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”FRAILERO” CHAIR. WOOD, LEATHER. SPAIN, 17TH CENTURY.

Pair of friar's chairs. Walnut wood, leather, metal. Spain, 17th century. Armchairs with high arms and backrests of the type known as “frailero”, which have leather with studs on the seat and upper part of the backrest, low chambranes joining the front legs with the back ones and middle chambranes or side rails (the front one carved and cut out creating geometric motifs) joining the two front legs and the two back ones, and simple armrests, with scrollwork finishes. The friar's chair, originally of Italian origin, became one of the most common pieces of Spanish furniture since its introduction in the 16th century, being characteristic of this and the 17th century and being recovered again in the historicist movement of the 19th century. Being such a deep-rooted tradition in Spain, this type of model was never stopped being created.

· Size: 69x55x107 cms.
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Ref.: Z5070
”FRAILERO” CHAIR. WALNUT, TEXTILE. SPAIN, 16TH CENTURY.

Monk's armchair. Walnut wood, textile, metal. Spain, 16th century. It has defects. Armchair with arms and high backrest, of the type known as “frailero”, which has a textile upholstery with studs on the seat and backrest, low, cut-out low-profile chambranes joining the front and back legs and middle chambranes or side rails (the front with carved geometric motifs) joining the two front and two back legs, and simple armrests (curved, ending in scrolls; the front with fluting). The friar's chair, initially of Italian origin, became one of the most common pieces of Spanish furniture since its introduction in the 16th century, being characteristic of both the 17th and 18th centuries and being recovered again in the historicist movement of the 19th century. Being such a deep-rooted tradition in Spain, this type of model was never stopped being created.

· Size: 62,5x55x126 cms.
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Ref.: Z0667
”FRAILERO” CHAIR. WALNUT, TEXTILE. SPAIN, 17TH CENTURY.

Monk's armchair. Walnut wood, textile. Spain, 17th century. Armchair with arms and high backrest, of the type known as “frailero”, which has a textile upholstery with studs on the seat and backrest, low, cut-out profile jambs joining the front and back legs and middle jambs or smooth crossbars joining the two front and two back legs, and simple armrests (curved, ending in scrolls). The frailero armchair, originally of Italian origin, became one of the most common pieces of Spanish furniture since its introduction in the 16th century, being characteristic of both the 17th and 18th centuries and being recovered again in the historicist movement of the 19th century. Being such a deep-rooted tradition in Spain, this type of model was never stopped being created.

· Size: 74x67x128 cms.
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Ref.: Z0665
WOODEN DROP LEAF TABLE. SPANISH SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY.

Winged table with turned legs. Walnut wood. Spanish school, 18th century. A folding round table with two wings that can be folded down and supported by two legs joined together for each wing by means of lower jambs. When the table is folded, there is a drawer with a wooden knob on each side and two legs on each side, joined in a rectangle by means of a jamb. The legs and vertical elements of the piece of furniture have turned balustrade elements and discs, as is usual in the Spanish school since the Baroque.

· Size: 107x 37x76 cms / Abierta 107x103x76 cms.
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Ref.: ZF1173
”FRAILERO” CHAIR. WOOD, LEATHER. SPAIN, 16th AND 18th CENTURIES.

Monk's armchair. Wood, leather. Spain, 16th and 18th centuries. Armchair with arms and high backrest of the type known as “friar’s chair”, which has leather with studs on the seat and upper part of the backrest, low, cut-out low-profile chambranes joining the front and back legs and middle chambranes or side rails (the front one carved with a relief of architectural motifs) joining the two front and two back legs, and simple armrests. In this case, it should be noted that the chambrane, due to the relief, would be from the 18th century. The friar’s chair, initially of Italian origin, became one of the most common pieces of Spanish furniture since its introduction in the 16th century, being characteristic of this and the 17th century and being recovered again in the historicist movement of the 19th century. Being such a deep-rooted tradition in Spain, this type of model was never stopped being created.

· Size: 57,5x54x113 cms.
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Ref.: Z0672
”FRAILERO” CHAIR. WOOD, LEATHER. SPAIN, 16TH CENTURY.

