Diminuitive Early Spanish Colonial Polychrome Carving of Anima Sola with Scapular vase with glass tube 6 1/8" x 4" x

6 1/8" x 4" x 3/4"

green and purple

" Really a great piece

though lovely just for display

the hardwood gorgeous (lignum vitae

Diminuitive Early Spanish Colonial Polychrome Carving of Anima Sola with Scapular vase with glass tube 6 1/8" x 4" xIt seems quite right that this Spanish Colonial Anima Sola looks as if he's endured quite a lot a lonely soul stuck in purgatory, flames rising from below. With long hair down the back I assume female, and, unusual, from what I can tell, for wearing a scapular, which apparently was a practice directed by Our Lady of Mount Carmel, who instructed that those wearing a blessed brown scapular at the time of death would not suffer long, but rather would be