Terracotta Oxen And Cart

19^th Century Company school terracotta oxen and cart museum figure

A rare form of mid-19^th century Company school terracotta figure. With painted detail across the wood and terracotta base, a hand-crafted wood and bamboo cart upon which a terracotta farmer figure is sat. The oxen are painted terracotta with aged loss and repair. The farmer figure is wearing its original cotton clothes.

Highly naturalistic sculptures of this type were made at Krishnanagar, a village near Calcutta, as well as at Hatwa, Datan (near Saran), Muzaffar-pur, Dacca, Burdwan, and later, Lucknow and Poona. Like Company School paintings, these highly naturalistic sculptures prefigure photography and were made as souvenirs for Western patrons as early as the 1820s. Their inspiration seems to have been 18th and 19th Century Neopolitan creche figures. Identical figures can be seen in the Peabody Museum of Salem.

Size in inches approx..: H 9” x W 16” x D 10”

Origin: Krishnanagar, Bengal

Date: 1850

Material: Wood and terracotta

Condition: Aged

Completely solid in structure and form, with aged surfaces and faded paint. Old repairs to the terracotta section with missing detail and surface cracks as shown.

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