5" (13 cm.) Thick amber-tinted beeswax shoulder head of adult woman with slender oval face turned slightly to the side, elongated throat and well-defined throat hollow and bosom, has sculpted hair in very ornate upswept fashion decorated by a sculpted ornament and beads, one curl onto the mid-forehead, with tiny black enamel eyes in modeled eye sockets, closed mouth, one ear sculpted and the other covered by hair. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: the mystery lady is likely French, and although early a precise dating is difficult. Estrid Faurholt in her Book of Dolls and Dollhouses notes that the 18th century is a certainty, adding "unquestionably this wax head is unique with only an artist likely to have created a piece of such delicacy and beauty".