Monk's armchair. Walnut wood, leather. Spain, 16th century. Armchair with arms and high backrest of the type known as “friar's chair”, which has leather with studs on the seat and upper part of the backrest, very low chambranes joining the front legs with the back ones and middle chambranes or side rails (the front one carved with a relief of floral motifs flanking an empty heraldic shield in the round) joining the two front legs and the two back ones, and simple armrests, with the fluted fronts following architectural influences. The friar's chair, initially of Italian origin, became one of the most common pieces of Spanish furniture since its introduction in the 16th century, being characteristic of this and the 17th century and being recovered again in the historicist movement of the 19th century. Being such a deep-rooted tradition in Spain, this type of model was never stopped being created. Requires restoration.

· Size: 65,5x53x109 cms.
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Ref.: Z0706
”FRAILERO” CHAIR. WOOD, LEATHER. SPAIN, 16TH CENTURY.

Monk's armchair. Leather, walnut wood. Spain, 16th century. Armchair with arms and high backrest of the type known as “friar's chair”, which has leather with studs on the seat and upper part of the backrest, low, cut-out low-profile frames joining the front and back legs and middle frames or side rails (the front one carved and re-cut to create geometric motifs) joining the two front and two back legs, and simple armrests with scrollwork finishes. The friar's chair, originally of Italian origin, became one of the most common pieces of Spanish furniture since its introduction in the 16th century, being characteristic of both the 17th and 18th centuries and being recovered again in the historicist movement of the 19th century. Being such a deep-rooted tradition in Spain, this type of model was never stopped being created.

· Size: 61x54x111 cms.
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Ref.: Z0673
”FRAILERO” CHAIR. WOOD, LEATHER. SPAIN, 16TH CENTURY.

Monk's armchair. Leather, walnut wood. Spain, 16th century. It has faults. Armchair with arms and high backrest of the type known as “friar's chair”, which has leather with studs on the upper part of the backrest (lack of the seat), low, low-profile trimmed jambs joining the front and back legs and middle jambs or side rails (the front one carved and re-cut to create geometric motifs) joining the two front and two back legs, and simple armrests with raised scrollwork finishes. The friar's chair, originally of Italian origin, became one of the most common pieces of Spanish furniture since its introduction in the 16th century, being characteristic of both the 17th and 18th centuries and being recovered again in the historicist movement of the 19th century. Being such a deep-rooted tradition in Spain, this type of model was never stopped being created.

· Size: 68x53x102 cms.
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Ref.: Z0750
SPANISH WOODEN TABLE WITH LYRE LEGS AND IRON FASTENERS, 18TH CENTURY.

Spanish table with lyre leg and iron fasteners, 18th century. The two lyre legs that support the work have wavy lines at the bottom and shapes on the sides that recall those of French cabriolets. Both are joined with an iron fastener and support a single-piece board with carved edges. This type of leg, called lyre legs due to their resemblance to the musical instrument, was widely used during the Renaissance, and continued to be used later due to the movement that their curved profiles provided to the piece of furniture.

· Size: 73x103x220 cms.
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Ref.: Z6146
WALNUT BENCH. SPANISH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY.

Bench. Walnut. Spanish school, 17th century. A bench made of carved walnut wood in its colour, with a backrest made up of a smooth rectangular board and a seat made up of another similar to the previous one, both arranged at an angle. The legs have a particular shape, known as “lyre-shaped”, and are decorated with plant and architectural motifs (scrolls) in relief. It also has two wooden “fasteners”, which have undulations in their profile. Lyre-leg tables originated in the Spain of Charles II, during the second half of the 17th century. The simplest ones have a simple cut in the side legs, and are even completely carved in models with peripheral centres. This support element, as can be seen, was also used in other types of furniture. The material is also the usual one in old Spanish cabinetmaking, although it should be noted that it seems that the most common thing is for the fasteners to be made of wrought iron.

· Size: 56x219x92 cms.
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Ref.: ZF1107
LOW TABLE. WALNUT, WROUGHT IRON. SPAIN, 17TH CENTURY.

Table with fork braces. Walnut wood, wrought iron. Spain, 17th century. Table made of carved and turned walnut wood with four A-shaped legs, two wrought iron hairpin fasteners and drawers on both fronts (four in total) decorated with plant-themed carvings. The legs have a type of turning known as “lentil”, with different types of discs depending on their width, creating a symmetrical composition, and placed above and below a simple cylindrical heel. The jambs have been carved with simplified plant shapes, and the fasteners have decoration of discs and balustrade shapes. The drawers are interspersed with “S”-shaped protruding pieces and have oval handles, and the sides have simple geometric carvings. Compare, for example, the walnut table with disc legs dating from the 17th century that is preserved in the collections of the former Municipal Museum of Madrid; with the Inquisition buffet in the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Madrid (in details such as the arrangement of the drawers); or with another walnut and pine platform table with carved drawers and lenticular turned legs from the same museum, dating from the 17th century; a Castilian buffet table from the 17th century from the Cervantes Birthplace Museum (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid).

