Hispanic American & Colonial Art

New Granada. Anonymous. Quito School.
Pinewood, glass eyes, gold, silver, gilt copper, imitation emerald gemstones, fabric, glue and iron.
Carved polychrome wood, gilded using “coquilla” brushed gold leaf technique, carnation, silver applied using silver gilding or “corladura” technique, glued fabric, silver filigree and thin sheets of gilt copper.

Macau, China.
Lacquered and gilt-wood

Viceroyalty of Peru, Cuzco.
Carved wood, gilt and polychrome, covered with gold leaf.

Gilt silver
Silversmith brand: Miguel Guerra Ávila.
City mark and tax mark: Royal crown.

Silk embroidered in silk and metallic thread.

Cuzco
Partially silver gilt with enamels. Molded, cast, chiseled and openwork silver.

Cast, hammered and carved silver.

Viceroyalty of Peru

Gilt silver and enamels; cast, embossed and chiselled.
State of preservation: excellent.

Peru
Embossed, cast, and glossed-punched silver.

Mexico, Tonalá.
Earthenware, red burnished pot, incise, punched and stamped decoration. Red slip, one fire, bisque.

Mexico City

Gold-plated, cast, lathed, embossed, chiseled and gloss-punched silver.

Marks: AN/TES (with an inverted letter “N” and cast final letters “ES”), masculine right profile head on o/M within the two crowned columns, nailed tower on a pillar in water and OÑA/TE (both lines set part by a horizontal bar) and a little swan turned to the left inside an oval.

Anonymous artist
Viceroyalty of New Granada, Audiencia of Quito (current Ecuador).
Polychrome wood, with metal lock.

Vice-Regency of Peru.
Cedar and fruit tree wood.
Clasp and keyhole, handle and hinges made of hammered wrought iron.

Wood, Tortoiseshell, Mother-of-Pearl, silver.

Mexico City

Silver, partially gilded. Cast, engraved and inscribed.
Marks appear several times: LNC, M with a crown and eagle in flight.

Santiago de Guatemala

City brand and tax mark: Crown Royal Silver, chiseled and embossed.

Santiago de Guatemala

Gilt silver, partially in its color; turned, cast, embossed and engraved.
Marks on the foot flange: Pilgrim venera inscribed within a square profile frame, and three-pointed vegetable crown.

Mexico, Oaxaca.
Oil on canvas mounted on wooden racks.

Oil on board

Oil on canvas

Feather work mosaic, (Emplumado), paper and gold leaf on copper.

Wooden lacquered, painted, silvered and gilded.

Vellum paper, a term derived from the old French vélin, meaning ‘calfskin’ or ‘calf leather’,
is a type of parchment which is very useful for printing highly detailed images.

Vellum paper, a term derived from the old French vélin, meaning ‘calfskin’ or ‘calf leather’, is a type of parchment which is very useful for printing highly detailed images.

Oil on Copper

Oil on canvas

Enconchado. Oil on Panel and Mother-of-pearl inlaid.

Carved, gilded and poly-chrome wood.

Spanish-Filipino
Polychrome Ivory

Enconchado. Oil on Panel and Mother-of-pearl inlaid.

Enconchado. Oil on Panel and Mother-of-pearl inlaid.

Viceroyalty of New Spain (Mexico)
Jacaranda, cedar, bone and iron (chest), oil and tempera on panel, mother-of-pearl, gold and silver (painting)

Ayacucho (Peru)
Relief carved on Huamanga stone and encaustic polychrome, wooden frame.

Signed and dated: 1722. Bernardo Polanco me fecit.

Colombia
Lacquered and polychrome wood

Bolivia, possibly Moxos of Chiquitos
Cast and chased wood and iron

Lima, Peru.
Assembled and carved wood.

Oaxaca, Mexico.
Wood, iron lock.

Colombia.
Barniz de pasto

Ecuador
Polychrome wood

Oaxaca, Mexico.
Wood from Lemon, Granadillo and Lign-Aloes trees "Zulaque" vegetable dyes, iron metalwork.

Bolivia
Wood and iron

Vice-royalty of New Spain (Oaxaca, Mexico).
Gold, jet, and enamel.

Oil and gold on metal sheet.

Ecuador
Polychrome graffito gilt wood

Titicaca School
Oil on copper

Titicaca School
Oil on copper, gilding. Inlaid of mica ( mineral stone)

Spanish-Filipino
Ivory

Indo Portuguese or hispano-philippine
Ivory

Philippines
Ivory

Wood, mother of pearl, and tortoise shell.

Polychrome wood

Wood, mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell, and silver fittings.

Mexico
Wood, mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell, and iron locks.

Mexico
Wood, mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell, and silver locks.

Mexico
Wood, mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell, and silver locks.

Spanish-Filipino
Oil on wood panel with polychrome ivory figures

Mexico
Lacquered wood and wrought iron

Pasto, Colombia.
Black lacquer, representing the local fauna. Silver locks.

Black lacquer, representing the local fauna. Silver locks.

Wooden lacquered, painted, silvered and gilded. Silver Locks.

Goa (Indo-Portuguese )or Sri Lanka (Cingalo-Portuguese)
Ivory and silver arrows.

Colombia
Lacquer wood and iron.

Marthenware. Molded, shaped and burnished ceramic with slips “engobe”, single firing

Mexico
Enconchado, oil and mother of-pearl, inlay on panel.

Mexico
Oil and mother of pearl inlay on panel.

Enconchado, oil and mother of-pearl, inlay on panel.

Oil on canvas

Ivory, gilt.

Oil on copper