It's Vietnamese, bronze. Circa 1930-1950. About 10" in height. Marking is in Chinese scripts for L'Ecole de Beaux Arts de Bien Hoa. The marking of the lady head is for Minh Tam atelier. Author: Le Van Mau (1917-2003) Reference: Sculpture, The Culture - Letters & Arts Publishing House, 1st QTR, 2012
Welcome to the forum, Vietartiques. Thank you very much for all this information. We got as far as Vietnam, but that was it, apparently. Does this mean that all sculptures in this thread were wrongly attributed to Nguyen Than Le, or just this particular girl. I think she is the nicest one.