POCAS COSAS ARCHIVE OF RECENTLY SOLD ITEMS
DJ-9: Mexican vintage textiles, and Mexican vintage serapes (sarapes), a Saltillo-style runner with incredible colors, with bands of teneriffe (croche-work resembling fine lace) and a fabulous center medallion, c. 1930-40's.
DI-2: Mexican classic textiles and Saltillo serapes (sarapes), a beautiful classic aggregate-diamond Saltillo serape with an indigo blue background and yarns of black, white, red, and magenta, c. 1890.
CR-1: New Mexican vintage serapes and textiles, and Chimayo vintage textiles, a very beautiful Chimayo woven textile with a lovely brown background and fine decorative elements, Chimayo, Northern New Mexico, c. 1940.
CO-12: Andean vintage textiles, and Bolivian woolen textiles, a beautiful woolen pancho with beautiful colors and design, and a very tight, fine weave, Andean region (possibly Bolivia), c. 1930's.
CY-7: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a beautiful pottery pitcher with fabulous artwork featuring graceful quetzales, birds, blue deer and ducks, surrounded by wonderful floral designs, Tonala or San Pedro Tlaquepaque, c. 1930's.
CX-9: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a very beautiful petatillo bowl with incredibly fine glazing and artwork, Tonala or San Pedro Tlaquepaque, c. 1930.
DK-3: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage woodcarvings and masks, a Day-of-the-Dead cart filled with jovial souls on their way to the market to buy Cempusuctl, or marigolds, to decorate home altars and the graves of loved ones, attributed to the great Manuel Jimenez, Arrazola, Oaxaca, c. 1950's.
CE-1: Mexican antique Colonial art, and Mexican Colonial devotional art, an incredible hand-carved Nativity set with wonderful statues of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, Mexico, c. 17th-18th century.
BR-7: Native American Indian vintage textiles, and Navajo vintage textiles and rugs, a beautiful Navajo woven pictorial textile, decorated with the image of a beautiful Indian maiden, Arizona or New Mexico, c. 1930's.
WW-10: Native American Indian silver jewelry, and Navajo sterling silver jewelry, an elegant and very beautiful pair of Navajo sterling silver earrings by the great silversmith, Perry Shorty, c. 1980's.
CR-8: Native American Indian vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Navajo vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful silver necklace with stunning coral trade beads, silver hand-wrought bench beads, and a wonderful silver and coral naja, Navajo, Arizona or New Mexico, c. 1930's.
CL-2: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, stacking or leaning dogs with birdies flying above their hats, attributed to the great folk artist, Heron Martinez, Acatlan, Puebla, his "white period", c. 1940's.
BE-7: Native American Indian folk art, and Native American Indian pottery and ceramics, a wonderful, very whimsical pottery figure depicting an Anglo or European visitor or clown, signed by the famous artist, Virgil Ortiz, Cochiti Pueblo, c. 1980.
CN-2: Mexican vintage devotional art, and Mexican vintage woodcarvings and masks, a beautiful wooden Animas Cross, decorated with the image of the Crucified Christ and adorned with an array of religious images, Queretaro, c. late 19th century.
CP-1: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a beautiful charger with incredible artwork, Tonala or San Pedro Tlaquepaque, c. 1930's.
CF-10: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a beautiful charger, decorated with lovely peacocks and flowers, San Pedro Tlaquepaque or Tonala, Jalisco, c. 1930's.
OO-2: Mexican vintage textiles and Saltillo sarapes, a wonderful pair of matching Saltillo sarapes featuring a dashing Mexican charro (horseman) and a lovely China Poblana or charra dancing around a sombrero, c. 1940's.
CP-4: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a very lovely petatillo (cross-hatching background, resembling a straw mat or petate) and fabulous artwork, Tonala or San Pedro Tlaquepaque, c. 1930's.
CD-9: Native American Indian vintage silver jewelry, and Navajo silver jewelry, a beautiful pair of dangling hoop earrings with a lovely turquoise stone, Arizona or New Mexico, c. 1940's.
