Tall, Spare Antique Santos Figure in Otherworldly Blue swarming birds This guy seems to me

This guy seems to me kind and quite sensitive

Really a special one

Plus two little windows against gray on the short side

just large enough to stick the tip of a pen or pencil inside

" from Idaho Falls

Tall, Spare Antique Santos Figure in Otherworldly Blue swarming birds This guy seems to meI purchased this antique Santos from a dealer in my neck of the woods, who had it in his hands for a few decades. That otherworldly soft blue makes me swoon, all the better for being unfettered by any detail a perfect purity of color and form. Once he certainly had cloth arms, but I think their absence just heightens his elegant spareness and the impact of his nearly 15 inches in height. The head appears to be made of clay, perhaps sculpted over wood,