Anima Sola with Mitre Hat, Unusual Painted Icon on Wood Panel carved puzzle cube I've always got an eye

I've always got an eye out for old handmade petanque/boules balls

was produced in the 1980s in a relatively small edition—the one other copy I found online came from the collection of the late James Perrizo

How could I resist this face

I can't even imagine the skill and patience required to make something so fine--just look at those details

3 3/8" in diameter x 2 1/8" tall and in very good condition with pretty minor paint loss

Anima Sola with Mitre Hat, Unusual Painted Icon on Wood Panel carved puzzle cube I've always got an eyeI take this small painting on wood as an anima sola lonely soul in purgatory but it is the first one I've seen where the subject is wearing a mitre, and a decorated one at that, marking him as a bishop I believe, and clearly one guilty of some sins! I don't know enough to know whether representing a specific bishop or whether delivering a more general commentary, but most definitely an usual one as far as I can tell, and really quite a thing. It seems