Double-Sided Bi-Racial Hand-painted Jointed Cardboard Boxing Figures white yellow brown vase aside from the color

aside from the color

This circa 1970s Mexican folk art triple vase or triple candleholder--with the most beatific face I can imagine--is unsigned

It certainly seems it was created to serve a toggle-like function

I might be inclined to sew a little ribbon to the back corners of this in order to hang it on the wall

Double-Sided Bi-Racial Hand-painted Jointed Cardboard Boxing Figures white yellow brown vase aside from the colorThese terrific hand painted jointed boxers are bi racial: each is black on one side and white on the other. I have found one other similar pair online dated to the 1920s, which is about how old I'd guess these are but those were printed rather than wonderfully hand painted as these are, including these great polka dotted waist bands on their red and blue shorts! I think perhaps they may have been inspired by the famous 1810 match between Tom Cribb &