1916.348: Seated Woman with Child
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1916.348
- Title
- Seated Woman with Child
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- statuette, sculpture
- Date
- 3rd century CE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica
- Period
- Roman Imperial period
- Culture
- Roman
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292401
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta, traces of white slip
- Technique
- Mold-made
- Dimensions
- 16 x 5.5 cm (6 5/16 x 2 3/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Edward P. Bliss; bequeathed to Fogg Art Museum, 1916
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Edward P. Bliss
- Accession Year
- 1916
- Object Number
- 1916.348
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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A matronly woman is seated on a curved seat with small child held on her lap. She is wearing a heavy himation that is draped over her shoulders and gathered across her legs. A child is lying on its back and sprawled across the mother's or nurses's lap.
Hard reddish-brown clay with gray surface; traces of white slip.
Publication History
- Claireve Grandjouan, Terracottas and Plastic Lamps of the Roman Period (Princeton, NJ, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1961)., p. 44; pl. 3, cf. 33
Verification Level
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