· Size: 83x118x73 cms.
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Ref.: ZF0619
TABLE. LIGNUM VITAE, WOOD. 18TH CENTURY.

Table with lentil leg and inlay. Rosewood. 18th century. Table with four turned disc legs (of the type known as lentil legs) joined two by two by means of a jamb with the same decorative element, which has iron fasteners decorated with discs and a rectangular top decorated with wood marquetry in different shades based on plant elements, circles and smooth areas.

· Size: 83x53x55 cms.
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Ref.: Z6116
NAPOLEON III BEDROOM SUITE, CA SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY.

Napoleon III Bedroom, second half of the 19th century. Bedroom consisting of a one-door wardrobe with a mirror, a dressing table-desk with three drawers in front and another three behind a door, in addition to the two under the mirror, a “boat”-style bed and a four-drawer bedside table. All the decorative elements of the set refer to models from classical antiquity, clearly marking the belonging of the works to the style known as Napoleon III, as it was during his reign (1852-1870) that he reigned in France at its peak. Wardrobe 110x 46 x260 (interior with 5 shelves, interior drawer, and exterior drawer) Chest of drawers 108 x 52 x101+ 115 Bedside table 44x32.5x 100 Bed 210 x 135 x 128 for 115 x 190 mattress. Erable wood, pine wood interiors, stained moldings
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Ref.: Z5277
PINE WOOD AND WALNUT BENCH. SPAIN, 17TH CENTURY.

High-backed bench. Pine, walnut. Spain, 17th century. Carved wooden bench with a high backrest and arms decorated towards the inside (and in the lower area of the sides) with stripes formed by rectangular panels, following a very common motif in Spanish cabinetmaking. Requires restoration

· Size: 218x54,5x140 cms.
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Ref.: Z0605
PINE WOOD CUPBOARD. SPAIN, 17TH CENTURY.

Cupboard. Pine wood. Spain, 17th century. Two-body cupboard made of carved pine wood, with legs in the shape of a fluted jamb, a lower body decorated with simple panels (like the side ones) on the two doors that close with a key, and an upper one with latticework on the outside. The upper area is a single space, while the lower area has a shelf that divides it into two. The decoration links the piece of furniture with very common shapes of traditional Spanish cabinetmaking.

· Size: 104x60x175 cms.
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Ref.: Z0634
DUCHT MARQUETRY COMMODE. 18TH CENTURY.

Dutch marquetry chest of drawers. 18th century. Requires restoration. Chest of drawers with four drawers at the front with a key lock and two handles on each, decorated with marquetry applications (on the sides, front and top panel) with a plant theme. Both the top panel and the front have a series of curves towards the front, and, in the lower area of the piece of furniture, some elements projecting downwards provide more movement (note the marquetry details present here as well). Stylistically, one can appreciate elements common to 18th century European furniture in the Rococo style (movement in the front, curves and counter-curves, etc.) together with elements common to the Dutch school (note, above all, the designs and colours used in the marquetry decoration).

· Size: 90x47x79 cms.
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Ref.: ZF0999
NAPOLEON III WRITING SLOPE OR BOX. MARQUETRY. FRANCE, 19TH CENTURY.

Napoleon III box. Marquetry. France, 19th century. Rectangular wooden box with a flat lid and supported by circular legs, with a front opening with a locking key and a hinged, folding top lid. Inside, there is a horizontal, flat space with edges highlighted with two lines of light marquetry (as is the lower area of the lid and the inside of the folding part of the front), and three drawers beneath it, also highlighted with light details. These types of pieces were used to hold different items (writing materials, jewellery, documents, etc.) either during travel or to be placed on a table and used there. The exterior decoration, centred on the front and top, consists of delicate compositions with a plant theme and a strong classicist influence made with wood of different tones: shields, flowers, scrolls, cartouches, leaves, etc. The sides of the box are highlighted only with lines of wood in a lighter tone. In general, the decorative elements, arranged with harmony and symmetry in various tones and light colours (rosewood, fruit, etc.), are sought to stand out against the dark tone of the rosewood. These types of boxes or chests were very common throughout the 19th century in Europe. During the time of Napoleon III (emperor from 1852 to 1870), they were usually decorated with both Boulle-style marquetry and wood, with works from houses such as the Maison Berthet & Peret standing out (a work preserved in private collections).

