Bust of a woman wearing a polos

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Photograph by David Revette.
Bust of a woman wearing a polos
Photograph by David Revette.
Artist/Maker
Datedate unknown
MediumTerracotta
DimensionsOverall: 11 × 8 3/4 × 4 1/2 in. (27.9 × 22.2 × 11.4 cm)
Credit LineHamilton College Collection
Object numberINV.542
On view
DescriptionComplete, but mended at some point in the past. Hollow, with irregular hole cut in back of head. Back of figure unmodelled. Wearing polos; hair parted in center and drawn back over lower edge of polos, straight at part, elaborately wavy at sides. Slab forehead; large eyes with heavy lids, straight nose, full lips, heavy chin; earlobes represented by flat disks below hair. Folds of neck modeled; necklage of beads at base of neck. Mold app. finely modelled face; rest of bust left quite plain and unmodelled.

Additional Details

Alternate Titles Bust of a woman wearing a polos
Exhibition History 2015
Clinton, NY (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College). "Seek and Find," September 1, 2015 - August 2016 (no cat., brochure).
Provenance by c. 1960s: Hamilton College;
remaining provenance unknown
Markings Label: adhesive label with typeset "730" on front at neckline.
Signature Not signed.
Inscribed "[illegible] / TM 041" at upper back of figure [upside down] in pencil.
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Details
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