Romeo Y Julieta, Betty Heredia Snyder Rees Sculpted Clay Lovers On Cigar Box sculptural wax candle Stable and not especially fragile

Stable and not especially fragile

It is the work of Conrad Fehn (b

and figures praying over baby Jesus in his crib below it--but the design got a bit abstracted along the way

I'm a bit obsessed with this one--a mock up for a photoengraving I believe

Romeo Y Julieta, Betty Heredia Snyder Rees Sculpted Clay Lovers On Cigar Box sculptural wax candle Stable and not especially fragileI purchased this one from a dealer in Maine, who had a number of works that had come from the estate of Elizabeth Heredia Snyder Rees (1919 2011) not an artist I was familiar with, and much of her work not really my cup of tea, but I found and find this pretty wonderful, and clever, too: a pair of lovers rendered in modeling clay atop an old Cuban Romeo Y Julieta cigar box, with the box doing quadruple duty as a base, and a stand, and as inspiration