S is for Same Seasonal Santons

Except I think they were Italian so technically Precepi, but in the style of the Santons over the border in France! I haven't a clue . . . actually I have a clue how I missed these last year, they must been in a row I missed below the bottom of the screen when I highlighted the rest and moved them to a new folder for blurb and publication a year ago!

Sent by Brian Berke, where he had seen them in a store there in the Big Apple, and representing for the most part, the 'everyday' rural crafters and trades which are collected to add round a nativity scene - not strickly modern, but not biblical either, rather sort of generic mid-last-millennium!

Given the last comment, this lad is a bit of an exception being in rural garb of the last few hundred years, but carrying a tray of amphora, for sale; these being ancient (Biblical era) vessels - and, by dint of having not been decorated - revealing the terracotta all these are made from.

The butcher with half a carcase and the stick-collector seem to be adults of another scale, while the smaller figure (through the gap) is a child in the commoner scale on show.

Standing behind the lady with the embroidered pinafore is an actual nativity character with the full Arabian/Biblical 'nativity' garb, but I think there was a better shot of him last year from a different angle?.

Thanks again to Brian for sending these (quite some time ago now?), and my apologies for leaving them off last year's post. Only just over three weeks 'till the big day!