Pandora in the Brooklyn Museum, August 2007

Accession # 06.146
Artist: Chauncey Bradley Ives
Title: Pandora
Date: 1871
Medium: Marble
Dimensions Statue: 58 x 17 x 16 3/4 in. (147.3 x 43.2 x 42.5 cm) Height of pedestal: 31 3/8 in. (79.7 cm)
Signed: Incised on edge of base at proper left: "C. B. IVES / FECIT / ROMÆ 1871"
Credit Line: Bequest of Caroline H. Polhemus
Location: American Identities: Art Making / Centennial Era

Description: Figure of idealized nude female standing in contrapposto pose and looking down at octagonal jar she holds in her proper left hand, proper right hand raised near jar, cloth held over left arm drapes around left side of body and falls to floor, figure stands on round plinth.

Condition: Good, missing pinky and ring finger of proper right hand, few pock marks overall.

Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/research/luce/object.php?id=13399