Description

Painted ceramic figure of a woman. Atop her head there is a red basket with 6 pieces of round fruit painted in various bright colours. Her left hand is upraised to support the fruit. In the crook of her right arm is another basket, with a handle, containing purple fruit with green stems. The woman has black curly hair that falls down her back in two braids. Between the braids, there is a slit into which coins can be inserted. The woman’s face has been unevenly painted with two different skin tones. She has rosy pink cheeks. The woman wears gold earrings and a gold necklace and wears a white short-sleeved blouse with red and green embroidery around the neck and the sleeves. Overtop of the blouse, there is a sleeveless v-neck poncho with an asymmetrical hem with a fringe around the edge. The top half of the poncho has a pattern with red, yellow, blue and brown stripes and black dots. The lower portion of the poncho has a pattern with blue, black, red and brown cross-hatching over a yellow background. Her skirt is wide, yellow and A-line. Along the bottom edge of the skirt there is a green, blue, pink and red design with flowers. The woman’s small feet are visible beneath her skirt, wearing blue shoes with yellow dots. She stands on a green base. The bottom of the figure is indented; the edge is painted orange. There is a small hole in the bottom.