SOLD Hand-carved Alabaster Dove persimmon 5” diameter

5” diameter

with some fading to the green on the underside

and of just the right scale

the village on the Hudson which changed its name to Ossining in 1901 to separate itself from the notorious prison

SOLD Hand-carved Alabaster Dove persimmon 5” diameterThe 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