SOLD 19th C. Spanish Colonial Retablo on Tin: St. Jerome with Lion and Skull Japanese hand puppet really a lovely one

really a lovely one

Titled “Landscape

This charming papier-mâché sculpture of Asian girl and lion-dog I believe is mid-century Japanese

Structurally solid

" and a framed mirror at center

SOLD 19th C. Spanish Colonial Retablo on Tin: St. Jerome with Lion and Skull Japanese hand puppet really a lovely oneI'm forever on the hunt for 19th c. Spanish colonial retablo paintings, which everyone else seems to be too as prices on them get higher and higher. I was very happy to find this one, of St. Jerome in his old age, with skull and cross to his left and fabulous little yellow lion to his right, looking quite a bit like Casper the ghost but in lion form! With plenty of wear and some surface rusting, which make the painting appear all the more like a