Moor woman with laundry basket on her head for Tripi's Nativity Scene with 18 cm terracotta characters

Moor woman with laundry basket on her head for Tripi's Nativity Scene with 18 cm terracotta characters. The figurine represents a moor woman walking to the village spring with a basket full of dirty clothes on her head to wash them. The servant look tired and resigned to her heavy and endless work, but she still dreams of her freedom and of a better future.
Every nativity scene statue of Angela Tripi is characterized by a strong and careful attention to detail.
Angela Tripi takes inspiration from the ancient Arab world for the creation of her figures and, by appropriately reworking the history and customs, comes to her own personal interpretation of the characters of the time.
Normally the statues of the traditional nativity scene, for example the Neapolitan one, are made with a skeleton, fabrics, and terracotta ends (the head, hands and feet). Instead, the statues of the artist Angela Tripi have completely formed bodies: they are modeled naked and then dressed with fabrics and small jewels. In her works the artist tells a story: each statue is depicted in a moment of their life, thus managing to make us understand the existence of a before and after. Angela Tripi manages to give each nativity statue an amazing realism, never seen before and unrepeatable: no two works will ever be the same, rending them one of a kind.
Suitable for a Nativity Scene with standing characters 18 cm tall.