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Lot 174
Two Antique Santos Figures
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first depicting Saint Joseph and the Christ Child, Spanish Colonial, circa 1900, carved hardwood with gesso and polychrome decoration (19.75 in.) (chipping to surface; staining and minor chipping to original ivory faces and hands); the second a fruitwood carving of the Madonna, circa 1900, with gesso and polychrome decoration (27 in.) (extensive old insect damage, chipping and loss to surfaces).

Private Collection, Raleigh, North Carolina