SOLD Antique Hand-carved Polychrome Santo Nino Holding Orb maine or love letters

or love letters

with an early incarnation of the lettering still visible under the current hand-painted version

and how happy I am to find them

all of which are in very good shape

SOLD Antique Hand-carved Polychrome Santo Nino Holding Orb maine or love lettersAs you likely know by now I have a penchant for things with a certain awkwardness about them which I find to be marvelously the case with this antique carving of Santo Nino (baby Jesus), whose head is very large in proportion to the rest of his body, and who looks as much like an old man (or woman) as a child to me, though admittedly this is often the case. Clearly, he has also lost an arm, which perhaps held a scepter, but he still has his orb in