Female Dancing Dwarf

Unknown

mid-18th century · Ivory; base: ivory and wood · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

These figures (see also 1976.422.2a, b) are carved in the back and the front, though not truly in the round. The carver was utilizing as much of the thin part of the tusk as he could to create a three-dimensional image; the dark concave areas on the figures' backs show the remains of the tusk's pulp cavity.

Artist

Unknown

Date

mid-18th century

Medium

Ivory; base: ivory and wood

Culture

German or Netherlandish

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Alfred and Victoria Harris, 1976