THREE TERRACOTTA FIGURINES
INDIA, CIRCA 2000 BC
£1,071
Auction: Indian Paintings from the Collection of William & Mildred Archer | Lots 84 to 152 | 12 June at 10am
Description
comprising a Harappan figure of a bull, a female bust and a female figure sitting on a stool
Dimensions
largest 15.5cm (6 1/8in) high
Footnote
Note:
Two of the three terracotta figurines are referred to by Mildred Archer in her chapter on their time in Patna (see William and Mildred Archer, India Served and Observed, 1994, pp 93-94). Mildred mentions these figurines as sitting on the mantelpiece whilst she is writing the chapter. The figurines belong to a group that were frequently washed up on the banks of the river Ganges and that the locals would collect. A large collection of these is in the Bihar Museum.