SculptureRoman?1st century BCE-1st century CE

Statuette of a Hydrophoros or "Water Bearer"

1st century BCE-1st century CE

Description

Made of brown clay with traces of white slip and red paint. The figure stands on a square base holding a jug on her head with her right hand. Her left hand is at her waist buried indrapery. The figure has been broken and mended in several places.

Classification

Sculpture

Technique

Mold-made

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman?

Century

1st century BCE-1st century CE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

18.5 cm (7 5/16 in.)

Related Artworks

Sculpture

Venus after the Bath, after Giambologna

Unidentified Artist, 19th century

Bronze with black-brown patina

19th centuryItalian

Sculpture

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)

Unidentified Artist, 18th-19th century

Bronze

18th-19th centuryFrench

Sculpture

Mercury, after Giambologna

Unidentified Artist, 19th century

Plaster

19th centuryItalian

Sculpture

Figure

Louise Nevelson, 20th century

Plaster with wood base

20th centuryAmerican

Sculpture

Standing Male Figure

Unknown Artist, 14th-13th century BCE

Copper

2nd millennium BCESyro-Hittite

Sculpture

Standing Draped Female Figure, after a Greek original of c. 350 BC

Unknown Artist, 2nd century CE

Marble from Western Asia Minor

2nd century CERoman

Sculpture

SMALL ORNAMENT (SEATED ANIMAL)

Unknown Artist, 20th century

Stone

20th centuryChinese

Sculpture

Sacrificing Woman

Unknown Artist, 3rd-2nd century BCE

Leaded bronze

3rd-2nd century BCEItalic

Sculpture

Seated Bodhisattva Guanyin

Unknown Artist, Wanli period, 1588

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli shiliu nian zhi" on the base

16th centuryChinese