Fabulous Figurines!
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Small and cute figurines, about 5 cm (2 inches) tall. Shop display in Tianzifang.
Tianzifang (Chin: 田子坊): this is an area of small narrow alleys or "nong" (弄) which has been redeveloped and now features arts shops, restaurants and bars and also enough souvenir shops to make it a one-stop shopping location on the hunt for the "typical" Chinese souvenir. Get hungry while souvenir hunting? 10 different countries feature their respective national cuisine...
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Figurines by Yuko Higuchi.
Japanese and English: higuchiyuko.com
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A special gift I received thirty years ago...a beautiful keepsake to remember all of the Goldens I have had. They were all such wonderful dogs and each one left me with beautiful memories.
Here's an archive photo that I'm fond of from a few years back. Couldn't resist to re-post this. A think it's a juvenile House Sparrow. It spent some time with these small cement figurines of birds.
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One of the most fascinating aspects of Malta is its ancient history (and I mean really ancient). They left behind magnificent temples, but also figurines - like this one, dated to about 3600-2500 B.C., making it around 5000 years old!
Fascinating as it is, we also have to be honest with that we know precious little about the belief-system behind these things, so it is not known what the purpose behind these small (and large) statues was (offerings? depiction of gods? depiction of people? something else entirely?).
Figurine on display at The National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta, Malta (it's not a very big museum, but worth a visit).
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A small figurine at 3" or 7.62cm, this little Wren has lots of lovely details.
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A little figurine that I have had for a long time, I sitll love it as much as when I bought it.
This is about 5,5 cm.
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A little glass cat that I bought during my stay in Venice has been allowed to trample some primroses that I'm going to plant outside. HMM 🎎
A Hertfordshire village with a big garden centre. I have no idea whether or not these very different cement figurines were lumped together intentionally. Fact is that Great Gaddesden is also the location of a prominent Buddhist monastery. Shot was done with the Fujifilm X-100F (F2, 1/2000).
"True friends, like owls, offer wisdom and support in the darkest times."
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One of my tiny owl figurines.
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Für“Crazy Tuesday“ am 29.11.2022.
Thema:“Statue,Sculpture,Figurine“.
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One of my many cat figurines...a favorite. Thank you for taking the time to view, fave and comment on my images. It is very much appreciated.
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“Obviously Rockefeller Center is one of the most iconic New York City landmarks, and to put a work of public art around it is always such a thrill,” said Fremont. “You see it differently when there’s art there.”
For his Rockefeller Center return, Koons is revisiting a recurring subject, a ballerina perched on a stool, adjusting her shoe. The form, from his “Antiquity” series, is inspired by a turn-of-the-century porcelain ballerina figurine found in a Russian factory. Koons has already created two versions of the piece, one just a foot-and-half tall made from hand-painted wood in an edition of 50, the other seven feet tall and made from the artist’s signature mirror-polished stainless steel with colored coating.
“Seated Ballerina is like a Venus. You could be looking at a Venus of Willendorf or some of the oldest Venuses,” said Koons in a statement. “It is really about beauty and even a sense of contemplation, a sense of ease.”
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So glad we detoured to the Rockefeller Center to see this display, so delightful that was! before heading to dinner, where was only a block away.
You would find them in many and perhaps in most of our gardens (mine included). Of course, the garden centres sell them, but why do they and why do we buy such sculptures of children holding a water-spouting fish or that urn with wild men's faces looking at you? It is also true that we have inherited the forms and shapes of these figurines from antiquity and that they re-appeared in the gardens of the rich and the educated particularly from the 18th century on. The garden itself is a kind of alternative world, one of beauty, peace and with space for fantasy. It is therefore not fully controlled by rationality. There are even corners where the uncanny (das Unheimliche) has its place.
These were 5 to 6 inch figurines on sale at a gift shop in Old Town, San Diego. The contrast of the colors, ivory, soapstone and other materials made for an interesting bokeh.
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This is the second MM appearance of my Schleich Mini Eldrador "dragon snake" figure. The first one was for "Ficticious" in October '23. It wasn't easy to convince the proud fire creature to let me put it into a small kitchen container, get itself doused in water, and, the possibly worst thing: spend the night and half of Sunday in the freezer. But Bertie Wanda's shining example (and Flickr fame) were very convincing, so it played along. Not without hissing at me "Just wait what will happen to your freezer tonight. You might find it molten to pieces tomorrow!" before I closed the freezer door. No such thing happened, luckily, and when I took the tiny dragon snake out of the freezer, it told me: "I spent the night doing some internet research on ice baths and their health benefits. With all my inner fire, it was quite a refreshing experience." Such dignity... ;)
The image is a single shot, handheld even, to get the right angle. During the freezing process, the small figurine drifted towards the upper edge of the small container, and even though translucent, I didn't want to have it in the image. I also tried some focus stacking but the camera gave me an error several times. The half-frozen dragon snake with the bright ice texture layer on top was probably still a little too diffuse for autofocus to catch on properly during the stacking process. I could have combined the images in Helicon Focus, but liked this single image and thought that it was sharp enough. I hope you agree.
Illuminated from above with my natural light photo LED lamp, and slightly from the left/front with my LED Lenser flashlight set on "spot" to highlight the dragon snake's face and some of the ice texture.
HMM, Everyone! I'm very busy today and hope I can catch up with you tonight!
An on-going variety of Figurines appear in some of my photos. Here is a sampling of them. From works of art: the clay/polymer Wolf, to educational toys: the Puffin, to tiny resin figurines: the Sheep. Ceramic, metal and wooden figurines are also in the collection!
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