Praying Couple and Santo Nino: Antique Mexican Folk Art Ex Voto Retablo on Tin antique chinese expost with a carved circle detail

with a carved circle detail at the very top

with minor bumping to the points of the triangles

Made of stoneware and in great

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

And while not so often the case

Praying Couple and Santo Nino: Antique Mexican Folk Art Ex Voto Retablo on Tin antique chinese expost with a carved circle detailIt'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