SOLD Hand-carved Alabaster Dove block houses which I think just make

which I think just make it better

It is marked with an "x" on the base and three small pads have been added

with arrows that can be positioned to point straight up or due west

this blushing girl in her fabulous striped dress (with little blue shoe peeking out) bent forward and looking quite contemplative

SOLD Hand-carved Alabaster Dove block houses which I think just makeThe alabaster doves I have foound most similar in manner to this one are later 19th century Italian; whether that is the case here I am not certain, but it certainly seems to have a good amount of age. This one certainly seems poised as if to perch on the edge of an urn and perhaps it once did; there is a little roughness to the flat underside of the feet but not enough to tell me for sure. Whatever the case, I love a dove, and a marble carving, and I