· Size: 58,5x38,5x22 cms
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Ref.: ZF0895
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WALNUT TABLE. GUADALAJARA, SPAIN, 17TH CENTURY.

Table with lentil-type leg. Walnut wood. Guadalajara, Spain, 17th century. A table with a flat rectangular top that has a drawer at the front flanked by two smooth corbels or mouldings, and that is made of carved walnut wood, that has four turned legs in what is known as the lentil type due to its shape based on small consecutive discs and that are secured together at the bottom thanks to the presence of a smooth rectangular die in each one and an undecorated wooden crossbar. The drawer at the front, with a key lock and a grooved iron knob, has two carved rectangles flanking the lock hole and high quality dovetail joints that can be seen when it is opened. Compare, for example, the walnut table with disc legs dating from the 17th century that is preserved in the collections of the former Municipal Museum of Madrid; with another walnut and pine platform table with carved drawers and lenticular turned legs from the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Madrid, dating from the 17th century; or with a Castilian buffet table from the 17th century from the Museo Casa Natal de Cervantes (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid). Typologically, due to its decoration, this is a model with a long tradition in the Castilian school, particularly in the Guadalajara area.

· Size: 84,5x48,5x65 cms.
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Ref.: ZF0946
WALNUT BENCH. 18TH CENTURY.

Stool. Walnut wood. 18th century. Rectangular bench with smooth moulding on the edge and turned baluster-shaped legs, which are secured in the lower area by means of cut-out profile jambs on the bottom. It shows classicist influences, present together with traditional elements of older Spanish furniture (format, construction, etc.).

· Size: 52x34,5x50 cms.
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Ref.: ZE331
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PAIR OF SOLOMONIC COLOMNS. GUILDED WOOD. SPAIN, CIRCA SECOND HALF 17TH...

Pair of Solomonic columns. Carved and gilded wood. Spain, towards the second half of the 17th century. Pair of columns made of carved and gilded wood composed of a simple base with smooth mouldings, a Solomonic shaft decorated with branches with vine leaves and bunches of grapes, and a composite capital. The Solomonic column was an element used in the history of Christian art from time to time, although it was a common architectural motif during the Baroque period and, above all, since Bernini used it in the canopy of St. Peter's in the Vatican (finished in 1633), from when it became popular throughout Europe. It soon reached Spain: there are examples in Andalusia from around 1639; in Madrid they can be seen from 1636 (it seems that it was used for the first time in the Church of Buen Suceso); and it spread rapidly throughout peninsular and colonial territories. Although there are examples decorated with flowers (normally in altarpieces of female cloistered convents) or with birds, the most common typology is the one that uses vine leaves and bunches of grapes as a decorative element along the Solomonic shaft, thus alluding to the Sacrament of the Eucharist. Compare, for example, the pair preserved in the Sorolla Museum in Madrid, dating from the 18th century; works by José Benito de Churriguera and his family (Churrigueresque); etc.

· Size: 36x36x234 cms
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Ref.: ZF0934
THREE LOCKS CHEST. WALNUT, IRON. SPAIN, 17TH CENTURY.

Town hall chest. Walnut wood. 17th century. A rectangular carved walnut chest with a flat lid and simple decoration on its fronts with smooth mouldings of different widths. It is slightly raised from the ground thanks to six legs with a cylindrical base on a flattened circle. On the outside, it has a series of wrought iron fittings (corners with a fleur-de-lis finish), two handles on the sides with openwork fittings and, on the front, three locks with a key with an openwork lock shield decorated with simplified plant elements. On the inside, it has a wooden partition on one side and situated high up, which consists of a rectangular space with a hinged lid and two small drawers at the bottom. The three iron keys have their worked and decorated eyes, with simple decorative elements on that side of the stem or central part and the usual flat keys. Chests with three locks are also known as “Town Hall” or “Council” chests, because both these and those with two keys were often used by religious, military or civil organisations to store valuable objects and documents, securing them by giving a key to each person in charge (as many people as there were locks and keys), so that they had to come together to open the cabinet. In many places in the Spanish territories, it was used as a municipal archive, following laws inherited from a pragmatic of 9 June 1500 with which the Catholic Monarchs obliged the Councils of their territories to build town halls, prisons and have a chest of privileges and deeds. Despite having been abundant in their time, not many examples have reached us because they have fallen into disuse and have been replaced. Compare with that of the Council of Villafranca de la Marisma (Los Palacios y Villafranca, Seville), that of Valdipiélago (León), that of Matapozuelos (Valladolid), that of the Cabildo of Buenos Aires in Argentina (18th century, following previous models), etc.

