Late 19th/Early 20th Century Gold Plated Silver Foil Italian Mask Ex Voto / Milagro figural bobbin lace She refers to the women

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

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

Very much better on one side than the other

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

Late 19th/Early 20th Century Gold Plated Silver Foil Italian Mask Ex Voto / Milagro figural bobbin lace She refers to the womenSuch 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