POCAS COSAS ARCHIVE OF RECENTLY SOLD ITEMS

BB-6: Mexican vintage pottery and Mexican vintage devotional art, a bottle of Our Lady of Guadalupe from Tlaquepaque, c. 1930-40.

Z-2: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, and Mexican vintage folk art, a holy water bottle depicting Our Lady of Guadalupe, Tlaquepaque, c. 1930-40. The bottle bears the early stamp of the Arias store in Tlaquepaque.

EE-25: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a pair of plates with a lovely beige background, from Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1940's.

EE-16: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a lovely terra-cota plate with t scene of a campesino on his donkey, c. 1940's.

CC-3: Mexican pottery and folk art, a lovely burnished charger by the late artist Amado Galvan, Tonala, Jalisco, c. 1960's.

CC-11: Mexican vintage pottery and folk art, a lovely blackware plate with wonderful birds, c. 1930's.

CC-12: Mexican vintage pottery and folk art, a wonderful blackware plate with two bunnies, Tlaquepaque, c. 1930's.

CC-13: Mexican vintage pottery and folk art, a uniquely large turkey casserole with lid, Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1940's.

CC-14: Mexican vintage pottery and folk art, a blackware plate with a wonderful scene of a campesino and his burro, Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1930's.

CC-17: Mexican vintage pottery and folk art, a pair of wonderful petatillo pulque or beer mugs with beautiful scenes, Tonala, Jalisco, c. 1930-40's. These are attributed to the famous Tonala artist, Balbino Lucano.

CC-19: Mexican vintage pottery and folk art, a blackware tile with a beautiful scene of a campesino dressed in his Saltillo sarape, resting amidst dense foliage and plants, Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1930's.

BB-10: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a petatillo plate from Tlaquepaque, c. 1920-30.

AA-1: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a wonderful charger from Tlaquepaque, c. 1930-40.

Z-10: Mexican pottery and ceramics, a wonderful charger from Tzintzuntzan, Michoacan, on the shores of Lake Patzcuaro, c. 1990.

Y-5: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a prancing horse with attached bowl, Tlaquepaque, c. 1930.

W-2: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, and Mexican vintage folk art, a burnished pottery fish from Tonala Jalisco, c. 1930's.

V-6: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a burnished jar from Tonala, Jalisco, c. 1930. Signed, "Augustin"; wonderful Aztec geometric pattern.

T-3: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a large Fantasia-style pitcher, Tlaquepaque, c. 1930.

R-3: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics and Mexican vintage folk art, a small turkey casserole from Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1930's.

R-7: Mexican pottery and ceramics, a large rectangular pottery dish from Tonala, date December 18, 1995. The dish is signed, S. Lucano for the late Santos Lucano Neri, a famous Tonala potter and member of a famous family of potters and artisans.

I-3: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a burnished vase from Tonala, Jalisco, c. 1940.

G-9: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a large blackware charger from Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, a famous pottery center of Mexico, c. 1930.

F-7: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a large charger from Tlaquepaque, c. 1930's.

C-10: Mexican vintage pottery, a rare Tonala pottery bank in the figure of a Mexican peasant man with sarape and sombrero, c. 1920's.

B-12: Mexican vintage silver jewelry: earrings, modernist design with amethyst stone at center, c. 1940's.

X-4: Mexican vintage textiles and sarapes, a beautiful Saltillo sarape with a green background, c. 1940's.

N-4: Mexican vintage textile, a Saltillo Sarape, c. 1940.

EE-24: Mexican vintage straw-art or popotillo (popote art), two lovely scenes mounted in a black frame, c. 1920's.

W-5: Mexican vintage "straw-art" (popote art or popotillo) tray, c. 1940's. The popote art is very fine and very intricate. The frame is also decorated with very fine popote or straw-art, and incised geomtric patterns in the wood on the handles of the frame and and in the wood immediately around the central image.

K-5: Mexican vintage straw-art, popote or popotillo, framed scene, c. 1940.

V-1: Mexican vintage devotional art, and Mexican vintage folk art, a wooden nicho with a bulto (carved wooden statue) of the Santo Nino de Atocha, c. 1950.

DD-11: Mexican vintage tinwork art, a lovely tin-art frame with a very beautiful image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The tinwork frame dates from c. 1930's.

CC-7: Mexican vintage devotional art and tinwork art, a tinwork frame containing a retablo on tin of Jesus Scourged and Kneeling, c. 1930.

CC-16: Andean silver cross with blue European trade-bead necklace, both c. 18th century.

Z-8: Mexican vintage tin-art (tinwork art), an octagonal tinwork mirror with a single candleholder at the base, c. 1930-40.

W-8: Mexican vintage tin-art or tinwork art, a large tin tray with copper, c. 1950.

CC-1: Guatemalan vintage wood-carving and folk art, a carved wooden mask used in the Danza de Los Patrones (Dance of the Bosses), Guatemala, c. 1940's.

