Anima Sola with Mitre Hat, Unusual Painted Icon on Wood Panel carved puzzle cube Based on a few others

Based on a few others I have found out there in the same vein (including a few in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum) I believe 1850-1900 fraternal

I am not sure I would have known that this unusual tiered painted wood object (while also a remarkable piece of sculpture

How could I resist this face

I've always got an eye out for old handmade petanque/boules balls

though they have been used as I pulled some cotton out of the inside of a few

Anima Sola with Mitre Hat, Unusual Painted Icon on Wood Panel carved puzzle cube Based on a few othersI take this small painting on wood as an anima sola lonely soul in purgatory but it is the first one I've seen where the subject is wearing a mitre, and a decorated one at that, marking him as a bishop I believe, and clearly one guilty of some sins! I don't know enough to know whether representing a specific bishop or whether delivering a more general commentary, but most definitely an usual one as far as I can tell, and really quite a thing. It seems