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PAIR OF VASES WITH SIDE TABLES. BRONZE, WOOD, ETC. JAPAN, MEIJI PERIOD...

Pair of vases with elephant-head bases. Bronze, wood, etc. Meiji period (1868–1912), Japan; Anglo-Indian school, late 19th century. Pair of patinated bronze vases made up of several pieces, raised on three curved legs and decorated on the outside with reliefs of mythological animals and beasts, enhanced with gilded details and bands of geometric motifs. They feature metal containers that fit together at the top. Both bases feature turtles with ripples creating waves; the central body features handles in the shape of dragons and phoenixes on one side and dragons on the other; the neck features more birds (herons or similar) flying among clouds. The bases are two ebonized wood side tables with elephants (heads decorated to resemble textile ornaments, with light-colored tusks) functioning as legs by curving the trunk outwards, openwork jamb, also openwork waist to secure the furniture and a top decorated with carvings and flat boards. These types of vases were one of the so-called "export" items because they were manufactured with the sole purpose of being sold to foreigners during the Meiji Era (1868-1912) in Japan, named after the reigning Emperor and in which the country began its modernization and westernization, establishing itself as a world power thanks to a certain openness to foreigners (presence and ideas), changes in government, etc. Dragons are the most powerful symbol of all the animals in Japanese art, considered deities associated with water, and attributed, for example, with the changing of the seasons (when they flew through the sky it was spring). The crane and the tortoise symbolize longevity, with the first animal in flight (in the upper area) associated with the sky and the second with the lower area (of a kimono, for example) linked to the earth. Regarding the elephant-headed side tables, it should be noted that they were highly prized pieces of furniture by the British during part of the Indian colonial era (1858-1947), with numerous examples imported to the United Kingdom, among which those present in Buckingham Palace and other noble residences are worth noting. Note the quality of the present pair, clearly evident in the animal carvings and plant motifs that complete the table. In Hindu iconography, the elephant is associated with wisdom, divine knowledge, and royal power.

· Size: 60x60x165 cms.
ANTIQUES
SCULPTURE

Ref.: ZF1280
BRONZE SCULPTURE, “CUPID”. AFTER MODELS FROM AUGUSTE LOUIS MATHURIN MO...

Bronze sculpture “Cupid”. Inspired by models by Auguste Louis Mathurin Moreau (1834-1917). Marble base Lost wax casting. The figure of the child is identifiable by his wings and the bow he holds. Cupid appears half-naked, with his quiver at his feet and a tree stump behind him. The work is based on models created by a member of the well-known Moureau family: Mathurin exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon in 1848, and was awarded a Medal of Honour in 1897. His work, inserted in this appreciated family style, shows a series of peculiarities that are still maintained in this sculpture.

· Size: 28x28x66 cms
DECORATION
BRONZE SCULPTURES

Ref.: V2524A
DISPLAY TABLE FOR JEWELLERY.

Jewelry display table in mahogany wood. The six round, fluted, column-like legs are joined in pairs by curved Y-shaped frames, and the three pairs are secured with balusters. The waist of the display case has been carved with a string of pearls and plant elements in the centre of each side. The top panel consists of a sheet of moulded glass. The decorative motifs do not detract from the mahogany wood.

· Size: 40x97x75 cms.
DECORATION
FURNITURE;CLASSIC

Ref.: Z3930
IRON STRONG BOX. 19TH CENTURY.

Safe box. Iron. 19th century. Rectangular safe made of iron, with a rectangular base, two handles on the sides and classical-influenced moulding decorations on the fronts and top. It opens from the top with a door with two hinges, which also has a knob and a lock with a cover to cover it. It is reminiscent of Victorian examples, some of the models made by Cannon, etc. Weight: 43 kg.

· Size: 48x30x33 cms.
ANTIQUES
FURNITURE

Ref.: ZF1265
HEADBOARD. PALO SANTO WOOD. 19TH CENTURY.