CC-8: Mexican vintage pottery and folk art, a medium-sized casserole with lid in the shape of a hen, c. 1940's.

BB-15: Mexican vintage pottery and folk-art, a beautiful burnished charger with a wonderful bird and floral design, blue background, Tonala, c. 1930's.

BB-8: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a flatware (opaco) wedding vase with exquisite artwork on all sides, from Tonala, Jalisco, c. 1930's.

Y-12: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, and Mexican vintage folk art, a beautiful "tree of life" candlelabra with birds and a wonderful tucan, c. 1960's.

Y-1: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a lidded jar with handles from Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1930'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).

V-3: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a drip-ware (goteado) bowl from Oaxaca, c. 1930-40.

T-2: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a large drip-ware bowl from Oaxaca, c. 1940. This style of drip-ware (losa goteada) is known as Mexican majollica. Vibrant colors of yellow, brown and blue.

BB-16: Mexican vintage folk art and tinwork art, a tinwork-art nicho with a wonderful wax figure of a boy and his donkey by Luis Hidalgo, 1941.

W-4: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics and Mexican vintage folk art, a pottery bottle in the form of Our Lady of Guadalupe from Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1930's.

X-3: Mexican vintage tinwork-art, or tin-art, a very fine tinwork mirror with excellent construction and stamping, and with copper spheres as stamens in the center of flowers, c. 1940-50's.

U-2: Mexican vintage devotional art and Mexican vintage tin-work art, a wonderful nicho with a retablo of Our Lady of Guadalupe; retablo on tin c. 1920.

U-5: Mexican vintage tin art, a wonderfully stamped tin-work mirror, c. 1945.

T-4: Mexican vintage tin or tinwork art, a candlelabra with beautiful form and simple stamping, c. 1930-40.

X-7: Mexican vintage devotional art, and Mexican vintage wood-carving, a mesquite cross with one nail remaining, c. 1890-1900.

P-12: Mexican vintage devotional art, a very old print depicting Our Lady of Juquila, in a very decorative tinwork and glass nicho, c. 1930.

S-2: American vintage pottery, a San Jose plate from the San Jose Company in Texac, c. 1930. The plate is decorated with a scene of a Mexican cockfight, and is extremely well done.

I-8: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a Tlaquepaque pottery plate with a beautiful light green background, not a very common glaze color, and wonderful art-work, c. 1930.

W-11: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, and Mexican vintage folk art, a stunning pottery bird from Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1920-30's.

W-13: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, an entire tea set with teapot, creamer and sugar-bowl, and six cups, from the pottery center of Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1930's.

X-10: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, and Mexican vintage folk art, a pottery tree of life from Acatlan, Puebla, c. 1950-60's.

X-5: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, and Mexican vintage folk art, a pottery bowl or tecomate with wonderful rural scenes on blackware, from Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1930.

X-1: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, and Mexican vintage folk art, a pottery apartment building with happy tenants, Santa Cruz de las Huertas, Jalisco, c. 1970-80's.

Y-10: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a large charger with the "Journey to Bethlehem" scene, from Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1920-30.

AA-5: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a flatware (opaco) water jar and cup from Tonala, Jalisco, c. 1930-40's.

C-14: Mexican vintage pottery, tile from Tonala, Jalisco, c. 1930.

N-13: Mexican pottery and ceramics, a pottery figure of Our Lady of Good Health from Tzintzuntzan, Michoacan, c. 2010.

W-4: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics and Mexican vintage folk art, a pottery bottle in the form of Our Lady of Guadalupe from Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1930's.

J-2: Native American Indian basket, Mission bowl with rattlesnake, c. 1920. Sumac with natural gold juncus in the rattlesnake design, which begins with the tail and rattles on the bottom of the basket and winds to the head of the rattlesnake on the side of the basket.

R-5: Native American Indian vintage textile, a Navajo Red-Mesa weaving, c. 1930-1940. The border shows a Teec Nos Pos influence. Very well woven with an eye-dazzler center design.

K-3: Mexican vintage devotional religious art, an ex-voto, 1945. The ex-voto expresses gratitude to Our Lady of Zapopan (a very famous and well-venerated image of Our Lady from a basilica near Guadalajara, Jalisco) who saved a man who had been shot by a drunkard after exiting a cinema with his wife.

O-4: Mexican vintage devotional art and folk art, an ex-voto painted on tin, Zacatecas, June 30, 1930.

I-2: Native American Indian basket, an Apache tus, or water jar, c. 1910. Tightly woven and covered with tar or pine pitch to make the jar waterproof.

H-8: Mexican vintage silver jewelry, Taxco sterling earrings with a fan shape almost like a peacock's expanded tail, 1940's.

H-4: Mexican vintage silver jewelry, Taxco earrings with amethyst, c. 1940's.

