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SPANISH DESK STRUCTURE. WALNUT, IRON. SPAIN, 17TH CENTURY.

Wastepaper basket. Walnut wood, iron. Spain, 17th century. Rectangular structure for a wastepaper basket or chest of drawers made of carved walnut wood, with a lid that closes with two hooks and iron fittings (knob on the outside, corners and hinges on the inside). Note the distribution of the interior spaces, of different sizes to store different objects.

· Size: 154x53x60 cms.
DECORATIVE ANTIQUES

Ref.: Z0719
WEDDING CHEST. WOOD, TEXTILE, METAL, REMAINDERS OF POLYCHROMY. SALAMAN...

Chest. Carved wood, metal, textile, remains of polychromy. Salamanca area, 17th century. Rectangular chest with a flat lid made of carved wood that preserves remains of the original polychromy, corners and other metal fittings and textile details in certain places. It is decorated on the outside with a moulding in its lower area based on curved motifs and a simple carved decoration with a plant theme arranged in a rigid symmetry highlighting an inscription in capital letters on the front (“Long live María / Fernandez”) alluding to the original owner of the piece. On the inside it has no decoration or other elements than the parts of the fittings of the corresponding hinges and the exposed wood. The rectangular, flat-lidded chest model was very common in Spanish art since the Middle Ages, with its decorative elements varying over time and with the styles. The metal elements of the piece of furniture (corner guards on red fabric, lock shield on the front, hinges on the inside, handles on the sides for moving it, etc.) have a decoration of waves and finials that refer to Baroque models, as well as columns (flanking the keyhole). The carved decoration on the front (simplified flowers, stems, leaves and perched birds, with simple polychromy in three colours - red, green, yellow -) is not too fine (something common in popular examples), and follows a composition and colours very common in popular chests in the Salamanca area, with the use of walnut being common for its construction (as in all Spanish furniture, due to the resistance of the wood and its abundance at that time). The addition of a female name in capital letters on the front (a detail that would indicate that this piece of furniture is a chest made to store a wedding trousseau, hence the abundance of decoration in a popular utilitarian piece and the presence of a lock with a key) is another element worth highlighting in this piece of furniture. A similar model is mentioned in one of the most used reference books on Spanish furniture, ENRIQUEZ ARRANZ, Maria Dolores. Spanish furniture in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. 1951. p. 39; cat. no. 74; plate 74; Beautiful example of a bridal chest or chest, popular Spanish style of the 17th century, with rudimentary carvings forming a series of stems, flowers and animals. It is polychrome and bears the name of its owner in the centre: 'Long live Maria Hernandez', .

· Size: 58x162x65 cms.
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FURNITURE

Ref.: Z0762
MAHOGANY CHEST OF DRAWERS. SPAIN, 19TH CENTURY.

Chest of drawers with five drawers in mahogany wood. 19th century. Two disc legs and a curved rear base support the chest of drawers, which has a slightly curved front and five drawers (two smaller ones at the top) with locks and wooden knobs. The absence of decorative elements makes the precious material the protagonist, as well as recalling old English examples of the type known as “chest of drawers”.

· Size: 106,5x57x107,3 cms.
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FURNITURE

Ref.: Z0889
IRON CORBEL SET. 19TH-20TH CENTURIES.

Iron corbels. 19th-20th centuries. Set of three iron corbels used in some notable residences, decorated with scrolls, lines and other elements that could link the pieces to Neoclassicism, but which also have a somewhat more modern air. The polygonal finials located under the two facing scrolls at the top recall certain elements of the East, while the composition can be compared to European traditions.

· Size: 42x17x49 cms.
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MISCELLANEOUS

Ref.: Z1015
WROUGHT IRON GRILLE FOR A PULPIT. 18TH CENTURY.

Pulpit railing. Wrought iron. 18th century. Wrought iron railing with thirteen bars with double pear-shaped and disc-shaped shafts, arranged in a circle with flat bars of the same material (circular and cross-shaped combined at the base for a firmer hold, and arranged in a circle at the top), which would have been created to surround the pulpit of a church, accessible through a door created with the same railing (one of the balusters allows part of the railing to rotate). Although balustraded shapes were already used in Baroque railings, the present composition refers more to 18th-century Neoclassical models.

· Size: 100x100x110 cms.
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MISCELLANEOUS

Ref.: Z1045
WALNUT DAVENPORT DESK, ENGLAND, 19TH CENTURY.

