Espagne, Barcelone, XVIe siècle

Lot 102
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Result : 38 640EUR
Espagne, Barcelone, XVIe siècle
Reliquary monstrance In cast, embossed, chased and gilded silver. Of very architectural form with a monstrance surrounded by four buttresses supporting a roof with three lanterns formed by fillings, pinnacles, fleurons, rosettes and gargoyles; poly-lobed base decorated with foliage at the moving ends on an amatie background; hexagonal stem with two knots, one of which is applied with cherubs' heads, reverse side of the tray decorated with large moving foliage, clerestory border with fleur-de-lys and geometrical forms, punctuated by buttresses. On each side of the canopy, two statuettes: one of St. Vincent of Saragossa, carrying the millstone of his martyrdom and wearing a deacon's dalmatic, halo on his head, and another of a holy bishop, perhaps St. Valerius, whom St. Vincent defended during the persecution of Diocletian in 304, he blesses with his right hand, wearing a mitre and a chasuble, holding in his left hand a crosier. Marks BA in gothic lettering. H. : 62,5 cm Weight : 3 386 g (later lunula and crosier, small accidents and damages) This spectacular reliquary can be compared to a processional cross belonging to the Holy Sepulchre collections (inv.P A/6) offered to the treasure in 1655 by the Commissariat of the Holy Land of Catalonia. Book consulted: Trésor du Saint-Sépulcre, Catalogue d'exposition du 16 avril au 14 juillet 2013, château de Versailles, p 126. Similar model kept at the Barber Institute in Birmingham (see P.Bloch, Romanische Bronzekruzifixe, Berlin, 1992, plate 20, I E 12)
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