A large number of statuettes are known to us from the Acropolis. In many cases the statuette is votive and depicts either the deity to whom it was dedicated, or the person dedicating it. So too with clay plaques and tablets, which in the early Classical period were mainly produced on Melos and at Locri Epizephyrii. They were mass-produced from moulds, which must have taken the edge off the freshness and liveliness of the copies. Lastly, there are a fair number of clay plangones from cemeteries in Attica.

In the second half of the 4th century we can see a shift in the choice of subjects. There is now a vogue for secular figures: a child at play, or a lady in a hat with a broad brim, and holding fruit and a rhipis. The lady is usually wearing a chiton and is wrapped in a cloak. It was once thought that these figurines were made in Boeotia at Tanagra - hence their name, 'Tanagra ware'. More recent research has tended to the conclusion that there were large numbers of local workshops, one of the most important of these being at Athens. This is consistent with the Praxiteles-like grace of the figures. Tanagra ware continued to be produced and improved throughout the Hellenistic period.