Wonderful Small Stone Carved Kneeling Figure with Raised Arm great old tool box 25" or so in height)

25" or so in height)

This drawing I believe dates to the very early 20th c

especially as a means of decorating household items

she takes refuge in a print shop

Really terrific

Wonderful Small Stone Carved Kneeling Figure with Raised Arm great old tool box 25" or so in height)Among my favorite little finds ever, this curious small stone carved figure, I think perhaps meant to represent an athlete of some sort but I'm not entirely sure. He appears to have a carved signature on the underside, which looks to read DWP and perhaps 95, which I have to think, if a year, would be 1895. I think his face is terrific, and for me his posture embodies a sense of readiness and forward looking, with the right had about to push off from