Small three-dimensional figure. In practice the term is often used interchangeably with STATUETTE, though it can be considered more appropriate in cases where the small figure is not free-standing but part of a larger, utilitarian artefact, such as a candelabra or mirror; where it is mass-produced or merely rudimentary; and where it does not relate to the forms and proportions of comparable large-scale sculpture.

• figurines
  • Display of art, §VI: Ceramics
  • historical and regional traditions
    • Africa
      • Africa, §IV, 3(ii): Imagery and iconography: Anthropomorphic images
      • Africa, §IV, 3(iii): Imagery and iconography: Representational and idealized images
      • Africa, §IV, 4(i): Imagery and iconography: Physical anomalies in figures and dolls
      • Africa, §IV, 5(ii): Mother-and-child imagery and iconography: Form and interpretation
      • Africa, §IV, 7: Equestrian imagery
      • Africa, §VI, 2(iii): Ceramic sculpture
    • Anatolia, ancient
      • Anatolia, ancient, §I, 2(i)(b): Neolithic
      • Anatolia, ancient, §I, 2(i)(d): Early Bronze Age
      • Anatolia, ancient, §III, 1: Small-scale sculpture
      • Anatolia, ancient, §IV, 1(i): Chalcolithic period & Bronze Age metalwork: Materials & techniques
      • Anatolia, ancient, §IV, 1(ii): Chalcolithic period & Bronze Age metalwork: Subject-matter
    • Ancient Near East
      • Eridu
      • Ugarit, §2: Sculpture and decorative arts
    • Angola
      • Angola, §3: Sculpture
    • Antilles, Greater
      • Antilles, Lesser, §II, 1: Amerindian cultures
    • Austria
      • Prehistoric Europe, §II, 3(i)(a): Palaeolithic portable art: Production, context and function of figurines
      • Prehistoric Europe, §VI, 3(ii): Iron Age: Bronze metalwork
      • Willendorf
    • Aztec
      • Mesoamerica, Pre-Columbian, §VIII, 2(v): Lapidary arts: Southern Highlands
    • Bangladesh
      • Indian subcontinent, §X: Village art
    • Beguines
      • Beguines, §2: Iconography
    • Buddhism
      • China, §XIII, 15(v): Ivory-carving: Figures
    • Central Asia, Eastern
      • Central Asia, §II, 3(ii)(a): Eastern: Sculpture in the South
      • Central Asia, §II, 5(xiv): Eastern: Terracotta
    • Central Asia, Western
      • Central Asia, §I, 8(vii)(b): Western: Terracotta, late 4th century AD–19th
    • China
      • China, §VI, 3(iv)(b): Bronzes: Other Eastern Zhou to Warring States forms
      • China, §VI, 3(vi)(b): Bronzes: Eastern Han
      • China, §VII, 3(ii)(b): Low-fired ceramics: Shang to Han
      • China, §VII, 3(iii)(b): Low-fired ceramics: Six Dynasties to Sui
      • China, §VII, 3(iii)(b): Low-fired ceramics: Six Dynasties to Sui
      • China, §VII, 3(v)(a): Ceramics: Yuan Jingdezhen wares
      • China, §VII, 3(v)(d): Ceramics: Yuan-period Cizhou wares
      • China, §VII, 3(vi)(c): Ceramics: Ming-period Dehua wares
      • China, §VII, 3(vii)(b): Ceramics: Qing-period Dehua wares
      • China, §XIII, 1(ii): Arms and armour: Neolithic to Spring and Autumn period
      • China, §XIII, 21(iv): Rhinoceros horn: Late Ming to Qing
      • China, §XIII, 26(ii): Wood-carving: Eastern Zhou to Western Han
      • China, §XIII, 26(iii): Wood-carving: Five Dynasties and after
      • China, §XIV, 2: Popular and national minorities’ art: Architecture
