Carved Marble Alter with Mirror and Praying Bisque Figures in Niches ladies leg horseshoe quite a wonderful piece of

quite a wonderful piece of history

plus charts of common logarithms

which I purchased from a dealer in Maine

each unique

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Carved Marble Alter with Mirror and Praying Bisque Figures in Niches ladies leg horseshoe quite a wonderful piece ofI'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