Saturday, February 22, 2014

The Lovely Ladies

So far I've found a number of "lovely ladies" -- statues of women that are all, most likely, part of other things.

The first is Athena in triplicate, part of a gas light set. I'm not quite sure yet how all the pieces fit together. It's a project for whoever buys it.

Detail of Athena gas light set.



The next is a small statue of a Greek figure, perhaps Aphrodite after being given the golden apple by Paris.

A classic Greco-Roman style figure, holding an apple in one hand.


There are screw holes and two screws in the base of the statue.
I don't yet know if whatever it was she stood on is here. It might be.


The next two ladies seem like the sort of sculptures you'd find on a mantle clock. Again, I have not yet matched them up to anything else.

This piece seems fairly complete at first: sculptural figure on a base.
From this view, it's clear that she was meant to be holding something.
There was nothing else in the box in which she was packed.


Whatever she was holding, she was certainly staring intently at it!


The fourth lady is the goat girl, as I call her. She's my favorite.

The newspaper she was wrapped in gives you a sense of scale. The details are exquisite, far better than what you would find on the average figural clock sculpture. Perhaps she goes with something else, or perhaps she is a stand-alone art object.

Detail view of her hair and floral hair ornaments.
Detail of the flower in her hand (which the goat is eyeing hungrily).





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