Female Figure, Probably a Nature Divinity (Yakshi)

Description

This powerful female figure, softly modeled with full volumes, is heavily adorned with jewels and flowers. In her right hand she grasps a fruit and her left rests on her hip. A sense of movement is achieved through her raised left leg, curving pleat lines, swinging beads of her necklace, and her turning head.

Provenance

(William H. Wolff, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?–1973); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1973–)

Female Figure, Probably a Nature Divinity (Yakshi)

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c. 75 BCE

Accession Number

1973.24

Medium

terracotta

Dimensions

Overall: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.)

Classification

Sculpture

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Eleanor and Morris Everett