SOLD Hand-carved Alabaster Dove block houses it measures 1 1/2" off

it measures 1 1/2" off the ground at highest point due to some curvature

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

Lifting the "all seeing eye" ribbon shows the fading of the color

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

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

SOLD Hand-carved Alabaster Dove block houses it measures 1 1/2" offThe 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