Glossary Sculpture, figurines and art
Mould-made
Also called: mold-made
Made by pressing clay into a hollow mould, so that many near-identical figures, faces, lamps or bricks could be produced from one master.
A mould-made figure usually has a detailed front and a plain or roughly smoothed back, and its features repeat exactly across a group, which makes workshop links easy to trace. In Cyprus the mould arrived in figurine-making around the middle of the seventh century BCE and led to a sharp rise in output, as mass-produced types joined handmade and wheel-made figures.
Moulds were often used for only part of a figure. Some Late Bronze Age Base Ring female figures may have moulded faces on handmade bodies, and Cypro-Archaic horse-and-rider figures combine wheel-made, handmade and moulded parts. Mould-made types of Phoenician introduction, such as the enthroned goddess and the kore plaque, were dedicated in the same sanctuaries as local snowman figurines.
Full entry: How Cypriot Figurines Are Classified
Related terms
- Coroplast
A maker of terracotta figurines; coroplastic art is the modelling of figures in fired clay, the largest class of Cypriot figurative art.
- Kore
A Greek Archaic statue of a standing, clothed young woman (plural korai), a type Cypriot sculptors followed from the late sixth century BCE.
- Votary
A worshipper shown in a statue or figurine, usually dedicated in a sanctuary to stand before the deity on the donor's behalf.