Carved Marble Alter with Mirror and Praying Bisque Figures in Niches miniature wooden objects Though carved of wood

Though carved of wood

Confident and mysterious and I can't stop looking at it

and the most incredible hand-sewn mending I've ever seen

and far more charming

I think he was a really good painter

Carved Marble Alter with Mirror and Praying Bisque Figures in Niches miniature wooden objects Though carved of woodI'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