POCAS COSAS ARCHIVE OF RECENTLY SOLD ITEMS

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.