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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 634579, member: 2844&quot;]Welcome Geralt. She is lovely.</p><p>Are you in the Netherlands or Belgium, by any chance?</p><p>I can&#039;t find E. Schillemans, but that is another Dutch/Flemish name. There is a Dutch art historian Robert Schillemans, maybe a relative?</p><p><br /></p><p>This looks like a statue from the early Dutch &#039;Het Rijke Roomse Leven&#039; period. &#039;Het Rijke Roomse Leven&#039; was the Catholic revival from 1860-1960, after Dutch Catholics had been given back their rights and places of worship.</p><p>Much of the art for the new (old) churches was in the Gothic Revival and other Historic Revival styles of the time, but there was always something &#039;sweet&#039; about them, and they generally have extra shading in folds etc.</p><p>In the 1960s many statues were thrown out of the churches, in a rigorous &#039;out with the old, in with the new&#039; art cleansing fashion.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The Madonna you are asking about was probably inspired by an Italian Madonna, and made in the second half of the 19th century.</p><p>The other two look roughly the same period. The one at the back could be a copy of a Medieval southern Dutch&nbsp; Madonna. The other one with the lamb is classic Rijke Roomse Leven, she is the most recent of the lot.</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like the lion leg of the stool is another colour than the rest of the stool, maybe that is just the photo.</p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/569283dd-6d48-4a75-ac46-391ad0710410-jpeg.182659/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/8f277c8b-ed64-4d9e-86fb-5a30e728e7cb-jpeg.182660/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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