Late 19th C. Grand Tour Albumen Photo of Seated Woman (formerly described as Agrippina the Younger), Naples Museum handled vase then varnished

then varnished

2 3/4" diameter x 2 1/16" tall not including stem

together with their very delicate hand-blown forms makes them to my eye super beautiful things

but the equal attention paid to faces and outfits and gestures and hairstyles I think makes them more interesting- perhaps partially a means of veiling or offsetting the former

am thinking the spikes may have been added for stoking and scooping out a  fireplace

Late 19th C. Grand Tour Albumen Photo of Seated Woman (formerly described as Agrippina the Younger), Naples Museum handled vase then varnishedThere is a dealer at an antique mall near Boston I frequent who has been doling out late 19th century Grand Tour albumen prints of sculptures in the collection of the Napoli Museo (National Archaeological Museum of Naples) a few at a time and I keep snapping them up. The marble sculpture here was long thought to portray the Empress Agrippina the Younger, or "Minor" wife of Claudius and mother of Nero but that attribution was changed in the early 20th