19th C. Mexican Painted Wooden Santo - N.S. de Atocha

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Jul 19, 2018

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• Lot Description
  Latin America, Mexico, ca. 19th century CE. A beautiful hand-carved wooden figure of the Virgin Mary as Nuestra Senora de Atocha, hand-painted atop a layer of gesso with vibrant yellow, orange, and blue pigments. She stands with lengthy legs atop an upturned crescent moon and wears a yellow robe with an orange-and-blue sash draped over her left shoulder. Her outstretched arms boast delineated fingers, and would have held a globus cruciger in her left hand and a long-stemmed flower in her right. Her sensitive visage is defined by a petite nose, slightly smiling mouth, and pierced ears while inlaid glass eyes imbue her with a stare that transcends the boundaries of time and space. This figure would likely have been adorned with a silver crown and a diaphanous veil to give her a divine presentation. Size: 8.125" W x 15.125" H (20.6 cm x 38.4 cm).
  
  Santos played an important role in bringing the Catholic Church to the New World with the Spanish colonists. These religious figures were hand-carved and often furnished with crowns, jewels, and other accessories, usually funded by religious devotees, and were used as icons to explain the major figures - Mary, Christ, and the saints - to new, indigenous converts. Likewise, they served as a connection to the Old World for Spanish colonists far from home. Many of them were lovingly cared for over the years, with repairs and paint added as they aged, and played an active part for a long time in the religious life of their communities. Oftentimes regarded as quite valuable and expensive, the creation of Santos was usually funded by religious devotees.
  
  Provenance: private California, USA collection
  
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  Condition

  Losses to areas of feet, fingers, and verso. Repairs to head at neck, left hand, and one half of moon with small chips and light adhesive residue along break lines. Surface wear and abrasions commensurate with age, small nicks and chips to legs, moon, robes, body, hands, and head, with fading to some areas of pigmentation, and light clouding to glass eyes. Nice earthen deposits throughout. Drilled through bottom for mounting.
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