A FINE SPANISH COLONIAL SILVER-GILT AND JEWELLED MONSTRANCE

细节

A FINE SPANISH COLONIAL SILVER-GILT AND JEWELLED MONSTRANCE
LATE 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY COLOMBIAN

On circular molded base applied with scrolls and putti masks, the knopped baluster stem applied with similar cherub's heads and square cut emeralds and hung with bells, surmounted by a circular glazed host compartment set with borders of diamonds, pearls, emeralds, and amethysts (some replaced with glass), the top with Christ on the cross and applied with sun rays terminating in further stones, apparently unmarked--20in.(52cm.) high
(gross weight 82oz.)

来源

The Lannan Foundation, Sotheby's, New York, November 25, 1986, lot 66.

出版

Jozef Grabski (ed.), Opus Sacrum, Royal Castle, Warsaw, Exhibition Cat., no. 69

展览

Warsaw, Royal Castle, Warsaw, 1990, Opus Sacrum, no. 70

拍品专文

Elaborate gem-set liturgical silver was extremely popular in the Spanish territory of New Granada (most of which is now present day Colombia). In particular, emeralds were used to enrich monstrances and later examples made in the 18th Century are often almost totally covered with stones. Perhaps the most famous, known colloqually as La Lechuga, is in Bogota Cathedral.