Author Topic: 19C Alabaster Cherub Sculpture?  (Read 4774 times)

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Re: 19C Alabaster Cherub Sculpture?
« Reply #15 on: April 16, 2015, 12:39:53 pm »
Take a look at where the finger has been broken off. If is is marble etc it'll still feel rough unless someone has gone to the trouble of smoothing it off, and the 'grain' will look very different.  If not, then it may not be a natural stone