Carved Stone Ladies Boot, 1917 modular earrings this baby's piecing blue eyes

this baby's piecing blue eyes seem as if they are seeing into your soul as they follow you around the room

but revealing the hand of its maker through small imperfections here and there

as surely one never has a shortage of odds and ends that need a home

I especially love the simply carved bird on the top

Carved Stone Ladies Boot, 1917 modular earrings this baby's piecing blue eyesThis charming little silhouette carving of a Victorian style ladies' boot stands up proudly on its own, and features deeply incised then blackened detailing for the laces and across the toe, and then 1917, presumably the year of its making, on both sides. I am not entirely sure of the stone; it may be marble but I'm not quite certain. The white irregularities seem for the most part to be indigenous to the stone rather than dings to the surface, though