      • Chu
      • Shiwan
    • Chorrera culture
      • Terracotta, §II, 7: History and uses: Pre-Columbian Americas
    • Colombia
      • Muisca
    • Congo, Republic of
      • Bembe, §1: Figure sculpture
    • Costa Rica
      • Eastern and central Costa Rica, Pre-Columbian, §1: Pottery
      • Eastern and central Costa Rica, Pre-Columbian, §2: Sculpture
      • South America, Pre-Columbian, §II, 3(i)(b): Sculpture: Isthmian
    • Crete
      • Crete, §2: Sub-Minoan to Hellenistic, c 1050–67 BC
      • Greece, ancient, §IX, 2(i): Terracotta figurines and statuettes, before c 700 BC
      • Minoan, §I, 4(i): Chronological overview: Early Minoan
      • Minoan, §I, 4(ii): Chronological overview: Middle Minoan
      • Minoan, §V, 1: Sculpture: Neolithic and Early Minoan
      • Minoan, §V: Sculpture
      • Minoan, §V, 2: Sculpture: Middle Minoan I and II
      • Minoan, §V, 3: Sculpture: Middle Minoan III and Late Minoan
      • Minoan, §VI, 2: Ivory and bone: Figurines
      • Minoan, §VII, 2: Faience: Figurines
    • Cucuteni culture
      • Prehistoric Europe, §IV, 3(ii): Neolithic sculpture, carving and painting: Other forms
    • Cycladic
      • Amorgos
      • Cycladic, §I, 4(i): Chronological overview: Early Cycladic
      • Cycladic, §IV, 1: Early Cycladic stone figurines
      • Cycladic, §IV: Stone figurines
      • Cycladic, §IV, 2: Stone figurines: Modern forgeries
    • Cyprus, ancient
      • Cyprus, §II, 3(i): Ancient sculpture and figurines: Neolithic and Chalcolithic
      • Cyprus, §II, 3: Ancient sculpture and figurines
      • Cyprus, §II, 3(iii): Ancient sculpture and figurines: Geometric and Archaic
      • Lemba
      • Hellenistic
        • Cyprus, §II, 3(v): Ancient sculpture and figurines: Hellenistic and Roman
      • Prehistoric
        • Cyprus, §II, 1(i): Chronology: Neolithic and Chalcolithic
        • Cyprus, §II, 3(ii): Ancient sculpture and figurines: Bronze Age
    • Czech Republic
      • Dolní Vestonice
    • Ecuador
      • South America, Pre-Columbian, §I, 3(ii)(b): Religion and iconography: Hallucinogenic drugs
    • Egypt, ancient
      • Egypt, ancient, §IX, 3(i)(a): Predynastic statuary
      • Egypt, ancient, §XVI, 5(ii): Faience and glaze: Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods
      • Egypt, ancient, §XVI, 5(iii): Faience and glaze: Old Kingdom–Middle Kingdom
      • Egypt, ancient, §XVI, 5(v): Faience and glaze: Late Period–Roman period
      • Egypt, ancient, §XVI, 9(i): Ivory and bone: Predynastic and Early Dynastic
      • Egypt, ancient, §XVI, 13(ii): Personal art: Old Kingdom–Middle Kingdom
      • Faiyum style
        • Rome, ancient, §X, 9(iii): Terracotta: Eastern provinces
      • Predynastic (c. 6000-c. 2925 BC)
        • Koptos
    • England
      • England, §VII, 3(i): Ceramics, 1701–1830: Earthenware and stoneware
      • England, §VII, 3(ii): Ceramics, 1701–1830: Porcelain
    • Etruscan
      • Etruscan, §III, 1: Terracotta sculpture
      • Etruscan, §III, 2: Bronze sculpture
      • Etruscan, §VI, 2(i): Bronzework: General survey
    • France
      • Prehistoric
        • Laussel
        • Lespugue
      • Roman
        • Rome, ancient, §X, 9(ii): Terracotta: Western provinces
      • 18th cent.
