Ceramics and Pottery Arts and Resources

 

Tanagara sculpture of a female minstral

 

The terracotta figures from the ancient city of Tanagra in Boetoia, central Greece, represent some of the finest examples of early sculptures dating back to 300 BC.  Tanagra also became synonymous for a young woman, who was remarkable for her grace and finesse, due to the beauty of the aesthetics of their statuary at the time.

In most ancient cultures, Terracotta (Italian translation — ‘baked earth’) was featured prominently for utilitarian cooking wares, figures of worship and decoration, structural forms, planters, large storage amphora, wine vessels and a myriad of other uses. Its terrestial and earthy ochre hues adds to its attractivness along with its durability and versatility.

The terracotta warmth carries its special appeal to this day and is still embraced by artists, designers and consumers.

 

Touring the creative diversity of terracotta

 

 Terracotta  Hunting Theme Pitcher — Ferdinand Gerbing

19th Century Bohemian

 

 

 French Terracotta Sculpture of a reclining Lady

19th Century

 

Italian Terracotta Carafe

 

 

Italian glazed terracotta sculpture by Helen König Scavini, Lenci Manufactory

20th Century

 

 

Twin handled hydria vessel from Hadra

 

 

Alexander Ney, Abstract Perforated Terracotta Sculpture

2012

 

Ancient Greek, Hellenistic terracotta pottery askos

 

 

‘A man operating a rudder’  – French Art Deco Terracotta Sculpture by Ugo Cipriani

 

 

 Lee Akins – ‘Jar with shoulders’

Wide Lip coil built terracotta, underglazes and oxides, cone 02 oxidation

Copper Moon Gallery

 

 

 

Ancient Greek, Hellenistic Terracotta Oil Lamp with floral motif relief

 

 

Indonesian terracotta panel depicting five bell clad Holy Men with closed eyes and in seated posturesL

Length 17.5 inches

 

Ancient Greek, Hellenistic Terracotta Apulian Skyphos

 

 

Aphrodite riding a dolphin over the sea. The sweeping movement of the cloth, far over the head of the goddess, represents the speed of the movement.

Terracotta from Myrina, Greece, 1st cen. BC

 

 

 Apollo– Fresco

Neronian age – Pompeii

 

 

A dancer statuette fromTanagra

250 BC

 

 

Bari Ziperstein terracotta vessels

 

 

Tiffany Zabludowicz sculpture

 

 

 

Mid century incised head sculpture – Belgium

 

 

Art Nouveau terracotta Goldscheider sculpture of Cleopatra

 

 

Large Fratelli Fanciullacci Vintage flared neck vase

Italy

 

 

Biswarup Sarkar photo — From the mythological story India

Char Bangla Temple complex, Murshidabad, West Bengal, India

 

 

Chennai Airport terracotta mural

 

 

Chris Wolston–  ‘Tatacoa’ Terracotta Plant Chair

 

 

Worship receptacle for the god Itzamna

Maya, state of Quiché, Guatemala, classical period 550 to 950 AD

 

 

Corinthian ‘Pantherbird’ – Terracotta alabastron (perfume-vase)

Composite creatures of figure sphinxes, sirens or griffins featured prominently in Archaic Greek art.

620-590-BC—The Met

 

 

Composite Sphinx terracotta Lekythos (oil flask)

 Roman art from Classical period (first half of the 4th century B.C)

 

 

Minoan Cretan Pythos sgrafitto terracotta vessel

 

 

Elena Bulatova sculptural vase

 

 

Drinking cup (skyphos) with embracing couple

Hellenistic period

 

 

Early 19th Century Italian Terracotta Sculpture of ‘Hebe and the Eagle’

 

 

‘Eternity Mask’ —  terracotta relief mural by Mexican artist Efren Gonzalez

 

 

Vintage Navajo Vase, Turquoise and Terra Cotta—Valerie Etsitty

Native American Clay Pottery

 

Dancing female figurine from the Predynastic Period in ancient Egypt.

