Woman Body For Vase Mode 0 1lh0 55extr

Stripped back to a silhouette, the female torso has been a staple of decorative sculpture for well over a century — Brancusi and Arp at one end, the smooth ceramic figures that fill every homeware shop at the other. This piece sits in that tradition: a stylised body form running from the shoulders down through the curve of the waist and hips, abstracted rather than anatomical, closer to a shape than a portrait. Where it goes is the easy part. A mantelpiece, a hall table, a bedroom dresser, a shelf that needs something with vertical weight to break up a run of books. Dried grasses and bare stems suit it, though it holds its own with nothing in it at all. For anyone furnishing a room with printed pieces rather than bought ones, it does the job a small statue usually does — catches the eye, then stays quiet.