        • Sèvres Porcelain Factory, §1: Before 1792
    • Germany
      • Amber (ii), §3: History and uses
      • Germany, §VII, 3(i): Porcelain, before 1880
      • Germany, §IX, 1(v): Gold and silver, after 1914
      • Palaeolithic
        • Prehistoric Europe, §II, 3(i)(b): Palaeolithic portable art: Figurine types
      • Prehistoric
        • Vogelherd
      • 20th cent.
        • Germany, §VII, 3(ii): Porcelain, 1880 and after
    • Greece, ancient
      • Genre, §1: Ancient Greece and Rome
      • Greece, ancient, §IV, 1(iii)(b): Monumental sculptural materials: Terracotta
      • Greece, ancient, §VIII, 2(i)(a): Bronze statuettes and figurines: Introduction
      • Greece, ancient, §VIII, 2(i): Bronze statuettes and figurines
      • Greece, ancient, §VIII, 2(i)(b): Bronze statuettes and figurines: Geometric
      • Greece, ancient, §VIII, 2(i)(c): Bronze statuettes and figurines: Archaic
      • Greece, ancient, §VIII, 2(i)(d): Bronze statuettes and figurines: Classical
      • Greece, ancient, §VIII, 2(i)(e): Bronze statuettes and figurines: Hellenistic
      • Greece, ancient, §IX, 1: Terracotta: Introduction
      • Greece, ancient, §IX, 2: Terracotta figurines and statuettes
      • Ol’viya
      • Archaic
        • Greece, ancient, §IX, 2(ii): Terracotta figurines and statuettes: Archaic
      • Attica
        • Greece, ancient, §IX, 2(iii): Terracotta figurines and statuettes: Classical
      • Hellenistic
        • Greece, ancient, §IX, 2(iv): Terracotta figurines and statuettes: Hellenistic
    • Gulf Coast, Mesoamerica
      • Mesoamerica, Pre-Columbian, §IV, 2(i): Pre-classic monumental stone sculpture: Gulf Coast
    • Helladic
      • Helladic, §V, 2(i): Late Helladic sculpture in the round
    • Hemba
      • Hemba, §3: Other arts
    • Hinduism
      • Indonesia, §IV, 2(ii): Sculpture in Java: Other traditions
    • Huastec
      • Huastec, §2: Sculpture
    • Inca
      • South America, Pre-Columbian, §VIII, 7(ii): Shellwork: Central Andean
    • Indian subcontinent
      • Indian subcontinent, §V, 1(ii): Sculpture: Materials and techniques
      • Indian subcontinent, §V, 2(iii): Pre- and protohistoric sculpture: Terracotta figurines
      • Indian subcontinent, §V, 5(iii)(b): Sculpture, 1st–3rd centuries A: West
      • Indian subcontinent, §VIII, 10(i): Ivory, to the 3rd century AD
      • Indian subcontinent, §VIII, 18(ii)(b): Terracotta: Historical period–1st century BC
      • Indian subcontinent, §VIII, 18(ii)(c): Terracotta, 1st–3rd centuries AD
      • Indian subcontinent, §X, 3: Village art: Sacred places and images
      • Indian subcontinent, §X, 5: Village art: Sacramental and festival arts
      • Terracotta, §II, 5: History and uses: Indian subcontinent
      • Baluchistan
        • Indian subcontinent, §II, 1(i): Hindu iconography and subject-matter: Early forms
      • Indus civilization
        • Indian subcontinent, §V, 1: Sculpture: Introduction
        • Indian subcontinent, §V, 1(iv): Sculpture: Stylistic overview
        • Indian subcontinent, §V, 2(i): Pre- and protohistoric sculpture: Stone and bronze figures
        • Indian subcontinent, §VIII, 18(ii)(a): Terracotta: Pre- and protohistoric periods
      • Rajasthan
        • Indian subcontinent, §IX: Colonial-period decorative arts
    • Iran, ancient
      • Iran, ancient, §I, 2(i)(b): Chronology: Neolithic
    • Italy
      • Italy, §VII, 2(ii): Porcelain, 1720–75
      • Renaissance
        • Cozzarelli: (2) Giacomo Cozzarelli
      • Roman
        • Rome, ancient, §X, 9(i): Terracotta: Rome and Italy
      • 18th cent.
