Tall, Spare Antique Santos Figure in Otherworldly Blue antique scrap book Really a great little object

Really a great little object

I especially love the painterly explosion of flowers at near right

and sturdy enough still to hang from the wall

with flaps lifting to reveal more layers and more pockets and more decoration underneath

and then a small batch of clear of colorful cocktails at happy hour

Tall, Spare Antique Santos Figure in Otherworldly Blue antique scrap book Really a great little objectI purchased this antique Santos from a dealer in my neck of the woods, who had it in his hands for a few decades. That otherworldly soft blue makes me swoon, all the better for being unfettered by any detail a perfect purity of color and form. Once he certainly had cloth arms, but I think their absence just heightens his elegant spareness and the impact of his nearly 15 inches in height. The head appears to be made of clay, perhaps sculpted over wood,