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<p>[QUOTE="smallaxe, post: 3782956, member: 13430"]This was my mom's and a favorite of hers. I'm trying to understand what it is, but it's an area I don't know much about. She got it in the late 1960's or early 1970's in the USA. She always just called it "Turkey Girl". I haven't found something similar to its design. I can find no markings of any kind, including underneath, although the middle lighter grey marble base is firmly attached to the sculpture. I'm pretty confident it's carved, not cast.</p><p><br /></p><p>In looking at other things in this forum, my guess is that it's Italian alabaster sculpture from some workshop that knocked these sort of things out in quantity, and not of great monetary value. Am I correct? Anything else useful to know about it? Fortunately, it does have much sentimental value, and I find it pleasing look at.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]315937[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]315938[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]315939[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="smallaxe, post: 3782956, member: 13430"]This was my mom's and a favorite of hers. I'm trying to understand what it is, but it's an area I don't know much about. She got it in the late 1960's or early 1970's in the USA. She always just called it "Turkey Girl". I haven't found something similar to its design. I can find no markings of any kind, including underneath, although the middle lighter grey marble base is firmly attached to the sculpture. I'm pretty confident it's carved, not cast. In looking at other things in this forum, my guess is that it's Italian alabaster sculpture from some workshop that knocked these sort of things out in quantity, and not of great monetary value. Am I correct? Anything else useful to know about it? Fortunately, it does have much sentimental value, and I find it pleasing look at. [ATTACH=full]315937[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]315938[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]315939[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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