Helen of Troy
 
Size option: 5cm high
 
The item is supplied unpainted and in an off white almost alabaster type resin finish. It will be supplied ready for tidying which will mean small nodules will need to be sanded or snapped off - this is super easy to do and takes just a minute or two.
 
"In Greek mythology Helen was the daughter of the god Jupiter and was famed for her great beauty. Jupiter, taking the form of a swan, seduced Leda, who gave birth to Helen from an egg, as well as Clytemnestra and Castor and Pollux, hence the eggshell seen here on Helen's head. Helen was married to Menelaus the King of Sparta. Whilst her husband was away, she was abducted by the Trojan prince Paris, to whom she was later married. So began a long war between the Greeks and Trojans. A number of other versions of this head are known, one of which is in the Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice. It was seen by the poet Lord Byron in 1812, who wrote:‘In this beloved marble viewAbove the works and thoughts of Man,What nature could, but would not, doAnd beauty and Canova can! 
Another version is in the collection of Lord Londonderry, having been presented to Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, later 2nd Marquess of Londonderrry, in 1816 (see 'Canova Ideal Heads', ed. K. Eustace (exh. cat.), The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1997, pp. 84-5, cat. no. 4). The V&A's Helen was presented to the Museum by the National Portrait Gallery in 1930, having been purchased at auction for its pedestal in 1929 from Stratton Park, Hampshire". 
Ref: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O127047/bust-canova-antonio/helen-of-troy-bust-canova-antonio/