Soulful 18/19th C Carved Santos / Mannequin Bust with Glass Eyes and Polychrome glass bottle;e minor and not noticeable unless

minor and not noticeable unless one is really looking for them

From what I've learned

This is one of several just in drawings by Helen Wagner Malta (1912-1975)

This is a very simple one as far as bee boxes go--nothing more than a four sided box with two plates of glass held in grooves

8 7/16" x 6 1/2"

Soulful 18/19th C Carved Santos / Mannequin Bust with Glass Eyes and Polychrome glass bottle;e minor and not noticeable unlessLate 18th early 19th century continental European would be my guess with this saintly, very soulful beauty, once part of a whole carved wooden figure. Clearly with some loss around one glass blue eye, and it looks likely like some old repair repainting around the other, which to me makes her look all the more soulful and expressive, as if the patron saint for women who have endured despite the odds stacked against them. (and I find the exposed wood on