'miniature object' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is very small or reduced in size, such as a model or a replica. For example: "The artist created a beautiful miniature object from a single piece of alabaster."
By the time it had been removed from Russia, it had already lost its "surprise"–the miniature object concealed within it which in this case was a mechanical elephant.
"How is difficult to prove," says Fabergé, "but we think it may have been taken by somebody from the commission reviewing all the things requisitioned from the imperial family and all the rich people". By the time it had been removed from Russia, it had already lost its "surprise --the miniature object concealed within it--which in thisurprise --theechanical elephant.
Many parents go out of their way to keep miniature objects that can be swallowed away from infants and toddlers.
Using large turkey roasting pans, water, sand, and an assortment of miniature objects, I recreated three underwater shipwreck excavation sites.
Using prop material like flour, potting soil and miniature objects, she sets up scenes that suggest outdoor events, sometimes on a grand scale.
The work is also like a department-store display case, or like "Calder's Circus" (1926-1932), by Alexander Calder, another piece made of miniature objects laid out in a display setting.
Tiny etched glass hurricane lamps, Majolica asparagus dishes, Knole sofas, gilded pier mirrors and thousands of other miniature objects are all displayed in exquisitely designed dioramas – a library, a patisserie, a room decorated for Christmas, a nursery.
Inside it, miniature objects dangle on a string of golden beads, each apparently torn from a wooden puppet: a torso, in a prison-striped shirt, with arms outstretched; a black man's head; his cartoonishly muscular legs.
Wooden popsicle sticks served as the frame of the boat, cut pieces of tin stood in for metal ingots, beads represented cylinder seals; I placed these and many other miniature objects into the shipwrecks in precise proportion to the excavation records from actual shipwreck sites in the ancient Mediterranean.
Using large turkey roasting pans, water, sand, and an assortment of miniature objects, I recreated three underwater shipwreck excavation sites…The students became the archaeologists and were divided up into excavation teams…Through a multi-sensory engagement, this project successfully opened the eyes of my students to the dynamic process of archaeological excavation.
What history books often render abstract, puppets and miniature objects made painfully vivid in this ingenious live-animation film created by Dutch theater company Hotel Modern and composer Arthur Sauer.
