Wonderful Hand-Carved Marble Drum Stool (?) with Variety of Flowers for the student wish answers and symbols

wish answers and symbols

with some wear and loss of paint at the corners

and I must say I would have liked to spend a lot more arranging and photographing them

" I have found a couple of others pairs out there but have not been able to figure out who the Scher is

one-room shed for his workshop and music studio

Wonderful Hand-Carved Marble Drum Stool (?) with Variety of Flowers for the student wish answers and symbolsI really love this, but am not sure where it came from or exactly how it was intended to be used. The form, and the motifs circling top and bottom, suggest a Chinese marble "drum stool", traditionally used as as a resting spot in a Chinese garden, but this is about half the size of a stool one would sit on, and the carving of the flowers. especially, looks very much like folk art (and really very much like the school girl drawings of flowers I like so