Votive sculpture “Woman”

Clay votive offerings representing an affliction in miniature had already been sacrificed in antiquity. In the Catholic Church, votive offerings were usually deposited as a plea for recovery or thanks for a cure, and involved threedimensional representations of the respective disorders. Internal organs such as the heart, lung or uterus were frequently carved from wood, votive offerings showing animals or humans often from metal. The production of votive offerings made from wax using wooden moulds has continued to this day.