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Guang Yu, Zhang Fei and Liu Bei. Watercolor. China, early 20th century. Framed painting showing three male figures, with a text on the right side. The one reading and sitting on a throne covered with tiger skin, stands out above all for his beard, but also for his rich clothing. The two characters are situated Standing, they also wear rich (although somewhat less) clothing, and one carries a halberd or spear while another carries an object in his hands. Guang Yu was a military general under Lui Bei during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms Period of ancient China, and his life and achievements were so extolled and glorified that he was deified during the Sui Dynasty, emphasizing his exploits further in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and becoming one of the main examples of loyalty and righteousness, receiving worship even today and receiving names such as "Emperor Guan" or "Lord Guan". Together with Zhang Fei shared a brotherly relationship with Lui Bei, and accompanied him on some of his early exploits. Weight: 9 kg.
· Size: 95,5x2x134 cms.
ANTIQUES
Ref.: ZF1075
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Portrait of ancestors or family. Watercolor. China. Early 20th century. Painting with four richly dressed figures (two male and two female) seated on thrones or chairs dressed in rich cloths, located in an interior, attended by two servants (small in size, at the front of the work), and with an altar with several pieces of great value in the background of the composition. This type of work was very common in oriental art of certain schools, in line with the value placed on the ancestors of prominent families. Weight: 11.2 kg
· Size: 90x3,5x130 cms.
ANTIQUES
Ref.: ZF1076
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Box or casket with royal monogram. Mahogany wood, metal. Spain, 19th century. It has slight damage. Rectangular box with a flat lid and a keyhole on the front, decorated with metal applications on the corners, edges, handles, etc. Below the keyhole there is a fleur-de-lis. The lid has a central motif with fleur-de-lis and a crowned M, and alternating crowned castles and lions in the corners. This emblem (and the fact that it is accompanied by lions and castles, alluding to Castilian heraldry) is reminiscent of the royal monograms that all members of the royal family apparently had in the past to mark their belongings. In this case, it is possible that it refers to Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (Palermo, 1806-Sainte-Adresse, 1878), wife of Ferdinand VII and regent during the minority of Isabel II. However, we must remember Maria Cristina of Habsburg-Lorraine or of Austria (1858-1929), wife of Alfonso XII. The emblem of Maria de las Mercedes de Orleans and Bourbon (Madrid, 1860-1878), wife of Alfonso XII, used to appear with two capital “Ms”.
· Size: 78x31x24 cms.
ANTIQUES
Ref.: ZF1170
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Rustic sideboard. Tropical wood, wrought iron. Rectangular sideboard with rustic finish made of wood with four doors, two drawers and a storage space. The lines and finish of the material are reminiscent of old provincial examples.
· Size: 50x180x70 cms.
DECORATION
FURNITURE;RUSTIC
Ref.: AJ528
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Pair of wall lights. Gold metal, glass. Pair of three-light wall sconces decorated with plant elements, architectural details and scrolls arranged to enhance the front arm, shaped like a stylised swan. The white glass lampshades resemble flowers. The influence of 19th century Neoclassicism is clear.
· Size: 44x26x60 cms.
DECORATION
AUXILIARY LIGHTING
Ref.: E64
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Desk table, following English models. Mahogany wood, metal. A rectangular, smooth-top writing table with four cabriole legs and drawers in the front (with metal handles with cut-out decoration of bows and simplified plant elements) set around a carved, scalloped detail, beneath which the profile is carved in curves and counter-curves. The piece is inspired by English models in both its decoration and its lines. Compare with examples in the George II or Georgian period.
· Size: 92x50x80 cms.
DECORATION
FURNITURE;CLASSIC
Ref.: JB096
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Adam style console. Carved wood. Semicircular side table inspired by the English Adams style with four legs and decoration inspired by 19th century Neoclassical models.
· Size: 90x45x80 cms.
DECORATION
FURNITURE;CLASSIC
Ref.: D002
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Biedermeir column or bollard type furniture. Wood. 20th century. An oval piece of furniture with a door at the front, a type known as a column cabinet due to its shape, which has shelves inside. Stylistically it shows strong influences from the Biedermeier style, developed in the Austrian Empire and Central Europe between the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) and the Restoration period (mid-19th century).
· Size: 60x41x148 cms.
