"Las Cruz de Animas" Old Folk Art Retablo Painting on Tin #2 buddhist watercolor including receiving letters from Franklin

including receiving letters from Franklin Roosevelt and Lady Bird Johnson

Better than a YouTube video of cross-species animals friends I’d say

I've found a close match of this bottle that describes it as 19th century

with the only information on it is a very faintly handwritten "cardinal

Written on the flip side of the shell

"Las Cruz de Animas" Old Folk Art Retablo Painting on Tin #2 buddhist watercolor including receiving letters from FranklinThis is the second of two retablos I recently purchased from a dealer in Canada, both straight from a German collector, who also collected antique Russian Eastern Orthodox icons. This and the other retablo (listed and sold last week) both depict Las Cruz de Animas, or the Cross of Souls, representing Christ on the cross along with a group of anima sola below lonely souls surrounded by flames who are trapped in purgatory, requiring the prayers of the