on Cushions, Pair of Lilac Figures, Circa 1820–1840 This pair of Staffordshire pottery cats is modeled recumbent with the legs tucked beneath, each restin...

Important and refined oval polychrome stucco depicting the Madonna and Child. The mother and child are held in a tender embrace, and in addition to the Madonna's typical robes, two h...

Peruvian Amazonian fine old Shipibo pottery vessel A fine old Shipibo pottery vessel from the Peruvian Amazon with traditional Shipibo linear designs. The Shipibo pottery designs ar...

A fine antique Staffordshire pottery figural flat back spill vase. In the form of a gypsy family with livestock gathered around a cookin...

Staffordshire Pottery Calico Cats, Pair of Sponged Seated Figures, Circa 1850–1870 This pair of Staffordshire pottery cats is modeled seated on the haunches, each with its tail curl...

A c1940 Art Deco ceramic "Swimmer" sculpture by Louis Giraud for Vallauris of France. This work features a sculpted walnut base with Giraud Vallauris plaque on the reverse. The sculp...

Carlo Alberto Rossi 'Bucchero' pottery sculpture / pencil holder attributed to Giò Ponti. Mid-20th century, Italy. Manufactured by Carlo Alberto Rossi after a design attributed t...

A striking pair of large Chinese glazed and painted pottery figures, Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644), circa 16th century, China. The impressive and realistically modeled figures each portrayed standing upright upon a sancai (three color) glazed pedestal of kang table form. The man is dressed in a short black surcoat over a long robe and pants, a smart cap upon his head. His face is warm and welcoming, with wide eyes and a slight smile on his lips. He holds his hands out in front of him, palms up, almost as if shrugging, though presumably originally holding an object or offering, now lost. The woman of slightly smaller stature, and dressed in a longer surcoat over a long robe and skirt. She wears a fitted cap upon her head. Her hands also held out in front, grasping long lost objects. Her face is slightly more severe, with a somewhat pinched look, and slight frown upon her lips. The size of these figures is remarkable, as is the realism and attention to detail, almost as if they were modeled after real people, as opposed to the more common and generic Ming Dynasty pottery...

Nayarit Fertility Female Figure With Child Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit, Ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A seated terracotta female figure from the shaft tomb tradition, shown cradling an infant over her right shoulder - likely a symbolic representation of fertility, maternity, and the continuity of life. This expressive red-slipped sculpture is boldly modeled with exaggerated limbs and stylized facial features, impressed eyes, a broad nose adorned with a septum piercing, and ear ornaments. Her elaborate coiffure is incised with vertical striations and rises into a high crest, pierced at the top with a vent hole connecting to the hollow interior. Manganese blooms across the surface attest to its long burial. Such figures were ritually interred in shaft tombs to accompany the dead, offering symbolic protection or ensuring rebirth in the afterlife. Dimensions: 4 Inches Wide x 8.4 Inches Height (10.2 cm x 21.1 cm) Condition: Presents beautifully with restorations to the head. Provenance: Collection of Y. Kayvan, Los Angeles, California, USA, acquired from a Los Angeles, California, USA gallery acquisition dates range from the late 1990s to 2005 Legal to acquire under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14. This Nayarit Figure...

Monumental Apple sculpture by Selma Calheira for Cores Da Terra. This fired clay apple is a true show stopper. Very realistically done.

God of Wine: 19th-Century Staffordshire Pottery Figure of Bacchus Circa 1820–1840 A charming and spirited Staffordshire pottery figure depicting Bacchus (or Dionysus), the classica...

This large and striking Folk Art pottery sculpture is unsigned, but believed to have been done in Mexico or South America in a contemporary Folk Art style. The sculpture is a study of a young woman of color wearing a brightly printed dress and accessorized with large deep red rose earrings...

Tang Dynasty Pair of Painted Pottery Lokapalas Tang Dynasty (618-907), Height: 27.25 x 11.5 x 7" each PROVENANCE: Weisbrod Chinese Art, Ltd., New York Condition: Losses and resto...

1955 Mid-century Era pink and yellow hula girl ceramic statue. The statue features a beautifully detailed hula girl holding a flower in her hair with the word "Hawaiian" along the ba...

Scultura in terracotta raffigurante Madonna, prodotta nella seconda metà del 1700 - Centro Italia. La figura della Madonna è rappresentata in piedi sulle nuvole e circondata dai che...

A pair of Ming dynasty sancai blue glazed pottery figures. Circa 1500 AD Ming Dynasty I have owned over 250 ming tomb figures including over 80...

Staffordshire Pottery pearlware bocage figure with a musical theme which features a couple seated before a tree, playing musical instruments. Sheep and dogs around them, seated on a ...

Han Dynasty Polychromed Pottery Drummer Period Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD) China Pottery Dimensions: 17.5 Inches Tall x 12.5 Inches wide X 10 Inches Deep Condition: Very good origi...

A wonderful, whimsical Mid-Century Modern handcrafted ceramic figurine sculpture of a reclining woman who is propped up on her elbows. She is the epitome of joy and contentment and ...

A wonderful period Tang Dynasty Pottery Figure of a Fat Lady. Tomb Pottery China Height: 15 Inches No TL Test A COA by Avantiques will accompany the sale of this item. Condition: Ve...

Antique Staffordshire Pearlware Bocage Figure Ca. 1820 depicting a girl with basket of lowers with the colorful dressing.

