Catalan dress carving or cap-i-pota, 19th century.

Dress carving or Catalan cap-i-pota, 19th century.
"Immaculate".
Carved wood with head, hands and feet with original polychrome. Glass eyes. Cloth dress and silk mantle.
Two of the fingers have been glued. It shows wear and some lack of polychrome. With some restoration.
Measurements: 105 x 48 x 26 cm.

Sculpture of typology "Cap i Pota" (head and feet) that responds to the iconography of the Virgin as Immaculate Conception, posing the feet on a cluster of clouds surrounding the orb. 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.