Painted terracotta, c.3,500 – 3,400 BCE. (Brooklyn Museum)

 

 

French Classical Terracotta Bust Signed R. D’Arly, Paris

 

 

 

Galloway Terracotta Footed Garden Urn

 

 

Garden Kuan Yin holding vessel

 

 

‘Squeezer’ by Jacopo Ferrari

“I tried to design a modest object that would let the beauty of the terracotta stand out.” “Every time someone squeezes an orange in my home, its flavour lingers in the air for some minutes. The properties of unglazed terracotta led me to design a squeezer that absorbs and slowly releases the orange flavour,”

 

 

Andrew Beckham posing with his ‘Novum’ fermentation and aging vessel for wine making

Oregon

 

 

French Terracotta Bust of Madame du Barry

 

 

Goldscheider terracotta ‘Othello’

Austria, circa 1895

 

 

Centuripe Ware Footed Bowl and Conical Lid

 Women at Altar and Relief Decoration

Third century–second century BCE

 

 

Terracotta artifacts from IBERIA.-(Pre-Roman-Spain)—Dama-de-Baza

 

 

Italian Bitossi Red Terracotta Cherub Putti Garden Planter

 

 

 Red-figure painted Hydria, female acrobat

Italy, Campania, c.330 BC

 

 

Terracotta Jomon Pottery with serpent decoration

 

Large decorated and glazed terra cotta and metal filigree Moroccan urn

Height 27 ins —  1stDids

 

 

Pelican sculpture – Karen Fawcett

Pens Comp

 

‘Knight and Tiger’ by British artist John Maltby

 

 

Monumental 19th Century French Terracotta Bust of Classical Greek noble

–25ins

 

 

Musée Archéologique National, Tarente, Pouilles,Italy

 

 

Terracotta vessels at the Museo Larco, Peru

 

 

Paestum Museum – painted amphora 400-350BC

Andrew McCabe Flickr

 

Terracotta seated chief

Calima, Colombia, formative period, 200 – 700 AD

 

 

 

Huge MedicisVase,France

circa 1890

 

Japanese Tokoname dragon relief terrracotta pottery

1920’s

 

Art Deco Style Terracotta Amphora Jar

1910

 

 

Poole Delphis plate

Britain

 

Poole Mid Century abstract vase

 

Pump room water spa

Bath in Somerset, England

 

 

‘Welcome Stranger’ 3,123 ozt gold nugget (largest ever found) With gold hitting 2000$ an ounce, it’s time to get out the metal detector.

 

 

Resting Woman Terracotta Sculpture by Jenő Kerényi

1961

 

Vase with wavy carved indentations ‘Rich Red Naked Clay’  by Judi Tavill

 

 

Laveno Angelo Biancini — Maiolica Terracotta Vase

Italy, 1930

 

 

Rick Hintze lidded earthy vessel

 

Greca Pelike

Museo Archeologico Nazionale della Siritide, Policoro. Provenienza Sant’Arcangelo.

 

 

Scarlet Red Terracotta Vase with Ivory Embossed Polka Dots

Italy, 1940s

 

Greek Minoan Terracotta Vase, Conical Pouring Vessel with Hand-painted Spiral Decoration

 

 

Tanagra mold cast figurine – 300BC

Greece

 

 

‘Standing Form’ – Nigel Edmonson

 

 

Statue of a Muse (Polyhymnia)

Found in Terni inside an ancient underground passage in the area of the Horti Variani, 2nd century BC, Centrale Montemartini, Rome

 

 

Acoma Pueblo pottery pitcher with a braided handle

 

 

Poterie Kabyle

 

 

Large terracotta planter urn–1870 England

1stDibs

 

 

 

Terracotta figure of Aphrodite crowning a herm of Dionysos with an ivy wreath.

Circa 100 BC, from Myrina, now in British Museum

 

 

Terracotta Garden Sculpture of Young Art Nouveau styled Woman

Height 78ins

 

 

 

Terracotta neck piece with Kerala style painting

 

 

Terracotta Sculpture ‘Affinity’ by Gino Cosentino, Italy

1960s — 17.5 ins  height

 

 

Terracotta Sculpture Entitled ‘Dreaming’ Signed D.H Chiparus

 

 

Terracotta Sculpture of Jean Marais –‘Brochard’

 

 

Tanagra terracotta statuette of a dancing woman–Greek

 

 

Terracotta Vaseby Mascia Meccani

 

 

Terracotta volute krater

 

 

Terracotta Tanagra figure known as ‘The Beauty’

 

 

Greek terracotta Guardian Sphinx

530 BC

 

 

Hippocamp terracotta sculpture

Sicily

Greek 3rd century BC

 

 

Vinayagar Temple relief sculpture –  Ganesh

 

 

Yangshao Neolithic hand-painted terracotta pottery

5000BC