What are they and who made them?

Two of these have the name of a shop but the maker isn't identified. The pottery style is quite distinctive but what were they used for? The only clue is that I have seen one similar piece that was a holy water font.

All help welcomed

 

They look like candlesticks, Mary and child and two monks.
Annecy is a well-known pottery town in eastern France. These could have been made in the town or in a nearby monastery or convent.

 

Ah, I was thinking the holes were a bit narrow, especially the smaller ones, but they might take very thin candles

 

If they have holes in the bottoms, the monks may well be salt and pepper shakers.

 

The wee one in blue sans bebe isn't a monk, Catholicism doesn't do blue monks. I like the S&P idea, but no sprinkle holes. I suspect simply a devotional souvenir group. The big one may well be a holy water sprinkler. Catholics do that stuff.

The nice Annecy stuff is the fat lava.

 

No holes in bases so not salt & pepper.

Bear, had to look up blue monks! Sylvesterines?

And these are Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate





Back to the figures, could they be for incense sticks?

Or are these simply a decorative devotional group of Mary and Child plus two strange blue children?

 

That was a crap explanation on my part, let me do it better. Too late at night!

So, they're saints, as in they have halos. In traditional Catholic iconography, blue is reserved for the Virgin Mary. She isn't always wearing it, some of the shrine Madonnas are shown differently. But it's her colour, so it would be unlikely to clothe a monk in it in representational art of any kind.

Maybe that makes better sense.

 

So, are you saying, (and absolutely NO disrespect meant!!) these Friars brown robes have turned blue with the COLD???