NEW ITEMS OF ART AT POCAS COSAS
These are new items for the month of August, 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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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. Price: $325.
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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. The stunning necklace is $3400.
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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. Price: $300.
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These were new items for the month of July, 2025. You may also view these items, with additional photos, in the Gallery.
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FE-1: Native American Indian sterling silver jewelry, and Navajo sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful pair of earrings with fine stamping and silverwork, Navajo, Arizona or New Mexico, c. 1960. The earrings are very simple and elegant. Condition is very good. Size: 1 1/2 inches diameter. Price: $135.
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FE-2: Native American Indian vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Navajo sterling silver jewelry, a stunning Navajo sterling silver ring with beautiful spider-web turquoise and fine silverwork, Arizona or New Mexico, c. 1950. The turquoise is exceptional, and the ring has braiding around the bezzle and six sterling spheres on each side of the stone. Condition is very good. Size: 9 1/2. Price: $425.
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FE-3: Mexican vintage folk art, and Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a beautiful pottery sculpture of a burning tower of devils delighted by the tasty fowl being roasted in a bowl on the top, Ocumicho, Michoacan, c. 1950. This is a great piece of folk art from Ocumicho. Condition is very good. Size: 15 inches high by 4 1/2 inches diameter at the widest part. The tower has seven devils and a three-headed fowl in the top dish. Price: $475.
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FE-4: Mexican vintage devotional art, and Mexican vintage woodcarvings, a lovely woodcarving of Our Lady of Guadalupe, with fine detail in her robe and tunic, from the village of Tilcajete outside of the city of Oaxaca, c. 1980. The Virgin is beautifully carved and decorated. Condition is very good. Size: 8 3/4 inches high, including rays, by 5 1/16 inches wide by 2 inches deep (front to back). Price: $150.
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FE-5: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful clamp silver bracelet with fine silverwork and a beautiful design, Taxco, c. 1940's. The repousse silverwork is exceptional. The bracelet is very graceful and elegant! Condition is very good. Size: 3 inches wide by 2 inches diameter. Price: $375.
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FE-6: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a lovely burnished pottery charger with graceful floral decorations of gorgeous bromiliads, Tonala, c. 1930's. The artwork is very graceful, and the charger is spectacular. Condition is very good, given the age of this piece; there are some signs of wear. Size: 20 1/16 inches diameter. Price: $1200.
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FE-7: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a beautiful large pottery bowl with fantastic artwork, San Pedro Tlaquepaque, c. 1930's. The large size and the quality of the artwork make this piece very special! This is a great piece of vintage Mexican folk and fine art. Condition is very good. Size: 6 1/2 inches high by 12 3/4 inches diameter at the top. Price: $750.
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