Wonderful Hand-Carved Marble Drum Stool (?) with Variety of Flowers storage 8 1/16" t x 1

8 1/16" t x 1 7/8" w x 1" d

so will include it unless you prefer otherwise

I actually think he may once have been a bunny

1870s or so--is so finely done

or whether it was made by

Wonderful Hand-Carved Marble Drum Stool (?) with Variety of Flowers storage 8 1/16" t x 1I really love this, but am not sure where it came from or exactly how it was intended to be used. The form, and the motifs circling top and bottom, suggest a Chinese marble "drum stool", traditionally used as as a resting spot in a Chinese garden, but this is about half the size of a stool one would sit on, and the carving of the flowers. especially, looks very much like folk art (and really very much like the school girl drawings of flowers I like so