Saint with Cross, Key, and Marvelous Serpent, 18th-Early 19th Century Retablo Painting on Wood chinese new year Has the feeling to me

Has the feeling to me of a vessel in a Morandi painting

more a sculpture than a carving

but turned it upside down to find the name Garland incised on the bottom

With holes at the center of short sides for threading with a string to hang

Saint with Cross, Key, and Marvelous Serpent, 18th-Early 19th Century Retablo Painting on Wood chinese new year Has the feeling to meI spent a fair bit of time extricating this painting from the much less wonderful frame that had been literally glued to its perimeter. (Fortunately, the surface of the painting was undisturbed.) Well worth the effort, I'd say! Late 18th early 19th century I believe, through the serpent quashed by our lady looks quite medieval, and the manner of the text below her does, too. Some weeks especially (like this one) remind me that while I am a lover of