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Item Ships From: Mexico
Maya Mam Large Red Jar Pre Columbian Design, Indigenous Pottery
Located in Huay Pix, MX
MAM Collection
Place of origin: Department of Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Collection of jars made of red clay. They have traditionally been used to c...
Category
2010s Guatemalan Pre-Columbian Mexico - Folk Art
Materials
Clay
Pre-Columbian Mantle Kilim Type Tapisserie Multicolor Designs - Nazca 200-600 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Beautiful Pre-columbian Mantle with a Central Kilim Type Tapisserie of Multicolor Designs with Priests Upraising their Arms Toward the Skies. It is surrounded by 2 Long Red Plain Cot...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Mexico - Folk Art
Materials
Textile
17th Century, Peruvian Huamanga Stone
Located in Mexico City, MX
It is a beautiful carved stone known as Huamanga stone, endemic of the Zone of Ayacucho, Viceroyalty of Peru. With a refined regional touch and loaded of pre-Columbian flavor as Chinese, It represents the Holy Family of Mary, Joseph and Jesus with God Father...
Category
17th Century Peruvian Antique Mexico - Folk Art
Materials
Stone
Extremely Rare Pre-Columbian Chimu Gauze Poncho Textile, Peru, 1000-1450 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Chimu brown gauze shirt with multiple red and white fringe lines forming V designs like the one around the neck, with very rarely seen sleeves and border fringe in the same material.
Category
15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Mexico - Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Mexican Ceramic Skull Sculpture Handcrafted Folk Art, Edition 1/30
By Omar Hernández
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
Imagine a drink only drunk in weddings between royalty, accompanying the dead in their transit to the underworld, and celebrating military victories or successful commercial expediti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Organic Modern Mexico - Folk Art
Materials
Clay
Christ with the apostles by Andres Lopez
By Andres Lopez
Located in Mexico, DF
Oil on copper. Christ feet been washed by the apostles by Andres Lopez.
***this painting does not belong to the Mexican heritage***
Category
Mid-18th Century North American Spanish Colonial Antique Mexico - Folk Art
Materials
Copper
Published Polychromed Rattling Tripod Bowl - Guanacaste, Costa Rica (600-900 AD)
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Birmania polychrome pottery tripod bowl having hollow rattle, zoomorphic head type feet. Interior painted decoration probably depicts a stylized alligator ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Costa Rican Pre-Columbian Antique Mexico - Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Pre-Columbian Nazca Cross-Patterned Textile, Peru, 300-600 AD, Ex-Sotheby's
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Complete Pre-Columbian Textile panel woven in plain weave with interlocking and alternating squares in bright shades, with elongated stepped diamonds, looped fringe on the short ends...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Mexico - Folk Art
Mexican Day of the Dead Ceramic Skull Hand-made Folk Art Sculpture, Edition 1/30
By Omar Hernández
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
You can almost smell the spicy aroma of the chilies in this skull. Mexican artist, Omar Hernández creates a vivid representation of the ingredient that ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Organic Modern Mexico - Folk Art
Materials
Clay, Ceramic
Mexican Rustic Natural Clay Folk Art Handmade Ceramic Pot Terracotta
By Silvia Martínez Díaz
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
In the heart of the Sierra Norte Mountains in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the settlers found that this "cold place" gave them a very special gift, clay, with which they could use to create their household goods.
One of the most renowned artisans of this region is Silvia Martínez...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Rustic Mexico - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
Zapotec Handwoven Natural Dyed Hanging Feather Rug Made in Oaxaca Mexico
By Roman Gutierrez
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
The rescue of Zapotec roots, the preservation of textile traditions and teaching are currently the occupations of Roman Gutiérrez, renowned master weaver of Oaxaca, a state that owns...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Tribal Mexico - Folk Art
Materials
Textile, Wool, Feathers
Published Pre-Columbian Chancay Gauze Panel with Zoomorphs, Ex-Kate Kemper
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
A white gauze, triangular panel decorated with a wide band composed of four zoomorphs with curled tails. Upper and lower border having a geometric pattern with upper triangular portion with zoomorphs. Overall excellent condition.
Kate Kemper, of London and Switzerland (1908-2004) was an early collector of Andean art, forming an important collection of ceramics and textiles after...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Mexico - Folk Art
Chancay Large Standing Female Cuchimilco
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Cream slip pottery, classical type large standing female figure with arms raised. Dark chocolate painted details, geometric decorated headband. Scattered mineral deposits on the surface. Repaired from approximately twenty original pieces with restoration over the break lines.
Provenance: Private Danish...
Category
15th Century and Earlier South American Antique Mexico - Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Mine Landscape by H. F. Arriola, dated 1880
Located in Mexico, DF
A mine Landscape, probably Mexico, by the woman painter H. F. Arriola
**This painting does not belong to the Mexican heritage**
Category
1880s North American Spanish Colonial Antique Mexico - Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Chancay Large Standing Female Figure
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Cream slip pottery, large standing female figure with arms raised. Nicely painted red and chocolate-brown face, with a finely detail geometric headband. Scattered mineral deposits on...
Category
15th Century and Earlier South American Antique Mexico - Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Mexican Abrijes Figurine Set Folk Art Wooden Toy
By Agustin Cruz Prudencio
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
A set of colorful Mexican alebrije figurines depicting four animal friends drinking "Corona" beer and having a good time. This humorous Folk Art piec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Folk Art Mexico - Folk Art
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
Traditional “Pita” Belt and Buckle
Located in Mexico City, MX
Traditional “Pita” Belt and Buckle
Pita comes from the fiber of the big maguey
Or large Mexican cactus and is hand inlaid
With Mexican charro designe. The remaining
Leather is ha...
Category
2010s Mexican Arts and Crafts Mexico - Folk Art
Materials
Leather
Mexican Ceramic Corn Skull Sculpture Hand Crafted Folk Art, Edition 1/30
By Omar Hernández
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
“My purpose in making this skull is to represent the different types of native maize that since remote times have brought food security to our ancestors, giving them the time to develop the knowledge and arts to the extent they did,” says Mexican ceramist Omar Hernández...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Organic Modern Mexico - Folk Art
Materials
Clay, Ceramic
Mexican Burnished Clay Romance Torso Heart Couple Statue Contemporary Oaxaca
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
Lovers Torso, a contemporary rustic Mexican sculpture by Manuel David Reyes. This soft piece is one-of-a-kind, made with clay and natural pigments from ...
Category
2010s Mexican Folk Art Mexico - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
Chancay Large Standing Female Cuchimilco
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Large standing female figure with raised arms. Relief facial features, with red-orange and chocolate brown painted decoration, on a cream slip ground. Crossed straps on her chest, an...
Category
15th Century and Earlier South American Antique Mexico - Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Olinalá Mexican Traditional Lacquer, Silver Leaf and Oil Painting Art Urns
By ACOOCOORO
Located in Mexico City, MX
Three urns, two trays, one gourd.
Turned solid cedar wood; maque and lacquer carving; silver leaf; oil painting.
Commemoration, ceremony, and veneration of the ancestral are acts...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Modern Mexico - Folk Art
Materials
Silver Leaf
Elegant Terracotta Standing Court Dignitary, Tang Dynasty, EU Passport
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Elegant Standing Court Dignitary with joined hands in blue robes and a bird headdress. Polychrome Traces.
When China was unified again, first briefly ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Tang Antique Mexico - Folk Art
Materials
Terracotta
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