To the unacquainted, these figurines might just look like well-made tchotchkes, but this Hungarian brand produces some ...

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

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, ...

Dear Harry: I have a ceramic figurine titled “The Titian Madonna” that is marked on the bottom “A Borsato Original.” I purchased it about 35 years ago from Betty Sidel in Cherryville, Pa. She told me ...

On a shelf in our spare room stands the figure of a girl. She is slender, long-limbed, hair falling to just below her shoulder blades. Her back is gracefully arched, her head held at a pensive tilt; ...

Inspired by ancient animal figurines, contemporary potters are making creatures that reflect the irregular beauty and magic of the natural world. By Nancy Hass Photographs by Patricia Heal Styled by ...

Last year at this time, Teresa Kalina had no idea how an interior designer worked. She had always handled her own design and figured it’d be no different when it came time to redo her Lynnwood living ...

QI inherited a pair of 18-inch-tall figures that appear to be porcelain. I know nothing about the provenance, except that my mother bought them in an antiques store at least 40 years ago. The marking ...

Soojin Choi creates intimate ceramic sculptures depicting a pair entwined in an unknottable embrace, their limbs a seemingly endless tangle.

British artist Jessica Harrison sources traditional ceramic figurines and gives them a new lease of life with delicate, hand-painted tattoos. Claire Cohen reports Remember those porcelain ladies your ...

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 ...