Large Carved Marble Veiled Woman Sculpture with Raised Arm red box very early 19th c

very early 19th c

or perhaps Dutch to me

A great one for greeting visitors near the front door

There is a fair amount of wear to the paint

with they do just fine though at slightly varying angles

Large Carved Marble Veiled Woman Sculpture with Raised Arm red box very early 19th cI 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