Sculpture

Museum number:
1-257129
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Ceramic sculpture “Sentimental Letter” unglazed naked woman, blue bow in long curled glazed hair; glazed blue letter in left hand, glazed finger and toenails, lips and eyes, prominent eyelashes; she leans on tree stump which has flower at base growing from unglazed, oval self stand backed with cork.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
San Carlos, San Mateo County, California
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Maker or artist:
Claire Stewart
Collector:
Ellsworth R. Stewart
Collection date:
June 1969
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Sculpture (visual works)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Nonnative California (archaeology and ethnology)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sculpture, accession number 1-257129, described as Ceramic sculpture “Sentimental Letter” unglazed naked woman, blue bow in long curled glazed hair; glazed blue letter in left hand, glazed finger and toenails, lips and eyes, prominent eyelashes; she leans on tree stump which has flower at base growing from unglazed, oval self stand backed with cork.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sculpture, accession number 1-257129, described as Ceramic sculpture “Sentimental Letter” unglazed naked woman, blue bow in long curled glazed hair; glazed blue letter in left hand, glazed finger and toenails, lips and eyes, prominent eyelashes; she leans on tree stump which has flower at base growing from unglazed, oval self stand backed with cork.

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