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This portrait is a full-length likeness of Philip II’s third wife, Queen Isabel de Valois. She wears a black gown with pointed sleeves and a long train that is curled around her body and billows at th [+]
The head of this young man with soft features is made of black marble with a highly polished face, while the bust is of white alabaster. Belonging to a production modelled on works by Nicolas Cordier [+]
A piece created under the influence of Nicolas Cordier (1567-1612), a French sculptor and restorer resident in Rome who specialised in combining alabaster and marbles of various colours, and is consid [+]
The vessel, carved in a single piece, consists of a jasper tazza with an oval mouth and boat-shaped profile. Until 1918 it had a simple mount of handles in the form of dolphins joined by openwork half [+]
Vessel similar to O38, except that the cover is missing. The precious stones on the jasper ring are complete, and the remaining cameos consist of a Roman-style bust of a crowned man and a woman’s head [+]
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 [+]
Estuche con cuerpo central ovalado globular con remate cupulado y vástago cilíndrico con pie en forma de disco, forrado con tafilete . Decoración dorada en cenefa del remate y pie, mientras que la par [+]
Vessel comprising four hardstone pieces and five enamelled gold mounts. The oblong bowl has a boat-shaped profile with gadroons at the ends. A leaf-shaped piece serving as a lip is joined to the body [+]
Estuche en forma de taza, decorado con flores de lis, para alojar un vaso de ágata, posiblemente un aguamanil. Su forma, invertida, recuerda a la de un casco, de antigua denominación como morrión. Sin [+]
This vessel had a pair, now lost (I1416), which must have been very similar and by the same hand as O37, the work of the silversmith Pierre Ladoyreau or Ladoireau, who made part of the silver furnishi [+]
This table`s exquisitely made top is based on a painting by Charles-Joseph Flipart (1721-1797) which is also in the Prado (P07824). The central scene depicts figures in a port, of which the two in the [+]
Estuche, en forma de copa, con pie circular, vástago y recipiente esférico, para contener un vaso oblongo de jaspe morado. Está decorado en el centro con escudo del Delfín de Francia, D. Luis, padre d [+]
A vessel made up of two pieces of stone. The lower one consists of a high flared foot, a knop and a bowl with a diminished arch profile. The whole surface is carved with parallel gadroons, which broad [+]
A vessel consisting of three pieces of rock crystal and three mounts. The hemispherical bowl has an oval mouth and eight gadroons, the two frontal ones being the broadest, with a decoration of rounded [+]
This tabletop forms a pair with O00467. Both were made at the Royal Manufactory founded by Charles III in Naples in 1737. This piece of ebony furniture made by Gaspero Donnini has heads carved by Giov [+]
Estuche con forma de copa, tapadera y pie circular, para alojar una copa campaniforme de jaspe prasio con guarniciones de oro. Decorado con delfines, flores de lis y cenefa en el borde de la copa. La [+]
This is rare type of tabletop that combines Roman Mannerist elements such as the border with pre-Baroque ones such as the exuberant floral and foliate motif that fills the centre. This motif replaces [+]
The coffer is a key item in any study of French silverware and European collecting. Initially part of Cardinal Mazarin’s collection, on his death it was sold at auction, subsequently being acquired by [+]
