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Lot 2274
Spanish Colonial Polychrome Figures of Saint Roch and The Madonna
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
19th century, carved wood with gesso and polychrome, the taller sculpture of the Virgin dressed in white and blue robes, hands joined in prayer (15 in.); the shorter of Saint Roch dressed in traditional pilgrim garb, and lifting his tunic to demonstrate the plague sore on his left thigh, on octagonal plinth (13 1/4 in.).

Some scattered paint loss and areas of later paint; Saint Roch missing right hand; Madonna with loss to tin nimbus, small remnant remains.