Georgian Creamware Toy Hound, Whieldon-Type Circa 1765-75 This charming Antique Creamware Figure of a hound is a superb example of 18th-century pottery. The small figure sits on its...

This exceptional hand-crafted studio ceramic sculpture depicts a proud and commanding African female warrior in a striking, triumphant pose. With both arms raised high, she holds a s...

A very rare and collectable group or family of slip pottery figurines from West Australian Darbyshire. The set of 3 consists of a squatting elder Gentleman, a mother breast-feeding h...

Pair of small Ming Dynasty (1364-1644) terracotta polychrome figures, in excellent condition. Here's a cute little couple, looking very spry for their age. Both figures are wearing...

Wall Hanging "Face" Pottery, 1970's by Master Ceramicist Charles Counts, A rare "Face" Motif" wall hanging piece is incised with a colorful abstract face. incised signature on vers...

Charming vintage faience girl or young woman figurine that can be used as a bell is hand painted with traditional country style outfit with elaborate headdress. Pink, green, egg yolk...

Blue lady with her handbag- mastertwork from Eva Fritz-Lindner. A serene tall handmade and hand painted sculpture of a lady carrying her handbag named EMA - a friend of the artist- e handcrafted and hand painted in beautiful blue colors. On bottom atelier mark i 3 D and with tree (black brush mark). Ema was the late Eva Fritz-Lindner's (1933-2017) good friend. Designer/maker: Eva Fritz-Lindner with stamp i3D, circa 1960-1970. Glaze: Light and dark blue matte colors are bright and vivid and the hand painting only adds to the charm; light original glaze crazing appropriate for age. Additional comments: Most of her larger sculptures were likely produced in less than 100 copies based upon research and all were hand painted individually by this artist ensuring each work of art was indeed unique. Dimensions: 12.5 inches high. Handmade / handarbeit and hand glazed, few survive. Provenance: Old German collection. About the artist: The bold folk art sculptress and ceramist Eva Fritz-Lindner (1933-2017) studied at the Werkkunstschule Wiesbaden and Darmstadt and was a master student in the sculptor class by Erich Kuhn. From 1955 she worked as a master designer at the Staatliche Majolika-Manufaktur Karlsruhe where she created and designed several hundred highly regarded ceramic folk art animal sculptures and unique wall and garden works of art inspired by nature and possibly the local zoo at Karlsruhe. Owls and family concepts were a particular specialty. During this time she created designs for building and garden ceramics, vessels and small sculptures. Since 1964, the sculptress worked as a freelance artist in her own studio in Karlsruhe-Durlach. The artist designed important works in the field of building ceramics, including wall designs in mosaic, in Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden, Schwäbisch Gmünd and Göppingen. Of particular note, she created enormous scale owl sculptures for the palace gardens in Karlsruhe in 1967 (see photo). In 1962, Eva Fritz-Lindner was awarded the silver medal at the Prague International Ceramic Exhibition. The artists' ceramics are owned and located in the Hetjens-Museum Düsseldorf, in the Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art...

Vintage studio pottery figurine depicts a sitting female figure with raised outstretched hand. The outline of the body, the hair, and the pose are reminiscent of the Central and Sout...

A fabulous vintage Boho decanter. Hand made studio pottery jug of man with a head as a stopper. Super charming piece. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate.

Rare vintage studio art pottery figurine depicts an Asian boy or young man in traditional clothes, walking away from a deer; the deer is chasing the boy, trying to reach the basket ...

Circa 1905 - 1910 attributed to Elvir Otto for Riessner, Stellmacher and Kessel Amphora Templitz Pottery Vase. This arts and crafts vase stands approx 7" tall with a diameter of appr...

Antique Staffordshire Pearlware Bocage Figure Group Ca. 1820 depicting a lady carrying her child and riding on a goat and its little goat. The goat also carries some baskets and fill...

Chinese Tang Dynasty Painted Pottery Equestrian Figure A striking Chinese Tang dynasty painted pottery figure depicting a mounted rider astride a powerful horse, masterfully modeled...

Pair Of Brayton Laguna Glazed Pottery Figures. Offered is a beautiful colorful pair of mid century figures or sculptures of a couple of Peruvian dancers designed and created by Brayton Laguna Pottery...

Galileo Chini for S. Lorenzo Mugello Floence, Italy 1920s "PAX ET BONUM" glazed earthware Excellent condiction Measures: H 30 cm.

A beautiful and quite striking large, heavy Buddha head sculpture. The work is decorated with gold and gilt paint which presents like an aged bronze like patina. The Buddha's eyes ...

The whimsical vintage pottery figurine depicts a sitting man in country costume with large smoking pipe tucked behind his belt. He's sculpted in expressive, dynamic pose, with an ove...

A Tang style Sancai-glazed Figure of a Court Lady, 20th century. Standing figure with the long amber and green-glazed robe and green-glazed shoes, the delicate features ...

Unique hand-crafted studio pottery sculpture of a troll girl and a snake (down to left side). Hand-thrown and dated 1978, signed underneath by Norwegian artist Aase Marie Lommerud (1...

Silver pottery and wood base.

Large Han Dynasty Pottery Horse And Rider. Painted Pottery Western Han Dynasty (206BCE- 220CE) Rider and tail is removable and are original in excellent condition. This is a rare exa...

Delightful large vintage midcentury modern quirky, whimsical sculpture of a St. Bernard dog with unusual dark eyes and bright red tongue, made circa 1960s / 1970s. Most likely made i...