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Place of Origin: Guatemalan
Spanish Colonial Polychrome Nino
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Exquisite 19th-Century Guatemalan Niño Jesús (Infant Christ) Figure
Hand-Carved Wood, Polychrome Gesso, Glass Eyes Spanish Colonial Style
A striking and soulful 19th-century carved...
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19th Century Spanish Colonial Antique Guatemalan Religious Items
Materials
Gesso, Glass, Wood, Paint
19th Century Polychrome Jesus of Gethsemane
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This evocative devotional sculpture portrays Jesus in a moment of deep reflection before His capture in Gethsemane. Shown seated with one hand resting against His cheek, He contemplates the suffering to come — the crown of thorns, the wound in His side, and the crucifixion itself. The primitive carving style and richly crackled surface lend the figure a powerful emotional immediacy and spiritual intimacy.
Traces of original polychrome paint remain, with areas of natural age wear and loss that reveal the wood beneath, enhancing its time-worn beauty. The sculpture’s expressive simplicity and devotional sincerity mark it as a moving example of 19th-century folk religious art
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19th Century Rustic Antique Guatemalan Religious Items
Materials
Wood, Paint, Gesso
19th Century Nino With Intricate Metal Gloria
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An expressive and finely crafted Niño Jesús (Christ Child) figure from 19th-century Guatemala, carved in wood with polychrome decoration and inset glass eyes. The sculpture depicts the Infant Jesus with chubby cheeks, rosy complexion, and a serene, soulful gaze.
Above the figure is an original metal "Gloria" banner, ornamented with harp motifs, symbolizing the heavenly celebration of Christ’s birth. The craftsmanship reflects a blend of Spanish Colonial tradition and local Guatemalan artistry, characteristic of devotional figures created for home altars and parish use. Makers mark RB...
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19th Century Spanish Colonial Antique Guatemalan Religious Items
Materials
Metal
Spanish Colonial Polychrome Nino
Located in Los Angeles, CA
El Niño Jesús (Baby Jesus)
Guatemala, Spanish Colonial Period (17th–18th century)
Wood, gesso, polychrome, and glass eyes
This expressive sculpture of the Christ Child was crafted i...
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19th Century Spanish Colonial Antique Guatemalan Religious Items
Materials
Gesso, Glass, Wood
Primitive Small Spanish Colonial Nino on Chair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Small, rustic Spanish Colonial Nino in wood on chair (later).
Unlike the finer, "courtly" religious sculptures that had gesso layers and glossy finishes, this rustic Niño was simply...
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Early 19th Century Rustic Antique Guatemalan Religious Items
Materials
Burlap, Wood, Paint
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18th Century, Spanish Colonial Religious Painting of San Geronimo
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Saint Paul, Carved and Polychromed Wood. Spanish School, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
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1940s Spanish Brass Aquarium on Stand
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Rare Aztec Colonial Polychromed Wood Sculpture! Holy Imagene Bultos Santos Icons
Located in Peoria, AZ
MUSEUM PERFECTION !
AZTEC INFLUENCED
LATIN AMERICAN
COLONIAL ART
AMAZINGLY RARE PIECE !
Approx. 14" x 8" x 2 1/2"
After Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztec empire, painting and sculpture schools were set up within missions to produce art for Roman Catholic worship in Spanish America to promote Christian evangelization. The works that emerge from this period are great historic treasures and tell us much about this time in history. Icons were important in this conversion process.
Here is an Imagene that was likely employed in a church from the 17th century. It features 5 elaborately carved faces and figures depicting angels and saints.
This piece is magnificent for many reasons, but the most important reason is that this piece illustrates the bridge between the Spanish and Aztec art schools.
The Aztecs had developed the most splendid feather art in the world. Feather mosaics (arte plumario in Spanish, amantecayotl in Nahuatl), were created by specially trained and talented Aztec nobles. The blue green iridescent color of hummingbird feathers had made them a regular form of tribute to Aztec rulers and art that featured these feathers were incomparable.
The Spanish art instructors adopted feathers into traditional Catholic imagery and this piece shows the result of such hybrid. Here feathers are
prominently sculpted into the background and were polychromed with sensational hues to reflect the native love and cultural appreciation for feather art. Few feather mosaics survive because of their temporal frailty, but the wood worked feathers in this piece give scholars and collectors a lasting indication of how Aztecs stylistically used the feathers in their pieces.
Aztec religious leaders wore headdresses and garments made of feathers - and here these saints appear to be wearing feather headdresses!
Even after centuries, the colors of this piece are incredibly compelling. Fragments of the rich blue green pigment that was applied to mimic the hummingbird feathers are still present. The golds, yellows and browns display spectacular understanding of complementary colors.
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Antique Spanish Colonial Hispano-Philippine Carved Polychrome Santo Altar Figure
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A scarce Spanish Colonial Hispano-Philippine hand carved santo altar figure sculpture. circa 1810
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Immaculate Conception. Oil on canvas. Colonial school, 18th century.
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Immaculate Conception. Oil on canvas. Colonial school, 18th century.
Oil on canvas showing the Virgin Mary among angels, in a landscape and standing on a crescent moon, wearing a wh...
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19th Century Polychrome Nino Santo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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19th Century Nino Sculpture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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