Votive Female Figurine
Embodying ancient hopes for well-being, the figure’s broad hips, prominent breasts, and headdress brimming with flowers and fruit communicate fertility and abundance. Such clay images were used for personal devotion; they would have been laid flat, perhaps on a shrine. Their w...
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Sculpture
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20675
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sculpture
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normalized
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| provenance |
provenance
Subhash Kapoor, Temple Art, New York City; purchased by John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, 1983; given to Walters Art Museum, 2003.
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rightsUri
CC0
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| language |
language
en
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5
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import
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_25.249_3QtrLft_DD_T12.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_25.249_3QtrLft_DD_T12.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_25.249_3QtrLft_DD_T12.jpg |
| imageCount | 5 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/25.249 |
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Medium
terracotta
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