Cornélie Caroline “Cox” van Asch van Wijck was a Dutch sculptor and glass designer, born in Arnhem in 1900 and active mainly in The Hague before her early death at Kasteel Soelen in 1932. Trained by the sculptor Toon Dupuis, she belongs to the generation of women artists who helped expand Dutch decorative arts between the wars.

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Our Female Head, executed in frosted transparent glass, is among her most characteristic works. The face is reduced to essential planes, with closed eyes, a straight nose, a small composed mouth, and a smooth oval contour framed by stylised hair or a veil. The features are calm and introspective, giving the object the presence of a mask or votive image. Although modest in scale, the work has a distinctly sculptural authority.

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The frosted surface softens the light and gives the glass an almost stone-like quality, while its translucency preserves a sense of inner luminosity. This tension between solidity and fragility is central to the object’s appeal. Van Asch van Wijck’s female heads belong to the Art Deco taste for stylisation, serenity, and archaic beauty, yet they remain strikingly modern in their economy of line and their meditative character.