Christmas village figurines - Roustide

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handmade figurine - Roustide
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I am the Santon Roustide, Margarido and Jourdan's neighbor. This bourgeois from Jourdan says that I never paid him his lantern, but that's not true! In addition my costume is more beautiful than his ... These figurines symbolize social conflicts and the turpitudes of life!
This hand painted terracotta santon is available in 6 and 9 cm (2.4 or 3.6") high.
Each subject is unique and stamped, made by a craftsman twice the best worker of France ... to create a sublime Christmas crib and amaze young and old! ...
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$17.53

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Christmas village figurines - Margarido

Christmas village figurines - Margarido

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Christmas village figurines - Mr Jourdan

Christmas village figurines - Mr Jourdan

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Christmas village figurines - Renaude

Christmas village figurines - Renaude

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Figurines nativity set indoor - Barthoumiou

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Christmas ceramic figurines - Saint-Benoît-Labre

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The genuine santons of Provence are shaped in clay and painted by hand. It’s a French craft, coming from an ancient tradition. This tradition of Provencal creche continues today in southern France, where the influence of Occitan culture remains. There’s a strong concentration of santonniers in Aubagne, Marseille, Aix en Provence and Arles.

The French word santon comes from the Provencal santoun which means "little saint". Originally, the living cribs were intended to recreate the scene of the Nativity in the churches, and since the Middle Ages under St. Francis of Assisi. But the French revolution banned them in public, which led families to use dummy figurines to continue the tradition in their homes.

These characters were made of different materials (paper mache, breadcrumbs, plaster). In Marseille, in the nineteenth century, the competition of Neapolitan merchants who sold santibelli, has generated a resistance from the Provencal santonniers. The latter imposed the cooked clay and proposed their creations on markets of santons. These are still very popular today, in parallel with the Christmas markets.

Chistmas nativity Stable

In the Provencal crib, each character has a particular function to recreate the scene of the Nativity surrounded by a village of Provence. Apart from the stable's characters, the old Provencal jobs are represented: baker, miller, shepherd, garlic merchant, washerwoman, fisherman, and many others.

It’s about a village revival as if Jesus was born in Provence: the angel Boufareu (blower) announces the news to the shepherds. All the inhabitants converge on the barn to see the Newborn. They cross the hill, with their baskets of harvest, their animals, go through the olive groves. All the Provencal landscapes are represented.

So let yourself be transported by the magic of a Provencal crib, and dive into the world of Santons, jolly and cheerful figurines. The Christmas spirit is already blowing on your house!

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Provence terracotta Santons made and painted by hand - available in 6 or 9 cm

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