Retablo with Nativity, Palm Sunday, Hat Shop

NameShrine

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Datec. 1958

Place madeAyacucho, Peru, South America

MediumWood, gesso, paint

DimensionsClosed: 22 1/16 × 12 5/8 × 3 15/16 in. (56 × 32 × 10 cm)
Opened, approximately: 22 1/16 × 23 5/8 × 6 11/16 in. (56 × 60 × 17 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.32.899

Object numberA.1979.32.899

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionBox with 2 hinged doors on front, pediment on top. Exterior is white with multicolor floral and abstract designs. Interior has three vertical registers. Top depicts a nativity, the middle is a fiesta surrounding crosses of greens. Bottom depicts a hat shop.