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Hand or table brazier. Bronze. Spanish school, 17th century. A small brazier for use on a desk or dais, with circular legs, a polygonal shape, curved lines, and vase-like finials, reminiscent of Renaissance-era designs in some details. It includes a flat, twisted-handle spoon (called a "badila" in the case of braziers). These were often called hand braziers, referring to their use for warming scribes' hands in cold weather, but they were also used to heat wax for sealing wax, for example. This type is common in the Spanish school of the 17th century (and later), characterized by its composition of horizontal polygonal pieces separated by balustraded or column-like elements. Weight: 1200 grams.
· Size: 24x24x12 cms.
ANTIQUES
MISCELLANEUS;OTHER OBJECTS
Ref.: ZF1520
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Hope. Gilded bronze. Possibly early 17th century, following the model of Juan de Bolonia (1529-1608). With inscription on base (“Speransa”). Minor flaws and restoration. A bronze gilt figure with a simple base engraved with the name of the allegory, depicting a young lady, joining her hands in a gesture of prayer, dressed in a tunic and cloak, barefoot and with a crown of leaves on her head. Iconographically, the allegory has been identified thanks to the inscription on the base (“Speransa,” meaning Hope), as it lacks any iconographic attributes beyond the aforementioned gesture of prayer. However, the inspiration and closeness of this figure to the allegory of Hope created between 1582 and 1584 by Giambologna (Douai, 1529 – Florence, 1608) for the Grimaldi Chapel in the church of San Francesco di Castelletto in Genoa is clear. This earlier work, now housed at the University of Genoa, was part of a set of six life-size bronze allegorical figures of Virtues. It is also worth mentioning the existence of several small gilded bronze sculptures made in Europe following models by Giambologna, such as the one in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (inventory A.60-1956), which is 13.5 cm high and considered a German or Dutch creation from the first half of the 17th century. Weight: 606 grams.
· Size: 5x4,5x18,5 cms.
ANTIQUES
SCULPTURE
Ref.: ZF1523
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Pair of candlesticks convertible into candelabras. Bronze. Spanish school, 17th century. A pair of candlesticks with triangular bases supported by scrolled legs and decorated with disc-shaped shafts, following models common in the 17th-century Spanish school. They include two pieces (each with two lights) that can be attached to each candlestick to create a three-light candelabrum, with curved arms decorated with vegetal and zoomorphic elements, reminiscent of medieval and Renaissance models.
· Size: 25x13x26 cms.
ANTIQUES
MISCELLANEUS;OTHER OBJECTS
Ref.: ZF1539
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Empire style table with marble top. A circular table on four legs resting on ball-and-socket brackets, joined by moldings that converge at a small vase. The supports are stipe-shaped, decorated on the front with vegetal garlands, vases, and interlacing patterns, which also appear at the waist, flanking medallions with landscapes. The French Empire style (around the beginning of the 19th century), named after the period of Napoleon's rule in France, was characterized by its inspiration from the classical world.
· Size: 85x70x84 cms.
DECORATION
Ref.: D124
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Rectangular table with a marble top and floral marquetry, legs decorated with ram's heads and feet, a waist adorned with waves and flowers, and a stone top highlighted by bands of different woods. The use of animal heads (called protomes) in decoration was very common in classical antiquity, hence its popularity throughout the history of art.
· Size: 100x52x53 cms.
DECORATION
Ref.: D048
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Queen Anne chest of drawers with mirror. The chest of drawers, supported by four legs and flanked by two columns, has three identical drawers at the bottom and three at the top (the two central drawers joined in a structure that, when opened, reveals a writing surface). The furniture style known as "Queen Anne" developed in England during the reign of the monarch of the same name (from the 1720s to around 1760), characterized by a lack of decorative elements and an emphasis on clean lines. Several elements characteristic of this style are still used today.
· Size: 91,5x41,5x93 cms.
DECORATION
Ref.: D078
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Louis XV style desk with "pencil" marquetry. It rests on four cabriole legs with a pronounced curve, adorned with a band of gilt metal around their entire profile and a lower finial in the shape of an animal's foot, crafted from vegetal and rocaille motifs. The waist section features three drawers on its front, made of a darker wood than the rest, which is also presented in rectangles with a curved lower profile on the shorter sides; the curves of the lower part of this area deserve special mention. The top, highlighted by a metal band with mirrors at the corners, displays a central area with quill-and-pen marquetry within a band of vegetal elements. Both the decorative elements and the curves of the lines and profiles are characteristic of the style known in France as Louis XV (Rococo), which inspired the desk.