DECORATION
FURNITURE;CLASSIC
Ref.: E002
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Bronze sculpture “Cupid”. Inspired by models by Auguste Louis Mathurin Moreau (1834-1917). Marble base Lost wax casting. The figure of the child is identifiable by his wings and the bow he holds. Cupid appears half-naked, with his quiver at his feet and a tree stump behind him. The work is based on models created by a member of the well-known Moureau family: Mathurin exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon in 1848, and was awarded a Medal of Honour in 1897. His work, inserted in this appreciated family style, shows a series of peculiarities that are still maintained in this sculpture.
· Size: 28x28x66 cms
DECORATION
BRONZE SCULPTURES
Ref.: V2524A
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Wrought iron knot gate. 18th century Wood, iron. Wrought iron fence Wooden frame with iron fence with bars forming rhombuses and with elements resembling knots.
· Size: 83x10,5x158 cms
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Ref.: AB003
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Set of seven enamelled porcelain figurines. “Soldiers”. Inspired by 19th century European porcelain models. Each of the figures in this set features the uniform characteristic of a military unit, clearly showing the change in uniformity that took place at the beginning of the 19th century. Already in the time of Napoleon Bonaparte, the main European porcelain factories (Meissen, Sèvres, Capodimonte, etc.) created numerous figurines with the characteristic uniforms of each nation. It is from these works that the set is inspired.
· Size: 10x10x35 cms.
DECORATION
PORCELAIN
Ref.: S4446
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Oriental ticket office. Carved wood, metal. 19th century. Wooden cabinet on legs (the front ones carved) with two doors at the front with metal handles and decoration based on squares combined with two panels of simple geometric openwork motifs that have been highlighted with a gilding that is largely preserved. Both the shape and the aesthetics of the piece of furniture are common in oriental pieces, with a strong Chinese influence.
· Size: 56x32x62,5 cms.
DECORATION
FURNITURE;ORIENTAL
Ref.: XZ030
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Female bust. Marble. 20th century. Bust with pedestal made of carved marble showing a young lady with a treatment that recalls in some details modernist works from the beginning of the century, while maintaining in part a certain older tradition (material, etc.) Weight: 37 kg.
· Size: 38x24x62 cms.
DECORATION
MARBLE SCULPTURES
Ref.: Z0220
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Provincial “secretary”. Cherry and pine wood, metal. Louis Philippe period, France, circa second third of the 19th century. Tall cabinet made of cherry and pine wood with a top that reveals a desk (five drawers and a shelf space), and two doors in the lower area of the same. It is a French provincial work from the Louis Philippe period (Louis Philippe I of France, monarch between 1830 and 1848, reigned after the fall of Napoleon supporting the bourgeoisie and allowing the country to enter the Industrial Revolution). Artistically, the style of the reign stood out for being a mixture of French Neoclassicism, with elements of Neo-Gothic and other styles; the present example, however, is a provincial piece, related to other traditions and production centres far from the Parisian court.
· Size: 100x44x162 cms
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FURNITURE
Ref.: Z0524
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Sold
Divan. Walnut wood, upholstered. 19th century. Divan made of walnut wood decorated with carvings concentrated on the legs and on the two ends of the backrest with plant and architectural themes and upholstery with plant motifs, following those Elizabethan and French influences.
· Size: 165x64x76 cms.
DECORATIVE ANTIQUES
Ref.: Z0856
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18th century ponderal weight. Bronze. Incomplete bronze ponderal, with the container vessel and two of the smaller ones, all cold decorated with incised and stamped motifs, simple edges on the small vessels and more complex borders on the container vessel. Nested cup weights are a set of cup-shaped weights that fit precisely inside each other. A complete set is one that retains all its original cups. The largest, called the keeper, consists of an upper lid with a handle and a closure, and weighs exactly the same as the sum of all the others. The second in descending order weighs half as much as the keeper, and the same as the sum of the rest. This proportionality is maintained until the last weight, called the disk or last piece, which is usually solid and closes the set. This principle remained unchanged until the introduction of the decimal metric system.
· Size: 11x12x12 cms.
ANTIQUES
MISCELLANEOUS;OTHER OBJECTS
Ref.: Z3034
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Empire dressing table or psyche mirror. Mahogany wood. 19th century. A full-length tilting mirror placed between two columns and on two legs joined at the bottom with a turned crossbar, made of mahogany wood and with gilded metal applications. This type was commonly known as a psyché or psyche, and was very common in France. Compare this example with the one kept in the Museum of Romanticism (Madrid).
