Vintage Pre Columbian Pottery Figure, Reproduction, Sanborns Mexico, Monkey Baboon, Terracotta Statue, Aztec, Mayan, Ethnic, buy Deity, Effigy

Very good vintage condition was purchased from the historic Sanborns in Mexico City . The piece has a vintage patina with signs of age such as surface wear and weathering. was commissioned by Sanborns of Mexico in the early 1960's. This handmade reproduction is of a Pre-Columbian Colima figure. This baboon/monkey is 7 inches tall. Formed of buff terracotta, it is adorned with tribal embellishments. This piece is a copy of an actual work from 100 BCE - 200 ADE. The back still has the original price sticker. An excellent exotic ethnic display piece!

Measurements: 7“ tall, 2 3/4” wide, 1 1/2” deep.

In 1903, the American Sanborn brothers bought an 18th century palace on Mexico City and opened Mexico's first soda fountain inside. The Sanborns restored the House of Tiles (covered in beautiful blue and white tile from Puebla) and commissioned the celebrated painter José Clemente Orozco to produce a mural facing buy the great stairway. Waitresses were dressed in the colorful costumes of the Tehuantepec Indians.

Sanborns entered a new endeavor in the early 1920s, when Frank Sanborn found he could not locate a competent silversmith even though Mexico led the world in silver production. While another American, William Spratling, was reviving the art and craft of silverwork in Taxco, Sanborns stimulated the trade by using workmen to fashion silver to its own designs.

Besides silverwork, Sanborns, the biggest crafts shop in Mexico, was selling the output of some 1,300 native craftsmen in wood, wool, glass, pottery, stone, metal, leather, and feathers. The second floor offered furs, gowns, and furbelows, men's suitings, and household goods.

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