Rafaela De Ascanio
Palette Cleanser, 2023
Glazed earthenware with copper lustre
20 x 15 x 15 cm
Weight: 2 kg.
Weight: 2 kg.
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‘Palette Cleanser’ depicts the goddess Astarte, sitting between two sphinxes and holding a bowl for liquid that pours from the holes in her breasts. She is a goddess of healing,...
‘Palette Cleanser’ depicts the goddess Astarte, sitting between two sphinxes and holding a bowl for liquid that pours from the holes in her breasts. She is a goddess of healing, fertility, sexuality, beauty and war and was worshipped from the Bronze Age through classical antiquity, across cultures from the Phoenicians to Iberia.