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Spanish Colonial Silver Olla Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: South American: Pre 1700 item# 518312
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In Leona Davis Boylan's landmark "Spanish Colonial Silver" (Museum of New Mexico Press,1974), there is illustrated a similar silver water pot. This rare example is uncovered and measures approximately 3-3/4 inches (9-1/2 cm) high and seven inches (18 cm)in diameter at the handles, with a weight of 271 grams. It is offered in "as-found" condition, although to my eye the marks of time only make the piece more appealing. However, for the more fastidious the bumps can easi ...click for details

Antique Bolivian Silver Sipping Tube Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: South American: Handiwork: Pre 1837 VR item# 156440 (stock# 288AAA)
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This elegantly hand-wrought Bolivian bombilla (sipping tube for yerba mate) dates from the first years of the 19th Century and is in heavy mine silver of excellent purity. The classically simple design extends even to the basket-weave detailing on the insertion section that allows the tube to be pulled apart for cleaning. It is approximately nine inches in length.

Antique Bolivian Silver Mate Cup Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: South American: Handiwork: Pre 1837 VR item# 156432 (stock# 287AAA)
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An almost Picasso-like creation, this standing mate in heavy mine silver features an attached dished base raised up on four coiled feet that echo the “ears” of the cup. The only surface designs are a double row of ratcheted circles and four punched-in quatrefoils, all on the base. This eccentric little figure is Bolivian, late 18th Century, and measures approximately four inches by 4-3/4 inches at the base and 5-1/4 inches tall.

Spanish Colonial Silver Cup Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: South American: Handiwork: Pre 1800 item# 156288 (stock# 286AAA)
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High-waisted and sporting a fine ogee handle, this hand-wrought Northern Provincial cup is of fine quality mine silver. An owner’s mark is ratchet-engraved on the bottom. It measures about three inches diameter at the handle and 2-3/4 inches tall. Late 18th Century. Excellent condition.

Elegant Spanish Colonial Silver Cup Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: South American: Handiwork: Pre 1800 item# 156286 (stock# 285AAA)
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Crudely elegant, this hand-wrought mine silver cup with its tulip-shaped body resting on a conical base boasted a well-executed S-form handle. An engraved owner’s mark on the bottom reads “Tove” or possibly “Torre.” Late 18th Century Northern Provincial. Approximately 3-1/2 inches in diameter at the handle and 2-1/2 inches high.

Antique South American Colonial Silver Cup Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: South American: Handiwork: Pre 1800 item# 156285 (stock# 284AAA)
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Dating from the late 18th Century or the early 19th, this charming globular cup rests on a conical base. It is of high-purity mine silver and is in excellent condition, measuring around 3-1/2 inches in diameter at the handle and 2-1/4 inches high. Northern Provincial.

Antique Spanish Colonial Silver Cup Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: South American: Handiwork: Pre 1800 item# 156281 (stock# 283AAA)
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A small cup of high-purity mine silver, this graceful example of Andean silver dates from the late 18th Century. It is in sharp condition with only a quarter-inch rim crack. Approximately 3-3/8 inches diameter at the handle and two inches high.

Spanish Colonial Silver Cup Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: South American: Handiwork: Pre 1800 item# 111167 (stock# 261AAA)
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Here is an excellent example of an Eighteenth Century drinking cup fashioned of mine-grade silver from Bolivia’s rich mines. The paneled hexagonal base is topped by floral garlands banded top and bottom with chained and pearled rims. The ogee handle sports a central pineapple with zoomorphic finials of dogs or llamas. The three-inch diameter cup, approximately 3-1/2 inches tall and four inches across at the handle, has a fine patina and is in superb condition. (A similar example is Trocadero ...click for details

18th Century Spanish Colonial Cup Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: South American: Handiwork: Pre 1800 item# 111166 (stock# 260AAA)
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A powerful alliance of native South American and Spanish motifs meets in this Eighteenth Century drinking cup of mine-grade Bolivian silver. Six leafy arches festoon its sides, bordered top and bottom by chained rims; the handle is a floral ogee. It is in excellent, lustrous condition and bears scratched-in initials of previous owner, or owners, underneath, and is approximately 3-1/2 inches tall, with a three-inch diameter for the cup and approximately 4-1/4 inches at the handle. (For a simila ...click for details

Antique Silver Llama Toothpick Server Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: South American: Handiwork: Pre 1837 VR item# 15240 (stock# 81AAA)
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Carved out of solid silver in fine detail is this charming little beast of burden, with his two paniers for offering toothpicks, Andean work of the late Eighteenth or early Nineteenth Centuries. Condition excellent. Approximately three inches long by 2-3/8 inches wide by 2-3/4 inches high.

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