NEW ITEMS OF ART AT POCAS COSAS
These are new items for the month of December, 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 vintage pottery and ceramics a beautiful blackware plate of a scene of a paisano coming from the well with full jarros (jars) of water. Artwork crisp with good composition and colored glazes throughout plate which really enhances the artwork. Condition is very good. Size: 12 inches diameter. Price: $275.
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FG-2: Mexican tinwork art candle shields properly known as "palmerines" because they resemble trees. Mexico City, c. 1940. Made of tin, hidden in the back or top, is a short holder for a candle. When lit, it gives a flickering light to the entire candlelabra. Palmerines were commonly used in colonial times. Condition is very good, and luckily found as an identical pair. Size: 10 1/4 inches high by 4 3/4 inches at the widest part, by 2 1/4 inches deep.
SOLD. Thank you!
FG-3: New Mexican Chimayo textile runner, c.1940. Quite striking with indigo yarn, and great pictorial Chimayo with two eagles, Northern New Mexico, c. 1940. Condition is good. Size: 28 inches long, not including fringe, by 13 1/2 inches wide. Price: $165.
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FG-4: Mexican tinwork art, tin Oaxacan candle holders, Oaxaca, c. 1990. Tin shaped beaver cactus candleholders. Tinwork is done well with punching and stamping. Candleholders stand secure, and can be placed on table or as wall-sconces. The holders for candles is between the front and the back panels. Condition is very good. Size: 7 1/2 inches high by 6 1/4 inches wide at the widest part by 3 inches deep. Price: $100.
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FG-5: Mexican fine art, an oil painting of Our Lady of Guadalupe in a very fine wood carved frame from 1930, the painting is from c. 1950. Painting is very lovely done, and the detail is wonderful. Virgen and angel are lovely. Condition is very good. Size: 21 inches high by 17 inches wide, including the frame. Price: $275.
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FG-6: Mexican vintage folk art, and pottery and ceramics, a wonderful pottery rooster signed J.J.R.M (Juan Jose Ramos Medrano, known for his colorful, soulful ceramics), Santa Cruz de las Huertas, Jalisco, c. 1960. Juan is the grandson of the very famous folk artist Candelario Medrano. Large, whimsical, and fun rooster. Condition is very good. Size: 12 1/2 inches high by 8 inches at the widest part (chest to end of tail feathers). The base is 5 3/4 inches diameter. A wonderful piece of folk art! Price: $185.
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FG-7: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a lovely Talavera vase from Puebla, c. 1930. High fired and glazed in white and blue. The designs are beautiful on this vase. Condition is very good. Size: 12 3/4 inches high by 9 inches at the widest part. Very regal and lovely vase. Price: $425.
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FG-8: Native American Indian vintage sterling silver necklace, New Mexico, c. 1940. Silver delicate braiding, with half-spheres gracing the main medallion/pendant of the necklace. The chain is a hand-made Zuni chain. Condition is very good. Size: 17 1/2 inches long. The size of the medallion/pendant is 3 1/2 inches high by 1/2 inch wide. Price: $275.
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These were new items for the month of November, 2025. You may also view these items, with additional photos, in the Gallery.
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FH-1: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a beautiful banderaware pottery charger with wonderful artwork, Tonala or San Pedro Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1930's. Artwork of an egret with floral designs framed with geometric patterns on the rim. Delightful piece of vintage pottery. Condition is very good. Size: 13 inches diameter. Price: $185.
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FH-2: New Mexican vintage devotional art, a beautiful carved wooden bulto depicting Our Lady of Sorrows, New Mexio, c 1970's. The woodcarving is unsigned, and the Virgin is beautifully carved, and is delightful and lovely.
Condition is excellent. Size: 18 inches high by 8 inches wide at the widest part of the base by 4 inches deep (front to back) including the base. Price: $800.
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FH-3: Mexican vintage woodcarvings and masks, a lovely woodcarving depicting a revolutionary couple, Mexico, c. 1940's. Very finely carved. The woman and child is signed J. Pinal, from Mexico City. The soldier is unsigned, but is also most likely a Pinal. Very fine and excellent details on each figure. Condition ia very good. Size: woman is 9 1/4 inches high including the base by 3 inches wide at the widest part and 3 inches deep (front to back). The soldier is 10 1/16 inches high by 3 inches wide, not including the rifle, by 3 inches deep. Price: $175 for the pair.
A great pair!
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FH-4: Mexican vintage folk art, a folk art pottery sculpture, Ocumicho, Michoacan, c. 1940's. The folk art from Ocumicho is mixed with myth, satire, humor, and whimsy, of how they see life. There is a Day of the Dead marigold wreath (In Mexico, the flower of the dead) held over this person's head, hinting by the devil, his death might be sooner than he thinks. Condition is very good. Size: 11 1/2 inches high by 7 inches wide by 5 1/2 inches deep. Price: $375.
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FH-5: Mexican vintage textiles and sarapes, a wonderful hand embroidered shawl from Patzcuaro, Michoacan, c. 1970's. The shawl is decorated at each end with a tree depicting scenes of life in Patzcuaro. Each tree has six differnt scenes.
Condition is very good. Size: 59 inches long by 28 inches wide. Price: $150.
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FH-6: Native American Indian vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Navajo sterling silver jewelry, a stunning necklace with hummingbirds, graceful and lovely lapidary work, c. 1960. The lapidary work is exceptional, and the necklace has matching earrings. The hummingbirds of both the necklace and earrings have turquoise, mother of pearl, spiny oyster, with a silver beak. Condition is very good. Size: 21 inches total length. Each humingbird is 2 1/16 inches long by 3/4 inches wide. Price: $1200 for the set.
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