Q-2: Mexican or Latin American vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful silver cross, c. 17th-18th century.

T-9: Mexican vintage silver jewelry and vintage Taxco silver jewelry, a pair of sterling silver earrings, marked on the back "Sterling 925", c. 1930-40.

T-7: Mexican vintage silver jewelry and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a sterling silver neclace with small rose garnet beads, signed Los Castillo, c. 1950.

K-4: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a Tlaquepaque petatillo casserole dish with a lid, c. 1940.

L-3: Mexican vintage tin-work, a tin mirror with copper, c. 1950.

Item A-4: Vintage Mexican Tinwork Candlelabra, c. 1940's.

C-18: Mexican vintage pottery tile from Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1920.

Item A-17: Mexican vintage pottery plate with wonderful bird and flowers, c. 1930.

G-6: Mexican vintage pottery, tree of life from Metepec, c. 1950.

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.

N-5: Mexican vintage folk art and Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a pottery 2-story apartment filled with Mexican tenants and with pigeons on the roof, attributed to Candelario Medrano, Santa Cruz de las Huertas, Jalisco, c. 1960.

P-3: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a Bandera-ware pottery plate with a wonderful bunny, Tlaquepaque, c.1930. This type of pottery is called bandera (Spanish for "flag") because of the colors of red, green, and white, the colors of the Mexican flag.

R-1: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a pottery vase from Tonala, Jalisco, c. 1930. The vase has wonderful Aztec designs and very fine petatillo (cross-hatching in the background resembling a straw mat or petate) in many areas.

U-4: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, and Mexican vintage folk art, a peacock bank from Tlaquepaque, c. 1940.

U-6: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, and Mexican vintage folk art, a pottery rooster from Tlaquepaque, c. 1940.

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.

N-3: New Mexican vintage textile, a weaving from Chimayo, c. 1940. This is a wonderful small rug from the Southwest weaving center of Chimayo, New Mexico, where Spanish families have been weaving since the 1600's.

T-15: Mexican vintage textile, a wonderful Saltillo sarape, c. 1930. Very finely woven of wool with silk in the center diamond and decorative side-bars, and complete fringe. This piece has a wonderful wine-colored and rose field.

R-2: Mexican vintage sarapes and textiles, a rare Mayo weaving, c. 1930. Beautifully woven of wonderfully soft wool, and with vibrant colors of blue and brown, making this a lovely and very elegant textile. The blue color is from indigo dye and is vibrant.

T-14: Mexican vintage tinwork art (or tin art), a pair of candle stick holders with wonderful stamping, c. 1940. These are elegant!

D-7: Mexican vintage woodcarvings, a pair of burros with baskets across their backs, c. 1940. The carving on these is incredibly intricate and well-done.

Item A-9: Mexican Woodcarving, Guerrero mask of European king (the King of Spain?) with beard, c. 1930. The mask was used in the Pastorela Dance, and depicts a European king.

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P-7: Mexican vintage devotional art, a wood-carving of the Madonna, with glass eyes and angels supporting her on the carved wooden base, c. 1900.

E-2: Native American jewelry, Navajo silver pin depicting a bird in flight, c. 1940.

G-5: Native American Indian textile, a Navajo pictorial double saddleblanket, c. 1930's. This pictorial Navajo weaving features four beautiful hearts.

C-13: Mexican tinware nicho with oil painting of Our Lady of Guadalupe, c. 1900.

F-6: Mexican vintage devotional art, wood carving of Our Lady of the Soledad, Patroness of the City of Oaxaca, c. 1930. Signed by artist, Romero Gomez, who worked in Mexico City in the 1930's.

H-3: Mexican vintage silver jewelry, necklace from Taxco composed of silver balls (Watch out Frida Kahlo!), c. 1940's.

D-4: Mexican vintage pottery plate from Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1930. Fantasia style with 5 different glazes, one for each color-element.

F-10: Mexican vintage straw-art, popote art or popotillo, c. 1950. The picture is signed by the artist, A. Mendoza H., Guadalajara, Jal.

E-4: Mexican tinwork mirror, c. 1950.

D-1: Mexican wooden laquerware batea, Uruapan, c. 1920.

G-10: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a blackware casserole from Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, c. 1930's.

I-12: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a Tlaquepaque plate with a beautiful light green background, not a very common glaze color, and wonderful hand-painted artwork. The plate has a beautiful squiggle pattern around the outer edge border, c. 1930.

I-10: Mexican vintage pottery and ceramics, a pottery tourist jar with handles and fine floral decorations, 1940.

M-3: Mexican vintage pottery and folk art, a nagual attributed to famous Mexican folk artist Candelario Medrano, c. 1960's.

K-7: Mexican vintage textile, a Saltillo sarape, c. 1940. Wonderfully woven of fine wool with silk in the center diamond and decorative side-bars, c. 1940.