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Devotional pendant in gold and enamel, Mary Magdalene and Saint John the Baptist, 18th century. Possibly Mallorcan. One of the windows is fractured. Oval pendant decorated in its outline by turned gold bows and small metallic pearls. On one of its fronts it shows Mary Magdalene, as a hermit, with a skull, a cross and a book; The other presents the image of Saint John the Baptist, accompanied by a cross and a lamb alluding to the evangelical text. These types of pieces were highly valued by their owners as elements of devotion, and could also, at the same time, contain a relic inside.
· Size: 4.5x0,5x4 cms.
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MISCELLANEOUS;OTHER OBJECTS
Ref.: Z6451
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almatoria. Silver. Francesc P. Arquer, Barcelona, around 1825. With contrast and burilar marks. Silver candlestick in its color with a bowl raised on two small legs and a flat handle (curved towards the end, the area in which the third leg is located), decorated with a series of plant elements and details common in Neoclassicism in light relief (string of pearls, etc.) The piece has some chipping marks and others of contrast. These seconds link the piece with Barcelona silversmithing, placing it in the workshop of Francesc Arquer, and in the 19th century. Weight: 158 grams.
· Size: 29x9x7 cms.
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MISCELLANEOUS;SILVER WORKS
Ref.: Z6732
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Candlestick with chain. Silver. Francesc. P. Arquer, Barcelona, Spain, around 1825. With hallmarks, burillado and ownership marks (AS). Silver candlestick in its color with an openwork bowl on two levels and raised on two small legs (inside of which there is a piece to hold the candle, shaped like a vase and a braided decoration towards the center), and a flat handle (curved towards the end, area where the third leg is located), decorated with a series of simple openwork shapes and fine strings of small pearls on the edges of the handle and the bowl. The piece has some chipping marks, others of ownership under the bowl (AS) and others of contrast. The latter link the piece with Barcelona silversmithing, placing it in the workshop of Francesc Arquer, and in the 19th century. Weight: 183 grams.
· Size: 28,9,5x5,5 cms.
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MISCELLANEOUS;SILVER WORKS
Ref.: Z6733
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Candlestick with chain and clips. Silver. F. Roca, Barcelona, towards the first half of the 19th century. With contrast and burilar marks. Silver candlestick in its color with an openwork bowl raised on two small legs (inside there is a piece to hold the candle, shaped like a vase), and a flat handle (curved towards the end, the area where the third leg is located ), decorated with two bands of pearls on the sides (a motif that also appears on the edge of the bowl) and from the end of which a chain emerges that ends in clamps (which are placed on a piece welded to the bottom of the bowl). mango). The piece has two carving marks and other contrast marks under the bowl. These latter place the creation of the work in Barcelona, at the hands of F. Roca, a silversmith active in the city during the second half of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. Weight: 185 grams.
· Size: 23,5 x 8,5 x 7 cms.
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MISCELLANEOUS;SILVER WORKS
Ref.: Z6734
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Base. Carved and polychrome wood. Spanish school, 17th century. Base with a rectangular base, made of carved and polychrome wood in gray tones, which has been decorated with a series of moldings and bulls, some smooth and others enhanced with a fine relief of plant elements and garlands of clear classicist influence. The piece is finished with a spike to secure the sculpture that is placed on it. Weight: 6.4kg.
· Size: 37x25x44 cms , altura base 23 cms
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Ref.: ZE346
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Cross of the Order of Preachers or habit of Saint Dominic. Gilded bronze, enamel. XVII century. Medal with the flordelised cross of the Order of Preachers, also known as Santo Domingo or Dominicans, made of gilded bronze and decorated with black and white enamels. This emblem used to be used by members (relatives) of the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, since Pope Gregory IX entrusted this order with the persecution of heretics in the bull “Ille humani generis”. Weight: 13 grams.
· Size: 4.5x0.2x5 cms.
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Ref.: ZF0826
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Peace holder. Bronze. Century XVI. Bronze pencil holder with a handle on the back in the shape of that in the same material and a decoration in slight relief on the front that shows, under an architectural composition of clear classicist influence (semicircular arch with scallops inside and outside of scrolls, two pilasters with vegetal decoration and a base with heraldry), to the Virgin Mary with the Child, accompanied by two angels and placed on a pedestal on which you can see a legend (AVEREGINA/CELOUM?, in allusion to the Marian antiphon Ave Regina Caelorum , typical of the Lenten season).
· Size: 6.5x3x11 cms
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Ref.: ZF0866
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Niche. Gilded and polychrome pine wood. Spain, 17th century. Niche made of carved and gilded pine wood, decorated with moldings, a venerated shape and plant elements in the upper part, which presents a clear classicist influence, common in some Spanish Baroque schools of the 17th century. These types of pieces were usually part of an altarpiece, and were normally used to house sculptures.
