SOLD Hand-carved Alabaster Dove persimmon Arms and legs are attached

Arms and legs are attached by nails and move easily

I just love these little tin boats

and of just the right scale

5” diameter

SOLD Hand-carved Alabaster Dove persimmon Arms and legs are attachedThe 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