That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 03, 2020

Sabina was good as any of the men stonemasons but she only was paid 75% of what they were paid.

At first the sculpture was going to be a male figure, but there was an unfortunate slip of the chisel.

Meanwhile, the crew in the back just pulled in three times as much, selling a countertop.

Helen was commissioned to sculpt a vase of flowers, but she was easily distracted.

Dale’s reputation as a sculptor (sculptress) was marred by the fact that people referred to her as Chippin’ Dale.

And when she misplaced two fine marble plaques, they said she had lost her marbles.

Favorite tune at work: Queen’s “We will rock you!”

the boys always joked that the stone mason had stones missin’…

Very early 3 D printer.

((“It’s perfect, nothing more needed to do. Oh, just this little bit and I’m finished.”))

Model Josephine uses a vase of flowers to mark her spot while she takes a bathroom break.

Sabina decided to spruce up the office with some plants.

You broke it, you bought it.

Even her statue had to admire the flowers.

While others chose to work with soft molding clay, Sabina decided to make her living the hard way.

I think you would be even faster if you use a hammer instead of a tin cup.

“’Round here, we make our own Justice.”

So … heads or tails?

The garb is female, the arms and wrists are male, the face is … well, it IS, I will acknowledge “a face.”

Beyond that, I am gabberflasted and cornflused.

An early period abstract sculpture of a vase full of flowers.

“Well, I got a hammer / And I got a stone to carve / And I got marble chips / All over the floor . . . .” (With apologies to Pete Seeger.)

The lady’s a whiz with the chisel/ but her hopes are quite likely to fizzle/ she competes with some male/ by comparison, pale/ and her prospects won’t flourish – but his’ll !

Pounding Paula’s skills had improved immensely from her first effort – the chair upon which she is sitting.

What exactly is that angular thing over the statue’s shoulder? A carrying handle?

Sabina von Steinbach or Sabina von Steinbach chisels the Statue of the Synagogue: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1844_Schwind_Sabina_von_Steinbach_anagoria.JPG 

(best viewed by Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/schwind_moritz_von.html 

https://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Moritz_von_Schwind/11144559/Moritz_von_Schwind.aspx 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/s/schwind/biograph.html 

https://modjourn.org/biography/schwind-moritz-von-1804-1871/ 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20347842/moritz-von-schwind 

https://prabook.com/web/moritz.von_schwind/3730326 

http://www.all-art.org/neoclasscism/romantic_era2.html 

https://www.biographien.ac.at/oebl/oebl_S/Schwind_Moritz_1804_1871.xml 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Chrome can translate as necessary, and askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. First work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2419 (April 2, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Michaelangelo’s daughter, Lucretia, was a chip off the old block. Unfortunately, her garden gnome sculptures always got out of hand.

1 hour? Is that sandstone?

Meanwhile, what’s going on with ‘Mr. Hat-Hair’ in the background?

I thought about ordering a statue from Stonecrafters, but found out they’re a bunch of chiselers.

There once was a mason named Jackie/Whose figurines looked kind of tacky/to not be unkind/She put on them a blind/And her patrons’ said “Jackie, that’s wacky!”

There once was a mason named Earl/who’s couture looked like that of a girl./when addressed, folks said ‘hey sister’/ Earl said, ‘no, I’m a mister!’/and with that, Earl became quite a churl.

making a life sized model will not get flesity out of chamber pot duty.

she was crossed eyed ,she was going to sculp the flowers.

“Oh a chiseler eh?” Moe Howard

just leave off the arms thats how it will be found in a couple hundred years.

Graffiti, before the spray can.