A HIGHLY IMPORTANT SPANISH PARCEL-GILT SILVER STANDING RELIQUARY

TARRAGONA, CIRCA 1451, ATTRIBUTED TO GUILLEM DRUELL

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A HIGHLY IMPORTANT SPANISH PARCEL-GILT SILVER STANDING RELIQUARY
TARRAGONA, CIRCA 1451, ATTRIBUTED TO GUILLEM DRUELL
On spreading elaborately shaped quatrefoil base with eight panels chased with grotesques and stylized foliage, baluster stem supporting a knop with classical portrait medallions below the rectangular coffer applied with gothic spires and crenelletion, the front panel chased with a scene of the Last Supper, the cover applied with a figure of Christ, marked on base, coffer and cover
15¼in. (38.7cm.) high; 34oz. 10dwt. (1076gr.)

拍品专文

An almost identical reliquary belongs to the parish church of Sant Andreu in La Selva del Camp, near Tarragona. This example, which is also struck with the Tarragona town mark, is known to have been supplied by Guillem Druell on August 13, 1451 according to contemporary parish accounts and there can be little doubt that the present example is a product of the same workshop (see Antonio Martínez Subias, La Platería Gótica en Tarragona y Provincia, 1988, p. 119; the town mark used on these examples is also illustrated in Fernández, Munoa and Rabasco, Marcas de la Plata Española y Virreinal, 1992, p. 200).