Carved Marble Alter with Mirror and Praying Bisque Figures in Niches ladies leg horseshoe sketchbook and watercolor box in

sketchbook and watercolor box in hand

3" w x 3 1/8" l (3 5/8" tongue out) x 2 1/8" diameter wheels

quite a wonderful piece of history

the other side seems once to have had them as well but they were removed

Carved Marble Alter with Mirror and Praying Bisque Figures in Niches ladies leg horseshoe sketchbook and watercolor box inI'm not entirely sure what to make of this one, but I love it a carved marble, tabletop scale sort of shrine or alter, with mirror atop and bisque figures populating its niches, all of them praying. I was told Vermont marble and that the figures were antique Bennington (white ones would be called Parianware I believe) but I'm not sure they could have been made to look older than they are? Whatever the case, a satisfying sort of tabletop architecture