NEW ITEMS OF ART AT POCAS COSAS
These are new items for the month of November, 2024. 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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EX-1: Mexican vintage folk art, a folk-art cotton/canvass bag with wonderful chenille designs and a carved wooden handle, c. 1950. The carved wooden handle features wonderful male and female paisano figures. This is great Mexican vintage folk art! Condition is very good. Size: 14 inches high, including the handle, by 14 inches wide. Price: $125.
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EX-2: Native American Indian vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Hopi vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful Hopi necklace with a sterling silver pendant depicting a Hopi tableta with butterflies and wonderful turquoise, Arizona, c. 1950's. The necklace is very elegant and graceful, and the turquoise around the necklace is of very high quality. Condition is very good. Size: the pendant is 1 1/2 inches high by 1 1/2 inches wide. The turquoise stone on the tableta pendant is
1 1/2 inches high by 3/4 inches wide. The necklace is 20 1/2 inches total length. Price: $325.
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EX-3: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a very beautiful pottery charger with incredibly fine artwork featuring the Mexican eagle, Tonala or San Pedro Tlaquepaque, c. 1950's. The petatillo (fine hatchwork in the background resembling a straw mat or petate) is exceptionally fine. The piece is signed by the artist on the back, Javier Ramos Lucano of the Lucano family of famous artists. Condition is very good. Size: 15 1/16 inches diameter. Price: $575.
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EX-4: Mexican pottery and ceramics, a beautiful talavera pottery bowl with incredible glazing and artwork, Puebla, c. 1940's.The talavera bowl is from the famous Casa Rugerio in Puebla, a famous fabrica which no longer exists. The artwork and colors are spectacular! Condition is very good. Size: 9 3/4 inches diameter, not including the handles, by 6 1/4 inches high. Price: $275.
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EX-5: Mexican or Guatemalan vintage devotional art and folk art, a carved wooden piece with the faces of the Trinity on three arms and possibly Mary, the Mother of Jesus at the base, below the Trinity, Guatemala or Mexico, c. 1940's. The piece is beautiful, and very creative and unusual!
Condition is very good. Size: 16 inches high by 8 1/2 inches wide, at the widest part near the top. The wooden base is 6 inches wide by 4 1/4 inches deep. Price: $275.
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These were new items for the month of October, 2024. You may also view these items, with additional photos, in the Gallery.
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EW-1: Mexican vintage folk art, a wonderful pair of pottery Day of the Dead candleholders by the famous late artist Alfonso Castillo, c. 1980. The Day of the Dead figures are a lovely China Poblana and her wonderful Charro. Alfonso Castillo is found in the book Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art. His work is highly collectible! Condition is very good. Size: 8 1/4 inches high by 4 1/2 inches at the widest part of each figure. The circular base of each is 3 1/4 inches diameter.
SOLD. Thank you!
EW-2: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a lovely burnished pottery pot with a lovely pale-blue background and very fine artwork, Tonala or San Pedro Tlaquepaque, c. 1930's. The artwork features wonderful and graceful tropical birds.
There are "brisas" in the background resembling hail and creating a starry night effect. Condition is very good. Size: 5 3/4 inches high by 5 1/2 inches diameter at the widest part. Price: $275.
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EW-3: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful pair of Taxco silver earrings in the style of Matl, Taxco, c. 1980's. The earrings feature wonderful silver bump-outs, and amethyst, coral, and turquoise stones.
The silverwork is masterful, and the overall effect is graceful and stunning. Condition is very good. Size: 1 3/4 inches long by 1 3/4 inches wide. Price: $185.
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EW-4: Mexican vintage devotional art, an exvoto painted on tin depicting a woman giving thanks to Nuestro Senor de Sausito for curing a family member of some affliction, c. 19 century. The images of the woman and of Nuestro Senor are wonderful. An exvoto is like a prayer card, giving thanks for a cure or a favor received. Condition is very good, given the age of this piece. Size: 7 inches high by 10 inches wide. Price: $299.
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EW-5: Mexican vintage folk art and beadwork, a wooden-carved mask representing a jaguar, Huichol, c. 1970's. The mask is decorated with very fine beadwork containing symbols and designs important to the Huichol: peyote, arrows, and geometric designs. Condition is very good. Size: 9 1/2 inches high by 6 1/16 inches wide by 6 inches deep at the deepest part. Price: $475.
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EW-6: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a lovely silver necklace with beautiful geometric designs, Taxco, c. 1940. The design of the necklace is beautiful, and the silverwork is exceptional. The silver has good weight. Condition is very good. Size: 14 1/16 inches long by 3/4 inch wide at the center design elements. Price: $325.
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EW-7: Mexican vintage textiles and sarapes, a beautiful textile with a "flor de Oaxaca" decoration in the center, Oaxaca, c. 1950. The textile is of natural brown wool, and the central "flor" is dyed with cochineal. Condition is very good. Size: 18 inches long by 14 3/4 inches wide. Price: $75.
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EW-8: Mexican vintage tinwork art, a lovely tinwork art candlelabra with a beautiful floral design, Oaxaca, c. 1960. The candlelabra is extremely elegant and graceful. Condition is very good. Size: 13 3/4 inches high by 14 3/4 inches wide, at the widest part. The circular base is 4 1/2 inches diameter. Price: $185.
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EW-9: Mexican vintage folk art and vintage woodcarvings, a wonderful "Blessing Bull" carved of wood and beautifully painted, Guerrero, c. 1950. In many towns and villages of Guerrero, these Blessing Bulls are carried in processions to the local church, and then carried out to the fields with prayers for an abundant harvest. A great celebration in the village follows. Condition is very good. Size: 5 3/4 inches high by 13 1/2 inches long by 5 inches wide, at the widest part. Price: $250.
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