Miami - Shadow Boxes

Navajo rug flat woven rug tapestry beige Measures: 4' x6' (3'11" x 5'7") 119cm x 170cm Circa 1920 "The woolen rug has a white background color on which are three stylized figures on each side of a center cornstalk. All are surrounded on three sides by a "guardian "figure - one side is the head and the body - the other side are the legs. The rug is a Navajo Yei rug. All the figures are holding prayer sticks; there are feathers attached to the elbows of the figures in a vertical line. The colors of the rug are white, red, maroon, blue, tan, brown, grey, orange, rust and gold. The most common type of Navajo Yei rug are those with a white background color. Navajo Yei rugs were made at Lukachukai or in the Shiprock area or even Ganado. It is a fact that a Navajo Yei rug with many Yei figures and many colors will garner the highest value. While Yei rugs are technically woven for the floor, they were often placed on couches, or hung on the wall like paintings, few actually touched the ground. The Yei figure is a frequently used pattern in Navajo rugs. Male Yei figures are generally pictured with round heads, and female Yei figures with square heads. Modern Yei rugs are more often pictorial compositions, showing a row of front-facing stylized stick figures with a Rainbow Guardian which protects the figures on three sides, indicating the sand painting roots of this particular style. The Yei rug portrays ceremonies on a desire for healing, not only physical health, but also mental, spiritual, and even material well-being. The "Holy People...

Beautiful gilded Classic study pieces in acrylic frames with linen backing.

Museum quality handwoven textile fragment, featuring human or Martian motif professionally mounted on a acid free matte in very decorative wood shadow box. The textile dated from lat...

This stunning rare design was created for the 1988 American Music Festival, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. Featuring typically bold colours and thick l...

Beautiful Pink Maribou Feathers ribbed with perfect tortoiseshell sticks & handle, is framed with soft pink velvet backing and gold leaf wood. This style of fan, once used for presen...

Pair of Antique intaglios newly framed on camouflage burlap.

Roy Lichtenstein The Paris Review: 1992 The Paris Review book, featuring an interior spread of Roy Lichtenstein's "__" (1992). Imagery features 8 detailed segments of this esteemed 1992 work. Art book. Offset printed interior images. Measures approximately: 5.5 x 9 inches; soft cover. Approximately 50pgs. Very good overall vintage condition. 1st edition, 1st printing 1992. Unsigned from an edition of unknown. Highly collectible. Related categories: Roy Lichtenstein 1992. Roy Lichtenstein book...

This beautiful poster is for Roy Lichtenstein's exhibition at the iconic Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1993 and features Lichtenstein's 1965 artwork "Girl With Hair Rib...

It has been hand backed on linen and stretched over a stretcher , and finished with the wooden frame. Ready to go on any Wall.

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

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein: The Paris Review 1982-1992: Vintage editions of The Paris Review, with one uniquely featuring an...

This colorful rug is handwoven in the Southern state of Chiapas in Mexico by Javier Intzín. This beautiful cozy wool tapestry is hand knotted in fixed loom, a very traditional indigenous folk art...