Headboard. Rosewood. 19th century. Headboard made of carved rosewood decorated with two fluted columns with entasis at the bottom (located on the sides), topped by two plant elements on two cubes. The central area draws a gentle curve upwards. Stylistically, the influence of Neoclassical models is clear. Requires restorations

· Size: 166x9x128 cms
DECORATIVE ANTIQUES
FURNITURE

Ref.: ZF0956
ORIENTAL BASQUET. WOOD, ETC. POSSIBLY CHINA, 20TH CENTURY.

Oriental basket. Wood, plant fibre. Possibly Chinese, 20th century. Oriental basket with a circular base and two handles joined at the top and decorated on the outside with carvings of plant motifs and symbols on the lid and a Greek pattern towards the base area. It follows ancient examples that are very common in certain areas of the Far East.

· Size: 34x34x51 cms
DECORATION
FURNITURE;ORIENTAL

Ref.: XM001Q
SAINT ALOYSIUS DE GONZAGA (TO DRESS UP). POLYCHROMED WOOD, ETC. SPANIS...

San Luis Gonzaga, dressing room. Polychrome wood, etc. Spanish school, 18th century. A sculpture made of polychrome wood, which shows, on a rectangular base, a young man without a beard, with a black body and a polychrome face, neck, hands and part of the arms. This treatment is common in sculptures created to be dressed (note also the arms articulated at two points each – shoulder and elbow). Attached to one ankle is an old piece of metal and two nails in the feet, which could be an old reinforcement that, in turn, suggests that the work was carried in a procession (there is another piece with screws in the head). As is common in this type of work in the Spanish school since the Baroque, the eyes are made of glass. Saint Aloysius Gonzaga (Castiglione delle Stiviere, 9 March 1568 – Rome, 21 June 1591) was an Italian Jesuit priest canonised in 1726 by Benedict XIII, who declared him patron saint of youth. While in the service of Philip II, he married a lady of Queen Isabella of Valois; he also served in the Spanish court as a page to Prince Don Diego, heir to the monarch, but ended up ceding his rights as first-born to his brother to enter the Society of Jesus (novitiate in Rome in 1583), despite his father's efforts to prevent it. He died after caring for people affected by the plague in this Italian city. He is represented as a young man dressed in a black cassock and surplice or as a young page. His attributes are a lily, referring to his innocence; a cross, referring to his piety and sacrifice; a skull, referring to his early death; and a rosary, referring to his devotion to the Virgin Mary.

· Size: 39x26x134 cms.
ANTIQUES
SCULPTURE

Ref.: ZE427
VIENNA TABLE CABINET. WOOD, ENAMEL. 19TH CENTURY.

Viennese tabletop jewelry box or chest. Wood, enamel, bronze. Austria, second half of the 19th century. Requires restoration. Rectangular table or writing desk with four rectangular projecting corners and a finial projecting from an openwork railing, forming an architectural composition and ending in a gilt-bronze child figure. The four corners of the piece feature semicircular arches with gilt-bronze twisted columns, sheltering bronze female figures in a dancing pose, with other children above. In addition to a series of gilt-bronze appliqués throughout the piece, there are a series of hand-painted enamel plaques with mythological scenes in pastel tones. Two doors on the front give access to three interior drawers, with handles and enamel plaque decorations depicting landscapes. Note that the doors are also decorated with scenes inside. These types of cabinets were highly prized in courtly settings, and were used in private women's homes to store jewelry or other valuables, while also being highly decorative. The shape, materials (ebony or ebonized wood, bronze, etc.), and enamel plaques follow the style of the 19th-century Viennese school, which specialized in this type of cabinet (the most important were made in Vienna). It was unusual to feature corners with architectural shelters, as can be seen in this example (there are two other examples in private collections, one with plain bronze columns and the other with porcelain and twisted columns, both dating from around 1880).

· Size: 47x44x56 cms.
ANTIQUES
FURNITURE

Ref.: ZE433
FLEMISH BRONZE MORTAR, 17TH CENTURY

Flemish mortar. Bronze. 17th century. It features a brand. A mortar with a circular base and an outward-curving mouth formed by the two upper bands. The body exhibits a slight entasis and is decorated with figurative relief motifs. In addition to a series of moldings on its outer surface, two male protomes (heads with mustaches and non-human features) and a band with various elements (scrolls, leaves, quadrupedal monsters) are visible at the bottom. Note also a circular "seal" (or so it appears) with the letters (HLB / RA/TE) surrounding an emblem flanked by vegetal elements and placed on three oval objects. Compare the present example with those by P. van den Ghein in the Royal Carillon School Museum “Jef Denyn” in Mechelen (although earlier), a 17th-century example in the Pharmacy Museum of Berlin (Germany), another in the Pharmacy Museum of the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), etc. Weight: 4.6 kg.

