Carlotta - the museum database

NM Ant 1979 :: votive sculpture

Object description: Head of veiled woman; oblong face; the back part is smoothed and taller than the front, forming a ridge at junction between front and back and giving it the appearance of a veil; round vent in back (ø 2.8). Greyish brown clay (but no fresh break).

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Inventory number

NM Ant 1979

Serie nummer

3412

Object

votive sculpture

Country - Findspot

Italy : Europe

Material

Terracotta; Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Terrakotta; Keramik

Context

Votive deposit

Acquisition

Bequest of Mrs. Carolina Benedicks-Bruce, Visby, 1934, to the National Museum, Stockholm.

Description

Head of veiled woman; oblong face; the back part is smoothed and taller than the front, forming a ridge at junction between front and back and giving it the appearance of a veil; round vent in back (ø 2.8). Greyish brown clay (but no fresh break).

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

Name - Owner