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Creator display:
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unknown artist
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Date display:
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1910 circa
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Title:
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Nicho
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Title:
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Niche
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Description:
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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.
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Note Fr. Steele:
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"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."
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Location name:
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Mexico
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Materials display:
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cut, stamped tin (metal), and glass
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Material name:
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tin (metal)
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Material name:
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glass
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Source name:
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Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
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Subject term:
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tin (metal)smithing--Mexico
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Work type:
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metalwork (visual works)
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Acquisition note:
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1983
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Accession number:
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RU0094
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Measurements display:
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31.5 x 26.5 x 6.8 cm
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Rights text:
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IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED
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