Hummel figurines, made in Germany, became popular in the U.S. around the mid-20th century. Now, these figurines could be ...

The ceramics sitting on the bottom shelf of your local thrift store — or in a box in your closet — have a lot more potential ...

No Victorian parlor was complete without its whatnot crammed with porcelain curios and bric-a-brac. Potters of that day found an endless market for glossy, sentimental figures of puppies, kittens, ...

In 1981, more than 20 ceramic human figurines reclining on chairs and bearing elaborate incised decorations were unearthed in northeastern Romania. They, and many other figurines like them—such as the ...

Human eyes are as individual as fingerprints. Like those of a living person, the eyes of this ceramic figurine discovered recently at the site of Xanab Chak in the Puuc region of Mexico’s Yucatán ...

Each figure has a face full of emotion, and some of the heads can swivel on their bodies, researchers said. J. Przedwojewska-Szymańska/PASI Antiquity Throughout history, people around the world have ...

Most of us know figurines as ornamental trinkets. They’re diminutive, breakable, and invariably sentimental. Modern-day iterations are often angels and fairies, rosy-cheeked children and big-skirted ...

Two sides of a single ceramic lion's head and a female figurine from Dolni Vestonice Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Becky Farbstein with permission from Martin Oliva at the Moravian National ...