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Animal Sculpture

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Explore NOVICA's Animal Sculpture Gallery. From highly realistic to compellingly abstract, you will find handcrafted artisan treasures that showcase the diverse skills of global artisans.

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Papier mache sculpture, 'Cute Baby Elephant in Purple'

Maria

Sep 6, 2020

great artistry

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Clearly a lot of amazing work went into this piece. The details are so intricate and the artistry is great. I enjoy this piece tremendously!

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Wood sculpture, 'Majestic Elephant' (4 inch)

Denise

Sep 28, 2017

Love my mini elephant

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I had always heard a home with an elephant figurine or sculpture in it will bring good luck to that home and its inhabitants.

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Soapstone sculptures, 'Elephant Duet' (set of 2)

Fr. Russ

Jul 29, 2019

These are for my spiritual meditations on animals

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These are beautiful. well worth what we paid for them. You feel the animal spirit threw these pieces.

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Animal Sculpture

In many cultures, since ancient times, animals have been the subject of many prolific artists' greatest pieces of art, including México’s designer Angel Ceron’s depiction of man’s best friend via his ceramic animal sculptures. In many of Mexico’s pre-Hispanic cultures, the dog, who is believed to see spirits, was depicted as loyal leader walking the master’s soul to the realm of the dead. For the playfully, sometimes mischievous and curious one, the “Three Monkeys’ has been immortalized by Nyoman Karsa, in a carefully hand carved Balinese suar wood statuette “seeing no evil, speaking no evil and hearing no evil.” From the owl, cat, hummingbird, the horse, penguin, lion, swans and more, NOVICA offers an abundance of animal sculptures to match you or your loved one with your favorite animal.

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