Veiled Dancer | Vintage Metropolitan Museum of Art Replica

This is a beautiful vintage resin replica from the Metropolitan Museum of Art store. What age do you think she is? She is astonishingly modern. She could be late Victorian… but this figure dates to around the year 2 or 3 BC! She is thought to depict a well-known Alexandrian dancer and mime. Per the Met:

”The complex motion of this dancer is conveyed exclusively through the interaction of the body with several layers of dress. Over an undergarment that falls in deep folds and trails heavily, the figure wears a lightweight mantle, drawn tautly over her head and body by the pressure applied to it by her right arm, left hand, and right leg. Its substance is conveyed by the alternation of the tubular folds pushing through from below and the freely curling softness of the fringe. The woman's face is covered by the sheerest of veils, discernible at its edge below her hairline and at the cutouts for the eyes. Her extended right foot shows a laced slipper. This dancer has been convincingly identified as one of the professional entertainers, a combination of mime and dancer, for which the cosmopolitan city of Alexandria was famous in antiquity.”

She measures about 8” tall, exactly like the original ancient bronze.