BRONZE BRAZIER. POSSIBLY CASTILLE, SPAIN, 16TH CENTURY.

Brazier. Copper. Possibly Castile, 16th century. Brazier made of copper with a circular base decorated with vertical bands, a low tubular shaft enhanced with a fine rope molding and a semicircular body, with a wide mouth that extends outwards, and two metal handles in the shape of a half-rectangle and a torso on the sides. Of the piece. These types of pieces were used in both civil and ecclesiastical interiors with the aim of warming the occupants of the room as much as possible, and their conservation is rare because they were utilitarian elements that were discarded with the passage of time or over time. get damaged. They used to be objects intended for the upper class, and they followed the same typologies whether destined for a sacristy or a private residence. The present case, possibly intended for use in the sacristy, shows a common typology in the Spanish school of the time. Compare, for example, with the brazier present in The Birth of the Virgin Mary of the Altarpiece assembled around 1520 by the Valladolid Pedro de Guadalupe and found in the church of San Esteban de Amusquillo (which presided over the main altar of the cathedral of Valladolid until 1676, when it was sold to the parish church of Renedo); or with that of the Birth of San Eloy by Pedro Núñez (1526-1529, MNAC, Barcelona).

· Size: 25x25x15,5 cms