Wonderfully Primitive Carved Polychrome Folk Art Madonna with Baby Jesus Bohemian glass vase but overall he's in fine

but overall he's in fine shape

Everything about it says Meissen (near Dresden

perched on the corner of the drafting table of an artist

I have not tried to remove it from the frame

but I've kind of fallen in love with this guy

Wonderfully Primitive Carved Polychrome Folk Art Madonna with Baby Jesus Bohemian glass vase but overall he's in fineSuch a charming wood carved and polychrome painted Madonna, earlyish 20th c. Mexican I believe, who also looks to me very much like a nun, and very much ready to fend off anyone who might want to mess with baby Jesus, who wonderfully floats to the side of her very large hand, as if levitating on his own! I just love the earnest primitiveness of this, down to the very crudely painted faces. At the same time, there is a wonderful scalloping to the front