This unusual figure is rendered with extreme simplicity and enormous charm. Nude, saved for a jeweled collar, it is of no particular age, class or gender. Yet people at any...
This unusual figure is rendered with extreme simplicity and enormous charm. Nude, saved for a jeweled collar, it is of no particular age, class or gender. Yet people at any time and from any culture would immediately recognize the essential humanity of this piece. It epitomizes something timeless, something fundamental. As we hold it in our hands, we recognize that those who held it long ago felt many of the same things we do today. No matter what other changes progress brings, humanity remains basically the same.