Statuary is carved figures taken together. Garden statuary, classical statuary, a collection of statuary.
It is uncountable and names the whole rather than one piece, so a garden has statuary and one figure is a statue. Statuary marble is a grade of white Carrara stone, and the name says what it was cut for.
1nounstatuaryCarved figures taken together.
“The palace gardens are full of marble statuary, fountains and neat hedges.”
statuary is a sculpture.
Latin statuaria ars means the art of sculpture, from statua, a statue.
Latin
statuāria (ars) — (art) of sculpture
English, today
statuary
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From Latin statuāria (ars) (“(art) of sculpture”), feminine of the adjective statuārius (“of statues”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA