Anonymous from Madrid
Pair of reliquaries, First quarter of the 17th century
Cast, turned, repousséd, and gilt bronze, blown glass, oil-painted card on silk and organic material.
43 x 14 x 11 cm
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Pair of reliquaries with triangular-section, pyramid-shaped monstrance, moulded edges decorated with flaming silhouette vegetable cresting, and Latin cross top, with rhomboid-shaped arms ending in balls, on a sphere and drum, with annulets and narrow divides.
They are supported on triangular bases with turned, lenticular feet and palm and volute scroll ornamentation at the corners and a shaft made up of a moulded counter neck at the base, stem with a torus marking the upper quarter, short cylindrical neck and a wide triangular platform made up, successively, of half round torus, double fillet moulding and scotia. These lower parts present a stylized decoration of repousséd scrollwork and c’s.
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