Late 19th/Early 20th Century Gold Plated Silver Foil Italian Mask Ex Voto / Milagro figural bobbin lace Just fabulous

Just fabulous

The blocks were hand cut (well off square) then hand-painted in a similar manner to color cubes but with letters on one or two sides on some (not all) of them

and has a complex personality relational to the dynamic between clay body and glaze

facing off with cocks in hand--and with the shadow of what looks to be a woman in skirt hovering over them

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Late 19th/Early 20th Century Gold Plated Silver Foil Italian Mask Ex Voto / Milagro figural bobbin lace Just fabulousSuch a beauty! I found this and the other milagro I'm listing at an estate sale in Saratoga, NY, where it lived in the collection of a peace corps worker and world traveller that, fittingly, included an abundance of carved masks. Late 19th very early 20th century and Italian, I believe, make of what looks like silver foil with a gold finish on the face of it. To my eye just a gorgeous thing, made all the more special by a signature on reverse