This Isleta tin retablo is in excellent condition. The four glass sides are painted on the reverse showing a wavy pattern in red, yellow and green. The print is of an angle guiding the Christ child and it’s advertising a doctor’s remedy with pills. It reads in English: Dr. Ross’s Life Pills, A Surefire Remedy.
This is a beautiful and intricate sacristy, or nicho or reliquary. The carving is complex and impressive. Glass covers three sides with a door panel on the back. This panel is painted on the interior with red designs on top of a gessoed surface. The red designs are complex and appear like a Renaissance image. […]
These beads alternate roughly 2 Russian faceted beads for every pink Dutch Colonial bead. The whole strand is put onto a single length of hide. The blue faceted beads are the wonderful, deep cobalt blue, and the facets really bring out their color and power. These beads likely date to around 1820 – 1850. The […]
This necklace is a beautiful use of luminescent, deep cobalt glass beads. This double loop necklace has two rows of Russian, faceted, glass beads. The top layer is darker in color and smaller and the bottom layer is lighter in color and larger. The smaller row of glass beads range from 3/8″ to 1/4″ long. […]
