A very fine pair of neo-classical carved white marble sculptures in the form of a mummy, Italian or French late 18th century

each depicting a standing female figure with a tasselled drapery headress, the body swathed in plaited drapery with sandles on her feet, on a plinth base mounted with  roundel depicting the mask of  Hercules

Published:
Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, Roma e il Regno delle due Sicilie, Vol. II, Milan, 1984, p. 117, fig.251, catalogued as French.

Comparative Literature:
Jean-Marcel Humbert, L’égyptomanie dans l’art occidental, Paris, 1989, p. 98, for an engraving by Piranesi, Rome, circa 1769, with various decorative elements for a fireplace including a female mummy, which illustrates the taste for these type of figures-reproduced here in fig.1. Also see a related Egyptian female mummy in painted and gilded wood, illustrated by Humbert, op. cit., p. 99.