Santa Rita de Cascia with Skull, 19th C. Spanish Colonial Retablo on Tin mitten with super high high chair

with super high high chair and that great blue pattern on the baby's dress

A great gift for a little one--and pretty indestructible--but also really nice to keep on the desk

Surely some commentary happening here about the exertion of power of various sorts

New bases could fairly easily be made

Santa Rita de Cascia with Skull, 19th C. Spanish Colonial Retablo on Tin mitten with super high high chairDepicted in this 19th c. retablo on tin is Santa Rita de Cascia born Margherita Ferri Lotti Mancini (13811457) a window turned Augustinian nun canonized as the patroness of impossible causes and also known in many Catholic countries as patroness of abused wives and heartbroken women. (Rita apparently endured endured the physical and psychological abuse and infidelities of her nobleman husband Paolo Mancini for many years.) I love her for those