A devotional figure of fired clay about four inches high, pressed from a mould rather than modelled, so that a village potter can turn out a hundred in a week for a festival. The moulding is soft and the glaze often careless, but that is not what it is bought for. Such icons stand in the niche by a door, ride wrapped in cloth in a traveller’s pack, and are buried with their owners.
Icon, religious, ceramic, sm
Small fired-clay devotional figure for a household shrine or a traveller's pack.