Figurines

coin-container shaped like a pig

thumb|Diorama used for the filming of Thomas & Friends television series

thumb|Maneki-neko with motorized arm beckons customers to buy lottery tickets in Tokyo, Japan

thumb|300px|right|Memphis, Egypt|Memphis, 500 BC – Troop of funerary servant figures ushabtis in the name of Neferibreheb, [[Louvre-Lens]] thumb|260px|Four ushabtis of Khabekhnet and their box; 1279–1213 BC; painted limestone; height of the ushabtis: 16.7 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art thumb|Ushabti Figurine, Albert Hall Museum The ushabti (also called shabti or shawabti, with a number of variant spellings) was an ancient Egyptian funerary figurine. The Egyptological term is derived from , which replaced earlier , perhaps the nisba of "Persea tree".

thumb|Side view showing the transverse gouges on the left arm The figurine, also called the Lion-man of , is a prehistoric sculpture discovered in Hohlenstein-Stadel, a German cave, part of the Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura UNESCO World Heritage Site, in 1939. The German name, , meaning "lion-person" or "lion-human", is used most frequently because it was discovered and is exhibited in Germany. It is an anthropomorphic figurine combining a human-like body with the head of a cave lion (Panthera spelaea).

traditional Japanese doll modeled after Bodhidharma, the founder of the Zen sect of Buddhism

statue of a dwarf-like creature intended as a garden ornament

thumb|upright|Chinese ceramics|Chinese porcelain blanc de Chine figure of [[Guanyin, Ming dynasty]] A figurine (a diminutive form of the word figure) or statuette is a small, three-dimensional sculpture that represents a human, deity or animal, or, in practice, a pair or small group of them. Figurines have been made in many media, with clay, metal, wood, glass, and today plastic or resin the most significant. Ceramic figurines not made of porcelain are called terracottas in historical contexts.

small figurines resembling krasnale in the streets of Wrocław

ancient Greek sculpture

mold-cast type of Greek terracotta figurines produced from the later fourth century BC, primarily in the Boeotian town of Tanagra

about 33,000 small ceramic figurines allegedly found by Waldemar Julsrud in July 1944

bonnet ornament on Rolls-Royce cars

thumb|Teraphim depicted in the Oedipus Aegyptiacus ([[Athanasius Kircher, 1652)]] Teraphim () is a word from the Hebrew Bible, found only in the plural, and of uncertain etymology. Despite being plural, teraphim may refer to singular objects. Teraphim is defined in classical rabbinical literature as "disgraceful things", but this is dismissed by modern etymologists. Many Bible translations into English translate it as idols or household god(s); its exact meaning in ancient times is unknown.

decorative christmas toy, tool and figure of German origin

prehistoric figurine

figurines from Olmec art

alabaster female figurine, made in the 7th century BC

type of craft

stereotypical genre

Lladró () is a Spanish company based in Tavernes Blanques, Valencia, that produces high-end lighting, home accessories, decorative sculptures and porcelain figurines.

scale model representing a human, creature or character (used in model building, dioramas and wargaming)

ancient Greek pottery figures

statuettes found in ancient Phoenician temples

thumb|Okiagari-kobōshi from Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima is a Japanese traditional doll. The toy is made from papier-mâché and is a roly-poly toy, designed so that its weight causes it to return to an upright position if it is knocked over. Okiagari-kobōshi is considered a good-luck charm and a symbol of perseverance and resilience (including for Daruma versions).

small-scale model game piece used in miniature wargaming

ancient roman festivity

Viking Age silver figurine

Caloian (also Calian(i), Caloiță, Scaloian, Gherman, or Iene) was a rainmaking and fertility rite in Romania, similar in some ways to Dodola. Its namesake is a clay effigy, whose sculpting, funeral, exhumation, and eventual destruction are centerpieces of the display. The source of this ritual, as is the case with those of many other local popular beliefs and practices, precedes the introduction of Christianity, although it came in time to be associated with Orthodox Easter or with the Feast of the Ascension. In some variants it was performed on a precisely calculated day two to three weeks af

statuette from Wolin island, Poland

statuette

carved stone figurine

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Japanese collectible figurines

Bronze figure, 5th or 4th century BC

a series of porcelain figurines

wooden statue found in Dagenham, United Kingdom, in 1922