Vtg Mexican Folk Art Carved Wood Horse Statue Oaxaca Style Peg Joint READ For Sale

This is a very Rare, one of a kindestate find. Hand-carved Oaxacan style wood horse folk art figure in the La Unión style, associated with early 1950s workshops in Manuel Jimenez Ramirez style andtradition. I am in no way an expert of Manuel Jimenez works, so I can only see the similarity to his style AND so I contacted his son Isaias Jimenez at the Jiménez family Museum Workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico, who agreed that the style and details are similar to his father\'s Don Miguel but he couldn\'t deny or confirm it, since there is no clear signature on this piece.

This vintage figure/statue features a large, long standing horse with a hand painted black pattern. The statue (it IS on a larger side) measures approximately 11\" long X 2.25\" wide X 11.5\" tall. There was a cat or a jaguar I acquired from the same sale, together with this horse. Unfortunately, the jaguar that was for sale in my shop is sold and isn\'t available anymore.

This item is being sold As-Is / For Restoration or Rustic Display, etc. The wood is in good vintage condition, there are a few flaws.The horse is missing a tail. There is a hole where the tail was supposed to be attached. The legs were separately made / carved and attached to the body with small nails in the common technique of earlier Oaxaca workshop carvings. HOWEVER, they look like they were either repaired and glued in a very frugal way with some natural type of a glue back to the body OR this glue was used initially, alongside with with nails, for attaching the legs onto the body. Also, there are CRACKS in wood over the area where legs attach to the body. I\'m not 100% sure but it if you look under the face area, twhere the chin attaches to the neck/face, here seems to be a repair crack glued up.PLEASE SEE PHOTOS. The horse needs a stand or a holder of some kind, because it can barealy stand by itself. Due to a handcarved nature of this figure made in a folk art primitive style, the legs were not exactly made in the same size, so two legs are shorter the the other two, so the horse would need a stand to stay vertical or to lean against some surface, like a wall, shelf, books, stand or other figures/statues, bookends, etc. You can see in the photos the horse is standing, but barely balancing not to fall. I didn\'t have a stand for holding it vertical, so I had to make it stand for the photo shoot, it did stand but wasn\'t really stable at all.Also, note that the head is removable, it is loosely attached and can be turned any direction or removed. It is NOT GLUED or NAILED to the body. Not sure if it was was meant to be this way or maybe you can glue it on.

The figurine is not signed, but is numbered, and that number I couldn\'t really make out, it is very faint and hard to see. I did take a picture of the area on the belly, it shows there was some handwritten number there.

Please review all photos carefully as they serve as the primary visual description of the item\'s condition.