Four Wings and a Prayer! Wonderful Old Snapshot of Angel Girls, Presumed Portuguese old carving I'm not entirely sure if

I'm not entirely sure if the beetle itself was perfect to begin with

Not a flaw anywhere on it that I can see

17 1/2" w x 18" t and in very good condition

with wide bowl rising gracefully from cylindrical body

Four Wings and a Prayer! Wonderful Old Snapshot of Angel Girls, Presumed Portuguese old carving I'm not entirely sure ifTo my sensibilities a completely perfect snapshot, capturing a specific fleeting moment but also totally transcendent. And between those blacks and whites and grays, the geometries of doors and frames and horizontals beams, and the outwardly arching wings and inwardly arching praying hands, it really could not be formally and compositionally better. And both like a vision and a film still. Handwriting in what I believe is Portuguese on reverse, but I