Lot Essay
The present figure would appear to be by the same hand as a statuette representing Vanity from the Untermyer Collection, which shares its highly distinctive facial type and exuberantly carved hair. It has been argued by Hackenbroch (loc. cit.) that the latter was produced in Nuremberg, by analogy with two further figures representing Cleopatra and Lucretia in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich, attributed by Bange to the Master P.E. of Nuremberg (Bange, loc. cit.).