Carved Stone Ladies Boot, 1917 vessel with face 5 3/4" across with handles

5 3/4" across with handles

The bowl measures 9 1/2” across at widest and 5 1/2” tall

and I will continue to hunt for more of the like as I am completely in love with them

and that this brush was for cleaning the spokes of an old bike

Carved Stone Ladies Boot, 1917 vessel with face 5 3/4" across with handlesThis charming little silhouette carving of a Victorian style ladies' boot stands up proudly on its own, and features deeply incised then blackened detailing for the laces and across the toe, and then 1917, presumably the year of its making, on both sides. I am not entirely sure of the stone; it may be marble but I'm not quite certain. The white irregularities seem for the most part to be indigenous to the stone rather than dings to the surface, though