· Size: 47x14x66 cms
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Ref.: ZF0954
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Mirror with angel heads. Carved and polychrome pine wood. Spanish school, 18th century. Rectangular panel of carved, polychrome and gilded pinto wood that presents two ovals framed with smooth moldings and finished, each, with a winged angel's head (another one is presented in the lower area). Each of these ovals has a mirror sheet. This type of work was usually done in Spanish art to form part of altarpieces or access to prominent chapels, placing either mirrors or glass painted with religious themes in each oval.
· Size: 48x8x152 cms.
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Ref.: ZF1001
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Guang Yu, Zhang Fei and Liu Bei. Watercolor. China, early 20th century. Framed painting showing three male figures, with text to the right side. The one who is reading and sitting on a throne covered with tiger skin, stands out above all for her beard, but also for her rich clothing. The two standing characters also wear rich (although somewhat less) clothing, and one carries a halberd or spear while another carries an object in his hands. Guang Yu was a military general under Lui Bei during the Late Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms Period of ancient China, and his life and achievements were so extolled and glorified that he was deified during the Sui Dynasty. emphasizing more his exploits in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and becoming one of the main examples of loyalty and righteousness, receiving worship even today and receiving names such as “Emperor Guan” or “Lord Guan”. Along with Zhang Fei, he shared a brotherly relationship with Lui Bei, and accompanied him on some of his early exploits. Weight: 9kg.
· Size: 95,5x2x134 cms.
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Ref.: ZF1075
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Portrait of ancestors or family. Watercolor. China. Beginning of the 20th century. Painting with four characters (two male and two female) richly dressed and sitting on thrones or chairs dressed in rich cloths, who are located in an interior, attended by two servants (small in size, in front of the work), and with an altar with several pieces of great value in the background area of the composition. These types of works were very common in the oriental art of certain schools, in line with the appreciation made of the ancestors of prominent families. Weight: 11.2kg
· Size: 90x3,5x130 cms.
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Ref.: ZF1076
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Box or casket with royal monogram. Mahogany wood, metal. Spain, 19th century. It has slight damage. Rectangular box with a flat lid and key hole on the front decorated with metal applications on the corners, edges, handles, etc. Under the key hole it has a fleur-de-lis. The lid has a central motif with fleurs-de-lys and a crowned M, and alternating castles and crowned lions in the corners. This emblem (and the fact that it is accompanied by lions and castles alluding to Castilian heraldry) is reminiscent of the royal monograms that, apparently, all members of the royal family had in the past to mark their belongings. In this case, it is possible that it refers to María Cristina de Borbón-Dos Sicilias (Palermo, 1806-SAinte-Adresse, 1878), wife of Ferdinand VII and regent during the minority of Isabel II. However, we must remember María Cristina of Habsburg-Lorraine or Austria (1858-1929), wife of Alfonso XII. The emblem of María de las Mercedes de Orleans y Borbón (Madrid, 1860-1878), wife of Alfonso XII, used to appear with two capital “emes”.
· Size: 78x31x24 cms.
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Ref.: ZF1170
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Christ crucified. Carved wood. Century XVI. It has faults. Carving made of wood in its color that shows Christ Crucified, already deceased (eyes closed, head fallen), with an anatomy of clear classicist influence and notable detail in the hair, beard and mustache. Also note the position of Jesus' body and the lack of perizonium or purity cloth, something relatively common, for example, in the Italian Renaissance school. Weight: 100 grams.
· Size: 6x4x17 cms.
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Ref.: ZF1208
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Weight of the 18th century. Bronze. Bronze weight, incomplete, with the container vessel and two of the smaller ones, all cold decorated with incised and printed motifs, simple edges on the small vessels and more complex borders on the container vessel. Nested cup weights are a set of cup or glass-shaped weights, which all fit precisely inside each other. A complete set is considered one that fully conserves all its original vessels. The largest, called a keeper, consists of a top lid with a handle and closure, and weighs exactly the same as the sum of all the others. The second in descending order weighs half as much as the keeper, and the same as the sum of the rest. This proportionality is maintained until the last weight, called the disc or last piece, which is usually solid and closes the game. This principle will remain unchanged until the introduction of the decimal metric system.
· Size: 11x12x12 cms.
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MISCELLANEOUS;OTHER OBJECTS
Ref.: Z3034
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Catavinos or scrapie. Silver. Century XVIII. No contrast marks. Silver catavinos in their color with smooth edges, handles in the shape of a crowned animal (rampant lions with their tails curved towards the back) and a decoration at the bottom of the piece of lines framing a simple flower. In Spanish silversmithing, Baroque trends were maintained during almost the first two thirds of the 18th century, except in the capital, where Rococo forms were already introduced without displacing the previous ones. It would not be until 1740 when French silversmiths introduced these innovations in Madrid, which would slowly spread to the rest of the centers, depending on areas and masters. This survival of the 17th century forms can be seen in the fact that bernegales tembladeras were, in general, more common pieces in the 17th century, remaining during the 18th century relegated to centers far from the main creative areas. Compare the present example with the one preserved in the Vivanco Foundation dated in the first third of the 18th century (inv. 002208), or colonial pieces from private collections (with figurative handles reminiscent of those of this piece) or preserved in prominent institutions such as the salvilla and bernegal set from the Monastery of the Conceptionists of Ágreda (Soria), specimens in the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Madrid, etc. Weight: 110 gr
· Size: 15x10,5x4,5 cms.
