Mexican Shadow Boxes

Branch coral and bead coral necklaces mounted on green linen and in a shadow box frame. Italy, circa 1930.

Vintage California Republic flag made in the 1960s. Made of thick cotton. Great coloring. Fun piece of California history. Newly mounted on a linen...

Gorgeous Japanese vintage fan . It features hand-painted Cherry Blossom details and inlaid mother of pearl elements. The fan is displayed within a shadow box frame, which seems to be...

Vintage hand made Gujarat Saurashta Ethnic beadead textile India. Hand Beaded Guarat Indian panel textile framed in a lucite box. Amazing work of hand beading by Chakla Indian, Gujarat state, Saurashtra or Kutch region. Such a nice piece of visual interest, and a beautiful acquisition for any textile lover. Vintage Chakla hand-embroidered wall hanging, Rabari of Gujarat Beadwork, Patchwork. The method of work is a tri-bead system (tran moti-no thansiya), worked row-by-row, three beads being taken up at each stitch; on the return row, the stitching of the beads moves forward one position, so that as the work progresses row-by-row a close rhomboid network is formed.The beadwork is set into a frame of applique silk material Manufacturing Process: Handmade Materials: Cotton, silk. Period: Late 19th/ early 20th century. Most native beadwork...

Beautiful rare vintage hand sewn one of a kind Japanese ceremonial child's kimono in a gold bamboo framed shadowbox. Kimono for children are shaped and styled much like those for adults, but are almost always in bright patterns and prints. This is a great example of a child's kimono used...

"Early 19th century infant’s white lace trimmed christening gown, frame in a shadowbox with robin’s egg blue background and a small dried nosegay of baby’s breath and blue silk flowers.  Measure: 31". Family history on reverse dates dress to 1819. ""Baby dress...

Professionally museum mounted exceptional antique African Kuba textile with brown small textile fragments woven into the geometric pattern in Kuba raffia woven patchwork, raffia black velvet border appliqué panel around three sides of the textile .The word “Kuba” means “lighting” referring to the blades that were once used by Kuba warriors. These textiles from the Congo are each handcrafted in the traditional way, the men weaving on a small hand loom and the women taking great pride in their embroidering of these squares. Kuba ceremonial squares can take three months to complete. A technique known as "cut pile" in which the ends of the raffia embroidery...

A vintage shadowbox of solid brass hardware. The exceptionally large fan-shaped door plate is prominently featured, displaying great details of a fin...

Threaded cluster of shell and white branch coral necklaces mounted on a green linen backing in a shadow box frame.

Vintage large hand painted golden fan by Tak-Young Jung from his 1991 solo exhibition “The Admiration of Life Through the Symbolization of Colors“ at the Modern Art Gallery in Los Angeles...

Vintage midcentury handmade and hand painted shiva third eye sculptures framed in a beautiful shadow box. This piece features seven handmade and hand painted Shiva faces with distinct third eyes. They are mounted in a shadow box with a linen fabric background and wooden frame. The shadow box has a universal mounting bracket on the back making it easy to hand on any wall. Shiva is the "destroyer of evil and the transformer" within the Trimurti, the Hindu trinity that includes Brahma and Vishnu. In Shaivism tradition, Shiva is the Supreme being...

A vintage shadowbox of solid brass hardware. The exceptionally large basket-shaped door plate is prominently featured, displaying great details of a ...