Some 19 items from the Taos home of the late artist R.C. Gorman -- including bathroom fixtures, leaded glass doors, etched windows and a steel Hopi deity -- are available for sale on eBay, according to The New Mexican.

The Yaxche School ("Yaxche" means "tree of life" in Mayan) bought the seven-acre property last November for $2.5 million from the estate of the noted American Indian artist, who died in 2005, The New Mexican reported.

The purchase price included fixtures and outdoor art, including a left- and right-hand bathroom faucet priced at $4,000; glass doors with etched figures of Native American woman by Gorman and Charles Collins, $26,000; carved wooden doors from Bali, $4,500; a left-hand soap dish, $2,200; and mirrored panels by Larry Bell, $10,000, according to The New Mexican.

The independent private school, which has about 90 students from kindergarten through ninth grade and a curriculum that emphasizes environmental awareness and social responsibility, hopes to use the eBay sale proceeds to pay for a $500,000 renovation that includes sustainable technologies such as wind and solar power and a gray-water system, the paper reported. 

To view the items on eBay, go to www.stores.ebay.com/Yaxche-Community-School . Or call the school at (575) 751-4419 for more information about the pieces offered for sale. 

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