A Parian porcelain bust of Princess Alice, daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, her head turned to her right, her hair dressed with a chaplet of full blown roses, wearing a square-necked gown and raised on a turned socle. The rose is a national emblem of England and symbol of purity. This Parian bust is from a marble bust of the same subject commissioned by Queen Victoria in 1861 and executed by the British sculptor Mary Thornycroft and according to the Art Journal on 1st April…