Vintage Ceramic Skull Sculpture With Iguana, Central American, Mid 20th Century

LARGE MID CENTURY MAJOLICA DINOSAUR SCULPTURE A rare and extremely decorative model depicting a Brontosaurus with curved head and tail, textured skin and hand painted details. Made...

LARGE MID CENTURY MAJOLICA DINOSAUR SCULPTURE A rare and extremely decorative model depicting a Brontosaurus with curved head and tail, textured skin and hand painted details. Ma...

ANTIQUE FOLK ART CARVING An intricately carved coconut with a face on one side which makes use the naturally occurring holes and pits of the coconut to form a man’s eyes and mouth...

VINTAGE CERAMIC ART POTTERY VASE An unusual and extremely decorative vase, of baluster form with yellow and green drip glaze adorned with spikes. We cannot find another example s...

The word tzompantli or tzompantle comes from the Náhuatl (Aztec) language and means skull rack or scaffold of skulls. In different Mesoamerican cultures, skulls from the sacrificed w...

You can almost smell the spicy aroma of the chilies in this skull. Mexican artist, Omar Hernández creates a vivid representation of the ingredient that ...

Imagine a drink only drunk in weddings between royalty, accompanying the dead in their transit to the underworld, and celebrating military victories or successful commercial expediti...

"As a Mexican and Oaxacan, but more as Omar, I see death as something present. It´s something that is a part of life and when you think about death, you begin to value a lot of things. Death is important to me because it’s a constant threat. If you think about dying now, you would probably do things that in another moment you would say, “I’ll do it later.” I see death as an opportunity to live a better life...a continuation of something," says Mexican ceramist Omar Hernández. Omar Hernandez is a Mexican ceramist born and raised in Oaxaca, Mexico. As a child, growing up in a family of potters he didn't have much interest in making pottery, but in his early 20's he realized he could do other things with clay that weren't necessarily utilitarian pieces. It was then that Omar started his skull...