- Title:
- A female figure being hairdressed
- Object name(s):
- Figure group
- Brief description:
- Partly moulded and hand-modelled terracotta figures of a woman dressing another's hair. The woman whose hair is being dressed is sitting with a child at her breast. A mould has been used for the faces and the rest has been hand-modelled. White mica has been applied to the figures as a ground, over which a black pigment has been used to outline and accentuate the figures' details. Such figures are often sold in a mela (fair) as a toy.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Ceramics
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AF3972/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 11.5
- Dimension:
- Length
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 15.3
- Material:
- Clay
- Material:
- paint
- Object history note:
- Received as a gift from J.C. Irwin.
- Object name:
- Figure group
- Object number:
- IS.127-1952
- Object production date:
- ca.1943
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1938-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1947-12-31
- Object production note:
- West Bengal
- Object production person:
- unknown
- Object production place:
- Murshidabad (district)
- Place association:
- made
- Physical description:
- Partly moulded and hand-modelled terracotta figures of a woman dressing another's hair. The woman whose hair is being dressed is sitting with a child at her breast. A mould has been used for the faces and the rest has been hand-modelled. White mica has been applied to the figures as a ground, over which a black pigment has been used to outline and accentuate the figures' details. Such figures are often sold in a mela (fair) as a toy.
- Reproduction number:
- 2006AF3972
- Responsible department/section:
- SSEA
- Technique:
- fired
- Technique:
- Painted terracotta
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Arts of Bengal : the heritage of Bangladesh and eastern India : an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum : 9 November-30 December 1979, Whitechapel Art Gallery ..., 12 January-17 February 1980, Manchester City Art Gallery ... . [London]: Whitechapel Art Gallery, [1979] Number: 085488047X (pbk.) :
- User's reference:
- Reference details:
- p.59
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/29feb89d-9116-3927-a1de-b081518ecfe1, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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