Lupita Najaco Ceramic Figurine Mexican Folk Art Holding Baby Fuchsia
$ 58.99
- "Lupita" Najaco Ceramic Doll, Fuchsia Dress holding Baby
- The figurine is 12" tall
- 6" wide (at the base).
- She is 4" (shoulder to shoulder)
- This ceramic doll is made by a family in Tonala, Mexico.
- This doll is holding a baby wrapped in a Pink blanket.
- Her dress is Fuchsia with a hand painting of a mother and child.
- Lupita's Hair is in a Bun, with flowers.
- 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 dolls were began 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 traditional pulquero, thus showing the beauty of the streets of a 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 made & painted and will have slight variations one to another.
