Late 19th/Early 20th Century Gold Plated Silver Foil Italian Mask Ex Voto / Milagro figural bobbin lace " was the motto

" was the motto

The blocks were hand cut (well off square) then hand-painted in a similar manner to color cubes but with letters on one or two sides on some (not all) of them

She refers to the women in sculptures such as this one as storytellers--mouths open

This is one of a handful of drawings I'm listing all done by a kid with the initials of J

with some scattered smudges and toning

Late 19th/Early 20th Century Gold Plated Silver Foil Italian Mask Ex Voto / Milagro figural bobbin lace " was the mottoSuch a beauty! I found this and the other milagro I'm listing at an estate sale in Saratoga, NY, where it lived in the collection of a peace corps worker and world traveller that, fittingly, included an abundance of carved masks. Late 19th very early 20th century and Italian, I believe, make of what looks like silver foil with a gold finish on the face of it. To my eye just a gorgeous thing, made all the more special by a signature on reverse