Fantastic Antique Hand-carved, Gilded Folk Art Dove crayon With their sweet faces

With their sweet faces

barely visible

giving a bit of a sense of moody weather while perfectly setting off this wonderfully carved and painted dog

and fit neatly into their own little wooden box

)  Other than the gray seam/basting tape on the inside of the waist of his paints

Fantastic Antique Hand-carved, Gilded Folk Art Dove crayon With their sweet facesI had at first taken this as an eagle, but I am now thinking it must be a dove, looking quite beatific with its wide eyes, smallish beak, and most angelic wings, a symbol of peace and also the Holy Spirit. The examples most similar in manner I have found are 19th century French and French Canadian; this one I found it in an off the beaten path spot in Maine, so perhaps the latter. Based on the holes in its flat back I would think either the topper on