Gorgeous Yellow Painted Sculptural Tin Frame, with Glass trunk HJG and HJP

HJG and HJP

with no loose seams that I can see

with wooden stem and wire holding them together

Framed: 11" x 9 5/8"

via which its sawdust stuffing is visible

Gorgeous Yellow Painted Sculptural Tin Frame, with Glass trunk HJG and HJPYum. Photos do this frame no real justice. I purchased it one from my favorite dealer in the Hudson River Valley and am rather obsessed with it. Made of tin, which appears quite old, I believe it is Mexican, likely made to house a retablo. The curled tin on each side makes it a very sculptural thing with great objecthood just right for a retablo of a saint or the Madonna herself, as if unfurling to reveal a vision from the heavenly world. The form and