NEW ITEMS OF ART AT POCAS COSAS
These are new items for the months of September and October, 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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FG-1: Mexican textiles and sarapes, and New Mexican vintage textiles, a beautiful Chimayo textile with a tight weave and beautiul designs, Chimayo, New Mexico, c. 1930-40's. The textile has a wonderful red background and is decorated with arrows.
Condition is good; colors are vibrant and bright. Size: 79 3/4 inhes long by 51 1/2 inches wide. Price: $899.
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FG-2: Mexican vintage folk art, the "Cheetos Thief", Ocumicho, Michoacan, c. 1950's. Humorous and ferocious, yet sweet as a lamb! Condition is very good. Size: 10 1/2 inches high by 5 1/4 inches at the widest part. Base is 3 1/2 inches diameter. A whimsical and fun piece! Price: $150.
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FG-3: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a beautiful pottery charger featuring a lovely egret embracing the charger, Tonala, c. 1930's. Beautiful artwork on a salmon field featuring an egret as the central design. Condition is very good. Size: 15 1/16 inches diameter. Simple and lovely charger. Price: $325.
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FG-4: Mexican vintage folk art, a Huichol yarn paintaing, c. 1950. The artwork features a deer, which is very sacred to the Huichols who live in the highlands of Nayarit, Mexico. A "blue deer" represents a spiritual guide. Condition is fine. Size: 12 inches high by 15 3/4 inches wide. Price: $250.
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FG-5: Mexican vintage folk art, a beautiful pottery sculpture featuring a "snake dazzler", Ocumicho, Michoacan, c. 1950's. Their folk art pieces are a mixture of myth, magical, humor, and satire of what they see in life. Very interesting and intriguing. Condition is very good. Size: 15 inches high by 4 inches at the widest part. Fine, fun piece of Ocumicho folk art! Price: $299.
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FG-6: Native American vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Navajo vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful squash blossom necklace, all silver with stamping on blossoms and Naja, Arizona or New Mexico, c. 1950's. Graceful and lovely, signed Begay. Condition is very good. Size: 21 inches in length. The Naja is 2 1/16 inches high by 3/4 inches wide. Simple amd stunning. Price: $1200.
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These were new items for the month of August, 2025. You may also view these items, with additional photos, in the Gallery.
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FF-1: A wonderful Guerrero dance costume of the celebration of the Day of the Dead, the morality play of life and death, Guerrero, c. 1950. This costume is from the Tres Potencias Dance.
Condition is very good. Size: 52 inches high by 56 inches wide, including extended arms. Body width at the hips is 21 inches. Mask is 11 inches high by 8 1/2 inches wide.
SOLD. Thank you!
FF-2: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, an incense vessel from the Lacandon jungle, Chiapas, c. 1940. Used for offering incense by the Lacandones, called the "the god ceramic vessel." They believe that the vessel is inhabited by deities. The Lacandones use this vessel with copal incense to communicate with the gods, and offering prayers. Condition is very good. Size: 7 inches diameter, not including the god face, by 4 1/2 inches high. Price: $499.
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FF-3: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a stunning Matl sterling silver necklace, signed Matl, Taxco, c. 1940. The spectacular necklace is embellished with turquoise and coral gems. The main pendant with a dove and lovely dangles set the necklace off. Size: 19 inches long, clasp to clasp. The main pendant measures 1 3/4 inches high by 2 inches wide, not including the dangles. The two sides framing the main pendant are
1 inch high by 3 1/2 inches long. Condition is mint. This is magnificent silverwork for which Matl is known.
SOLD. Thank you!
FF-4: Native American vintage folk art, a wonderful Navajo doll with a beaded blouse and broom skirt, Arizona or New Mexico, c. 1940. This is a toy doll that was truly loved. Condition is good. Size: 7 1/2 inches high by 3 1/2 inches wide. Price: $195.
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FF-5: Mexican vintage folk art, a pottery statue of a shaman, Guerrero, c. 1960. The statue is beatifully formed and decorated.
The statue is from the village of Amayaltepic. The shaman wears a crown and holds an incense pot. Incense is placed in the pot as a form of communication and prayer to the gods. Floral designs are seen on his tunic along with four doves. This is a wonderful piece of folk art! Condition is very good. Size: 23 1/2 inches high by 6 inches deep. The base is 6 inches diameter. Price: $350.
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FF-6: Mexican vintage textiles and sarapes, a beautiful textile from Texcoco c. 1930. The textile is a beautiful indigo blue with wonderful diagonal white woolen patterns and a very tight weave.
Condition is good, given its age. Price: $475.
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FF-7: Mexican vintage folk art, a wonderful Guerrero dance costume of a tiger, c. 1950. The tiger mask and costume are for the Tecuanes dance. Tecuanes means "wild beast." The Tecuanes dance tries to kill other animals and disturb the community. The dance also symbolizes asking deities for rain and fertility. The costume has been used in dance, and the condition reflects that. Size: 56 inches long by 55 inches at the widest part with arms extended. The mask is 8 1/2 inches wide by 8 inches high.
SOLD. Thank you!