Teacher with students

NameFemale figure

Maker Noemisa Batista dos Santos

Date1998

Place madeCaraí, Minas Gerais, Brazil, South America

MediumCeramic, slips, stain

Dimensions12 1/8 × 7 7/8 × 6 1/8 in. (30.8 × 20 × 15.5 cm)

Credit LineGift of Antonio C. La Pastina and Dale A. Rice

Terms

Caraí

Object numberA.2013.30.14

DescriptionA woman stands to the proper right of a table with "books" upon it. To the proper left are two female students seated on a bench. A chair is placed in front of the teacher who points to a board on a tubular support located behind the table. On the board are applied words in white. The chair, table, and all dresses are brown; skin is a creamy apricot color, as is the floor/base. Applied decorations on dresses are brown, over which is a fugitive white slip, which also is written/drawn on the books, chair, "blackboard" and table-top sides. Signed on base bottom in brown "Noemisa Batista dos Santos."