Lupita Najaco Ceramic Doll/Figurine Mexican Apple Basket Pink Skirt

"Lupita" Najaco Ceramic Doll, Apple Seller, Pink Skirt.

The figurine is 11-1/2" tall 6" wide (at the base). She is 4" (Shoulder to shoulder).

This ceramic doll is made by the Arana family in Tonala, Mexico. The doll/figurine is carrying a basket of red apples. The skirt is painted a beautiful Pink. This doll has a bow in her one long braid. The artisan has painted a man picking apples on the front of her skirt.

The Lupita is hand painted by Mexican artisans, each detail is hand painted and each doll is initialed or signed by the artisan. Lupita is a typical name in Mexico, thus the name Lupita was given to each figurine. Najaco dolls were created in Tonalá, Jalisco in 1992, at the beginning, the family was looking for a way to depict Mexican people's daily chores (especially women) while in their typical outfits. Each figurine shows a figurine either going to cut nopales/cacti a seller of apples, vegetables, flowers, birds, the shepherd or the traditional pulquero,  thus showing the every day life in a Mexican town. In short, typical women or men doing their chores from the past and even now. Each doll is a model of Mexican woman's beauty. This folk art is full of colored detail.  Each doll is molded, afterward each figurine is hand painted by artisans. Please note: these figurines are individually hand made & painted and will have slight variations one to another.

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