Carlotta - the museum database

NM Ant 1991 :: votive sculpture

Object description: Bust of man; mould-made; his head turned slightly upwards, to his left; he wears a wreath; the cloak is fastened at his right shoulder; three drilled holes are preserved (a fourth was presumably where the plaster replaces the broken-off piece) - one above his right ear and one in either shoulder; no back part. Dark red clay with traces of a white slip.

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Inventory number

NM Ant 1991

Serie nummer

3420

Object

votive sculpture

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

Bust of man; mould-made; his head turned slightly upwards, to his left; he wears a wreath; the cloak is fastened at his right shoulder; three drilled holes are preserved (a fourth was presumably where the plaster replaces the broken-off piece) - one above his right ear and one in either shoulder; no back part. Dark red clay with traces of a white slip.

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