Praying Couple and Santo Nino: Antique Mexican Folk Art Ex Voto Retablo on Tin antique chinese expost Made of stoneware and in

Made of stoneware and in great

but have become more so since finding this

I usually leave old stuffed animals to the experts as I know next to nothing about them

after buying and selling a couple of others a few months ago--this one of a bronze gazelle found at Ercolana (Herculaneum)

Ritter also studied at Columbia University and at the Brooklyn Museum School of Art

Praying Couple and Santo Nino: Antique Mexican Folk Art Ex Voto Retablo on Tin antique chinese expost Made of stoneware and inIt's been a little while since I've had a ex voto retablo painting in the shop they seem to be getting evermore precious and hard to come by so I was especially glad to find this beauty in southern Maine this week. Perfectly succinct but full of feeling, with all focus on the thankful couple kneeling beside their simple bed, praying to the Santo Nio de Atocha (Christ child) who floats on a cloud at upper left. Wonderfully painted figures I especially