Romeo Y Julieta, Betty Heredia Snyder Rees Sculpted Clay Lovers On Cigar Box sculptural wax candle but one wants to be

but one wants to be a little gentle with it

I love that there are bunnies of a variety of shapes and sizes

With the hair the figure looks female to me

It is the work of Conrad Fehn (b

and figures praying over baby Jesus in his crib below it--but the design got a bit abstracted along the way

Romeo Y Julieta, Betty Heredia Snyder Rees Sculpted Clay Lovers On Cigar Box sculptural wax candle but one wants to beI 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