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Wall clock. Metal, wood. United States of America, patented 1874. American wall clock with a wooden and metal case, 8-day and 30-hour model, featuring a white dial with Roman numerals for the hours and lines for the minutes, and a landscape with architecture with a certain colonial air in a natural setting. Along with the usual influence or reminder of English models, a series of more particular details of the continent and the area can be seen.
· Size: 38x10x63 cms.
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Ref.: Z0611
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The Fountain. Polychrome terracotta. 20th century, following models by CARRIER-BELLEUSE, Albert-Ernest (Aisne, 1824-Sèvres, 1887). The figure shows a child, lying down and almost completely naked, with his head highlighted by a crown of gold leaves. He is shown with a shell (with touches of gold), taking water from a jug at his side, thus recalling the allegories of rivers or their sources in Ancient Rome. It is necessary to compare this work with the one entitled “La Source” by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, preserved, for example, in the Art Institute of Chicago or the one in the Portland Museum of Art (of which there are a number of variants, changing the characters and the material used). Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse was a French sculptor and draughtsman who trained with David d'Angers and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He achieved international recognition after his participation in the Salon des Artistes Françaises in 1861 (Third Medal), producing notable works such as several busts of Napoleon III, the fireplace in the great hall of the Paris Opera, etc. His work is preserved in prominent private collections and in institutions such as the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the Museo del Prado in Madrid, etc. In addition, we must remember his terracottas and his monuments (such as that of Bernardo O'Higgins in Santiago de Chile). It is also worth highlighting the publication in 1884 of L\\'application de la figure humaine à la decoration et à l\\'ornementation industrielles, an important collection of decorative arts of the time, and in 1876 he was appointed art director of the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres.
· Size: 50x25x40 cms
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Ref.: Z0628
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Brazier box. Carved walnut wood. 18th century. A polygonal box decorated with smooth mouldings on the outer edge, made to contain a metal piece that would serve as a brazier to heat a room. The clean lines and mouldings are common details of 18th century neoclassical art, decorative elements present in antique pieces even though they had a more utilitarian than decorative purpose.
· Size: 83x80x14 cms.
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Ref.: Z0438
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Elizabethan sofa. Wood, textile, metal. Spain, 19th century. Elizabethan sofa with a high backrest, arms and metal rollers on the front legs, decorated with simple plant elements in the wood and lines following the curves of the furniture, and curves in the backrest, finished in its central part by a symmetrical plant composition.
· Size: 180x62x106 cms.
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Ref.: Z4849
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Set of five jugs, glass and silver. With initial ownership marks. Set of five jugs in different sizes (two small, two medium and one large) with a flared glass top and carved and engraved decoration, and a handle and top in silver. Their shapes and decoration show a clear influence from the so-called English “claret jugs” used for serving wine at the table.
· Size: Atura pieza mayor 36 cms.
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Ref.: Z6429
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Travel clock with case. Metal, glass, leather, etc. 19th century. Travel clock with a lid on the top and a transparent glass front, lined on the inside, containing a travel clock with alarm function. It has a handle and a decoration in two bands of plant elements, four legs, transparent glass fronts, a small glass window on the top, and a door on the back. The dial is white, with Arabic numerals for the hours and dots for the minutes, and it has another small second hand dial below the first one. Around the dials there is a composition with a bird and a butterfly with plant elements in gold metal. Weight: 1.25 kg.
· Size: 10x8.5x13.5 cms
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Ref.: ZF1148
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Spice rack. Silver. Spain, 20th century. With contrast marks. Oval-shaped vessel supported by four legs with a human head, extended wings and an architectural base with vegetal decoration with a marked classicist taste. Stylistically, it is inspired by old models of Spanish silverware. You can see the star reserved for First Law silver in the 1935 Regulation, and a silversmith's mark that has not been identified.
