[a. F. statuette dim. of statue; see STATUE sb. and -ETTE.] A small statue; a statue less than life-size.
1843. Fraser’s Mag., XXVIII. 103. In every space … stood a little statuette of marble.
1863. Sir G. Scott, Glean. Westm. Abb. (ed. 2), 64. These niches contained thirty statuettes of different personages.
1906. Petrie, Relig. Anc. Egypt, xiii. 83. The abundance of little statuettes of gods of glazed pottery, and often of bronze, silver, and even of gold, show how common was the custom of wearing such devotional objects.
attrib. 1866. Reader, 19 May, 500. ‘The Chase’ … is life size, but ‘The Stag at Bay’ … is little more than statuette size.
