Dress carving or cap-i-pota, 18th century

Dress carving or cap-i-pota, 18th century.
Carved and polychrome wood.
Articulated arms and wrists.
Some of the fingers are missing. With scratches and peelings.
Measurements: 54 x 32 x 25 cm.

Long bust of a dress image with the head and hands worked as a sculptural work while the rest of the body is smooth and painted in beige. The piece has articulated arms and wrists making it easier to dress the image and it can be arranged in various poses. As usual in these figures, both the hands and the face have a greater detail in terms of the care of the carving, an example of this is the expressive face of the young Jesus.
The "cap i pota" images are figures worked in detail only in 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 destined 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.