CA-1: Native American Indian folk art and woodcarvings, a wonderful woodcarving of an old Navajo woman, signed by the great Navajo folk art woodcarver Johnson Antonio, Arizona or New Mexico, c. 1990.
CA: 11: Native American Indian vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Navajo vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful Navajo sterling silver bracelet with a wonderful turquoise stone, Arizona or New Mexico, c. 1950's.
CH-3: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful silver necklace with wonderful floral designs and spheres, Taxco, c. 1940's.
CE-2: Mexican vintage devotional art, and Mexican vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful pendant/pin on a silver chain, with a lovely image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, painted on porceline, c. 1940.
BV-1: Native American Indian sterling silver jewelry, and Zuni vintage silver jewelry, a lovely Zuni ring with a stunning thunderbird created of inlaid turquoise, spiny oyster, jet, and abalone shell, Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, c. 1940.
AE-4: Vintage California tile and ceramics, a rare and extremely beautiful, tile table with a wonderful parrot in the center and an incredibly fine border, California, c. 1930's.
BM-8: Native American Indian vintage jewelry, a beautiful Zuni necklace with lovely cerrillos turquoise nuggets, corral, and lovely heshi, Zuni Pueblo, c. 1950's.
CO-4: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage woodcarvings and masks, a wonderful wood-carved set of three lively musicians, playing their little hearts out, San Martin Tejalapa, Oaxaca, c. 1950's.
CO-16: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage woodcarvings and masks, a wonderful wood-carved armidillo, with wonderful, bright colors, signed on the bottom by the great Oaxacan folk artist, Manuel Jimenez, Oaxaca, c. 1950's.
CO-17: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage woodcarvings and masks, a wonderful wood-carved figure of an Aztec maiden, beautifully carved and decorated, signed by the great Oaxacan folk artist, Manuel Jimenez. Oaxaca, c. 1950's.
CN-5: Mexican vintage devotional art, and Mexican vintage folkart, a beautiful wrought-iron cross, Chiapas, c. 1950.
BZ-8: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a lovely burnished tree-of-life (arbol de la vida) candlelabra with beautiful decorations, by the famous folk artist Heron Martinez, Acatlan, Puebla, c. 1950's.
UU-4: Mexican vintage folk-art, and Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a beautiful pottery city bus filled with happy passengers, signed on the side of the bus by the famous, late folk-artist, Candelario Medrano of Santa Cruz de las Huertas, Jalisco, c. 1960's. The bus has great character and the style of the 1950's.
CM-13: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a wonderful pottery airplane with bright colors and happy passengers, attributed to the great Candelario Medrano, Santa Cruz de las Huertas, Jalisco, c. 1950's.
CM-14: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a very beautiful pottery bandstand filled with wonderful musicians, attributed to the great Candelario Medrano, Santa Cruz de las Huertas, Jalisco, c. 1950's.
CL-2: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, stacking or leaning dogs with birdies flying above their hats, attributed to the great folk artist, Heron Martinez, Acatlan, Puebla, his "white period", c. 1940's.
BZ-6: Mexican vintage straw-art, popote art or popotillo, a wonderful scene of the main Cathedral in Mexico City, by the famous popotillo artist, G. Olay (Gabriel Olay), Mexico City, c. 1920-30's.
MM-9: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a wrought-iron table with four matching black-ware tiles, the tiles from Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1930's.
T-11: Native American Indian basket, a very large California Mission tray with geometric star pattern, c. 1920.
BN-1: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a wonderful pottery figure of bulls stacked on top of one another, in the form of a tree-of-life, Acatlan, Puebla, c. 1940's.
BB-11: Mexican vintage straw art (popote art, or popotillo), a wonderful scene, composed using thousands of pieces of minute dyed straw (popote, in Spanish), showing a Mexican charro on his faithful and beautiful horse, c. 1940's.
BG-10: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, an exquisite silver necklace with 32 cabochons of wonderful amethyst, Taxco, c. 1940's.
