Pabla Rojas Thanks Our Lady of San Juan, Very Tender 1924 Ex Voto Retablo on Tin with Fantastic Surface antique bone ruler Heavy for its size

Heavy for its size

and the perfect soft green bottom

Eppley beautifully spelled out below in inked fraktur letters--and to find "drawed by Miss Rachel Eppling" written on the back of the frame in graphite

something about the angled ramp on the front side together together with the open square at center and the pitch of the green roof just totally does it for me

transcending its toy-hood to enter the realm of pure sculpture

Pabla Rojas Thanks Our Lady of San Juan, Very Tender 1924 Ex Voto Retablo on Tin with Fantastic Surface antique bone ruler Heavy for its sizeI made a bit of effort to translate the text here, but couldn't quite piece it together what is clear is that expresses thanks to Our Lady of San Juan for answering the prayers of Pabla Rojas on May 11, 1924, and that it is a very lovely and tender one; look close, and you will see that the kneeling woman, with wonderfully beatific face, is holding in her very sweetly outlined hand a very sweetly detailed rosary with gold cross hanging. And what a