Romeo Y Julieta, Betty Heredia Snyder Rees Sculpted Clay Lovers On Cigar Box sculptural wax candle and figures praying over baby

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

(Body is more stiff than soft

I know they were found at an estate in South Carolina

Romeo Y Julieta, Betty Heredia Snyder Rees Sculpted Clay Lovers On Cigar Box sculptural wax candle and figures praying over babyI 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