J-1: Native American Indian basket, Chemehuevi olla, c. 1910. Very fine weave, and in mint condition. Size: 7" tall x 8" wide at middle x 6 3/4" diameter at mouth.
CC-7: Mexican vintage folk art, a wonderful paper mache horse on wheels and pulled with a string, c. 1940's.
CB-9: Mexican vintage folk art, a set of three wonderful pottery whistles, Metepec, c. 1930's.
CA-7: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage woodcarvings and masks, a folk art woodcarving of a jaguar, attributed to the great folk artist Manuel Jimenez of Oaxaca, c. 1950's.
CD-2: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a pair of pottery monkeys in colorful dress, made to hold wonderful mezcal, Oaxaca, c. 1950's.
CE-5: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a wonderful mermaid, swimming happily with her babies on her back, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacan, c. 1950.
CF-9: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage devotional art, a hand-forged wrought-iron cross, Chiapas, c. 1930.
CF-6: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, and Mexican vintage folk art and devotional art, a wonderful pottery bottle depicting Our Lady of Guadalupe, San Pedro Tlaquepaque or Tonala, Jalisco, c. 1930-40's.
CF-11: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage woodcarvings and masks, a woodcarving depicting the hero of the Mexican revolution, Emiliano Zapata, by the famous folk artist Manuel Jimenez of Arrazola, Oaxaca, c. 1950's.
BR-3: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a stunning pottery bowl with a beautiful black background and a starry night pattern, and highly intricate artwork decorations, Tonala or San Pedro Tlaquepaque, c. 1920-30's.
BP-11: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a beautiful burnished charger with lovely hand-painted decorations, Tonala, Jalisco, c. 1930's.
AC-2: Native American Indian antique basket, a Chemehuevi pictorial basket featuring lovely birds, attributed to basketmaker Mary Smith Hill, Chemehuevi, c. 1920.
BA-3: Native American Indian vintage textiles, and Navajo textiles and rugs, a very beautiful transitional-period rug with three crosses, Arizona or New Mexico, c. 1900.
CG-6: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage woodcarving, a very beautiful wood-carved animalito, possibly a rabbit or a fox, with long ears, attributed to the late, great folk artist Manuel Jimenez, Oaxaca, c. 1950's.
AX-13: Native American Indian and Navajo rugs and textiles, a lovely Navajo pictorial textile featuring a wonderful corn plant, Arizona or New Mexico, c. 1910.
AV-2: Native American Indian vintage textiles, and Navajo vintage textiles and rugs, a very lovely Navajo textile or large rug, with a very fine weave and beautiful design, probably Red Mesa, Arizona, c. 1920-30's.
CI-17: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a wonderful pair of pottery bottles in the form of whimsical and colorful "monos" or monkeys, Oaxaca, c. 1950's.
AP-10: Native American Indian antique textiles, and Navajo vintage blankets and rugs, a stunningly beautiful antique Navajo rug with an eye-dazzling border and wonderful design and colors, Arizona or New Mexico (very possibly Ganado, Arizona), c. 1930-40's.
CI-3: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a wonderful pottery cart or carriage, pulled by two horses and filled with happy campesinos, attributed to the great folk artist, Candelario Medrano, Santa Cruz de las Huertas, Jalisco, c. 1940's.
YY-11: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a large and extremely beautiful burnished globe or vase, with extremely fine and graceful floral artwork, Tonala or Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1930's.
BL-4: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage woodcarving, a beautiful and very imaginative woodcarving of a jaguar, attributed to the great folk artist, Manuel Jimenez, from the village of Arazola, Oaxaca, c. 1950's.
BD-3: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage devotional art, a wrought-iron cross with wonderful form and detailed stamping, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, c. 1950's.
AI-15: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage woodcarving, a carved wooden figure depicting the famous Mexican artist, Dr. Atl (Gerado Murillo) or, perhaps, the Russian communist leader-in-exile, Leon Trotsky, who was assasinated in Coyoacan (Mexico City), by the famous Mexican folk artist, Manuel Jimenez, Arazola, Oaxaca, c. 1950-60's.
