Large Carved Marble Veiled Woman Sculpture with Raised Arm schoenut circus stand image is 5 1/2" x

image is 5 1/2" x 3 7/8"

Drawn in pencil along the top edge of the painting one can just make out “Kikuyu” (though not the the word that follows it)

Sculpted of black clay

And I do think that these white boxes are just right for storing and displaying what is a nice large lot of them

Some light rippling to the pith paper

Large Carved Marble Veiled Woman Sculpture with Raised Arm schoenut circus stand image is 5 1/2" xI purchased this one from an antiques shop in southern Maine that has been the source of many an interesting thing, and she just called to me. I take her as an iteration of a "veiled lady" a subject that became popular in marble sculpture in the 18th century and reached a height of popularity in the form of veiled vestal virgins in the mid to late 19th c.; I had a Grand Tour example a year of two ago. There was a strong connection between these veiled