Mexican Antiques

Mexican Antiques posts cover Spanish colonial furniture, religious art, silver and pottery from the sixteenth century onward. Articles look at the heavy carved santos from Oaxaca and Puebla, the silver hollowware of the Taxco school, the colonial credenzas built from mesquite and cedar, the seventeenth-century retablo paintings that turn up at estate sales, the bargueno writing chest of Spanish origin and the more recent Saltillo serape weavings. There are also notes on identifying a real period piece versus a twentieth-century reproduction and on the export rules around items considered cultural patrimony by the Mexican government.