· Size: 106x55x78 cms
DECORATION
Ref.: D174
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Dressing table. Solid wood veneered with lemongrass root, gold-plated metal handles, glass top. A chest of drawers with four drawers at the front, featuring gilt fittings and raised on small legs. The top surface includes three additional drawers and a rectangular mirror. The shapes, lines, and decorative details are reminiscent of English examples.
· Size: 98x50x160 cms.
DECORATION
Ref.: E412
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Corner unit with two sections and two doors in mahogany wood. The lower section of the cabinet features two doors decorated with a central molding and four scallop shells at the corners, framed by fluted columns. A projecting molding separates it from the upper section, which has chamfered corners and two more doors, decorated with wooden tracery of straight lines and rectangles. The corner unit is finished with a molding featuring a series of guttae (a type of decoration found on classical architraves).
· Size: 60x60x195 cms.
DECORATION
Ref.: JA009
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Desk. Wood, fabric, metal. A desk with nine drawers featuring openwork hardware decorated with geometric shapes and simplified plant details, and three upholstered sections on the top. The legs, sides, and front have decorative elements with a certain classical influence reminiscent of 19th-century examples.
· Size: 76x125x75 cms.
DECORATION
Ref.: JW029
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Country scene. Oil on porcelain. A rural scene has been painted in oil on a porcelain plaque, enhanced by a frame decorated with elements of classical influence common in 19th-century European art. The scene depicts a woman with three children and a dog, sharing their food with two other, poorer children, in a natural setting with a lake or river in the background.
· Size: 63x4x48 cms.
DECORATION
Ref.: SA010
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Seated offerer. Bronze. 20th century, following Art Deco models. Bronze sculpture of a young lady seated with her legs crossed and both arms raised to hold an oval tray. Her clothing (exotic, detailed, and accentuating her figure) and the pose of the piece, reminiscent of a dancer, link it to European Art Deco works. Weight: 26 kg.
· Size: 40x38x90 cms
DECORATION
Ref.: V3053
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Oriental cabinet. Carved and polychrome wood, metal. Circa early 20th century. A tall cabinet made of carved wood with metal fittings, featuring a decoration with a distinctly oriental influence. The upper section has two central doors and two smaller ones on either side, positioned above two covered compartments that provide access to two shelves. Beneath the central doors is another covered compartment. Below these are four drawers and, at the bottom, another central compartment. All of these access points have doors decorated with carved scenes of Chinese influence.
· Size: 136x60x176 cms.
DECORATION
Ref.: XG049
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Display case. Mahogany wood. 19th century. A tall display cabinet made of carved mahogany with gilt metal details, featuring a lockable glass door and enhanced with legs and a carved crown adorned with classically inspired vegetal and architectural motifs. Both the decorative motifs and the proportions and lines of the piece clearly demonstrate the influence of French designs.
· Size: 113x48x243 cms.
ANTIQUES
Ref.: Z5530
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Chrism. Silver in its natural color. 16th century. Non-original lid. Silver chrismatory in its natural color, with a circular base decorated with an engraved composition of vegetal elements and a flat, circular body with two S-shaped handles adorned with vegetal motifs and a small neck at the top covered with a cap topped by a ring (which is not original to the piece). The body is engraved, on one side, with a cross on a pedestal and a shroud hanging from it, all within an engraved frame; on the other side, within a similar frame, appear the letters "ihs" (a Christogram of ancient origin, already used in Early Christian times, which gave rise to various etymologies and was adopted as a seal by Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus). Weight: 157 grams.
· Size: 6,5x 10x15 cms.
ANTIQUES
MISCELLANEUS;SILVER
Ref.: Z5977
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Dining table with an oriental door top. Embossed metal, wood, bronze. 19th century and later. Dining table made with a wooden structure reinforced with metal elements and which displays as a tabletop two 19th century bronze doors, for use with a glass top over this element. The bronze door features a series of decorative elements arranged within four square areas. A central motif (with birds and peacocks perched on a "Tree of Life" type plant element) is highlighted by simplified vegetal decoration and framed with bands of simple flowers and leaves. Four squares flank each of these, with a central band of floral buds. Both the decoration and its arrangement, as well as the shape of these bronze doors, are typical of Eastern traditions, particularly reminiscent of works from India.
