Grand Tour Carved Alabaster Statue of Veiled Lady with Book 1860s drawing opens and closes with ease

opens and closes with ease and key turns great

Plus rosy pink stitching around the edges and buttons for flourish in the corners--and lots of carefully arranged pins and needles

perhaps this one most of all

albeit containing its original pewter canisters inside

as if needing to be reminded over and over

Grand Tour Carved Alabaster Statue of Veiled Lady with Book 1860s drawing opens and closes with easeThis one! (Forgive the poor photos, I find it so difficult to photograph near white.) I am pretty certain this veiled lady is Grand Tour Italian (meaning, essentially, made as a souvenir for young aristocrats of the 18th and 19th c. making cultural tours of Europe and collecting along the way.) Classically inspired carved Italian marble sculptures of veiled figures had become popular in the 18th century, in significant part as a means for sculptors to