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

Dress carving or Catalan cap-i-pota, 19th century.
"Immaculate".
Carved and polychrome wood. Orla in gilded metal. Dress and mantle of cloth and silk embroidered with gold thread.
The dress has imperfections. It presents some lack of polychrome on the wood. Generalized wear and dirt. It has lost an earring.
Measurements: 105 x 48 x 27 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.