"Las Cruz de Animas" Old Folk Art Retablo Painting on Tin #2 buddhist watercolor with the only information on

with the only information on it is a very faintly handwritten "cardinal

With nicely done ears and hand especially

I've found a close match of this bottle that describes it as 19th century

11 1/2" x 9" in very good condition

but I'm not  sure as there are really no punctures or losses along the top edges that I can discern

"Las Cruz de Animas" Old Folk Art Retablo Painting on Tin #2 buddhist watercolor with the only information onThis is the second of two retablos I recently purchased from a dealer in Canada, both straight from a German collector, who also collected antique Russian Eastern Orthodox icons. This and the other retablo (listed and sold last week) both depict Las Cruz de Animas, or the Cross of Souls, representing Christ on the cross along with a group of anima sola below lonely souls surrounded by flames who are trapped in purgatory, requiring the prayers of the