· Size: 12,5x11x11,5 cms
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Ref.: ZF1375
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Wireless Set No. 19, MK II. Canada, ca. 1942. Wireless Set No. 19, commonly known as the Wireless Set No. 19, was a mobile radio transceiver used in World War II by the British and American armies. Designed for use in tanks and armoured vehicles, it was developed in 1940 by the British War Office's and Pye Radio, the Pye model being superseded by the Mk II in 1940 and this by the Mk III in 1942. In 1942, the No. 19 Mk II was produced in Canada, improving on the British design (most Canadian sets used English or Cyrillic lettering on the front panel, the result of a contract with the Soviet Army). Weight 25 KG..
· Size: 29x44x38 cms.
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Ref.: ZF0737B
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Sculpture in corrugated iron. Signed “Aug. Moreau”. Following models by Auguste Moreau, France, 19th century. It is reminiscent of works such as the bronze “The Fountain” by Mathurin Moreau, and pieces by Hyppolyte Moreau and Auguste Moreau (France, 1834 – 1917). Auguste began his training as a disciple of his older brother Mathurin. He made his debut at the Paris Salon of 1861, where he participated regularly until 1913. He was also a member of the Société des Artistes Français. His themes – genre scenes, pastorals, allegorical – and his realistic and graceful style link him with other members of the Moreau dynasty, known for their small bronze works that were widely reproduced and inspired many other masters, both during the artists’ lifetime and after their death.
· Size: 18x18x52 cms.
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Ref.: Z0388
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Panelled door. Walnut and pine wood. 17th century. A single-leaf door made of carved wood with traces of polychromy decorated with a composition of panels combining rectangular and square shapes in a harmonious manner. Despite the lack of movement, this was a common composition in the classicist movement of the European Baroque.
· Size: 105x208 cms.
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Ref.: Z0403
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Panelled door with frame. Walnut and pine wood, wrought iron. 20th century. Single-leaf door with a wooden frame decorated with smooth mouldings that opens to the right. It has a decoration based on square and rectangular panels with diamonds inside, combining dark and light wood, and a wrought iron knob (balustrade handle, latch and plate with cut profiles, combining curves with lines). Certain elements of the piece refer to Baroque works of the 17th century.
· Size: 99x203 cms.
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Ref.: Z0406
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Ceiling lamp, Tyffany style. Polymer, metal. 20th century. Ceiling lamp with one light point, chain for hanging and polymer shade in various colours resembling Tyffany's usual and appreciated stained glass compositions.
· Size: 68x68x80 cms. Tramo cadena: 28 cms.
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Ref.: Z0793
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Classic corbel in marble dust. Under a simple moulding, a scroll with an open centre has been placed, revealing a curved shape in another colour whose lines it follows. This two-colour scheme can be seen in other architectural details of the corbel, such as the oval shield with scrolls in the lower area, or the three drops in the centre. Although the inspiration in elements from Antiquity is clear, these have been used freely, giving rise to a highly original work of art.
· Size: 50x37x67 cms.
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Ref.: Z0806
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Silver dressing table set. Birmingham, Levi & Salaman, England. Early 20th century. With contrast marks. A set of toiletries, consisting of two brushes, a comb, scissors, tweezers, a spatula and other grooming and hairdressing items. The handles and backs of the pieces have been decorated with scrolls, volutes and plant elements of clear classical inspiration, as is common in English silverware. Some parts of certain objects are made from other materials. The hallmarks place the game's production in Birmingham, England, at the beginning of the 20th century, and provide information about the workshop: Levi & Salaman. Weight: 630 grams.
· Size: 20x15x5 cms
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Ref.: Z6378R
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Pair of mirrors with appliqués. Metal, glass. 20th century. Pair of wall mirrors with metal frames, decorated with architectural and plant elements with a clear classicist influence (note the openwork, the small crest located at the top of both and the mask that appears in the areas below) and which also have a three-light wall light at the front, with arms decorated with plant motifs.
