A lot of the Indian female sculptures and friezes posted here are of Goddesses, Divinities and Spiritis such as Yakshis, or even Queens and Noble women, these often adhere to a certain idea of beauty, sensuality and fertility, and thus often give an idea of this very 'open' and 'sensual' culture with jewelled beauties lounging about in the palaces or walking in the parks or plazas of some utopian Indian antiquity. In all of this the common, non-divine or non-noble women are lost, what did they do everyday? What did they wear regularly as they went around their work, both within and outside the hoursehold? This broken terracotta art shows a woman from the Gupta period, wearing a tight fitting tunic and trousers, as she goes about her everyday work. As much as bejewelled and bare breasted portrayal might be idealised by the artists, this surviving terracotta artwork depicts a much more common reality of Classical India than the sculptures of Goddesses, Divinities and the Nobility.
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