SculptureGreek4th-1st century BCE
Veiled Female Head
323-31BCE
Description
Female head covered by peplos gathered in folds over forehead and wound across lower right side of face covering mouth. Only eyes and nose are visible. Flat back, broken off unevenly at neck. Hard, pink clay with gray powdery surface.
Dimensions
3.7 x 2.5 cm (1 7/16 x 1 in.)
Provenance
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
Related Artworks
View MoreSculpture
Putto with a Cornucopia
Giuseppe de Levis, 16th century
Bronze, on yellow veined marble socle
16th centuryItalianSculpture
Small Decorative Sculpture in the Form of a Silkworm with Head Raised
Unknown Artist, 3rd-1st century BCE
Gilt bronze
3rd-1st century BCEChinese
Sculpture
Garden Sculpture
Jack Squier, 1956
Bronze
20th centuryAmericanSculpture
Untitled (BMC.119, Early organic biomorphic forms that resemble Asawa's later looped wire sculptures)
Ruth Asawa, 1946-1949
Cut coated papers in brown and white on plywood
20th centuryAmericanSculpture
Head of a Woman
Unknown Artist
Terracotta
GreekSculpture
Standing Bodhisattva, possibly the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Guanyin Pusa), Holding a Rosary
Unknown Artist, 12th century
Gilt bronze
12th centuryChineseSculpture
Head of a Bull
Unknown Artist, c. 500 BCE-200 BCE
Marble
6th-3rd century BCEEgyptianSculpture
Three Standing Buddhist Devotees, One Holding a Processional Censer, the Other Two Each Holding a Lotus Bud
Unknown Artist, 534-550
Sandstone with traces of pigment; from Tianlongshan Cave 3, near Taiyuan, Shanxi province
6th centuryChineseSculpture
Fragment of the Rim of a Large Krater
Unknown Artist, c. 125 CE
Luna marble
2nd century CERomanSculpture
Bust of the Virgin and Child
Unidentified Artist, 19th century
Painted terra cotta
19th centuryItalianSculpture
Cupid and Psyche, after antiquity
Unidentified Artist, 19th century
Plaster
19th centuryItalianSculpture
Fragment of a Small Head of a Woman
Unknown Artist, 325-450 CE
Proconnesian marble
4th-5th century CERoman