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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4518404, member: 2844"]Yes, they are small santons, commonly used for Provençal Nativity scenes. The porcelain ones are also used for a special Epiphany cake.</p><p><br /></p><p>My parents had a set of the regular pottery ones. About 50 santons depicting different professions and activities, a mountain village, and several buildings including a scale model of the "Moulin de Daudet", a famous windmill near Arles. They also had a santon of French Gypsy patron Sara Kali, and Gypsy pilgrims.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>At Christmas they were all displayed on a blanket chest.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So you get an idea, this is part of a set of 1000 santons:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]397797[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://www.sfx-paris.fr/la-creche-aux-milles-santons/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sfx-paris.fr/la-creche-aux-milles-santons/" rel="nofollow">https://www.sfx-paris.fr/la-creche-aux-milles-santons/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4518404, member: 2844"]Yes, they are small santons, commonly used for Provençal Nativity scenes. The porcelain ones are also used for a special Epiphany cake. My parents had a set of the regular pottery ones. About 50 santons depicting different professions and activities, a mountain village, and several buildings including a scale model of the "Moulin de Daudet", a famous windmill near Arles. They also had a santon of French Gypsy patron Sara Kali, and Gypsy pilgrims.:) At Christmas they were all displayed on a blanket chest.;) So you get an idea, this is part of a set of 1000 santons: [ATTACH=full]397797[/ATTACH] [URL]https://www.sfx-paris.fr/la-creche-aux-milles-santons/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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