SOLD Hand-carved Alabaster Dove persimmon ) Tiny hairline split just

) Tiny hairline split just to the rear of the tape opening

and of just the right scale

Arms and legs are attached by nails and move easily

with wear to the paint on the base as evident and a bit of loss to his cream colored paint in a few posts along with a little crazing

I just love these little tin boats

SOLD Hand-carved Alabaster Dove persimmon ) Tiny hairline split justThe 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