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Signed Sterling Silver Biomorphic Dish, 10 ounces
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Pre 1960 item# 1172589
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Elegant sterling mid-century candy dish from R.J., a Mexico City maker of ornate silver hollowware listed in Billie Hougart’s “Little Book of Mexican Silver Trade and Hallmarks.” The piece is marked R.J., hecho en Mexico, with Sterling (partially rubbed off). The script is similar to that used by Enrique Ledesma in the 1950s, its likely production era. ••• Resting on curved feet, the piece has a pleasing, slightly undulant form and measures 8¼” long and 5¾” wide at the widest points. It stands 2 ...click for details
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Sterling Taxco gaming dice signed AP
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Pre 1970 item# 1121475
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Delightful pair of gaming dice from the Taxco artist who signed his work AP. This set does not appear to be the work of Antonio Pineda. ••• Signed AP encircled by Taxco 925 Sterling. No Eagle assay mark, but it’s possible these are later that 1948. ••• Each dice measures 5/8” square. The total weight for the set is 11 grams. ••• CONDITION: Very good estate condition, with some scuffs and scratches typical of age and use.
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JLR Juventino Lopez Reyes Modernist 925 dish, ca. 1945
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Pre 1960 item# 1072694
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Biomorphic Modern shallow dish or tray from silver maestro Juvenal Lopez Reyes, who opened his own taller, Plateria Del Recreo, in 1935. Signed Sterling JLR (conjoined) hecho en Mexico DF. The R is partially obscured, but this is definitely Reyes’ work. Juventino honed his craft at Maciel in Mexico City and sold hollowware and flatware at Rancho Alegre, Sanborns, and Maria de Taxco, according to Billie Hougart’s “Little Book of Mexican Silver Trade and Hallmarks.” •••
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Salvador Teran mosaic/brass hands pitcher Book Piece
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Pre 1980 item# 1061957
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Bold and dramatic handwrought brass pitcher by Salvador Teran, heavily decorated in turquoise, white, and black glass mosaic. Signed “Handwrought Salvador hecho en Mexico 414.”
• The central figure of the mosaic design is a pair of white hands with dark fingernails, reaching for three turquoise circles running down the front of the pitcher. A version of this “opposing hands” piece appears in “William Spratling and the Mexican Silver Renaissance” by Penny C. Morrill (2002) on p. 195.
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Two Victoria of Taxco silver-on-copper bowls, cufflinks
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Pre 1960 item# 1061919
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Exquisite pair of fully hallmarked silver-on-copper bowls from the workshop of Ana Maria Nuñez de Brilanti. Brilanti (aka “Victoria”) was a master of mixed metals (metales casados). She was active in Taxco from 1940 to 1978, and these bowls, numbered 267 and 269, were probably made no later than the 1950s. As Penny Morrill writes in “Mexican Silver,” Brilanti was best known for her mastery of silver on copper, as evidenced in the smooth perfection of her invisible seams between the two metals.
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Jugtown Frogskin ruffled rim bowl, 1950s
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Pre 1970 item# 1024647 (stock# 08)
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This medium green bowl with a fluted, piecrust rim in the desirable frogskin glaze was almost certainly turned by Ben Owen (Senior), master potter at Jugtown Pottery in Moore County, North Carolina for more than 30 years. One of the signature Jugtown glazes, frogskin was used mainly on Chinese-inspired pieces. The olive-green glaze was formed by firing salt over a dark, warm brown Albany slip (an effect also used by the Chinese). The shape of the bowl was inspired by antique Korean vessels resea ...click for details
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