SOLD Hand-carved Alabaster Dove persimmon And one gets to have

And one gets to have not one but two “My Baby”’s

) 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

5” diameter

SOLD Hand-carved Alabaster Dove persimmon And one gets to haveThe 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