Among the most significant were those depicting virtuoso modeled female figures in dance, at the apartment of Blühweiss family in Domagojeva street 2.
He became fascinated with the gift and started to model human figures with it.
By 1788 he was modelling figures for the Derby porcelain factory; his name is recorded in connection with figures ordered by the clockmaker Benjamin Vulliamy, some of them based on Vulliamy's own drawings.
He was a man of classical tastes, and produced a number of exquisitely modelled, especially female, figures.
Malskat had modelled various religious figures on his sister Freyda, actresses like Marlene Dietrich and even historical figures like Rasputin.
Many of the small exquisitely modeled figures on Ghiberti's doors to the Baptistry of Duomo in Florence have been burnished by people fascinated by the finely detailed panels.
Powers was skilled in modelling figures.
It rests on four caryatids, beautifully modeled male and female figures that morph at the waist into normal table legs inset with the same marble.
She also modeled ashtrays, bookends, and small figures for the Gorham Manufacturing Company.
Hiram Powers was an assistant to Luman Watson, Powers was "skilled in modelling figures... he went on to become one of America's first great sculptors."