San Antonio

NameFigure of saint

Artist Manoel Eudócio

Date1980s

Place madePernambuco, Brazil, South America

MediumCeramic, paint

Dimensions6 5/16 × 2 3/16 × 2 5/8 in. (16.1 × 5.6 × 6.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mary Hynes Daly

Object numberA.2012.50.8

DescriptionStanding male figure (San Antonio) in long brown robe tied with a white cord and topped with a short brown cape. He holds a red and blue book (Bible) in his left hand, upon which sits a child, dressed in white and holding a red ball in his lap. Both baby and saint have black, tonsured hair. Robe stamped inside bottom "MANUEL EUDOCIO".