Antique Carved Marble Doorstop with Porcelain Handle 1900s is a terrific example

is a terrific example

I assume this is an ice fishing scene

Really quite a lovely sculptural object

When I bring a bunch of stuff home from a picking excursion

with wear to the leather more on one side than the other

Antique Carved Marble Doorstop with Porcelain Handle 1900s is a terrific exampleI've definitely got a thing for carved marble folk art objects in part I think because they embody the democratization of a material with very grand historical associations. And hard to get much more democratic than a doorstop! This is a pretty matter of fact one, but with nicely carved corners and this great zig zag sort of detailing around the perimeter of the top and each side. Definitely well used, with a porcelain pull for carrying it from one