A Very Good 19thC French White Marble Bust of a Working Class Boy by Aimé-Jules Dalou c.1860-80 antiques This box is beautifully crafted

This box is beautifully crafted

intricately detailed and well-proportioned piece of religious jewellery

The oil on board presented in a distressed powder blue painted and gilt frame signed with the monogram SS lower right

The weathering is in keeping with them having been outside for a number of years

5 inches X Depth: 14

A Very Good 19thC French White Marble Bust of a Working Class Boy by Aimé-Jules Dalou c.1860-80 antiques This box is beautifully craftedOrigin: French Period: Mid Late 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1860 80 Width: 13 Depth: 7 Height: 17 (all at extremities) The evocative carved and weathered white marble bust showing the head and shoulders of a working class young boy, aged around ten, in a baker boy or flat cap, his eyes closed and his mouth wide open in exclamation, surviving from the middle period of nineteenth century France and signed Dalou to the rear for Aim Jules Dalou