- "Lupita" Najaco Ceramic Doll with Cart with Fresh Vegetables
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- The figurine is 11 1/2" tall
- 6 1/4" wide (at the base).
- She is 3 1/2" (shoulder to shoulder).
- The cart is 9" long and 2 1/4" wide.
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- This ceramic doll is made by the Arana family in Tonala, Mexico.
- The doll/ figurine is pushing a cart filled with Fresh Vegetables. The details are wonderful.
- Her Royal Blue skirt is painted with a beautiful painting of Vegetables
- The Lupita is hand painted by Mexican artisans.
- The cart is separate from the doll and adjusts into her hands.
- All the Lupita's are signed by the artisans.
- Individual Lupita dolls may have some details different from the pictures
- 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 founded Tonalá, Jalisco, in 1992. In 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 nopales/cacti a seller of apples, vegetables, flowers, birds, the shepherd or the traditional pulquero, thus showing daily 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 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.
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