Antique Carved Marble Doorstop with Porcelain Handle 1900s surely an instructor wrote it

surely an instructor wrote it the first time at the top

) I spend half my preparing boxes to bring them

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

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

Really quite a lovely sculptural object

Antique Carved Marble Doorstop with Porcelain Handle 1900s surely an instructor wrote itI'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