Inherited a female bust
 

Inherited the sculpture, the female bust.
Please help me understand what it is, where and how much can it cost.
Material, marble (probably) very heavy.
Size is approximately life-size

do not bust, unfortunately.
Only a woman's head.

Medea, I guess.

inherited a woman's bust
 
:D "Posh header, uniquely in the annals!

Character and the school is difficult to determine.

Time - the end 19 - early 20 th century, probably.

Although it is possible and that the first half of the 19 th.

By referring to is the image of noble ladies, gone, possibly a nun. This story is suitable for the founder of Martha and Mary Convent in Moscow. You need to go to any major museum for attribution (unless it is not defined as a conscious remake-fraud) you need to state the exact provenance of sculpture.

Has nothing to do.
To the Orthodox Church's for sure.

PS: Pay attention to your hair ....
from under cover.
Nonsense!

Of course, what a nun!?
 
Shawl on her head wound completely in certain ways.

Something short-east, such as Palestine

That it rented to me .....

Not from the grave is pulled.

Although I can be wrong.

With the SW ....

Judging by the highly polished shiny surface, I would say that the thing started HH1 century.
:)