Antique South American Colonial Silver Cup

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: South American: Handiwork Pre 1800: item #156285
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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

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: South American: Handiwork Pre 1800: item #156281
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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.

Pre-Columbian Narino Chalice

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: South American Pre 1492: item #146701
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The first archaeological excavations in Nariño, located on the southern border of Colombia, occurred barely 30 years ago, so little is conclusively known about this area. What does seem evident is that three distinct cultural groups occupied the region: the Piartal, Tuza, and Capuli. However, we typically see the output of these three cultures inappropriately lumped together as generic Nariño on dealers' websites. This chalice was produced by the Capuli, whose archaeological complex is situated ... Click for details

Spanish Colonial Silver Cup

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: South American: Handiwork Pre 1800: item #111167
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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

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: South American: Handiwork Pre 1800: item #111166
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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

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: South American: Handiwork Pre 1837 VR: item #15240
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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.

PRE COLUMBIAN NECKLACE

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: South American Pre AD 1000: item #750535
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PRE COLUMBIAN NECKLACE, with beads of unknwon origen, some spacers and a roound carnelian biconically drilled in the center.