· Size: 104x187x81 cms.
DECORATION
Ref.: AA011A
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Pair of table legs in carved travertine. Both identical, they are decorated with symmetrically arranged fleshy leaves, reminiscent of tropical plants rather than classically inspired acanthus. The prominence of the natural element in the work is close to aesthetic approaches that emerged in art from the 19th century onward. Travertine, or travertine marble, is a sedimentary rock widely used for interior and exterior decoration since the Roman Empire.
· Size: 40 x 9,5 x 46 cm
DECORATION
Ref.: M0015A
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Enameled porcelain vase with two hand-painted scenes. “The Virgin Mary”. Inspired by models from the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres (France). Both the vase's lines and decorative elements are inspired by Neoclassical works: the pinecone finial, the female grotesques on the handles, garlands, vegetal motifs, scrolls, etc. It features hand-painted scenes on its front: Mary with the Child and Saint John the Baptist; and the Coronation of the Virgin. The work is inspired by models from the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres.
· Size: 40x25x77 cms.
DECORATION
Ref.: S2558A
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Shepherd's box. Carved horn. 1811. With engraved date. A carved horn box with an oval base and a polygonal lid decorated on the exterior with a series of carvings. The lid features animals, scrolls, and simple geometric elements arranged flanking and facing a crowned heraldic shield. The base has a geometric composition with a rectangle in the center (where the date 1811, presumably the piece's creation, is engraved). The edges of the base are finished with fine, smooth moldings. The aforementioned shield, highly simplified, features five elements in the center and a border of towers or castles beneath a closed crown.
· Size: 8,5x5x3 cms.
ANTIQUES
MISCELLANEUS;OTHER OBJECTS
Ref.: ZF0658
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Cash box. Iron. 19th century. Rectangular iron safe with a rectangular base, two side handles, and classically influenced moldings on the front and top. It opens from the top with a hinged door, which also features a knob and a lock with a cover. It is reminiscent of Victorian examples, such as some of the models made by Cannon. Weight: 43 kg.
· Size: 48x30x33 cms.
ANTIQUES
FURNITURE
Ref.: ZF1265
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Low table, Ballerina. Bronze, glass. 20th century. Damage to glass. Low table with an oval, transparent glass top, supported by a bronze female figure of a dancer in a dancing pose. The figure is inspired by 19th-century models derived from the French school, specifically works by Moreau. Weight with glass: 103 kg
· Size: 120x79x82 cms. vidrio: 82x122x1.5 cms.
DECORATIVE ANTIQUES
FURNITURE
Ref.: ZF1327
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Ceiling lamp or chandelier. Bronze, glass. 20th century. Ceiling chandelier made of gilded bronze and metal that features plant elements of classicist influence, following 19th century models common especially in the French school (influence also present in the shape of the lamp), and transparent glass beads of various shapes and sizes (leaves, tears, flowers, etc.) and colors, a chromatic combination that was not the most common in these old examples.
· Size: 64x64x92 cms.
ANTIQUES
FURNITURE
Ref.: ZF1447
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Tobacco box or snuff box. Carved wood, metal. Northern European school, 18th century. It has minor flaws. A small, carved wooden box with two hinged openings (one on each side). It is decorated with a series of figurative reliefs of religious themes. On one side, two male figures flank an altar with candles, upon which rests a cross with a burst of glory; the lid features a winged angel's head. The other side depicts a heart surmounted by a trilobed element surrounded by what appears to be a crown of thorns and flanked by two elements extending into the box. Inside the box is a crucifixion scene, with Jesus at the top, flanked by the two thieves, and elements of the Passion filling the rest of the space (the rooster of the denial, nails, pincers, the lance, a ladder, Veronica's veil, etc.). The wood is possibly boxwood. As for the decoration and morphology of the piece, it shows clear similarities to 18th-century works from Northern Europe, particularly those of the Flemish school. A very similar snuffbox (in shape and decoration) is known to exist in a private collection, considered to be a Dutch work from around 1700.
· Size: 7,3 x 8,7 x 3 cms.
ANTIQUES
MISCELLANEUS;OTHER OBJECTS
Ref.: ZF1509
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Trumeau mirror. Synthetic material imitating gilded wood, glass. Mirror decorated with interlacing patterns and plant motifs, divided between an oval and a rectangular area. It shows a clear influence of 19th-century French Neoclassical models.
· Size: 110x6x235 cms.
DECORATION
Ref.: E550