· Size: 110x52x180 cms.
DECORATIVE ANTIQUES
FURNITURE
Ref.: Z3063
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Pair of violet growers from the 19th century. Calamine. Pair of sculptural violet vases made of corrugated iron, inspired by the Rococo style. The vases have a sinuous profile and are entirely covered by rocaille decorations in relief. The figures holding them, two classical “putti”, are worked with naturalism both in their modelling and in their position and movement.
· Size: 12x11x27 cms.
DECORATIVE ANTIQUES
SCULPTURE
Ref.: Z4749
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Pair of 19th century miniatures. “Portrait of a Lady” and “Portrait of a Gentleman”. With illegible signature. Carved and gilded wooden frames. Pair of miniature portraits, representing a lady and a gentleman from the 19th century, surrounded by magnificent carved and gilded wooden frames, of Baroque inspiration, based on curled acanthus leaves. Miniature painting, especially portraits, developed in Europe from the 16th century onwards. These were mainly paintings fitted into objects such as medallions, table clocks or small boxes. They were produced using a wide variety of techniques, such as oil on copper, tin or ivory, washes on parchment or cardboard and, from the 18th century, watercolours on ivory. This delicate art was lost from the second half of the 19th century, in parallel with the development of photography.
· Size: 3,5 x 3 cm; 19 x 15 x 3 cm (marco).
DECORATIVE ANTIQUES
PAINTINGS
Ref.: Z5108
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Frame. Carved wood. 17th century. It has faults. Rectangular frame made of carved wood that still retains part of its original polychromy. As was usual in various European schools since the Renaissance (particularly the Italian one, but also the Spanish one, for example), it is decorated with a series of smooth mouldings of different widths, arranged leaving a smooth strip.
· Size: Ext 175x95 cm Int: 1.55x74 cms.
ANTIQUES
Ref.: Z6224
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Carmelite parapets. Iron. Spain, 19th century. Parapets or fragments of low railings made of iron and decorated with a series of geometric elements around two shields, which have a crown as a crown and a composition with three stars and a cross on a moment. This heraldry relates this piece with the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, also known as the Order of the Carmelites, and founded around the 12th century.
· Size: 100x5x100 cms.
DECORATIVE ANTIQUES
Ref.: ZE362
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Quaking glass or wine-tasting glass. Silver. 18th century. One handle is missing. A vessel known as a catavinos or tembladera (as it has no foot) made of silver in its colour with a flat handle curved in the shape of an “S” decorated with simplified plant elements, and a line of mortise-shaped pieces (gallon-shaped shapes) on the edge enhanced by a smooth band. Towards the inside it has strings of pearls and dots, and a cross on the bottom. Bernegales and mortise-shaped pieces were frequent in Spanish silverware in the 17th century, usually being relegated to centres of somewhat less importance in the 18th century. Compare with pieces such as the silver bernegal from the last third of the 17th century in the Lázaro Galdiano Museum (perhaps from the Portuguese school; inventory 3916), or the one dated between 1640 and 1665 from the same museum (inventory 3910), or the one by José Jiménez de Illescas (inventory 3915, dated 1715-1725) in the same institution. Weight: 101 grams.
· Size: 12x10x4 cms.
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Ref.: ZE367
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Mirror. Moulded and polychrome alabaster. 20th century. Wall mirror made of moulded alabaster with polychromy, with a frame of architectural elements of classicist influence and a series of figurative elements that respond to the same trend (two half-naked female figures, possibly allegories, a child's head with two pairs of wings, two putti with garlands below). Weight: 36 kg.
· Size: 120x9x122 cms
DECORATIVE ANTIQUES
Ref.: ZE402
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Wall mirror. Moulded alabaster. 20th century, following Renaissance models. Rectangular wall mirror with a frame made of polychrome moulded alabaster and decorated with a series of elements strongly inspired by classicism (candlesticks on the sides, the crest with a crown shape, the architectural motifs that flank it, the grotesques with children and fruit figures, etc.). Stylistically, the work is inspired by Renaissance models, with a certain resemblance to details present in pieces from the Spanish school. Weight: 35 kg.
· Size: 99,5x10x157 cms
DECORATIVE ANTIQUES
Ref.: ZE409