English “Davenport” desk in walnut wood, 19th century. A writing desk with four drawers on the side, an inkwell with a lock on the top and a folding top with a lockable key. This type of desk is known as a “Davenport” because it was a captain with that surname who first ordered this piece of furniture from Gillows of Lancaster towards the end of the 18th century, from which time these desks were made with a remarkable variety of decorative elements. Requires restorations

· Size: 55,5x57x79 cms.
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FURNITURE

Ref.: Z3099
WROUGHT IRON DOOR KNOCHER. SPANISH SCHOOL, 15TH CENTURY.Y

Dog-shaped knocker. Wrought iron. Spanish School, 15th century. Wrought iron knocker with a star-shaped striking piece featuring engraved decoration and a zoomorphic end (the typology, common in the Spanish Gothic school, is known as "dog-shaped"). This type of knocker was common in important residences, and similar examples are preserved in institutions such as the Provincial Ethnographic Museum of León or on the doors of houses such as those in Valdespino de Somoza.

· Size: 15x5x21 cms.
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Ref.: Z3687
DECORATION FOR A ROOM. POLYCHROMED WOOD. ITALIAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY.

Bedroom decoration. Carved and polychrome wood. Italian school, 19th century. Architectural decoration made of carved and polychrome wood, composed of a central mixed-linear arch and two trilobed side arches flanking it with two small steps below. The decoration based on vegetal scrolls, diamonds, rhombuses, capitals, etc. is inspired by Italian Renaissance models, adding variations that are common in the historicist interpretations of the 19th century.

· Size: 252x16x291 cms.
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FURNITURE

Ref.: Z3854
TABLE LEG, CONTEMPORARY. CARVED AND POLYCHROMED WOOD.

Contemporary table base. Carved and polychrome wood. Table base inspired by 19th century neoclassical French models that features a bust of a half-naked child holding a cushion on his head and with the lower half of his body transformed into a pillar decorated with plant and architectural elements reminiscent of the Rococo.

· Size: Alt. 65 cms.
DECORATION
FURNITURE;CLASSIC

Ref.: Z4709
CUPBOARD. WALNUT. 19TH CENTURY.

Sideboard. Walnut wood carved in its colour. 19th century. Double-body sideboard with a decorated front made of carved walnut wood. The lower body has a decoration on both doors, enhanced by columns on the sides; a similar composition is found on the upper body, varying the decorative theme of the doors. In the centre, an empty space has been left with different wooden elements. Both the shape and the decoration of the piece recall antique Spanish furniture, of classicist inspiration.

· Size: 140x60x237 cms.
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FURNITURE

Ref.: Z4912
COMMODE WITH DRESSING TABLE AND MIRROR. WOOD, GLASS, METAL, STONE. 19T...

Dressing table with mirror. Wood, glass, metal, stone. 19th century. Chest of drawers with four drawers at the front and a stone top with a front on the top with two more drawers, a mirror, and a series of architectural and vegetal carvings reminiscent of Elizabethan architecture. The carvings, centered on the sides of the lower part and on the top and sides of the mirror, show neoclassical influences.

· Size: 53x110x100 cms ALT ESPEJO 133 cms.
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FURNITURE

Ref.: Z4913
FERDINAND VI MIRROR. WOOD. SPAIN, CA EARLY 19TH CENTURY.

Mirror Fernando VII. Carved and gilded wood, glass. Towards the beginning of the 19th century. Rectangular mirror made of carved wood in its colour, combining with decorations of strong classical influence of carved and gilded wood, reminiscent of bronze appliqués that were common in French furniture, which this piece is inspired by.

· Size: 102x6x197 cms
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FURNITURE

Ref.: Z5300
PEDESTAL TABLE IN MAHOGANY, GEORGE II STYLE, U.S.A., CA 1860.

Folding mahogany side table, George II style, USA (America), circa 1860. A tripod with animal claws grasping a ball serves as the base of the foot of the piece of furniture, adorned with a small fluted column and a plant bulb. The mechanism that allows the piece of furniture to be folded is located above this foot, and the upper board is round and has a curved profile flanked by straight sections. American furniture owes much to English furniture, as the present example shows: it follows the so-called George II style, named after the monarch during whose reign it was created (he was born in 1683 and died in 1760), and is based on models taken from Roman Renaissance architecture.