Q-1: Mexican vintage folk art, a finely carved coconut with scenes from the Mexican Revolution of 1910, c. 1925-35.
BI-5: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage woodcarving and masks, a wonderful carved wooden figure of a sweet dog, attributed to the great Manuel Jimenez of Arrazola, Oaxaca, c. 1950.
BH-1: Mexican vintage devotional art, and Mexican vintage woodcarving and masks, a beautiful Cruz de Animas (Cross of the Souls in Purgatory), hand-painted on wood, Queretaro, c. 1870-1900.
BD-8: Native American Indian antique pottery, a beautiful pottery olla or vase, Santo Domingo Pueblo, c. 1900.
AM-8: Native American Indian vintage sterling silver jewelry, a lovely Zuni petit-point squash blossom necklace, pawn jewelry, Zuni, c. 1950's.
AK-2: Native American Indian antique baskets, a beautiful and very tightly woven Chemehuevi olla, Arizona or California (Colorado River near Parker, Arizona), c. 1920.
AI-3: Native American Indian antique baskets, a very finely-woven Chemehuevi olla with a lovely geometric design, c. 1920.
QQ-4: Native American Indian antique basket, a very rare and beautiful Chemehuevi basket in the shape of a graceful bowl, polychrome, and very finely woven, probably from the area near Needles, CA, and Parker, AZ, along the Colorado River, c. 1920.
CC-5: Mexican vintage devotional art and folk art, a retablo on tin depicting Our Lady of Mt. Carmel of the Scapulars, holding the Infant Jesus wearing his crown, c. 1900.
DD-6: Native American Indian antique textile, a fine Navajo weaving from the Klagatoh area, c. 1920's.
D-11: Native American textile, Navajo rug: Crystal runner, c. 1910.
AK-3: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful pair of sterling silver hoop earrings, Guadalajara, c.1940's.
II-11: Mexican vintage textiles and sarapes, a spectacular Saltillo sarape with bands of tela deshilada ("pulled threads": threads are removed and lovely flowers are then crocheted with the remaining threads within certain bands of the sarape), c. 1920-40.
T-8: New Mexican vintage textile, a finely woven rug from the weaving center of Chimayo, New Mexico, c. 1930. This is from a very famous weaver, active from 1910-40, whose signature was the hummingbird in the center of this textile.
AO-8: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a wonderful pottery figure of a Mexican paisano and his trusty quarter-horse, leaning against a tree stump, originally meant to be an ash tray, Tlaquepaque or Tonala, Jalisco, c. 1930's.
JJ-1: Mexican antique devotional art and wood-carving, a beautiful Cruz de Animas y de Muerte ("Cross of the Souls in Purgatory and the Deceased"), made of mesquite and exquisitely painted with images of Christ and of animas (souls in purgatory), probably from Queretero, c. 1875.
AD-6: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a magnificent and extremely large charger featuring the Mexican national symbol, an eagle with snake in mouth and two Mexican flags, Tonala or Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1920-30's. The artwork is spectacular! This treasure of Mexican fine/folk art is museum quality. The pale-green background wonderfully complements the scene. Condition is excellent. Size: 26 inches diameter.
AC-9: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a beautiful pitcher with exquisite artwork, Tonala or Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1920's.
AH-9: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a pair of giant, beautiful burnished vases, Tonala, Jalisco, c. 1930-40's.
Item A-1: Native American Indian basket, Yokuts, c. 1920.
NN-2: Native American Indian antique pottery, a beautiful Santa Clara/San Juan Pueblo black pot with a bear-claw design near the top, c. 1890's.
AE-2: Native American Indian antique textiles, and antique Navajo rugs, a beautiful Navajo rug, in the Ganado style, c. 1930's.
AD-8: Native American Indian vintage textiles, a Navajo Crystal rug with striking crosses, c. 1920-30's.
