- "Lupita" with Cotton Candy, Mexican Ceramic Figurine with a Purple Skirt.
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- The figurine is 11-3/8" tall
- 6 1/4" wide at the base.
- 4" across (shoulder to shoulder).
- This figurine has the purple skirt and realistic bags of cotton candy on a stick.
- The apron has beautiful still life of a hand painted kiosk and was signed by the artist.
- This ceramic doll is made by the Arana family in Tonala, Mexico.
- Lupita is a typical name in Mexico, thus the name Lupita was given to each figurine.
The family proudly manufactures each figurine and is painted by hand. - Najaco
were born in Tonalá, Jalisco in 1992, at the beginning, the family was
looking for a way to depict Mexican people's daily chores (especially
women) while in their typical outfits.
- Each figurine shows a figurine
either going to cut nopals, a seller of apples, vegetables, flowers,
birds, the shepherd or the selling traditional pulquero, thus showing the
beauty of every day life of a Mexican town.
- In short, typical women or men doing their chores from the past and even now. Each doll is a model of Mexican woman's beauty.
- This folk art is full of colored detail. Each doll is molded, afterward each figurine is hand painted by artisans.
- Please note: these figurines are individually hand painted and will have slight variations one to another.