Statuette Sentence Examples

This statuette is apparently' a work of the 1st century.

If we add to pictures of this class a few Scriptural subjects, a few Oriental dreams, one or two of tender sentiment like "Wedded" (one of the most popular of his pictures, and well known by not only an engraving, but a statuette modelled by an Italian sculptor), a number of studies of very various types of female beauty, "Teresina," "Biondina," "Bianca," "Moretta," &c., and an occasional portrait, we shall nearly exhaust the two classes into which Lord Leighton's work (as a painter) can be divided.

The iron for a statuette must first of all be very fluid, so that it will run into every crevice in its mould, and it must expand in solidifying, so that it shall reproduce accurately every detail of that mould.

A statue in the Vatican and a silver statuette in the British Museum perpetuate the type of its great effigy of the civic Fortune of Antioch - a majestic seated figure, with Orontes as a youth issuing from under her feet.

The noble statuette of Cheops in ivory, found in the stone chamber of the temple, gives the only portrait of this greatest ruler.

Carapanos suggests, the statuette and bronze bowl by which divinations were carried on.

In one, a large circular tomb, were found three sepulchral couches in stone, carved in imitation of wood, and a fine statuette in bronze of Ajax committing suicide.

One is a bronze statuette of a Roman general, nearly 2 ft.

Government offices occupy the remainder of the buildings, and in the middle of the court is a fountain surmounted by a statuette of William II., count of Holland (1227-1256).

At each angle is a freestanding gilt bronze statuette of an allegorical female figure.

Hence, perhaps, her pose leaning against a plinth bearing a statuette of a dancing satyr.

He featured in the recent Oscar ceremony in Hollywood where he won a statuette for Best Short Film with Live Action.

Hilary refuses to sell the second statuette to Beverly and Jim.

Had he been awarded the golden statuette, maybe he would have received more recognition.

That little gold statuette must have a curse on women.

There was also a wooden statuette of St Barbe (Barbara) complete with her tower.

Naked female statuette carved from one piece of ivory.

The statuary includes two Rogers groups, an original Truman Bartlett plaster statuette, and replicas of Leonard Volk's work.

As for the modern ivory statuette or alcove ornament, of which great numbers are now carved for the foreign market, it certainly stands on a plane much higher than the netsuke, since anatomical defects which escape notice in the latter owing to its diminutive size, become obtrusive in the former.

She recognizes the subject and general intention of a statuette six inches high.

Above the panels there is a statuette of a girl reading fairy tales.

A little bit more about the ' Diana ' trophy - it 's a statuette of the goddess holding her bow aloft.

The statuary includes two Rogers groups, an original Truman Bartlett plaster statuette, and replicas of Leonard Volk 's work.

The presenter for this Oscar statuette was Tom Cruise.

The bird was not "the stuff dreams are made of" as it was not the original black statuette but an original reproduction.

Only one female-Janet Gaynor-collected a statuette for her mantle that night; the other fourteen were all awarded to men.

The Emmy statuette, a winged woman grasping an atom, was designed by Louis McManus, who modeled it after his wife, Dorothy.

A diorite statuette, referable by its style and inscription to Dynasty XIII., was discovered in deposit of Period II.

Another statue, "The Sluggard," of equal merit, was exhibited in 1886; and a charming statuette of a nude figure of a girl looking over her shoulder at a frog, called "Needless Alarms," was completed in the same year, and presented by the artist to Sir John Millais in acknowledgment of the gift by the latter of his picture, "Shelling Peas."

Among many fine pieces of jewellers' work preserved in the ecclesiastical treasuries may be mentioned the silver statuette of San Biagio, and the reliquary which contains his skull - a 17th-century casket in filigree and enamels with Byzantine medallions of the 11th or 12th century.

The Museum of Fine Arts at Boston also obtained in 1914 a masterpiece surreptitiously excavated and smuggled out of Crete, an exquisite gold and ivory statuette of the snake goddess or her votary.

Ganymede being carried off by the eagle was the subject of a bronze group by the Athenian sculptor Leochares, imitated in a marble statuette in the Vatican.

It is a bronze statuette from Sessa on the Volturno, about 2 ft.

Additional richness was given to Greek bronze-work by gold or silver inlay on lips, eyes and borders of the dress; one remarkable statuette in the British Museum has eyes inlaid with diamonds and fret-work inlay in silver on the border of the chiton.

The museum, housed in the hotel de ville, contains a fine collection of antiquities, including a famous bronze statuette of the winged figure of Victory, 23 in.

Two tablets at the mines of Wadi Maghara in the peninsula of Sinai, a granite block from Bubastis, and a beautiful ivory statuette found by Petrie in the temple at Abydos, are almost all that can be definitely assigned to Khufu outside the pyramid at Giza and its ruined accompaniments.