Thanks From Anacleto Perales, Hat in Hand: Well Weathered But Wonderful Old Mexican Folk Art Retablo modern home decor This wonderful little wooden stool

This wonderful little wooden stool shows at least 150 years of love and several layers of paint below its current (perfect) orange

Earlyish 20th century I would think

but with those tin wings it could very well be taken for a flying red bat

Sold as found in a double paned /double sided frame

Box shows losses to sides and top

Thanks From Anacleto Perales, Hat in Hand: Well Weathered But Wonderful Old Mexican Folk Art Retablo modern home decor This wonderful little wooden stoolSometimes things are better when they are pristine and sometimes they are better when they are beaten up, and this retablo on tin I think is all the more winning for having clearly lived a life as Anacieto Perales certainly did, in yellow pants here, hat in hand, giving his thanks to Santo Nio De Atocha. The block lettering filling nearly half the painting is excellent visually if hard to read as it fades away toward the left edge and bottom, but