Statuetta carved and modeled by Edith Annie Laidman.
Dafne figure of naked girl absorbed on laurel session, surrounded by pelicans and parrots.
Edith Annie Laidman (1880-1943) was a painter, a sculptor and ceramist born in Muzaffarnagar, a district of the state of the Uttar Pradesh in northern India, where his father, a public official, worked in the Indian government.
Dafne derives from Greek mythology. Nymph Naiade was the daughter of a river God, who turns into a laurel tree to escape Apollo's advances.