Small Blue Day of the Dead Skull
Small Blue Day of the Dead Skull
£30.00
Beautiful, colourful, and slightly scary! Inspired by the Mexican Day of the Dead, these amazing skulls come in 8 different colours. Each one is unique as it is hand-carved and hand-painted.
Approx dimensions: 7cm (w) x 7cm (d) x 9.5cm (h)
Weight: 0.1kg
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Skeleton Lady
Alebrijes - sold, Day of the Dead - sold
An amazing 'Catrina' skeleton lady figurine from Oaxaca, Mexico. Elaborately carved from copal wood by artist Manuel Cruz, and beautifully painted by his wife Ruvi Martinez.
Manuel is the son of one of the masters of Oaxacan wood carving, Agustin Cruz (acclaimed for his fantastical carvings of toys, nativities and religious icons). He has certainly inherited his father’s talent for precise and complex carvings, but has his own distinctive style. His wife Ruvi Martinez is a talented and innovative painter in her own right. Manuel was awarded first place in the wood carving category in the 2016 MEAPO-FOFA awards for Mexican folk artists, and his pieces are highly sought after by collectors.
Dimensions: 12cm (w) x 12cm (d) x 33cm (h)
Weight: 0.43kg
£340.00
£340.00
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Large Day of the Dead Skull
Day of the Dead - sold
Beautiful, colourful, and slightly scary! Inspired by the Mexican Day of the Dead, these amazing skulls come in 8 different colours. Each one is unique as it is hand-carved and hand-painted.
Approx dimensions: 10cm (w) x 10cm (d) x 12cm (h)
Weight: 0.2kg
£45.00
£45.00
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Dragon
Alebrijes - sold
A colourful and imposing dragon, hand-carved in the distinctive Oaxacan style.
Dimensions: 24cm (w) x 24cm (d) x 30cm (h)
Weight: 0.3kg
£35.00
£35.00
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Pulque Bear
Alebrijes - sold
This incredible bear carving by Pedro Mendez has intricate painting featuring pre-hispanic iconography and symbolism. Each of the four legs has an illustration.
The front left leg shows the Aztec God Quetzalcoatl (represented by the feathered snake).
The back right leg shows Kukulcán, the Mayan wisdom deity related to Quetzalcoatl.
The front right leg depicts the Water-Lily Jaguar, an anthropomorphic form of an important Maya god. His special attribute is a water-lily atop his head, which may reflect the jaguar’s love of water. This jaguar god moves and acts like a human. His necklace is called a death-eye collar and is part of his attire for the sacrificial death dance. The Water-Lily Jaguar is a significant character in Maya narrative artwork.
The scene on the back left leg represents the extraction of the spirit beverage pulque from the maguey plant.
The seashells on the body represent fertility and birth. It is also a symbol related to Quetzalcoatl.
Dimensions: 40cm (w) x 19cm (d) x 21cm (h)
Weight: 2.5kg
£1,300.00
£1,300.00