Lupita Doll Espanola Royal Blue Dress Vegetables Seller Basket Ceramic Mexican #2
$ 58.99
- "Lupita" Najaco Ceramic Vegetable Seller Espanola Style Royal Blue Skirt
- Tall- 11 1/2"
- Wide- 6 3/4"
- The blue skirt has hand painted vegetables.
- She is holding a basket of veggies.
- Her Hair is in Two Pony Tails, with Flowers
- This ceramic doll is made by the Arana family in Tonala, Mexico.
- The Lupita is hand painted by Mexican artisans, each detail is hand painted and each doll is initialed or signed by the artisan.
- Lupita is a typical name in Mexico, thus the name Lupita was given to each figurine.
- Najaco dolls were created 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 doll either going to cut nopales/cacti, a seller of apples, vegetables, flowers, birds, the shepherd or the traditional pulque etc, thus showing the every day life in 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 details. Each doll is molded, afterward each figurine is hand painted and signed by the artisans.
- Please note: these figurines are individually hand made & painted and will have slight variations one to another.
