This is Nielsen's interpretation of a statue thought to illustrate a story from classical antiquity of two girls in Syracuse who were trying to decide which of them had the more shapely buttocks. She is known as "Aphrodite of the Beautiful Buttocks"

Bisque Figurine
"Venus Kalipygos"
by Kai Nielsen (1882-1924) for Ipsen
8-1/2" high

Modeled by Kai Nielsen, Danish painter and sculptor, sometime between 1918-1924, while he worked for Ipsen (P. Ipsen Ene Kgl. Hof. Terracottafabrick 1943-1955)

Ipsen marks impressed into underside of base: Incised into top of base, beneath girl's heel: Venus Kalipygos Kai Nielsen