Large Carved Marble Veiled Woman Sculpture with Raised Arm schoenut circus stand Sculpted of black clay

Sculpted of black clay

with the red cheeks

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

which I especially love for the pips (the lush red and shape of shape of these hearts makes me swoon

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

Large Carved Marble Veiled Woman Sculpture with Raised Arm schoenut circus stand Sculpted of black clayI 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