· Size: 78x78x72 cms.
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FURNITURE

Ref.: Z5502
OIL ON CANVAS STILL LIFE ASTERIO MAÑANOS

Asterio Mañanós Martínez began his painting studies at the Municipal School of Drawing in Palencia with Justo María de Velasco and, from 1877, at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, in the classes of Casto Plasencia and Casado del Alisal. He also frequently visited the Prado Museum, making copies of Velázquez. From 1881, he participated in the National Fine Arts Exhibitions. He alternated his stay between Madrid and Palencia, where he was commissioned to design the curtains and stage curtains for the Teatro de Recreo Palentino. In 1885 he received a grant from the Provincial Council of Palencia to further his painting training at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, which lasted a year. Back in his hometown, he decorated, together with Sabino Ojero, the Teatro de la Peña Palentina. He also opened, in collaboration with Isidro Mallol, a drawing academy, called "Casado del Alisal" in honour of his teacher. In 1889 he moved to Paris for a year to study under the brush of the pictorial realism of Léon Bonnat. Upon his return to Spain he set up his studio in Madrid, where he painted Doña Sancha before the corpse of her husband and the portrait of Tomás Bretón. In 1908, the Senate's Government Commission appointed him curator of the Upper House's works of art. The result of this experience are the large parliamentary paintings that have the sessions and halls of the Senate as their subject. One of his last canvases was an allegory of the Second Republic, the painting belongs to the Senate collection. The place and circumstances of his death are unknown, although it is known that he was alive in 1935.

· Size: int. 60x40 cms.
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PAINTINGS

Ref.: Z6229
SILVER CRUET STAND. CÓRDOBA (SPAIN), CRISTÓBAL SÁNCHEZ SOTO (1755-1802...

Convoy of silver cruets. Córdoba, Cristóbal Sánchez Soto (1755-1802), towards the third third of the 18th century. With hallmarks and engraving marks. The present convoy maintains a slight Rococo reminiscence in its lines, but also advances something of the Neoclassical decorative purity. The craftsman, Cristóbal Sánchez Soto, is well known for works of great importance such as a float for the Virgin of Solitude and a tabernacle, both for the Brotherhood of the Nazarene of Córdoba, for example. The other two hallmarks that appear are those of the town (Córdoba) and that of the assayer, Juan de Luque y Leyva (1721-1779). Weight 400 gr. .

· Size: 20x11x21 cms.
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MISCELLANEOUS;SILVER WORKS

Ref.: Z6547
FRAME. WOOD. 18TH CENTURY.

Frame. Carved and gilded wood. 18th century. Rectangular frame made of carved and gilded wood that combines a thin smooth band on the inside, with another carved band with a band and another on the outside, in which smooth areas are combined with delicate plant details (these in the same finish as the rest of the molding, highlighted on a striped background). Nowadays, the value and appreciation of frames is on the rise due to the search for them by museums and important institutions, with the aim of giving the works the frames they would have had originally. Hence, similar examples are found in some paintings by Vermeer, for example, or can be found in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, in the Louvre Museum, in the British Museum and in the Victoria & Albert in London, etc.

· Size: 75x6x58 cms. / 50x38 cms.
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Ref.: ZE225
PAIR OF RELIEFS; GROTESQUE OR CANDELIERI. POLICHROMED AND GILDED WOOD....

Pair of reliefs; grotesques or candelieri. Carved, polychrome and gilded wood. 16th century. Pair of reliefs made of hand-carved, gilded and polychrome wood, each showing a winged angel's head (or putti), placed on a vertical element that acts as an axis of symmetry for the composition of the relief. The rest of the motifs that complete the works are leaves with scrolls, floral or vegetal details, latticework, mouldings, all of clear classicist influence. The background does not present any decorative element, neither carved nor painted, thus leaving the spotlight to the aforementioned elements. This type of composition was very common in the Renaissance throughout Europe, when the “fashion” of grotesques spread from Italy. Compare, for example, the frieze reflected in an image of the work by Diego de Sagredo entitled “Medidas del Romano” (1526, Toledo); details of the Chapel of Santa Librada in the Cathedral of Sigüenza by Francisco de Baeza (around 1520); others from the façade of the Escuelas Mayores of the University of Salamanca; Main Altarpiece of the Collegiate Church of Torrijos (Toledo), commissioned in 1558 from Juan Correa de Vivar; etc. It should be noted that these decorative motifs will have a long tradition in Spanish art. It is quite possible that the present relief plaque was created to form part of an altar in a church although it is not decorated with a religious theme (note that the theme of “winged heads”, often called “putti”, also comes from Italy and is found in both civil and religious works).

· Size: 14x5x22 cms.
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Ref.: ZE238
PAIR OF RELIEVES, HEAD OF ANGEL. POLYCHROMED WOOD. SPANISH SCHOOL, 16T...

Reliefs with angel heads. Polychrome and gilded wood. Spanish school, 16th century. Pair of rectangular panels with a ring for hanging on the back, which feature two deep figurative reliefs on the front. On a gold background, two winged children's heads are shown, one looking to each side. Note the gold details on the feathers, with a somewhat heraldic arrangement and shape, and the pictorial treatment of the hair. This type of relief was very common in the Spanish school from the Renaissance onwards to decorate altars, reredos, etc. Weight: 600 grams.

