Female Figure

Description A nude female with drapery falling behind her holds a basket. A partridge is shown below within a square. The plaque is semicircular in section and was dyed and is now a warm buff color. It has been broken in half and repaired. Several small sections are lost. There are four original holes for attachment, probably to a piece of furniture. Although from the same object as Walters 71.42, it is of a different color. The partridge often appears in Coptic textiles.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
9/21/1982	Examination	examined for condition

Exhibitions

• Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1947.

Provenance Arthur Smabon, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1930