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Guan Yu. Terracotta. 20th century. Polychrome terracotta sculpture in brown and black tones showing a man in armour and with a long, bushy beard. It represents Guan Yu (Kuong Kong) (Yuncheng, Shanxi province, 160 - Nanzhang, Xiangyang, Hubei province, 219), courtesy name Yunchang, who was a military general under Liu Bei during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms Period of ancient China. Weight: 21 kg.
· Size: 50x45x81 cms.
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Ref.: ZF1134
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Christ of Burgos. Wood, metal. Spanish school, 19th century. A rectangular base serves as the base for a Latin cross with finials at the three upper ends. This has the usual inscription “INRI” and a particular figure of Christ Crucified, with a very long loincloth and an oval element at his feet. The name Santo Cristo de Burgos refers to an anonymous articulated carving from the 14th century that is found in the Chapel of the Most Holy Christ of Burgos (Burgos Cathedral, Spain) and has been highly appreciated since ancient times. Weight: 750 grams.
· Size: 28x11,5x44 cms
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Ref.: ZF0376A
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· Size: 40x30 cms.
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Ref.: Z6033
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“Confidence”. Calamine. France, around 1900, after GRISARD, Désiré (1872-?). With manufacturing seal, titled and engraved name. Figure made of corrugated iron with a patina in various shades, showing a young woman dressed in a tunic, raising one of her hands to her lips. On the base on which she stands, there is a plaque with the title of the figure (Confidence) and, next to it, the name of the artist who inspired this work is engraved. Désiré or Desire Grisard was a French artist born in 1872, well known for his works in the Modernist or Art Nouveau style, and he has a series of really striking figures.
· Size: 11x11x39 cms.
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Ref.: Z2348
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Child on a bucket. Corrugated iron. Circa 1900. Figure with a circular base showing a child sitting astride a cube. Stylistically, the piece presents characteristics typical of small sculptures from the French school of the second half of the 19th century. Weight: 450 grams.
· Size: 7,5x7,5x13 cms.
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Ref.: ZF1232
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Courtesan. Carved tiger's eye. China, 20th century. Female figure made of tiger's eye (quartz, limonite and riebeckite, with a cat's eye or chatoyancy effect) showing a young lady, with a cloth floating over her shoulders and a flowering branch in one of her hands, and in a graceful attitude that would make one think of a dancing courtesan. It is possible that it represents Guanyin, the name given in China to Avalokitesvara bdhisattva venerated in Buddhism.
· Size: 7x3x21 cms
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Ref.: ZF0911
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Box with landscape. Red lacquer. Possibly China, 20th century. Low cylindrical box with a flat lid, red on the outside and black on the inside, decorated on the lid and the upper part of the body with bands of geometric and vegetal frets and a landscape and garden scene with pavilions and small-sized figures of the type common on these visas in the Far East.
· Size: 32x32x13.5
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Ref.: ZF0922
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Lion of Fu or Buddha. Peking glass, wooden base. China, 20th century. Peking glass, Kangxi glass or Quianlong glass is a glass made in Beijing (China) since the 18th century, with a clear Western influence and designed, for the most part, to imitate or recall jade work using a layered technique reminiscent of cameo glass. Buddha lions are mythical oriental animals originating in Buddhist tradition that protect against evil spirits, bad energies and bad people.
· Size: 6x4,5x8,5 cms
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Ref.: ZF1159
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Finial. Carved and polychrome wood. Spanish school, 17th century. The finial, probably from an altarpiece, made of carved and polychrome wood decorated with two facing scrolls and simple plant elements arranged in a symmetrical composition. This type of decorative piece was common in altars and reredos during the Spanish Baroque. Weight: 1.2 kg.
· Size: 33,5x10x23 cms.
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Ref.: Z0165Q
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Drinking chimpanzee. Carved tropical wood. 20th century. A tropical wood carving depicting a seated chimpanzee drinking from a gourd or coconut. The quality of the piece is noteworthy, as can be seen in the detail, the naturalness of the posture, etc. Weight: 3 kg
· Size: 32x17x28 cms.
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Ref.: Z0543
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Devotional plaque, Saint John the Baptist. Bronze. 19th-20th centuries. Rectangular devotional plaque depicting a relief of Saint John the Baptist, holding a book with the Lamb and a staff topped with a cross, accompanied by the partially erased legend “NON SV RE XIT MAIOR” (in reference to the text of Matthew alluding to Saint John, “non surrexit inter natos mulierum maior Ioanne Baptista”). This is a very common type of plaque since the 17th century in Spain (compare the two examples in the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid).
· Size: 7,5x11,5 cms.
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Ref.: Z6494AA
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Devotional plaque, Saint Mary Magdalene. Bronze. 19th-20th centuries. Rectangular devotional plaque made of bronze featuring a relief figure of Saint Mary Magdalene as a penitent, accompanied by a skull, the usual perfume bottle and a small crucifix. The piece is inspired by very common models and iconographies of the 17th century.
· Size: 7,5x11,5 cms.
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Ref.: Z6494AB
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· Size: 9x5x12 cms.
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Ref.: Z4568
