Praying Couple and Santo Nino: Antique Mexican Folk Art Ex Voto Retablo on Tin antique chinese expost I usually leave old stuffed

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

but have become more so since finding this

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

Made of stoneware and in great

Praying Couple and Santo Nino: Antique Mexican Folk Art Ex Voto Retablo on Tin antique chinese expost I usually leave old stuffedIt'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