        • Nativity group
    • Japan
      • Japan, §V, 1(i): Sculpture: Historical overview
      • Japan, §V, 2(i): Pre- and protohistoric sculpture: Palaeolithic
      • Japan, §VIII, 3(ii)(b): Unglazed ceramics, c 1500–1868
      • Japan, §VIII, 3(iii)(b): Porcelain and overglaze enamels, c 1640–1868
      • Japan, §XV, 2(v): Folk art: Stone wayside figures
      • Jomon period (c. 10,000-c. 300 BC)
        • Japan, §II, 1: Religion and iconography: Prehistoric
        • Japan, §V, 2(ii)(c): Pre- and protohistoric sculpture: Final Jomon period
        • Japan, §XVI, 6(i): Dolls: Introduction
        • Jomon period
    • Lega
      • Lega and related peoples, §2: Lega art
    • Maya
      • Mesoamerica, Pre-Columbian, §VII, 2(ii): Pottery and clay sculpture: Classic period
      • Mesoamerica, Pre-Columbian, §IX, 2(i): Bone-carving: Maya region
      • Mesoamerica, Pre-Columbian, §IX, 4(ii): Masks: Chronological and regional development
      • Mesoamerica, Pre-Columbian, §IX, 7(ii): Musical instruments: Types
    • Mende (Sierra Leone)
      • Mende, §3: Figure sculpture
    • Mesoamerica, Pre-Columbian
      • La Venta
      • Mesoamerica, Pre-Columbian, §II, 2(i): Pre-Classic period: Central and southern regions
      • Mesoamerica, Pre-Columbian, §VII: Pottery and clay sculpture
      • Mesoamerica, Pre-Columbian, §VII, 2: Pottery and clay sculpture: Chronology and regional traditions
      • Mesoamerica, Pre-Columbian, §VIII, 2(i): Lapidary arts: Olmec
      • Mesoamerica, Pre-Columbian, §IX, 4(i): Masks: Introduction
      • Mexico
        • Cuicuilco
        • Zapotec, §1: Cultural context
      • Olmec
        • Mesoamerica, Pre-Columbian, §VIII, 1(iii): Lapidary arts: Forms
        • Olmec, §2: Motifs
      • Palaeolithic
        • Mesoamerica, Pre-Columbian, §II, 1(ii): Archaic period
        • Mesoamerica, Pre-Columbian, §II: Chronology and cultural traditions
      • Remojadas
        • Remojadas
      • West Mexico
        • Mesoamerica, Pre-Columbian, §II, 2(ii): Pre-Classic period: West Mexico
        • Mesoamerica, Pre-Columbian, §VII, 1: Pottery and clay sculpture: Introduction and techniques
        • West Mexican art, Pre-Columbian, §3: Pottery and clay figurines
    • Mesopotamia
      • Choga Mami
      • Diyala region, §1: Tell Asmar
      • Mesopotamia, §I, 3(i): Religion and iconography: Interpretation
      • Mesopotamia, §III, 1: Sculpture: Early figurines
      • Mesopotamia, §III, 5: Sculpture, c 2000–c 1000 BC
      • Sawwan, Tell es-
    • Minoan
    • Nabataea
      • Nabataea, §2: Sculpture, ceramics and other arts
    • Native North Americans
      • Native North American art, §III, 1(i): Carving and sculpture: Arctic
      • Native North American art, §III, 3: Carving and sculpture: Great Basin
      • Native North American art, §XV, 3(ii)(d): Other late 20th-century developments: Tourist art
    • Nepal
      • Nepal, §VI, 5: Terracotta
    • Olmec
      • Olmec, §1(i): Architecture and monumental sculpture: Olmec `heartland’
    • Parthian