· Size: 32x6x11 cms
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Ref.: ZE371
SILVER INCENSE RECIPIENT (NAVETA). SPAIN, SALAMANCA, 1824-1850.

Naveta. Silver in its colour. Salamanca, Spain, 1824-1850. With contrast marks and text. Silver vessel in its colour with a circular, stepped base decorated with ready mouldings, a turned axis or base with lines, and an elongated upper part, with a lid on one side and a protuberance on the other side of the piece (note the damage here). The hallmarks on the edge of the upper part (under the hinged lid) and on the foot place the production of this naveta in Salamanca, during the years of the faithful hallmark known as Bernabé Hidalgo (apparently documented in 1840, considered by some to be active in the 18th and 19th centuries; there is evidence of a Bernabé Sahagún Hidalgo working as a hallmark in Salamanca between 1824 and 1850). The other hallmark could not be identified. Also note the legend “Billaberde” located on the foot of the piece. Weight: 454 grams.

· Size: 16x10x18 cms.
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Ref.: ZE438
FIREMEN EQUIPMENT. E.C. FLADER OF JÖHSTADT, GERMANY, CIRCA 1925.

Motorized fire truck or sprayer. EC Flader of Jöhstadt, Germany, circa 1920. A horse-drawn motorized sprayer from the EC Flader company of Jöhstadt (the name is partially visible on the rectangular label on the front of the device). It features a folding compartment and space for machinery in the rear. It is driven by two spoked wheels and has a vertical bar for securing it to the ground when in use. This type of machine was used by firefighters, usually in cities. The present example is known to have been in use, for example, in 1925 in Wellsdorf.

· Size: 130x230x145 cms.
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Ref.: Z1009A
POSSIBLY FIREMEN EQUIPMENT. E.C. FLADER OF JÖHSTADT, GERMANY, CIRCA 19...

Motorized fire truck or sprayer. EC Flader of Jöhstadt, Germany, circa 1920. A motorized sprayer designed to be pulled by horses by the EC Flader firm of Jöhstadt, with a folding compartment and space for machinery in the rear, driven by two spoked wheels and equipped with a vertical bar for securing to the ground when in use. This type of machinery was used by firefighters, usually in cities, and the present example, if it is indicated, is known to have been in use in 1925 in Wellsdorf.

· Size: 340x142x125 cms.
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Ref.: Z1009C
RENAULT WAGON OR CART. 20TH CENTURY.

Fire truck or irrigation pump. Renault, 20th century. A trailer or cart with a motor and two hose heads, hose, and other parts and mechanisms that would have been used for watering, spreading water, etc. The brand can be seen on the plate located on the front of the machine.

· Size: 260x130x135 cms.
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Ref.: Z1009D
LOVERS WITH CAGE. PORCELAIN.

Courtiers and cage. Enameled porcelain. Johann Joachim model. Circa 1800 Enameled porcelain figure with a base resembling rocks and a pair of lovers dressed in 18th century style, with the boy reaching out his left hand towards a large birdcage. The piece is very similar to some figures entitled “Lovers with a Cage” made by Du Paquier (who opened a porcelain factory in Vienna in 1719) in 1737 and of which there are preserved examples in the Metropolitan Museum of New York or the Indianapolis Museum of Art. In turn, Du Paquier took his inspiration from works made in Meissen thanks to Johan Joachim Kaendler around 1736-1740 (varying in details such as the substitution of the table that the German ones have for the cage of the Viennese ones in some examples, or colours, for example). If the present work is compared with the works of Du Paquier, notable similarities can be appreciated in poses, elements, etc., but also important differences (colouring, details, base of the figure...).

· Size: 14x12x13 cms.
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Ref.: ZF0445
COMPENDIO HISTORICO DE LOS ARCABUCEROS DE MADRID… SOLER, ISIDRO. MADRI...

Historical compendium of the arquebusiers of Madrid… Soler, Isidro (fl. Ca. 1795). Madrid, 1795. Original, leather binding. 86 pages. Perfect condition. “Historical compendium of the arquebusiers of Madrid from their origin to the present day, with two plates in which are engraved the marks and countermarks that they used in their works”, by Isidro Soler, arquebusier of the King Our Lord. Printing house of Pantaleón Aznar, 1795, Madrid. 86 p., 2 hr. of engraving. Full leather binding with gilt spines and decorated interveins; gilt edges, counter-edges and cuts; cover with embossed and gilt borders framing a royal superlibris with the Golden Fleece and closed crown.

· Size: 15,5x1,5x20,5 cms.
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Ref.: ZF0568

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