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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Pedro Franco (attrib.), Mexican Silver-gilt Monstrance, 1608
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Pedro Franco (attrib.)

Mexican Silver-gilt Monstrance, 1608
Mexico City. Before August 8, 1608.
Mark: Male head in left profile over o/M in between crowned columns (repeated twice), TO/RES (with horizontal separating bar) and an F crested with a crown (several times in the small bells). Engraved.
Silve-gilt; turned, melted, embossed, engraved and chiseled.
Height: 57.5 cm
Cup's diameter: 16.5 cm
Weight: 2443 g
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Provenance

The Apelles Collection - Carlos Alberto Cruz, Chile - England

This object is made of a chalice with a monstrance on top. The chalice has a circular base with a convex plinth decorated with abstract motifs over a gilded chiseled background together with eight pieces of mirror highlighted and polished; the turned shaft is made of a cylindrical pedestal with a string of sunken pieces of mirror and a big egg-shaped knot with outlined wedge-shaped ornaments; the larger chalice is supplemented with a smaller bulbous chalice adorned with wedge-shaped ornaments and crowned with a protruding border. The monstrance, fitted into the mouth of the chalice by means of a cylindrical piece, has the shape of a squared-base shrine with Tuscan columns in each corner, plant-like semicircular arches in its four faces and a straight entablature; over the axis of the brackets, there are four children sculptures and underneath, little hanging bells; it is crowned with a bell-shaped dome decorated with motifs identical to those of the chalice’s base and on top of the dome the shape of The Savior.

 

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