WW-11: Native American Indian vintage jewelry, and Navajo gold jewelry, a beautiful a 14 karat gold ring with a fantastic sugalite stone, by the famous Navajo artist, Harvey Begay, c. 1980's.
SS-11: Native American Indian vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful pair of Zuni dangling earrings of fine silver and with inlays of wonderful turquoise, Zuni Pueblo, c. 1950's.
OO-10: Native American Indian vintage silver jewelry, a pair of Zuni dangling earrings with lovely petite-point turquoise, Zuni, New Mexico, c. 1930's.
AC-6: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, an amazing pottery jumbo jet with 13 very happy passengers, signed under one wing by the famous folk artist, Candelario Medrano, Santa Cruz de las Huertas, Jalisco, c. 1960's.
WW-2: Native American Indian antique baskets, a fantastic and very finely woven Chemehuevi olla with wonderful, simple decorative elements, Needles, California or Parker, Arizona, c. 1920. The weave of this basket is an incredibly fine 13-14 stitches per inch! Near the base, the olla bears the hand-written code of the famous Birdie Brown/Livingston collection.
LL-12: Native American Indian basket, a very finely woven polychrome olla, Chemehuevi, c. 1920's.
PP-3: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a very fine pottery plate featuring a leaping wolf, a blue bunny, butterflies and lovely foliage, with a starry-night background, from Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1920's.
OO-11: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a magnificent Tlaquepaque plate with a starry-night background and decorated with leaping animals and birds, Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1920-30's.
Z-15: Mexican vintage wood-carving and laquer-ware art, a wonderful batella from Uruapan, Michoacan, c. 1930's.
NN-13: Mexican vintage silver jewelry and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful pair of silver earrings with mother-of-pearl and jet stones, c. 1940's.
II-12: South American antique silver jewelry, a very beautful cross on a hand-made sterling chain, from the Malpuchi of Southern Chile, c. 1880-90's.
SS-5: Mexican vintage textiles and Saltillo sarapes, a lovely Saltillo sarape with a beautiful black background and a fabulous center diamond, c. 1920's.
D-9: Native American antique Indian basket: Chemehuevi olla with geometric bands, c. 1920.
NN-8: Native American Indian and Navajo sterling silver jewelry, a wonderful pair of Navajo silver earrings with turquoise, c. 1950.
EE-13: Native American Indian vintage sterling silver jewelry, a Navajo bracelet with beautiful Kingman, Arizona, turquoise and bump-out stamping, c. 1940's.
P-2: Native American Indian vintage silver jewelry, a Navajo sterling silver bracelet with wonderful natural turquoise stones, c. 1920; ingot silver. The turquoise is about the most beautiful you will ever see!
JJ-3: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, and Mexican vintage folk art, a lovely tree of life attributed to the master folk-artist, Heron Martinez, c. 1960's.
W-9: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, an incredibly large and beautiful pottery charger from Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1920-30's. Size: a simply amazing 27 1/2 inches diameter by c. 3 inches thick (front to back of charger).
N-12: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, creamer and suger set by famed artist Balbino Lucano, c. 1920-30.
N-8: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, and Mexican vintage folk art, a candle-holder in the form of an angel, attributed to the famous folk artist Heron Martinez Mendoza, Acatlan, Puebla, c. 1970.
V-4: Vintage Mexican pottery and ceramics, and Mexican vintage folk art, a pair of lovely pottery plates from Tlaquepaque, c. 1920-30's. These are attributed to the famous artist, Balbino Lucano (or his equally famous brother, Tomas Lucano).
C-3: Mexican vintage textile: Saltillo sarape, c. 1910.
Beautiful sarape with blue back-field, woven of very fine wool with silk in the center and two end stripes.
L-5: Mexican vintage textile, a Saltillo sarape, c. 1920. Woven of very fine wool with silk in the center diamond and side-bar decorations.
E-8: Native American antique Indian basket: Washo basket decorated with stars, c. 1920.
C-19: Mexican textile: vintage Saltillo sarape, c. 1920-30.
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