SILVER INCENSE BOAT. WITH HALLMARKS. SANZ DE VELASCO, JUAN ANTONIO (1720-1778). VALLADOLID, SPAIN, 18TH CENTURY.
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Reference: ZE243
Boat. Silver. SANZ DE VELASCO, Juan Antonio (1720-1778). Valladolid, Spain, 18th century. With contrast marks. A circular-based nave raised towards the foot by a succession of stepped mouldings, its body decorated with a crest on the edge and an engraved composition based on plant elements and volutes (on a polished perforated background, a finish that is also combined in the decorative motifs) and a ribbed element on one side and a volute at the open end. The hallmarks on the base indicate that the piece was made in Valladolid (note that this is the so-called “cut mark”, which some experts place in time until the appointment of Antonio González Téllez as hallmark). The other hallmark present is by Juan Antonio Sanz de Velasco (1720-1778), who served as hallmark in the city between 1743 and 1774/8. Apart from other works preserved with the master’s hallmark (many in private Spanish collections), it is worth highlighting the silver altar frontal of the Virgen del Sagrario (Valladolid Cathedral) by the Valladolid silversmiths Juan Antonio Sanz de Velasco and Miguel Fernández Yáñez de Vega, who in the last third of the 18th century completed a work begun in 1693 by the silversmith José de Aranda. The shape of the piece is the usual one for this type of container for storing incense (in fact, the name naveta comes from “nave”) since the Middle Ages (naveta in the chapel of the Constables of the Burgos Cathedral by Juan de Valladolid from the 15th century), with variations in the shape and in its decorative elements depending on whether it belonged to a centre, style, etc. Compare this piece with works preserved, for example, in the Diocesan and Cathedral Museum of Valladolid, another from the Museum of Navarra from Mexico and dated between 1634 and 1666, another from the 18th century made of silver in its colour from the Cathedral of Tuy (with a very different foot), etc. Weight: 347 grams.
· Size: 16x11x9 cms.
1.800 €
