Lady With Veiled Hat Marble Bust Sculpture - 65cm Elephants with sapphire-blue and emerald-green crystal

with sapphire-blue and emerald-green crystal forms catching light at every facet

while the raised white texture zones are built up in dimensional relief against the cream felt ground

but a sculpted tableau

orangeries

The illusion only resolves when the viewer stands directly in front of the piece — from oblique angles the slats read as pure vertical pattern

Lady With Veiled Hat Marble Bust Sculpture - 65cm Elephants with sapphire-blue and emerald-green crystalDescription The Lady With Veiled Hat Marble Bust Sculpture is a 65cm hand carved natural marble bust depicting a woman wearing a veil, rendered in the finest white statuary marble. The composition captures the subject with extraordinary fidelity delicate facial features visible beneath the fine folds of the veil, which fall naturally across the face and shoulders with a translucent, almost weightless quality that belies the solidity of the stone