· Size: 43x15x55 cms
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Ref.: ZF0277
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Writing desk. Bronze. 19th century. The four containers that make up the writing case are placed on a tray with curved profiles decorated with mouldings and scallops on its edges. The sandbox or sandpit, the feather duster and the inkwell have clear lines and smooth areas, combined with fine mouldings resembling a cord; the oval box with a lid finished in a knob has smooth mouldings on its entire outer surface. Although certain details (particularly the tray) could be reminiscent of certain Rococo works of the 18th century, the toned down movement of the tray, the decoration of the containers, the lines and the lack of prominent decorative elements would be more characteristic of the Neoclassicism of the 18th and 19th centuries, as is the inspiration in styles of the past and the combination of various currents in the same piece.
· Size: 25x18x11 cms.
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Ref.: Z0376
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20th century
· Size: Long. 11 cms.
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Ref.: Z5409
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Car headlight. BRC brand, first half of the 20th century. Headlight, possibly for an automobile and powered by carbide, made of metal, with a small plate with the initials BRC, referring to the French company, based in Paris, that manufactured them.
· Size: 38x26x44 cms (diam 38)
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Ref.: Z6578
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Bronze candle. 19th century. The circular base rises at the edges to collect any oil that might fall. A Solomonic base ends in a vase shape, giving way to the central knot of the candle, in which each of the lights emerges from a schematized quadruped. The top, above another simple vase shape, has a flat plate with scrolls and fleur-de-lis and a tubular rod ending in a decoration with two shapes reminiscent of rampant animals and another figure at the top. This type of lamps made in the 19th century are inspired by other older works, following the custom of the time of taking the styles of the past as examples to follow.
· Size: 26x26x89 cms.
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Ref.: Z6771
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Collection of engravings by Gustave Doré (1832-1883). “Madrid, Engravings by Gustave Doré”. Special edition directed by Antonio de Horna. Madrid, Culture and Art Collection, De Horna Editores. Compilation of engravings directed by Antonio de Horna made by Gustave Doré, a great draughtsman and engraver known, above all, for his work for an edition of “Don Quixote”, published in London in 1880, which was very well received by the public. Successful in France, he moved to live in England, where he was even more appreciated for his visions of the Victorian costumbrista environment of the mid-nineteenth century. Antonio de Horna, in this same book, accompanies a brief biography of the author with the intention behind this collection: “his true glory… would come to him… when his indisputable genius was recognized, captured in more than ten thousand drawings and engravings.”
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Ref.: Z4179A
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Pair of seals. Carved stone. Far East, possibly 19th century. Pair of carved stone seals with square bases (on which the carved ideogram or letters appear) and decorated with two beings, known as lions of Fu or Buddha, each with a cub on its back. Buddha lions are mythical oriental animals originating in the Buddhist tradition that protect against evil spirits, bad energies and bad people.
· Size: 3x3x8,5 cms.
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Ref.: ZF0912
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Fireplace screen. Mahogany, silk, metal. Possibly English, 19th century. Fireplace screen with a three-base base carved in a balustrade shape and a frame made of carved mahogany wood. The piece has three rectangular sheets of upholstery or fabric in red silk, extendable and retractable, to cover more or less the surface to be protected from the heat of the fireplace fire.
· Size: 56x30x101 cerrado
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Ref.: Z0728
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19th century Pinewood
· Size: 186x45x105 cms.
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Ref.: Z0734
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Fireplace plate with Picador. Cast iron. Spain, early 20th century. Cast iron fireplace backsplash with a rectangular shape and decorated with reliefs on the front. The upper part features a composition of leaves flanking a plain shield, and is extended along the sides and bottom by a series of lines and more leaves with a classicist influence in the corners. The front shows a figurative bullfighting scene, with a picador (or garrochista or varilarguero) spearing a bull, which charges the horse that the rider is riding. This type of piece was already used in the Gothic period, and outstanding examples have been preserved, such as the one on the Imperial coat of arms of Charles V (dated to the 16th century; Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid), for example. Although some experts consider the heraldry to be the most unusual decoration on these objects, we have also seen pieces with mythological or pastoral scenes, architectural elements, religious motifs, etc. In addition to presenting an interesting decoration due to its historical value in the study of bullfighting, it is worth highlighting the quality and depth of the reliefs it displays.
· Size: 53x74x2,5 cms.
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Ref.: Z3402
