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Lupita Candy Apple Seller Purple Ceramic Doll Najaco Mexican #1

Lupita Candy Apple Seller Purple Ceramic Doll Najaco Mexican #1

$ 58.99
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  • "Lupita" with Candy Apples, Mexican Ceramic Figurine with a Purple Skirt.
  • The figurine is 11-1/2" tall
  • 6 1/4" wide at the base.
  • 4" across (shoulder to shoulder). 
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  • This figurine has the purple skirt and realistic candy apples on a stick. 
  • The apron has beautiful still life of a hand painted kiosk and was signed by the artist.
  • Her hair is in a Braid, Wrapped around her head.
  • 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.
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