Placido Zuloaga

مزهرية حديدية دمشقية ذهبية إسبانية فاخرة من زولواغا

Spain, Dated 1861

£18,000

A Fine Spanish Gold Damascened Iron Vase, By Placido Zuloaga, Eibar. The underside of the vase signed POR PLACIDO ZULOAGA and EN EIBAR AO 1861. This...

ابعاد

Height: 24 cm (10 in)
REF NO : B61320

وصف

A Fine Spanish Gold Damascened Iron Vase, By Placido Zuloaga, Eibar.

The underside of the vase signed POR PLACIDO ZULOAGA and EN EIBAR AO 1861.

This beautiful damascene vase is a signed work by the Spanish master Placido Zuloaga, who took the art of damascening to new heights in second half of the nineteenth century.

The narrow flask shape is drawn from ancient Greek lekythos vases. The eared handles above rams-masks are also Grecian in inspiration. The fine damascening of the scrolled vine, flowers, foliate trials and ribbon bands is also derived from the ancient Greek, but the detail and sophistication is akin to renaissance work.

It is possible that this vase was one of the ‘renaissance style’ pieces exhibited by Zuloaga at the International Exhibition in London in 1862 when he was complimented for ‘a variety of objects in the Renaissance and Moorish style’ and ‘pre-eminent’ in the art of embossing and damascening metals (J. B. Waring, Masterpieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862. Day & Sons, London, 1863 pl. 63).

Spanish, Dated 1861.

 

 

تاريخ

Dated 1861

أصل

Spain

متوسط

Gold Damascened Iron

توقيع

The underside of the vase signed POR PLACIDO ZULOAGA and EN EIBAR AO 1861.

Placido Zuloaga

Placido Zuloaga (d.1910), who succeeded in the late 1850s to the management of his father Eusebio Zuloaga’s manufactory at Eibar in the Basque Country of Spain. Praised in his day as ‘a second Benvenuto Cellini’ he contributed to various international exhibitions including Paris in 1855 and 1878 and London in 1851 and 1862.

Zuloaga was born in to a family of Spanish Royal Armourers, and became one of the greatest masters of the art of damascening. Initially sponsored by the Spanish Royal Family, his greatest patron was the English connoisseur Alfred Morrison (d. 1897) of Fonthill House, Wiltshire, where he was a guest on a number of occasions. Morrison’s collection of Zuloaga’s work, assembled over a period of twenty years, was also displayed at his London mansion at 16 Carlton House Terrace. ‘Conspicuously in Mr. Morrison’s collection are a number of metalworks by Zuloaga of Madrid… the great care bestowed in the finish of workmanship, especially in the case of his damascened works – gold and silver forms let into dark toned steel – gives them a distinctive character’ (The Magazine of Art – 11 September 1879).

A magnificent Renaissance style table made for Alfred Morrison was purchased by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother for the Royal Collection on 1 Febraruay 1938 from Malletts and is today displayed in the Marble Hall at Buckingham Palace (RCIN 2526). A damascened casket bought from Zuloaga in Madrid in 1866 is in the V&A Museum, London (324-1866).

Literature:
James D. Lavin, ‘The Art and Tradition of the Zuloaga’s, the Khalili Family Trust in Association with the Victoria and Albert museum’, 1997.

 

 

 

أدب

James D. Lavin, ‘The Art and Tradition of the Zuloaga’s, the Khalili Family Trust in Association with the Victoria and Albert Museum’, 1997

 

الشحن والمناولة
نظرا للطبيعة الفردية لشحن عناصرنا ، سيتم ترتيب الشحن بعد الشراء.