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Ref.: ZE194
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Silver spice rack. Stefano Olivero, Italy. Possibly, 19th century. Silver spice rack raised on simple legs, located at the chamfered ends of the piece, decorated on the outside with garlands and other architectural elements of classicist influence in light relief. Weight: 198 grams.
· Size: 5,5 x 8,5 x 6,5 cm
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Ref.: ZF0006
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Peace holder. Bronze. Century XVI. Peace holder made of bronze with an asymmetrical “ese” handle on the back, which presents on the front a decoration in light relief framed in an architectural composition decorated with elements of classical influence (venera de finial, plant elements in the upper area, columns with shafts decorated, architrave, basement with semicircular arches...), which has a heraldic shield in the center of the lower area. Under a winged angel's head, the central theme of the peace holder is presented: Weeping over the body of the dead Christ, with the cross in the background, Mary with Christ, flanked by two figures. The heraldic shield is very similar to that of the House of Mendoza used by Íñigo López de Mendoza y de la Vega, I Marquis of Santillana, and progenitor and head of the Ducal House of Infantado (which also presents it).
· Size: 7,5x4x12 cms.
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MISCELLANEOUS;OTHER OBJECTS
Ref.: ZF0541A
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Friar armchair. Walnut wood, leather. Spain, 16th century. Armchair with arms and high back of the type known as “frailero”, which has leather with studs on the seat and upper part of the back, very low chambrances joining the front legs with the rear ones and middle chambrances or stringers (the front one is carved with a relief of floral motifs flanking an empty heraldic shield in tondo) joining the two front legs and the two rear ones, and simple armrests, with the fluted fronts following architectural influences. The friar armchair, 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 current of the 19th century. Being a tradition so deeply rooted in Spain, these types of models have never stopped being created. Requires restoration.
· Size: 65,5x53x109 cms.
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Ref.: Z0706
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Three-part silver spice rack. XIX century. Spice rack formed by three bodies lowered on their edges so that they fit together and join together in a half-oval chamfered at the top, decorated with simple lines, as corresponds to a work from the 19th century with the influence of Neoclassicism. This type of spice rack is reminiscent in concept of the so-called “tower” examples, already made in the Renaissance, but much more simplified. Weight: 150 grams.
· Size: 5x5x5,5 cms.
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Ref.: Z3035
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Silver spout jug, 17th century. On a circular foot stands the smooth spout jug, with the “C” shaped handle with the branch that is common to see in this type around the 1730s and 40s of the 17th century. Typologically, it belongs to the courtly model, which appeared in Madrid towards the beginning of this century, possibly derived from the Valladolid model and which would spread throughout Spain.
· Size: Alt. 8 cms.
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MISCELLANEOUS;SILVER WORKS
Ref.: Z4700
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Safe key from the 17th century. Wrought iron. Wrought iron safe key, dating from the 17th century, with a complex design on the head, a hollow body and a flattened arch-shaped finish.
· Size: 15x6x1.5 cms.
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MISCELLANEOUS;OTHER OBJECTS
Ref.: Z5053
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Pair of Dutch style candlesticks. 18th century Bronze. Electrified like lamps. Pair of Dutch style candlesticks converted into lamp bases. They have a turned structure, typical of the refined baroque.
· Size: 55x55x79 cms.
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MISCELLANEOUS;OTHER OBJECTS
Ref.: Z6491
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Silver snuffers. XIX century. The handle has been worked into the shape of a vase, with the lobed handles in the lower area to recall cloth hangings, while the spout of the snuffers has a needle with a pearl and the oval area has a decoration of grooves. All these elements, and the elegant lines of the work, relate it to Neoclassicism, a characteristic artistic style of the 19th century. Weight: 117g
· Size: 7x3,5x15 cms.
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MISCELLANEOUS;SILVER WORKS
Ref.: Z6587
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Cutlery set. Porto, Portugal, 19th-20th centuries. Silver. With contrast and burilar marks. Silver cutlery set consisting of six spoons and six forks, decorated on the handle with a different composition for each of the types of cutlery. The spoons have scrolls and plant elements, topped by scallops, a Rococo souvenir; The forks have a composition of neoclassical influence. Weight: 900g.
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MISCELLANEOUS;SILVER WORKS
Ref.: ZE100
