Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 7. (Budapest, 1964)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM — MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Tóth, Edit: Terracottas from the Gupta Period

left to the thigh. She has a tight dress which goes across the right shoulder down to the left side: it is a costume common in the Gupta period.

10 Both wrists have bracelets. The breasts are prominent and in general her shape is fuller, heavier, than the former one. The form is well-balanced and soft. Her long, slim, elegant limbs are similar to those of the Gupta period. The back of the hand is small, unproportional and contrasts strikingly with the other parts. The Pre-Maurya and Maurya terracottas only indicate the hands and do not portray them in detail: the arms are flat, similar to a ribbon, while the statues of the Sunga period have more proportional arms with primitive, badly formed hands. In the large, fleshyforms of the Kusan period we 10 Agrawala, V. S. : Loc. cit. p. 165.