Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Subject Index: Ceramic, Unglazed, Europe

Works of Art (15)

Antefix in the shape of a female head, ca. 625–600 B.C., South Italian; From Matauros, Terracotta (22.139.56)
The Bather (model for a fountain), 18th century (ca. 1780) or 19th–early 20th century, By or after Jean-Antoine Houdon (French), Probably French, Terracotta (32.100.159)
Figure of a woman, mid-5th century B.C., Greek, Terracotta (06.1151)
Iphicles and Hercules Attacked by Snakes, mid-15th century, Italy; Padua, Terracotta (2006.453)
La Négresse, 1872, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French), Cast terracotta (1997.491)
Lamp with Jewish Symbols, made 350–450, Byzantine, Terracotta (91.1.1621)
Lamp, late 1st century B.C.–early 1st century A.D.; Early Imperial, Roman, Terracotta, mold-made, (74.51.2027)
Pietà, ca. 1864, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French), Terracotta (2001.199)
Skyphos (drinking cup), 6th century B.C., Greek, Lydian, Terracotta (16.75.14)
Statuette of a gladiator, 1st–2nd century A.D.; Imperial, Roman, Terracotta, (10.210.78)
Statuette of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), 1st century B.C., Greek; copy of a Greek bronze statue by Polykleitos, ca. 430 B.C., Terracotta (32.11.2)
Tomb Plaque, 400–800, Byzantine or Visigothic; Probably made in Spain, Terracotta (1985.147)
Torso (A Study for Ariane without Arms), modeled ca. 1905 or earlier, Auguste Rodin (French), Terracotta (12.13.1)
Vase in the form of a sleeping African (known as Ethiopian) boy, 3rd–2nd century B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta (74.51.2263)
Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas, 1704, Jean Cornu (French), France (Paris), Terracotta and painted wood (32.100.158)

Thematic Essays (7)