SOLD Antique Hand-carved Polychrome Santo Nino Holding Orb maine There is an old split

There is an old split on one of the sides and it wobbles just a little when you try

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

Found in Ohio

Definitely with quite a lot of years on both of them

SOLD Antique Hand-carved Polychrome Santo Nino Holding Orb maine There is an old splitAs 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