COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
unknown artist
Date display:
1910 circa
Title:
Nicho
Title:
Niche
Description:
Niche with tin (metal) back and three-sided glass front. The glass is etched in an art-deco design along the left side. Circular- and curvilinear-stamped tin (metal) elements in the back plane include a central lunette and two side finials at the top, and wing-like side appendages on either side.
Note Fr. Steele:
"bought for RU85, the Andres Garcia San Antonio. Mexican rather than New Mexican."|"cf Coulter-Dixon [New Mexican tinwork, Albququerque: University of New Mexico Press, 199] p. 157: slot in top for glass to slide down."
Location name:
Mexico
Materials display:
cut, stamped tin (metal), and glass
Material name:
tin (metal)
Material name:
glass
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
tin (metal)smithing--Mexico
Work type:
metalwork (visual works)
Acquisition note:
1983
Accession number:
RU0094
Measurements display:
31.5 x 26.5 x 6.8 cm
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED