Cleveland Museum of Art

Female Figure, Probably a Nature Divinity (Yakshi)

Date

c. 75 BCE

Medium

terracotta

Culture

India, Shunga period (185–78 BCE)

Department

Indian and Southeast Asian Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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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