· Size: 17x17x14 cms.
ANTIQUES
MISCELLANEUS;MORTARS

Ref.: ZF1258
CONSOLE WITH FRAME, LOUIS XV STYLE. WOOD. 20TH CENTURY.

Console table with mirror frame, Louis XV style. Carved wood. 20th century. Mirror frame decorated with a series of delicate openwork, vegetal and architectural elements, following the French Louis XV style and arranged in a geometric composition softened by the curves and undulating shapes of the decorative motifs. The console has a similar decoration, but with more presence in the scrolls and architectural details that decorate it, thus enhancing both the cabriole legs it has and the lower jamb that joins them in a central shape.

· Size: 168x56x249 cms.
DECORATION
FURNITURE;CLASSIC

Ref.: Z2720A
TRUNK. LEATHER, WOOD, IRON. SPANISH SCHOOL, 17-18TH CENTURY.

Trunk. Wood, leather, iron. Spanish School, around 1700. Wooden trunk with a curved lid and rectangular shape, covered with leather on the outside, with fittings, handles, studs and two closures at the front, which has a front and top opening. Inside it has a lower space accessible from the front divided in two by a vertical piece of wood; the lid and part of the chest have a textile covering. The back does not have leather. The nails with circular heads are arranged in geometric shapes. The handles have disc decorations. The fittings, also worked, follow models based on architectural designs, motifs also present in the lock shields on the front. Some of the metal elements still have traces of gilding. These types of trunks were known as “travel trunks” because they were normally used to store objects on journeys, hence the leather covering and the apparent lack of decoration on the outside. Having two locks was for greater security, since the two keys had to be used together to open it and these were usually entrusted to two different people. Compare this with the 17th century travel trunk from the Viceroyalty of Peru in the Museum of America (Madrid), which has decoration with animals and plant motifs (embossed leather). Or with the Chest of the Mayorazgo de la Cerda (17th century) in the National Museum of Decorative Arts (Madrid).

· Size: 85x129x65 cms.
ANTIQUES
FURNITURE

Ref.: ZF1245
FOUR ORNITOLOGY PRINTS, FRAMED. POSSIBLY 19TH CENTURY.

Four framed engravings, ornithology. 20th century. Set of four coloured engravings with birds: a pair of black terns and a pair of sand martins in one; a pair of red-necked ducks and a pair of little grebes (pintail duck); in the next engraving two more specimens of Kentish plover above two kentish plovers (turnstone); and in the last one the species common sandpiper and sanderling. The engravings are very similar to those that appeared in natural science books in the 19th century.

· Size: 32,5x3x42 cms
DECORATIVE ANTIQUES
PAINTINGS

Ref.: Z4675A
IRON RED AND GOLD PORCELAIN PLATTER. CHINA, QING DYNASTY, FIRST HALF 1...

Plate, iron red and gold. Glazed porcelain. China, Qing Dynasty, first half of the 18th century. It shows signs of restoration and damage. Circular tray with a central umbo, made of white porcelain with red and gold iron decorations featuring vegetal and geometric motifs of oriental inspiration. The decoration is distributed between the rim and the umbo, with five symmetrical vegetal compositions between them. Some of its decorative elements are very similar to those of the porcelain of the East India Company, brought from China. The most striking feature is the pronounced central umbo, common in works of Hispano-Muslim influence in the Iberian Peninsula but not in European porcelain.

· Size: 52,5x52,5x7 cms.
ANTIQUES
MISCELLANEUS;CERAMIC

Ref.: ZF1282
COMMODE FRONT PIECES. WALNUT. 17TH CENTURY.

