Carlotta - the museum database

NM Ant 1951 :: Figurine

Object description: Loving couple standing on a spool-base; the female figure, wearing a chiton and a wreath, holds her arms around the man’s neck; the male figure, wearing a chlamys, a wreath and boots stands leaning towards the woman with his right arm hanging at his side; both figures have chubby faces; back fullt modelled; oval vent in back (ø 3.4 x 1.8). Reddish-brown clay with traces of white paint.

Data elements
References (6)

Inventory number

NM Ant 1951

Serie nummer

3394

Object

Figurine

Object, Swedish

Skulptur

Country - Findspot

Italy : Europe

Material

Terracotta; Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Terrakotta; Keramik

Exhibitions

Object of the month March 2003.

Object of the month June 2007.

Acquisition

Bequest of Mrs. Carolina Benedicks-Bruce, Visby, 1934, to the National Museum, Stockholm.; Reported to have been found in Italy.

Description

Loving couple standing on a spool-base; the female figure, wearing a chiton and a wreath, holds her arms around the man’s neck; the male figure, wearing a chlamys, a wreath and boots stands leaning towards the woman with his right arm hanging at his side; both figures have chubby faces; back fullt modelled; oval vent in back (ø 3.4 x 1.8). Reddish-brown clay with traces of white paint.

Name - Acquired from

Benedicks-Bruce, Carolina

Description: Carolina Maria Benedicks-Bruce (28 October 1856 – 16 February 1935) was a Swedish sculptor. After studies at the Academy of Arts in Sweden she went to France, at first to study and later to live and work at the artists' colony in Grez-sur-Loing where she met her husband William Blair Bruce. With him she returned to Sweden and together they created the artists estate Brucebo on Gotland, which was later established as a nature reserve. She also worked actively with the preservation of heritage buildings, women's right to vote and establishing the Swedish Women's Voluntary Defence Organization.
Source, Wikip. - is desc. by: en.wikipedia.org

Exhibition - Current

Study Gallery

Description: Upstairs, in interaction with the Baghdad Cafe, opened in February 2009, the upper gallery. A rich variety of objects retrieved from the museum's storerooms, many of them shown for the first time. A series of booths filled to the brim with beautiful vases functions as a traditional study collection of ancient ceramics. Other booths highlights the thematic elements of the ancient world: the subject of everyday and festive, and images of gods, humans and animals. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2009-07-13, google translate).
Time - Start: 2009-022009-02

Exhibition, Part of - Current