Large, standing, ceramic, female figure. Highly decorated: long skirt with applied flowers and birds, bodice with face arched over by a garland of braid and flowers set at top of breast. Applied birds and "beads) right her neck. Holds an infant playing a stringed instrument in her left arm, right arm hold a goose & small animal under arm & a basket with flowers, fowl and small animals in right hand. Face is wreathed with braid of flowers & a vessel decorated with flowers and a goose sits atop her head. Markings: J B R V.
Donor:
Steve Vietti
Collection place:
Mexico
Collector:
Arthur B. Waugh Jr. and Richard Vietti
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Figurines and Women (female humans)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
September 29, 2009
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
height 72 centimeters
Loans:
S2010-2011 #8: SFO Museum (June 1, 2011–May 22, 2012)