Amazingly Constructed Small First Communion Doll hand thrown pottery bowls and just love them--as beautiful

and just love them--as beautiful photographs

And then also a terrific tension between the intense smoke and the two bushes or trees on the horizon to its left

there is just an atmospheric-ness and luminosity about them that is its own very special thing

patron saint of cobblers--who looks positively rabid at the sight of the Standard Screw Fastened boot dangled in front of him

There are a few names listed on the reverse side but I haven't been able to definitely locate them

Amazingly Constructed Small First Communion Doll hand thrown pottery bowls and just love them--as beautifulI'm not in the least religious, but I find myself attracted to all sorts of religious objects, and this little doll feels pretty miraculous to me. The paper tag pinned to her dress is partially torn, but certainly read First Communion, and perhaps _ in Venezia (Venice) after that? So perhaps she was made as a souvenir doll, and an incredibly constructed one in any case, with carefully cut paper for her hands, one of which wraps around a fabric candle,