NEW ITEMS OF ART AT POCAS COSAS
These are new items for the months of March and April, 2025. You may also view these items, with additional photos, in the Gallery. New pieces will be added to this page during the month, as we continue to find treasures!
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FB-1: Mexican vintage folk art, a batea or "laquered gourd" with beautiful floral decorations aroung the outside and a wonderful red background on the inside, Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, c. 1940. The artwork on the laquered gourd is exceptional. A batea like this one would often be filled with flowers or fruit and carried in processions at festivals. Condition is good; there are signs of wear which only enhance the beauty of the batea. Size: 12 1/16 inches diameter at the top by 3 inches high. Price: $275.
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FB-2: Mexican devotional art and Mexican vintage folk art, a beautiful wood-carved crucifix by the famous artist Manuel Jimenez of Oaxaca, c. 1960. The crucifix is beautifully carved and is signed by the artist on the bottom. The figure of Christ is very graceful and serene. Condition is very good. Size: 21 inches high including the stand by
14 1/2 inches wide at the widest part by 3 1/16 inches deep (front to back). Price: $575.
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FB-3: Mexican vintage devotional art, a retablo painted on tin of St Elizabeth of Hungary, c. 1900. The retablo is beautifully painted. St. Elizabeth was known for feeding and caring for the poor and homeless. Condition is very good. Size: 13 3/4 inches high by 10 inches wide. Price: $950.
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FB-4: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a wonderful Tlaquepaque blackware globe bowl with fantastic artwork, San Pedro Tlaquepaque, c. 1930's. The artwork on the globe bowl is incredible! This is a discrning collector's dream. Condition is very good. Size:
7 1/2 inches high by 9 1/16 inches diameter, at the widest part.
SOLD. Thank you!
FB-5: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful pair of dangling sterling silver earrings, signed with the mark of William Spratling, Taxco, c. 1940's. The Spratling earrings are exceptionally graceful and elegant. They attach via screwback, in order to preserve the Spratling stamp. Condition is very good. Size: 1 1/2 inches long by 3/4 inches wide. Price: $275.
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FB-6: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a wonderful and very large blackware olla, Oaxaca, c. 1950's. The large olla is beautifully shaped, and the shine is stunning. Condition is very good. Size: 17 inches high by 14 1/2 inches diameter at the widest part. Price: $425.
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FB-7: Mexican vintage folk art and pottery, a burnished head bank, Tonala, c. 1940's. The bank is beautifully made and decorated. In the 1940's the local bank, Banco de Mexico, asked the Solis Family of famous potters if they could create a "piggy bank". The Solis Family designed and made the now famous "head banks" as gifts for the bank's new customers. This bank is unsigned, as other Tonala potters began to make the banks. Condition is very good. Size: 5 1/2 inches high by 5 3/4 inches wide, at the widest part. Price: $165.
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These were new items for the month of February, 2025. You may also view these items, with additional photos, in the Gallery.
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FA-1: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a very beautiful "banderaware" pottery plate with wonderful decorations and featuring a graceful deer, Tonala or San Pedro Tlaquepaque, c. 1930's. This style of pottery is called banderaware because it features the colors of the Mexican flag, or bandera in Spanish, white, red, and green. This is an excellent example of this syle of vintage Mexican pottery. Condition is very good. Size: 13 1/4 inches diameter.
SOLD.Thank you!
FA-2: Mexican vintage devotional art and folk art, a beautiful copper plaque of Our Lady of Guadalupe with wonderful copperwork, from Santa Clara del Cobre in the state of Michoacan c. 1950's. Our Lady is very serene and beautiful. Condition is very good. Size: 8 1/2 inches high by 3 3/4 inches wide at the widest part. Price: $199.
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FA-3: Mexican vintage folk art and woodcarving, a wonderful woodcarving of a fierce lion, attributed to the famous Jimenez family of Oaxaca, c. 1950's. The lion is beautifully carved and decorated. This is a great piece of Oaxacan folk art. Condition is very good. Size: 9 1/2 inches long by 6 inches high by 3 inches wide. Price: $185.
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FA-4: Mexican vintage tinwork art. a lovely mirror surrounded by a tinwork art frame, Oaxaca, c. 1940's. The tinwork art features lovely flowers of rose and turquoise colors. The effect is stunning! Condition is very good. Size: 18 inches diameter. Price: $325.
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FA-5: Mexican vintage folk art, a wonderful donkey with lots of character, San Pedro Tlaquepaque, c. 1940's. The donkey is getting much needed rest after hard labors. This is an adorable piece of vintage folk art. Condition is very good. Size: 4 3/4 inches long by 4 inches high by 4 1/16 inches wide. Price: $125.
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FA-6: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful Taxco sterling silver necklace with lovely silver loops holding half spheres, Taxco, c. 1940's. The silver necklace has nice weight, and it is very graceful and elegant!
Condition is very good. Size: 16 1/4 inches long. Price: $525.
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