Chest of drawers front. Walnut wood. 17th century. Three units available. Rectangular crossbeams made of carved walnut wood, originally used for drawer fronts, decorated with geometric elements with a clear classicist influence and a long tradition and importance in Spanish cabinetmaking since the Renaissance.

· Size: 18x2x138 cms.
DECORATIVE ANTIQUES
MISCELLANEUS

Ref.: Z4928
FRAMED WATERCOLOR. VASE

· Size: 53x3x61 cms.
DECORATIVE ANTIQUES
PAINTINGS

Ref.: Z4446
FRAMED ENGRAVING MR. MELHAN SENAC

Mahogany framing

· Size: 52x3x62 cms.
DECORATIVE ANTIQUES
PAINTINGS

Ref.: Z4447
PAIR OF CANDELABRA. ROUGE GRIOTTE, GILT BRONZE. FRANCE, POSSIBLY NAPOL...

Pair of candelabras. Rouge Griotte marble, gilded bronze. France, possibly Napoleon III, 19th century. Pair of seven-light candelabras made of marble and mercury-gilded bronze. The base, raised on four legs, has plant borders around a central element on its fronts, and gives way to a garland base of Roman influence. Next, the base of the “vase” that forms the body of the candelabra has been decorated with plant elements, also present on the body in the form of garlands, joining these two ram heads; note the extraordinary length of the marble neck, which serves as an axis for the arms of the lights, worked in the form of plant scrolls ending in vase-shaped burners. It is also worth noting that the marble part is not made in one piece. Although there is no record of the signature, certain details denote the high quality of this pair of candlesticks. First, the stone pieces are hand-carved Rouge Griotte. Also known as Rouge du Roi, it is a Belgian marble highly appreciated in decorative arts of French influence or origin. Second, the detail of the neck, elongated and drawing a flared mouth at the end, is not at all common in French candlesticks when we talk about marble. Third, the quality of the gilding is clear, surely mercury gilded (ormolu). Stylistically, influences of French decorative arts of the 18th century can be appreciated (ram protomes, garlands, etc.), but reinterpreted in the style of the 19th century (adding details of Rococo, neoclassical, etc. influence). Weight: 39 kg.

· Size: 35x35x90 cms
ANTIQUES
MISCELLANEUS;OTHER OBJECTS

Ref.: ZE434
LANDSCAPE. OIL ON CANVAS. FRAU, JOSÉ (SPAIN, 1898-1976).

Landscape. Oil on canvas. FRAU, José (Spain, 1898-1976). Signed (lower right area). José María Isidro Frau y Ruiz (Vigo, 15 May 1898 – Madrid, 24 March 1976) was a Spanish painter and academic, appreciated for his landscapes and for being part of the School of Painters of El Paular (created by Royal Decree on 22 February 1918, within the Chair of Landscape that the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando established in 1845 as part of the official teaching of its pedagogical programs in art; it ceased to operate in 1936 and was recovered in 2018). Known as José Frau, he began his pictorial training in Huelva with Antonio de la Torre and Eugenio Hermoso Huelva. In 1916 he entered the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, and, from 1917, he participated in the National Exhibitions of Madrid, showing his work also in Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Mexico City, New York, etc. He travelled through South America in 1947, settling in Mexico three years later and returning to Spain in 1966. His work is preserved in notable private collections and institutions such as the Museo Municipal Quiñones de León (Spain), the Museo de Bellas Artes de La Coruña, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain), the Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, etc. He has been considered one of the representatives of the equivalent of “magical realism” in Spain. His pictorial work is based on figurative premises and a naturalistic and symbolic formation. He participated in the process of renewal of Spanish painting in the twenties and thirties, evolving towards a post-impressionist style. Later he focused on a calm post-Cézanne modernity in which he portrayed landscapes with figures recreated in fantastic and magical environments. During the post-war years he returned to a looser and more nervous brushstroke. In his later works he used a Fauvist chromatic palette in which greens, blues, earth tones and highly contrasting blacks predominated, while at the same time a progressive process of stylization occurred in his works in addition to the loss of the prominence of the human figure.

· Size: 91x3x71 cms. int: 79x59 cms.
ANTIQUES
PAINTINGS

Ref.: ZF1266
PAIR OF ANGELS. POLYCHROMED WOOD. SPANISH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY.

