Lupita Ceramic Doll/Figurine Bride/Novia Mexican Folk Art Najaco Clay Pottery

Description

"Lupita" Najaco Ceramic Doll Novia or Bride
The figurine is 11-3/4" tall
6" wide (at the base).
She is 4" (Shoulder to shoulder).
This ceramic doll is made by the Arana family in Tonala, Mexico.
This Novia or Bride doll is wearing a lovely white dress with gorgeous gold trimmings.
She is wearing a beautiful hair piece of calla lilies along with a bouquet of calla lillies.
Make sure you check out our very handsome groom to add to the bride.
The Lupita is hand painted by Mexican artisans, each detail is hand painted and each doll is initialed or signed by the artisan.
Lupita is a typical name in Mexico, thus the name Lupita was given to each figurine.
Najaco dolls were created in Tonalá, Jalisco in 1992, at the beginning, the family was looking for a way to depict Mexican people's daily chores (especially women) while in their typical outfits.
Each figurine shows a figurine either going to cut nopales/cacti a seller of apples, vegetables, flowers, birds, the shepherd or the traditional pulquero,  thus showing the every day life in a Mexican town.
In short, typical women or men doing their chores from the past and even now. Each doll is a model of Mexican woman's beauty.
This folk art is full of colored detail.  Each doll is molded, afterward each figurine is hand painted by artisans.
Please note: these figurines are individually hand made & painted and will have slight variations one to another.