Royal Female Donor

Description

Carrying a lamp in one hand, this female figure draped in finery was probably included as the donor of a sculptural group. She wears a complex headdress consisting of a network of beads and plaques joined together, ending in a bell at her forehead and crowning a long cloth that reaches to her waist. Her position on a lotus flower may indicate the transcendent state she attained as a result of the karmic merit of her donation.

Provenance

Mrs. Stanley A. [Sarita Hopkins] Weeks [1913–2004], Jamestown, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art (?–1978); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1978–)

Royal Female Donor

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c. 1500

Accession Number

1978.89

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

Overall: 15.4 cm (6 1/16 in.)

Classification

Sculpture

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Gift from Sarita Hopkins Weeks in Memory of her Mother Sara Sessions Hopkins