Indian Soap Dish with Duck Motif

A duck with its bill open, as if mid-quack, carrying a dish where its back should be.

This soap dish with duck motif is from Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, and is contemporary, carved in marble. Jaipur's stone carvers are known across India for animal forms and decorative marble work, a craft that has long served temples, palaces and homes alike. The bird's body is hollowed into a long, shallow dish, with folded wings carved in overlapping leaf-like feathers along the sides. A curved neck lifts the head forward, with a carved eye and open bill. The whole rests on a stepped square pedestal. The white marble is faintly veined. It is 13.5 inches wide, 8 deep and 7 high.

Possibly the most composed duck in Rajasthan.