Mother and Child diorama

Item

Artist

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

Title

Mother and Child diorama

Date

1895

Medium

painted plaster

Dimensions

15.75 x 15.9 x 1.25”

Accession Number

2006.297

Description

Square shaped piece with three cut out arched sections with columns. Each arch section contains a raised figure/s. The middle section is a standing mother holding baby both with halos. Left side arch contains three kneeling angels facing the middle and right side arch contains three kneeling angels facing the middle. Above the arches is a rectangular section with four arched windows atop it. The areas outside the bottom three arches is highly textured.
Etched lower left corner on bottom " 1895"