Large Carved Marble Veiled Woman Sculpture with Raised Arm schoenut circus stand Drawn in pencil along the

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

Sold in the inexpensive frame I found it in: 21 1/2" x 16 1/8"

which has a bit of a sheen to it

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 Drawn in pencil along theI 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