Complement your collection of keepsakes with handmade beauty! The listing is a small handcrafted elephant figurine in soapstone. Protecting the younger one in its tummy, this marvel of a sculpture symbolizes the guardian nature of the mother elephant. Keepers of family tradition that goes back generations, the master artists of Agra, India; the city of Taj Mahal, carve the natural occurring soapstone with hand tools, achieving the intricate jali composition or openwork from a single block of soapstone. Soapstone is a soft stone and perfect for carving.
