The trial piece, also called a sculptor's model, is carved on both sides in very fine-grained almost chalky limestone. On one side is the upper half of a female figure in profile, carved in particularly high relief. She wears a long tripartite wig, pulled back behind her pronounced ear, a knotted ribbon at the back of her head indicates she is wearing a headband. Her facial features, notably her cheek and jaw, are softly rendered. Her slanted eye is outlined with an extended makeup line, her lips are full. Her left arm is held horizontally before her whilst the right is perpendicular to her side, her breast is rounded and above which, at the junction with her neck, there is a curved line indicating that she wears a long-sleeved dress. On the reverse is a male head in profile wearing a wig, surrounded by three ears, all carved in sunk relief. The surface shows areas of dendritic staining. An old collection number written to one edge in black ink 'CV-8-2'. Broken around the edges, the surface worn, otherwise intact.