Grand Tour Carved Alabaster Statue of Veiled Lady with Book lock shaped key holder 7" long x 3 13/16"

7" long x 3 13/16" wide x 7/18" thick

perhaps the perfect frame for a portrait of a lost love

with the sides of the darker joined by nails and the lighter with lovely dovetail joints

Then there is the sleeve

and quite a surprise when opened

Grand Tour Carved Alabaster Statue of Veiled Lady with Book lock shaped key holder 7" long x 3 13/16"This 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