Dress carving or cap-i-pota; Spain, XVII century.

Dress carving or cap-i-pota; Spain, 17th century.
"Saint".
Carved and polychrome wood.
It preserves silk layer.
It presents wear, faults and treated damage caused by xylophages.
Measurements: 78 x 35 x 30 cm.
Devotional wood carving that preserves silk layer. The piece only presents the carving of the feet, with sandals and the upper bust, both in carved and polychrome wood. The "cap i pota" images are figures worked in detail only on the face and hands, on a wooden structure carved to a greater or lesser extent. Although the figures for dress were often used in processions, in this case it is a figure intended for private devotion, given its small size. The visible parts are covered with a thin layer of stucco and polychromed, while the rest is covered by real clothes. They are images that were especially liked for their naturalism, since by wearing authentic clothes a greater degree of realism was achieved than with the simply carved ones, which often did not have enough quality to achieve that degree of naturalism, so sought after in religious art since the Baroque period.