A Beautifully Carved Early 18thC Portland Stone Bust of a Young Woman sub-Curios Overall condition is good with

Overall condition is good with very little to report concerning the material

the carving remains in tact and the shaft is in good order though there is no ferrule and both the monkey’s glass eyes are missing

the shape of the skull

The bone is probably animal bone but it is not impossible that it is human

Of a dramatic all-over sunburst geometric design

A Beautifully Carved Early 18thC Portland Stone Bust of a Young Woman sub-Curios Overall condition is good withOrigin: English Period: Early Eighteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1720 1740 Height: 21 inches Width 10 inches Depth: 16 inches In one piece with backstrut, the section projecting on a later base of cement, the carved Portland stone (limestone) bust of a young woman in three quarter relief, wearing a headscarf, her hair centrally parted and arranged in two braids survives from the first half of the eighteenth century. Wonderfully weathered,