Pair of torch-bearing angels. Carved and polychrome wood. Spanish school, 17th century. They present faults. Pair of human-shaped carvings made of polychrome wood showing two angels each raising one arm and standing on clouds with winged heads, following models that were common since the Renaissance. Known as lamp-bearing angels or thurifers, they were carvings that were usually placed on important altars to hold lamps or incense burners, being identified with angels or archangels. Compare, for example, the lamp-bearing angels of the Hermitage of La Soledad in Cantillana (Seville, Spain) made between 1780 and 1799 to see, more or less, the function of these sculptures. But it must be remembered that, stylistically, they belong to the Spanish Baroque school (material, movement, etc.).

· Size: 32x16x71 cms.
ANTIQUES
SCULPTURE

Ref.: ZE130
PAIR OF ENGRAVINGS, WEDDING AND BAPTISME. ALPHONSE LAMOTTE (1844-1914)...

Pair of framed engravings, Wedding and Baptism. ALPHONSE LAMOTTE (1844-1914). Pair of framed engravings depicting, respectively, a wedding or marriage and a baptism, of high-class characters, given the clothes and settings of the works. As indicated on the engravings, in the area where the titles appear, they were published in Paris by Alphonse Delarue, based on works by Alphonse Lamotte and Emile Bayard (1837–1891).

· Size: 120x3.5x103 cms
DECORATIVE ANTIQUES
PAINTINGS

Ref.: ZF1247
ORIENTAL BOX. WOOD, ETC. CIRCA 1950, POSSIBLY CHINA.

Oriental basket or box. Carved and lacquered wood, etc. Circa 1950, possibly China. A lidded vessel with two small handles on a circular base decorated in red and with a carving of figurative elements on the top of the lid. The style of the decoration, the shape and the colour make it similar to Asian models, particularly works made in China. Weight: 3.5 kg.

· Size: 49x42x19 cms.
DECORATION
FURNITURE;ORIENTAL

Ref.: XM001L
PAIR OF MINIATURES ON CARDBOARD, FERDINAND II, KING CONSORT OF PORTUGA...

Pair of miniatures in medallions, Ferdinand II of Portugal and Isabel II of Portugal. Cardboard, metal, glass. 19th century. Pair of cardboard miniatures showing busts of a man and a woman within medallions, these in turn placed in a frame with two hanging points, on a textile upholstery matching that present in the miniatures. Ferdinand II of Portugal (Vienna, 29 October 1816 - Lisbon, 15 December 1885)1 was King “iure uxoris” of Portugal by his marriage to Queen Maria II (1819-1853), from the birth of their son in 1837 until her death in 1853. The miniature of the queen is reminiscent of one in the Royal Collection Trust in England, signed and dated 1852, by Sir William Ross.

· Size: 23,5x2x18 cms. Miniatura: 6x1x8 cms
DECORATIVE ANTIQUES
PAINTINGS

Ref.: ZF1157A
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LANDSCAPE. OIL ON CARDBOARD. SPANISH SCHOOL, 20TH CENTURY.

Landscape. Oil on cardboard. Spanish School (Riancho), 20th century. Signed (bottom right). Landscape done in oil on cardboard with a strong, material brushstroke following contributions from certain European avant-garde pictorial movements that emerged from the late 19th century.

· Size: 46x6x56 cms. int. 88x38,5 cms
DECORATIVE ANTIQUES
PAINTINGS

Ref.: Z4654
LAMP WITH SIX LIGHTS. AGED-FINISH BRONZE AND GLASS.

Ceiling lamp with six lights. Bronze with antique finish and glass. The central stem is decorated with vases, scallop shells, and vegetal scrolls. From its upper part emerge several knobs decorated with ovals, from which rise curved stems with scrolls that hold the lamp's lights. These lights are candlestick-shaped with bases made of translucent white glass. Alongside the clear classical inspiration derived from 19th-century models, some Renaissance-inspired elements can also be seen.

· Size: 72x72x97 cms
DECORATION
FURNITURE;CLASSIC

Ref.: E513

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