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The monumental dimensions of the bronze head, compatible with a statue approximately 3.5 m high, as well as its individualized features suggests a portrait rather than a mythological image. Schrö [+]
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An ovate vessel in the form of an urn. It has a smooth pyriform body with a double moulding on the shoulder, a neck with a concave profile, and a round mouth. The moulded cover has the form of a cupol [+]
Vessel made up of two pieces of hardstone and three enamelled gold mounts. The larger piece forms the deep boat-shaped bowl, with the front raised, leaves on the rim, and a volute at the rear. A high [+]
Case lined externally in leather with gilt iron decoration of fleurs-de-lys, and internally with red velvet. Metal clasps. It has the appearance of a deep oval tazza with a balustroid stem and foot. I [+]
Vessel made up of three pieces of heliotrope and four gold mounts. The bowl has an oblong mouth and four broad gadroons separated by four narrower ones. It opens out towards the middle to become sligh [+]
This sort of English painted enamel object was first made around 1725, but little is known of the early production, in part because this was a very modest craft. It reached its zenith between 1753 and [+]
In May 1847, Don José de Madrazo, director of the Royal Museum of Painting and Sculpture –now the Prado Museum–, acquired this silver writing desk for his office for 320 réis. It is made [+]
Vessel made up of three pieces of hardstone and five enamelled gold mounts. The body, with an oval mouth and irregular semicircular profile, undulates across six broad gadroons. So too does the cover, [+]
This piece, which belongs to a set of two ewers with basins (O24 to O27), is a jug with a bell-shaped body and deep, hemispherical base, from which a spout with a sloping upper plane emerges. The moun [+]
A high cup formed by an ancient fragment of serpentine and a foot and stem of heliotrope. The bowl, with a rectangular mouth, is joined by a ring mount and enamelled leaves to the balustroid stem, wit [+]
The vessel is a flask in the form of an antique urn made up of three pieces of agate and two gold mounts with diamonds and rubies. The handles, two monolithic volutes, emerge from two bearded masks, p [+]
Vessel formed by three pieces of rock crystal and two gold mounts. The globular body is carved with gadroons and dart motifs. The short neck is adorned with ova enamelled in blue and a lower spiral mo [+]
Vessel made up of two pieces of stone and a gold mount. The bowl has an oval mouth and semicircular profile ending in a flat plane from which the neck rises, crowned by a broad flared lip. At each end [+]
This egg-shaped tray has scrolls and animal heads at the axes. It depicts various episodes of the myth of Psyche and Cupid, as told by Apuleius in The Golden Ass. These scenes occupy the outer part of [+]
Vessel made up of five pieces of agate, and six mounts and an appliqué of enamelled gold. The boat-shaped bowl has an oval mouth and, like the lid, a diminished arch profile. On it, a ring moun [+]
The cup is made up of two pieces of stone and two enamelled gold mounts. The bowl consists of a scallop shell on which two transversal handles are carved in the same block, forming simple circles that [+]
The piece belongs to a set of two ewers with their platters (Dauphin’s Treasure, O24 to O27). The platter is formed by several trapezoidal pieces around a large central octagon, with mounting of the s [+]
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