Tree of Life Sculpture

Item number 2760/1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Tall, heavy, colourfully painted and glazed clay candelabra, or Tree of Life sculpture. Along the front of the central trunk, which is reinforced with a metal pole and set on a mound-like hollow base, are a female figure with a cross on her head, a palm frond, a bearded goat ,and two blue birds sit beside a flower below one of the three candle holders at the top. The looping branches down each side are festooned with orange, yellow, green, blue, pink and brown coloured decorative elements: birds on metal stilt legs, rabbits, flowers, potted plants, angels, and four bobbles that hang on metal hooks.

History Of Use

For generations, in Izucar de Matamoros, every married couple received a tree of life at the time of their wedding, ensuring that prosperity would bless the new union. But by the late seventies, the demand for trees diminished, and by the eighties, young couples no longer started their married lives with the traditional tree.