· Size: 157x64x78 cms
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Ref.: ZF0870
ROCCOCO STYLE MIRROR. WOOD. 19TH CENTURY.

Rococo style mirror. Carved and gilded wood. 19th century. Slightly rectangular mirror with a frame made of carved and gilded wood and decorated with elements inspired by 18th century Rococo art (rocailles, curves and counter-curves, fleshy plant elements, etc.) together with a composition more in the taste of 19th century art (note the inner area of the frame, the symmetry, the crest...).

· Size: 157x27x158 cms
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Ref.: ZE300
THIRTY LIGHTS GLASS AND BRONZE CHANDELIER. 19TH CENTURY.

Ceiling lamp in bronze and colourless carved and modelled glass with thirty lights. Late 19th century. It is attached to the ceiling by a hook hidden by a crown with stems, from which the central axis of the lamp, made of glass in the shape of a double baluster, starts. The arms, made of gilded bronze, decorated with architectural and plant elements, start from this. The lights have candle-shaped bulbs. Beads of various shapes (rectangular, octagonal, star, teardrop and pendants with mixed profiles) have been placed all over the surface, joined by discreet metal hooks. The variety of shapes and the quality of the colourless glass should be highlighted. The profiles of some beads (teardrops, polygons, pendants) are found in both Bohemian and French works and in most of the Royal Glass and Crystal Factory of La Granja de San Ildefonso (Segovia, Spain) due to the great popularity of these shapes. The stars or small flowers are much rarer in the preserved examples. The mastery of the cut can be appreciated in the profiles and in the fineness of the modelling of the axis. While the decorative elements of the bronze clearly show influences of Neoclassicism, the glass work is reminiscent of the so-called “Maria Theresa chandeliers”, works based on those commissioned by the Empress Maria Theresa for her coronation in factories in the Bohemian part of the Czech Republic in 1743. This typology spread rapidly throughout Europe, varying in design and serving as an example in the main glass factories up to the present day. Although it is clearly different from the work done in Murano (Italy), the chandelier follows a tradition that has its roots in Bohemia and was continued in France, where as much attention was devoted to gilded bronze as to glass, and whose examples the chandelier somewhat more closely resembles. Similar lamps can still be found in very prominent residences such as the Fernán Núñez Palace (Madrid), Viana Palace (Córdoba), National Museum of Decorative Arts (Madrid), Paz Palace (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Louvre Museum (Paris), etc.

· Size: 100x100x130 cms.
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Ref.: Z6580
WROUGHT IRON BRAZIER. SPAIN, 13TH-14TH CENTURIES.

Brazier. Wrought iron. Spain, 13th-14th centuries. It has restoration on one handle. Rear grill. Reference: "The art of the ferro". Barcelona: Santiago Rusiñol, 2007, p. 151, image 137. Brazier made of wrought iron, consisting of a circular base, three flat legs, a body formed by two flat rings joined by vertical sections decorated with simple facing scrolls, and two handles on the top similar to the sections and ending in washers. Inside, it has an iron grill from a later date than the rest of the piece and has a restoration on one handle. It is very similar to another wrought iron brazier dating from the 12th or 13th centuries that is currently in a private collection; compare also with the rectangular one in the Museu Episcopal de Vic dated in the 14th century. The spirals that form the decoration of the piece are frequently called “curly irons”, and are an element very often used in the few examples of Romanesque ironwork and ironwork that we have preserved, and, for this very reason, they will be elements that will be maintained in forging works for centuries after in Spain (the Romanesque model with its volutes lasted well into the 15th century, with some variation). For example, the railings of the Church of Santa María del Camino or del Mercado in León or the one that has been placed in the choir in the church of San Vicente de Ávila, or those preserved in the Diocesan Museum of Jaca (Huesca). As it is a work made with a utilitarian purpose, the lack of decorative elements is normal, as is the transformation of the decoration into functional parts of the brazier. The examples of Romanesque braziers that have reached us are even scarcer than those with ironwork. One is preserved in the Diocesan Museum of Tarragona and another in the possession of the Junta de Castilla, both square but with this same type of spirals, and some more in important museums and collections such as the National Archaeological Museum, in the Cathedral of Tarragona, etc. Weight: 7.5 kg.

· Size: 52x39x54 cms.
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Ref.: ZF0635