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Female Figure, Probably a Nature Divinity (Yakshi)
c. 75 BC
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: Female Figure, Probably a Nature Divinity (Yakshi)
- Date Created: c. 75 BC
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: (William H. Wolff, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.24
- Medium: terracotta
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Culture: India, Shunga Period (c. 187-78 BC)
- Credit Line: Gift of Eleanor and Morris Everett
- Collection: Indian Art - Sunga
- Accession Number: 1973.24
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