Old Carved Beauty a la Venus de Milo pressing tool Clerk: 'I'm not asleep

Clerk: 'I'm not asleep

It looks to me that the portrait was carved separately and then mounted to the panel on which it sits

the other a V for Victory

A bit of spotting on her face and body

A charmer of a letter opener I think

Old Carved Beauty a la Venus de Milo pressing tool Clerk: 'I'm not asleepPure love for this one, who seems likely to have been carved to inspire lust as well! Surely she was carved after the Venus de Milo, with a socket for one on one side and a smooth stub on the other, though she is missing a drape over her lower half! (There are two holes in her backside, suggesting perhaps she once had one, or was mounted to something, I'm not certain.) The manner in which her exposed legs terminate in points only enhances her grace,