Santa Rita de Cascia with Skull, 19th C. Spanish Colonial Retablo on Tin antique tramp art box but certainly it would hold

but certainly it would hold a great weight

and am on an ongoing quest to pluck the very best pieces I come across

I purchased this painting by Lois Gross Smiley (1925-2018) out of the studio of her estate in Wellesley

15/16" thick

one ring fitting inside the other

Santa Rita de Cascia with Skull, 19th C. Spanish Colonial Retablo on Tin antique tramp art box but certainly it would holdDepicted 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