Curiously enough none have been found at Lezoux, one of the chief pottery-centres of Gaul, although there is abundant evidence that the vases and statuettes were made in the same workshops (see above).
A large majority of the existing statuettes were, as we have seen, made in the valley of the Allier; these show more conspicuously than any others, the influence of transplanted Graeco-Roman art.
Many of these seem to be reflections of bronze statuettes of the Roman period.
These statuetteswere made for the Roman colonists, who introduced the types of their own religious conceptions, but the makers were local craftsmen.
In West and North-West France statuettes are found with the name of Rextugenos; they are all of peculiar and original character, with highly-ornamented backgrounds to the figures, and easily distinguished.
But it can only be laid down with certainty that the manufacture of statuettes was introduced into Gaul with the terra sigillata or ornamented red pottery at the beginning of the Imperial period.
Few statuettes seem to have been made after the second century of the Empire.
This implies that the richer Romans preferred bronze statuettes for their shrines and household decoration.
The statuettes we see on the walls of the porch are comparatively modern, replacing the ancient ones destroyed at the Revolution.
The figures on the great doors, we see to-day, are modern: the original statuettes were hacked to pieces at the outbreak of the Revolution by the mob who mistook the Kings of Israel for the Kings of France!
The slight vestiges of colour remaining on these statuettes must in no instance be taken as suggesting the colouring of the original fans.
Wolfe's victory in 1759, commemorated in Bow statuettes and Staffordshire busts and jugs, supplied the fan-makers also with a subject for illustration: in a life of Wolfe it is mentioned that fans were printed of the taking of Quebec.
Another and later instance is the series of imitative porcelain statuettes after Thorvaldsen's creations in marble.
The hallway and rooms were adorned with statuettes and pictures; the furniture was simple and massive.
There were also finely engraved copies of the choicest paintings, and, alternating with them, statuettes of the great men of all ages.
Indeed, the statuettes from Tello, the site of the Sumerian city of Lagash, display distinctively Mediterranean skull forms and faces.
Among the Copper Age artifacts at Anau are clay votive statuettes resembling those which were used in Sumeria for religious purposes.
The sacristan asserted that there were also twelve golden statuettes a span high, and some smaller silver vases; but all the reliquaries have disappeared except two, which have been preserved at Vienna since 1888.
It is of red marble, the front being divided into three panels by twisted colonnettes, once gilt, with statuettes at the corners, and bears an inscription giving the date 1348.
Many of the statuettes of the Virgin which are preserved in Spain were probably made in France.
The chest itself consists of a wooden body beneath a covering of ivory and gold, further enriched with statuettes and studded with real and imitation stones.
Between the altar and a great iron chancel that separates it from the remaining space stand two great mausoleums of marble adorned with statuettes and bas-reliefs of great value.
Another patio, its walls covered with ivy, and a line of niches containing statuettes and urns.
I cried, "you meanstatuettes of Schiller and Rousseau.
The little Valiquet-made statuettes of the Ultimate Sandwich sold by the thousands, greatly adding to the personal assets of the secretary and treasurer of the society.
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Now, I wish statuettes made in bronze in three sizes, two, four, and six inches high, so they can be used by my friends as desk ornaments.
Some of the statuettes of saints attached to the slender columns of the canopy are among the most charming examples of their kind that we have.
One of the first of the great German wood-carvers was Joerg Syrlin, who executed the famous choir stalls of Ulm cathedral, so richly decorated and ornamented with statuettes and canopies.
Ewart was always sketching this hair of hers and embarking upon clay statuettes of her that were never finished.
On these slabs of marble stood some of the gold and silver plate which Augustus had ordered to be made out of the statuettes of precious metals which had been erected to him by too-adulatory provincials.
Of the statuettes in terra-cotta, one of the most curious represented a Parthian warrior, recumbent, and apparently about to drink out of a cup held in the left hand.
The clay statuettes of the Assyrians possess even less artistic merit than their statues.
Then, passing to a huge cabinet, he began to peer in at the rows of amulets, statuettes and other, unclassifiable, objects with which it was laden.
Such were thestatuettes of Kwan-Yin and many other gods and goddesses.
Then there is a set of five small statuettes representing Louis XIV.
A bilingual tablet in the British Museum has preserved for us the formula of consecration which was supposed to invest these protecting statuettes with divine powers.
The side windows of the Lady Chapel are beautiful examples of the fully developed Decorated style; the jambs and mullions are ornamented with statuettes which, strange to say, escaped destruction.
The Lady Chapel# has three bays; the tracery seen on the outside is new, though it is old inside, for Scott cut the mullions down the middle so as to retain the statuettes that they bore on the inside.
Lastly, before passing on to the next reign, a word must be said of the statuettes of divinities and the objects fashioned in the shape of fruit or living creatures, which are another feature of the K’ang Hsi renaissance.
The statuettes of the actors Woodward and Kitty Clive in character, King Lear, and some dignified figures of nuns, are almost as effective as the white figures of Nymphenburg, of which mention has already been made.
This is notably the case with the statuettes for which most of all the name of Chelsea is famous.
At the same time the works gained some renown by the cleverly modelled statuettesin biscuit china of greyish tone made under the direction of Filippo Tagliolini.
In the symmetrical colonnades which we visited there are hundreds of altars, decorated with millions of statuettes of Buddha, in gold, silver, copper, or porphyry.
The pictures were overshadowed with nodding wreaths of pressed ferns and bright bitter-sweet berries, with glossy holly leaves; the statuettes had backgrounds of ivy which threw out their whiteness.
These capsuled statuettes were generally located before the entrances to rooms.
Copper statuettes and stone bas-reliefs of a most archaic character were also brought to light on this occasion.
The figure is that of a god, his head-gear being characteristically furnished with four pairs of horns, and unlike the copper votive statuettes of Gudea the god here has bull's ears.
Occasionally these terra-cotta figures were painted, as was the case with the little male statuettes discovered at Babylon in 1910.
Another class of copper statuettes of somewhat later date is that comprising the so-called "Kanephores" or basket-carriers.
One of the best and also earliest examples of these copper cone-statuettes is that of Ur-bau (circ.
The bull, which is twelve inches in height and thirteen inches in length, stands on a narrow plinth to the bottom of which a nail was apparently fixed, recalling the nail-pointed statuettes from Tello.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "statuettes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
